Building a Global Adult Learning Commons

Paul StaceyCreative Commons

Adult Learning & Global Change InstituteSouth Africa12-Dec-2012

Realizing the full potential of the Internet – universal access to research, education, and full

participation in culture, driving a new era of development, growth, and productivity.

CC's Global Affiliate Network

71 formal affiliates 6 key regions: Africa, Arab World, Asia-Pacific, Europe,

Latin America, North America Close to signing in the US, the UK and Paraguay Working with groups in many more countries, including

Kenya, India, Belgium, Mongolia, Algeria and Morocco

EducationClosed vs. Open

Open Data

Open Access

Open Pedagogies (& MOOC’s)

Open Practices

Open Govt & Open Policy

Open Pedagogies (& MOOC’s)

Open Access

Open Data

Open Practices

Open Govt & Open Policy

Common Attributes of Open• Free – public funding results in a public good• Access & use is explicitly expressed upfront – not dependent on

access copyright, payment of fees, proprietary owner permission• Easily & quickly adapted• Customization & enhancements don't require large investments• Errors, improvements, & feature requests are openly shared &

managed• Development, distribution & use is community/consortia based • Sustainability relies on sharing - resources, development, hosting

& support• Users are developers

Open Data

Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museumshttp://openglam.org/

Open Access

Free, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, webwide.

There are two roads to OA:

1. the "golden road" of OA journal-publishing , where journals provide OA to their articles (either by charging the author-institution for refereeing/publishing outgoing articles instead of charging the user-institution for accessing incoming articles, or by simply making their online edition free for all)

2. the "green road" of OA self-archiving, where authors provide OA to their own published articles, by making their own eprints free for all.

Open Access Journals

http://www.doaj.org

http://www.openj-gate.com

US Research Works Act

Open Pedagogies

Teaching openly in public

http://etec522.linden.olt.ubc.ca

http://ds106.us

http://strangelove.com

Massively Open Online Courses

Students as co-creators

Massive Open Online Course - MOOC

2011 – 160,000 students, 190 countries

https://www.ai-class.com

http://www.udacity.com

http://www.edxonline.org/

OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

Open educational resources include full courses and supplemental resources such as textbooks, images, videos, animations, simulations, assessments, …

Core Concept

OER are learning materials that are freely available under a license that allow you to:

•Reuse•Revise•Remixe•Redistribute

http://oercommons.org

Foundation Funded OER

http://cnx.org

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk

http://ocw.mit.edu

Publicly Funded OER

http://solr.bccampus.ca

http://wikiwijsinhetonderwijs.nl/over-wikiwijs/english

http://www.doleta.gov/TAACCCT

OER IP, Copyright & Licensing

• Know who the IP copyright owner is (province, institution, faculty, …)

• IP/copyright owner puts Creative Commons licenses on educational materials to make them into OER

Core Concept

Creative Commons

http://www.creativecommons.org

http://creativecommons.org

Open License

Copyright holder uses open license toexpress rights associated with reuse.

Find OER

http://open4us.org/find-oer

Photos

http://flickr.com/creativecommons

http://pixabay.com

http://fotopedia.com

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Music & Sounds

http://www.soundcloud.com/creativecommons

http://jamendo.com

http://ccmixter.com

http://freemusicarchive.com

Video & Recorded Lectures

http://khanacademy.org/

http://youtube.com/creativecommons

http://vimeo.com

Open Courses

Open Textbooks

• An openly-licensed textbook offered online• Can read online, download, or print the book at no cost

(or small cost for print version)

Students spend roughly $900-$1,000 a year on texts.

http://www.studentpirgs.org/textbooks-reports/a-cover-to-cover-solution

Oct-2012

The BC Ministry of Advanced Education, Innovation, and Technology open textbook announcement. This initiative will support creation of open textbooks for the 40 most popular first and second-year courses in the province’s public post-secondary system. The open textbooks will be openly licensed and made available for free online, or at a low cost for printed versions, to approximately 200,000 students.

http://edtechfrontier.com

Open Textbooks

http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org

http://oerconsortium.org

http://projects.siyavula.com

http://www.openstax.org

Africa OER

http://www.oerafrica.org/healthoer/Home/tabid/1858/Default.aspx

http://www.tessafrica.net/

Open Practices

http://www.jorum.ac.uk

http://wikieducator.org/OER_university/Home

OERu

Open Govt. & Open Policy

Promote creative and innovative activities, which will deliver social and economic benefits.

Make government more transparent and open in its activities, ensuring that the public are better informed about the work of the government and the public sector.

Enable more civic and democratic engagement through social enterprise and voluntary and community activities.

http://creativecommons.org/government

https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/32072

a. Support the use of OER through the revision of policy regulating higher education

b. Contribute to raising awareness of key OER issues

c. Review national ICT/connectivity strategies for Higher Education

d. Consider adapting open licensing frameworks

e. Consider adopting open format standards

f. Support institutional investments in curriculum design

g. Support the sustainable production and sharing of learning materials

h. Collaborate to find effective ways to harness OER.

2012 WORLD OER CONGRESS UNESCO, PARIS, JUNE 20-22, 2012DRAFT DECLARATION