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Leadership in the Context of Open
David Wiley, PhD
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Overview
• Nice and Open
• The Power of Open
• On MOOCs (#fail)
• Leadership and Openness
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Nice and Open
Meanings matter
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“Nice” - late 13c.
"foolish, stupid"
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“Nice” - late 20c.
"kind, thoughtful"
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What If…
Someone famous revived the old meaning?
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"Nice people are certain to fail my course."
Which “nice”?
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“Open” – Early 70s
”no admission requirements"
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“Open” – Late 00s
Evolved into a much more robust, nuanced, specific meaning
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Open Educational Resources?
(1) Any kind of teaching materials – textbooks, syllabi, lesson plans,
videos, readings, exams
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Open Educational Resources?
(2) Free and unfettered access, and(3) Free permission to engage in the
“4R activities”
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• Use a verbatim copyReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute
The 4Rs
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What If…
Someone famous revived the old meaning?
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“I’m teaching an open online course this fall.”
Which “open”?
(Thanks, MOOCs.)
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Genuine Confusion
Open = free!
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Deliberate Misappropriation
“Openwashing”
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Why Does It Matter?
Open is extremely powerful
Fauxpen is not
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Power of Openness in Education
• Alignment with goals of education• Alignment with nature of knowledge• Alignment with technical capability of the net
• Decreasing costs• Improving learning outcomes• Empowering faculty
• Facilitating the unexpected
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Power of Openness in Education
• Alignment with goals of education• Alignment with nature of knowledge• Alignment with technical capability of the net
• Decreasing costs• Improving learning outcomes• Empowering faculty
• Facilitating the unexpected
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Education is Sharing
Faculty with studentsStudents with teachers
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Faculty Share With Students
Knowledge and skillsFeedback and criticism
Encouragement
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Students Share With Faculty
Questions in ClassAssignments
Exams
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Successful Educators
Share most compeltelywith the most students
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2008 Professor in Southern US
Claimed (c) of his class lectures, declared student notes derivative works,
and asserted control over their use
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“Demented with the mania of owning things”Walt Whitman
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If there is no sharing…
there is no education.
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Interlude: A Riddle
What can you give without giving it away?
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Knowledge is Nonrivalrous
Can be given without being given away
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“He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.”
Thomas Jefferson
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Physical Expressions Are Not
To give a book you must give it away
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Expressions Are Different
To give a book you must give it away
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When Expressions Are Digital
They also become nonrivalrous
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Unprecedented Capacity
We can share as never before
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Except We Can’t
© regulates copying, adapting,and distributing those copies
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InternetEnables
What to do?
CopyrightForbids
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Use copyright to enforce sharing
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http://creativecommons.org/
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What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?
(1) Any kind of teaching materials – textbooks, syllabi, lesson plans,
videos, readings, exams
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What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?
(2) Are free for anyone to access, and(3) Include free permission to engage
in the 4R activities
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• Use a verbatim copyReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute
The 4Rs
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InternetEnables
OERAllows
Leveraging the full technical capability of the internet
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Power of Openness in Education
• Alignment with goals of education• Alignment with nature of knowledge• Alignment with technical capability of the net
• Decreasing costs• Improving learning outcomes• Empowering faculty
• Facilitating the unexpected
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Tuition and Fees are Political
What about textbook adoptions?
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Textbook Costs
The lowest hanging fruit
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e.g., Developmental Math
$180, MyMathLab, and a financial aid check
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Textbook Costs
$1229 year ($3131 tuition)60% sometimes skip23% regularly skip
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Are They Really THAT Expensive?
Provider CostNetflix – 20,000 Movies $7.99 / monthHulu Plus – 45,000 TV Shows $7.99 / monthSpotify – 15M Songs $9.99 / month
Total $25.97 / month
CourseSmart – 1 Biology Textbook $20.25 / month
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Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiative
NGLC funding8 community colleges / OA colleges
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Core Activity
Defining and aggregating outcomesFinding and aligning OERs to outcomes
Creating 100% OER textbook replacements
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X-Institutional Collaboration Goals
Cover 10 GE courses and 4,000 studentsDrop required textbook cost by 50%
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Phase 1 Results
Covered 11 GE courses and 9,000 studentsDropped required textbook cost to $0Increased success rate by 14% average
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Displacing Adoptions
Make the required textbook cost $0
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Phase 2
Cover 35 GE courses28 Institutional partners
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Open Course Frameworks
Making OER Simple to Adopt
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Open Course Frameworks• Start from learning outcomes,• curated collections of OER,• openly licensed with detailed attribution,• organized in a way that looks and feels like
an online course,• intended to be modified before use,• compatible with ImprovOER continuous
quality improvement service.
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Open Course Frameworks
Making OER Simple to Adopt
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Open Course Frameworks
Making OER Simple to Adopt
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Open Course Frameworks
Making OER Simple to Adopt
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Open Course Frameworks
Making OER Simple to Adopt
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Textbook Zero
Entire degree program based on OERUp to 40% off the cost to graduate
First pilot opens Fall 2013 at Tidewater CC
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Power of Openness in Education
• Alignment with goals of education• Alignment with nature of knowledge• Alignment with technical capability of the net
• Decreasing costs• Improving learning outcomes• Empowering faculty
• Facilitating the unexpected
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Wither MOOCs?
How did we get off the rails?
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“OpenCourseWare”
2002
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OpenCourseWare Consortium
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Self-paced Open Online Courses
2002
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OER as Video + Practice
2006
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Open University Courses
2007
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MOOC
2008
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Most MOOCs are Fauxpen
No admission requirements, but…Full copyright – No 4Rs
Draconian TOS
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“You may not take any Online Course offered by Coursera or use any Statement of Accomplishment as part of any tuition-based or for-credit certification or program for any college, university, or other academic institution without the express written permission from Coursera.”
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Leadership
Imagining and demonstrating what’s possiblewith OER and open approaches
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Making Education Affordable
Axe 25% - 40% off the cost to graduate
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“Personalized Learning”
Imagine if Netflix…
Trapped in algorithm hell
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Personalized Learning
Learning that’s interesting and relevant
Faculty revise/remix for their classStudents revise/remix for each other
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Killing “Disposable Assignments”
http://pm4id.org/
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Data + OER
Continuous improvement
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What Happens If We Don’t Lead?
Someone else does
c.f., MOOCs
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Discussion
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