Qatar UniversityTechnology Enhanced Learning & Openness

Doha29-October-2014

Paul Stacey, Associate Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons

Except where otherwise noted these materials are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY)

Our vision is nothing less than realizing the full potential of the Internet – universal access to research, education, & full participation in culture, driving a new era of development, growth, & productivity.

Grow and protect the public commons by creatinglegal & technical tools, campaigns, and policy

designed to maximize creativity, sharing, and innovation.

http://creativecommons.org

Traditional © designed for old

distribution models

The problem:

Technically easy to share but legally not so easy.

Internet by Pat Guiney CC BY

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We make sharing content easy, legal,

and scalable.

What do we do?

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attach to their works

How do we do it?

Step 1: Choose Conditions

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Step 2: Receive a License

most free

least free

Lawyer ReadableLegal Code

HumanReadable Deed

MachineReadable Metadata

Open Content

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

https://www.google.ca/imghp

Photos

Video

http://vimeo.com/creativecommons

http://www.youtube.com/creativecommons

Music

http://www.jamendo.com

https://soundcloud.com

Journalism & Broadcast

Writers Musicians

Filmmakers Artists

Cory Doctorow

http://www.tpbafk.tv

Jonathan Mannhttp://jonathanmann.net/

http://craphound.com/

Jonathan Worthhttp://jonathanworth.com

Simon Klose

Europe’s digital library — has released 20 million records into the public domain using the CC0 Public Domain Dedication. This release is the largest one-time dedication of cultural data to the public domain using CC0. The Europeana dataset consists of descriptive information from a huge trove of digitized cultural and artistic works.

Thousands of years of visual culture made free through Wellcome Images

http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/01/thousands-of-years-of-visual-culture-made-free-through-wellcome-images/

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/

Rijksmuseum case study: Sharing free, high quality images without restrictions makes good things happen

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/

http://pro.europeana.eu/pro-blog/-/blogs/how-the-rijksmuseum-opened-up-its-collection-a-case-study

Libraries

Museums

Wikipedia: Over 77,000 contributors working on over 22 million articles in 285 languages

Openness in Education

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, …

most free

least freeNot OER

OER

5Rs: The Powerful Rights of OER

OER is Global

http://khanacademy.org

http://projects.siyavula.com http://nroer.in/

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

Open Textbooks

http://www.openstax.org

Free | Openly (CC) Licensed | Peer Reviewed

Print on demand at low cost.

http://open.bccampus.ca

Free | Openly (CC) Licensed | Peer Reviewed

Print on demand at low cost.

OpenStax College(Rice University)

Strategic Purpose

• Social and/or economic reasons?• Academic reasons?• Beyond generalities like “enriching the

knowledge economy”• A few examples …

Why do OER?

Global Economy

free tradeoffshore outsourcing

imports

Positives• lower prices• higher efficiency• more jobs• quality

Negatives• displaced workers• unemployment• lower wages• low & obsolescent skills• personal & family hardship

Economic Adjustments Required

Economic Adjustment – Grant Program

• $2 billion grant funding over 4 years starting 2011• Grants provided to community colleges partnered with

high growth industry sectors• Produce stackable/latticed credentials (certificates &

diplomas) of 2 years or less duration• Use online & technology enabled learning, evidence

based design, universal design for learning, OER

Grant requires all newly developed materials be CC BY!

High Growth Industry Sectors

Generating OER for Fields of Study With Few Existing OER

Energy

Health ManufacturingBridgingBasic Education

Transportation InformationTechnology

Labour market demand - high growth industry sectors

Employers & Industry

Design & delivery of employer sponsored work-based training

models

Community Colleges(Consortia – in state &

interstate)

1. Evidence Based Design

• use evidence to design program strategies

• base program design on a level of evidence

• use data for continuous improvement of programs

2. Stacked & Latticed

Credentials• post-secondary

credentials that have labor market value

• certificates, certifications, diplomas, and degrees

• competency-based educational programs

3. Transferability & Articulation

• career pathways that transfer and articulate

• within and across state lines & within consortia

• bridge from non-credit to credit

• build on previously funded courses & credentials

4. Online & Tech-Enabled Learning

• hybrid and blended learning strategies

• open enrollment, modularize content, accelerate course delivery, interactive simulations, gaming, digital tutors, synchronous & asynchronous, …

