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Open Source and Open Learning Rachel Ellaway Assistant Dean and Associate Professor Education Informatics, Northern Ontario School of Medicine 

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Page 1: Open Source and Open Learning - Laurentian University · • Open source teaching – stop, please stop, reinventing wheels – issues of reward and identity • Open source learning

Open Source andOpen Learning

Rachel EllawayAssistant Dean and Associate Professor 

Education Informatics,Northern Ontario School of Medicine 

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it’s really simple

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In black and white

(with some grey and occasional colour)

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GNU Public License or GPL• The freedom to use the software and have access to the 

source code.• The freedom to modify the software.• The freedom to redistribute the software.• The freedom to ensure that all modifications must be 

redistributable.

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open

• open as in not closed• open as in free

– free as in gratis– free as in libre

• open as in access• open as in reuse and change• open as in over time• open as in any place and for anyone

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from open to closed

• Public domain• Some rights retained

– Creative commons licensing• Attribution• Commercial use• Derivatives• Share alike

• Copyright licensing ­ EULAs• Closed

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source

• source as in origins• source as in components• source as in uncompiled• source as in unlocked• source as in ideas• source as in links and context• source as in origin or starting point• source as in flow and process

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factors

• Open Source emphasizes quality• Open Source stresses flexibility• Open Source decreases development

time• Closed Source is characterized as

non-competitive, rather than immoral

Pavlicek, R. (2000), “Embracing Insanity”. SAMS

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I've a feeling we'renot in Kansas any more

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what’s mine is yours• Altruism as a viable strategy – better directed spend, 

reduces digital divide• Ethics and accountability – especially for publicly funded 

activities• Crowdsourcing – the many are always better than the 

few• Platform and tool convergence• Open source ecologies• Openness as the very basis of the Western academic 

and scientific cultures – scrutiny• Sustainability – no escrow or black box

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Open source underpinsthe academy

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everyware• DNS• Linux• Ubuntu• BSD/Darwin (Mac OSX)• Mozilla/Firefox• Google• OpenOffice• OLPC• Apache• PHP• MySQL

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Open source pervadesthe academy

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the library• Open source content• Open source process• Open source tools

wikipedia• Open source content• Open source process• Open source tools

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Open source isthe academy

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Open Courseware• Course materials freely available and reusable online• The critical value is in presence rather than content – 

“OCW is not an MIT education, OCW does not grant degrees or certificates, OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty, materials may not reflect entire content of the course”

• Open Courseware Consortium ­ http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

• More than 100 institutions worldwide• also Global Education and Learning Community (GELC)• Open Source Education Foundation• OpenLearn ­ http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/• If you can be replaced by your PowerPoint slides …

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Open Courseware in Canada?• Contributer? – not so much• Major issues of faculty rights and control• Major focus on content rather than process• User …?

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Drupal, Moodle and Sakai

http://drupal.org/

http://sakaiproject.org/portal

http://moodle.org/

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LAMS and OpenLabyrinth

http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openlabyrinth/

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OpenOffice, Freemind,Bibus, SciLab, GIMP

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/

http://www.openoffice.org/

http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/

http://www.gimp.org/

http://www.scilab.org/

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dSpace and Evergreen

http://www.dspace.org/

http://open-ils.org/

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phpNuke, dotnetNuke,elgg, uPortal

http://elgg.org/

http://phpnuke.org/

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/

http://www.uportal.org/

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much more than software

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open source everything• Open source curriculum 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_curriculum ­ national and international frameworks

• Open source teaching – stop, please stop, reinventing wheels – issues of reward and identity

• Open source learning – sidestep plagiarism

• Open source science – distributed and reusable data

• Open source administration and governance?

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standards and specifications

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standards and specifications

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interoperability• Mutual asynchronous compatibility (syntactic and/or 

semantic) of two or more systems

• Data exchange – laterally and longitudinally

• Metadata exchange

• Packaging

• XML – defineable and open

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integration• Mutual synchronous compatibility (syntactic and/or 

semantic) of two or more systems

• Webservices

• Middleware

• Search and retrieve

• SaaS, CaaS

• Widgets

• Clouds

• All dependent on shared standards and specs

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standards and specifications• TCP/IP, HTTP, Unicode etc

• HTML, RTF, PDF, CSV, JPEG etc

• S&S in education:

– IMS: QTI, SS, IMSLD

– SCORM: packaging, runtime, tracking

– IEEE: LOM

– MedBiquitous: Healthcare LOM, MVP

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nothing but?

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mixed economy• It’s right were it’s right, it fits where it fits• Risk• Complexity• Quality• Choice• Support and sustainability• All technology is intrinsically temporary, transient• Underlying process and trajectory is more important• OS = paying attention to the right things?• I still do Mac, Photoshop, Logic, PPT

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where next?• The potential of open source approaches for education 

http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/opening_education/Open_Source_report.pdf• Wikiversity http://en.wikiversity.org/• Canadian Open Source and Research 

http://www.canopener.ca/• Open Source Schools (http://opensourceschools.org/)• Schoolforge (http://schoolforge.net)• Open Source Initiative (http://www.opensource.org/)• Free Software Foundation (http://www.fsf.org)

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where next?

• Try it out• Get your colleagues to try it out• Get your students to try it out• Consider as a more ethical, sustainable, 

economic, appropriate, enabling and fun approach to closed models

• Consider as a reified collective and discussion• Go from adopter to adapter• Go from adapter to contributor

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let’s not beLaurentian Open Source Anonymous (LOSAs)

with OS most importantly …it’s us

there is no ‘them’

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Open Source andOpen Learning

Rachel EllawayAssistant Dean and Associate Professor 

Education Informatics,Northern Ontario School of Medicine