Open Education:Reducing Costs, Transforming Pedagogy

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Robin DeRosa@actualham

It’s a Gateway Drug

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THE KEYNOTE

• Student textbooks cost about $1,200 per year.

• Students worry more about paying for books than they worry about paying for college.

• Textbook costs have risen 812% since 1978.

• $1,200 is equal to 12% of tuition at my university.

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Effects of Textbook Prices

• 60% of students report not purchasing a required textbook because of cost, and 23% regularly go without books due to cost

• 50% of students report taking fewer courses due to textbook costs

• 14% have dropped a course and 10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook costs

2012 Survey of 22,000 students,

Florida Virtual Campus, comprised of the

12 universities and 28 colleges in the Florida state system.

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Square 1: Openly-Licensed Content(Public Domain Lit Shouldn’t Cost $87)

Collaboratively Built: Alums, Incoming Students, Professor

Constantly Evolving:

Students & Teachers

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An Open “Textbook”Can Be:

• Interactive• Collaborative• Dialogic• Dynamic• Empowering• Contributory• Current• Accessible• Multimedia• Public• (Free)

Open Education

• Open Educational Resources (OER)

• Open Pedagogy

• Open Access to research

Open Pedagogy

• Improves access to education.

• Treats education as a learner-driven process.

• Stresses community and collaboration over content.

• Connects the university to the widerpublic.

Access

• Save money on textbooks, ok

• But what otherbarriers exist to access?

• Digital divide

• Universal design

• Trolling, violence

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Learner-Driven

• Learning Outcomes

• Policies

• Texts

• Assignments

• Feedback & Grading

Content≠ King

• Rhizomes

• Networks

• Communities

• Collaborations

Public

Blogs, PLNs, ePorts

• @gardnercampbell

• @anrikard

• @audreywatters

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Personal

Reflective Portfolio

Portal for sharing and collaborating

What is the Internet FOR, Anyway?

Pre-Med

Sport Performance

Art Therapy

Music Production

Sustainable Food Production

International Business

Weather Journalism

Data Analytics

Veterinary Medicine

Dance Entrepreneurship

Oh yeah….and English!

OER Open Pedagogy Open Access

How does “open” affect

us as SCHOLARS?

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What Will the Digital Age

Enable?

Technology allows for efficient worldwide dissemination of research and scholarship. But closed distribution models can get in the way. Open access helps to fulfill the promise of the digital age.

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We Can Do It!

“We can be confident that OA journals are economically sustainable because the true costs of peer review, manuscript preparation, and OA dissemination are

considerably lower than the prices we currently pay for subscription-based journals. There's more than enough

money already committed to the journal-support system. Moreover, as OA spreads, libraries will realize large

savings from the conversion, cancellation, or demise of non-OA journals.”

~Peter Suber

We Can Do It!

How Open is OPEN?

call the tweeps

What are the barriers to working OPEN?

My evening

• Barriers to open

• Contingent labor and OER

• Privilege and dominance in open spaces

• Screenshotting tweets

• Embedding tweets

• Exploiting tweeters

• Slideshares and articles

• Conferences

• Skype dates

• Plans for meetups

• Sharing faculty observation protocols

• Not

• Making

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OPENing…• Challenge barriers to access. Be

honest and critical.• Center learners. Be radical and real.

• Facilitate connection. Be a sticky node, not a gate.

• Share research. Be generous and just.

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Open is a practice, not a panacea.

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Robin DeRosa@actualham

Helpful hashtags:

#OER#OpenEd16

#OA & #OpenAccess#OpenPed & #OpenPedagogy & #OEP

#digped