• OER & UDL

5. StrategicAlignment

• outreach to community - employers and industry, public workforce system, non-profit organizations, philanthropies …

• leverage supports & do not duplicate existing programs

Six Core Elements

Local workforce investmentboard

Public Workforce System

Job centers, adult education agencies, career and technical

education agencies

Partnerships

6. Align with Previously-Funded TAACCCT Projects

“We did this because open licensing increases the impact of our investment and helps us to be more strategic with our future investments.”

Why did we do this?

“From a public policy perspective, the Department is a better steward of public funds by giving the public access to those things created using public funds, and ensuring that these products have as wide spread a use as possible.”

“TAACCCT is a really big investment. But we expect that OER will allow the impact to be even greater than just the 800 colleges with new curricula and equipment that we directly funded.”

From• displaced workers• unemployment• lower wages• low & obsolescent skills• personal & family hardship

To• employed workers• higher skills• higher wages• growth industries

KEY POLICY: Education Grant Programs“All newly developed materials must be CC BY.”

2003-12 OER initiative to create new for credit online learning

Oct-2012 BC Ministry of Advanced Education funds Canada’s first official open textbook project.

It wants open textbooks for the 40 most popular post-secondary courses in the province.

• Save students $• Generate

collaboration among institutions and across faculty at multiple institutions

• Localize and adapt textbooks for Canadian context

• Faculty fellows

Open Practices

“In today’s society, individuals often collaborate in producing cultural content, knowledge and other information, as well as physical goods. In some cases, these individuals share the results and products, the means, methods and experience gained from this collaboration as a resource for further development; this phenomenon is referred to as commons-based peer production.”

Peter Troxler in Libraries of the Peer Production Era

How do faculty and students• Create content?• Find content?• Share content?• Interact with content?• Interact with each other?• Collaborate vs. compete?

Open Practices

Education Is Sharing• Teacher to student• Student to teacher• Institution to world

• 9-Sep-2013 California Community Colleges Board of Governors votes unanimously to require open licensing on publicly funded materials resulting from all Chancellor’s Office contracts and grants.

• With 72 districts and 112 colleges, the California Community Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the world to now require a CC BY license on its publicly funded grant materials.

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/page/2

Open PolicyPublic funds should

result in a public good.

Open Policy - Complements Practice

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Policy_Registry

Education Research & Data

Open Access & Open Data

Open Science Logo by gemmerich CC BY-SA

Open Data Stickers by jwyg CC0

Open access (OA) means unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly research.

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 putting them up online or in an institutional repository where all can access.

Open Data Stickers by jwyg CC0

Scientific research data made publicly available. Can also be data from government or GLAM organizations.

• made available in convenient, modifiable, and open formats that can be retrieved, downloaded, indexed, and searched

• formats are machine-readable and structured to allow automated processing

• made available to the widest range of users for the widest range of purposes

http://theodi.org

figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs (figures, datasets, media, papers, posters, presentations and filesets) available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner.

http://figshare.com

http://schoolofdata.org

House of Knowledge Variation1 by Adrien Sifre CC BY-NC-ND

Open Pedagogies

Improve course materials

http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/

Add to/improve the global knowledge commons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem

Design course assignments

http://assignments.ds106.us/

Create/curate supplemental resources

http://wiki.ubc.ca/Science:Math_Exam_Resources

https://www.oercommons.org/

Benefits

• Brings peer review process to educational material• Higher quality• Modify, localize, translate, and update – make it better• Scales sources and diversity of educational material• Increases academic freedom and choice • Makes better use of existing resources• Saves students, parents, government money• Creates international presence and awareness• Increases access • Transforms teachers, students, public into active creators,

reviewers, & producers of knowledge• Ensures research results can be verified and reproduced• Generates business and pedagogic innovations

Openness in Qatar University TEL Initiative

Paul StaceyCreative Commons

web site: http://creativecommons.org e-mail: pstacey@creativecommons.orgblog: http://edtechfrontier.com

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