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Qatar University Technology Enhanced Learning & Openness for Faculty
The document discusses the importance of open educational resources (OER) and their role in promoting creativity, sharing, and innovation through legal frameworks. It highlights the benefits of OER in education, including lower costs, improved access to quality materials, and fostering active participation from creators. The document also outlines various strategies for integrating OER in educational practices, as well as the implications for public policy and workforce development.
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- 1. Qatar University TechnologyEnhanced Learning & Openness For Faculty Doha 30-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)
- 2. Grow and protectthe public commons by creating legal & technical tools, campaigns, and policy designed to maximize creativity, sharing, and innovation. 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. http://creativecommons.org
- 3. The problem: Traditional© designed for old distribution models
- 4. Technically easy toshare but legally not so easy. Internet by Pat Guiney CC BY
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- 6. What do wedo? We make sharing content easy, legal, and scalable.
- 7. How do wedo it? Free © licenses that creators can attach to their works
- 9. Step 1: ChooseConditions Attribution ShareAlike NonCommercial NoDerivatives
- 10. House of KnowledgeVariation1 by Adrien Sifre CC BY-NC-ND Best Practices for Attribution: (TASL) Title Author Source – Link to work License – Name + Link
- 11. Step 2: Receivea License
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- 18. Where do theseresources come from?
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- 20. 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, …
- 21. most free leastfree OER Not OER
- 22. 5Rs: The PowerfulRights of OER • Make, own, and control your own copy of the content Retain Reuse • Use the content in its unaltered form • Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the content Revise • Combine the original or revised content with other OER to create something new Remix • Share your copies of the original content, revisions, or remixes with others Redistribute
- 23. OER is Global http://khanacademy.org http://www.open.edu/openlearn/ http://projects.siyavula.com http://nroer.in/
- 24. Open Textbooks http://open.bccampus.ca http://www.openstax.org Free | Openly (CC) Licensed | Peer Reviewed Print on demand at low cost.
- 25. OpenStax College (RiceUniversity) Free | Openly (CC) Licensed | Peer Reviewed Print on demand at low cost.
- 26. Strategic Purpose •Social and/or economic reasons? • Academic reasons? • Beyond generalities like “enriching the knowledge economy” • A few examples … Why do OER?
- 27. Global Economy freetrade offshore outsourcing imports Positives • lower prices • higher efficiency • more jobs • quality Economic Adjustments Required Negatives • displaced workers • unemployment • lower wages • low & obsolescent skills • personal & family hardship
- 28. 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!
- 29. High Growth IndustrySectors Generating OER for Fields of Study With Few Existing OER Bridging Health Manufacturing Basic Education Energy Transportation Information Technology
- 30. 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. Strategic Alignment • 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 investment board Public Workforce System Job centers, adult education agencies, career and technical education agencies Partnerships 6. Align with Previously-Funded TAACCCT Projects
- 31. Why did wedo this? “We did this because open licensing increases the impact of our investment and helps us to be more strategic with our future investments.”
- 32. “From a publicpolicy 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.”
- 33. “TAACCCT is areally 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.”
- 34. KEY POLICY: EducationGrant Programs “All newly developed materials must be CC BY.” From • displaced workers • unemployment • lower wages • low & obsolescent skills • personal & family hardship To • employed workers • higher skills • higher wages • growth industries
- 35. 2003-12 OER initiativeto 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.
- 36. • Save students$ • Generate collaboration among institutions and across faculty at multiple institutions • Localize and adapt textbooks for Canadian context • Faculty fellows
- 37. House of KnowledgeVariation1 by Adrien Sifre CC BY-NC-ND Open Pedagogies
- 38. Improve course materials http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/
- 39. Add to/improve theglobal knowledge commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem
- 40. Design course assignments http://assignments.ds106.us/
- 41. Create/curate supplemental resources http://wiki.ubc.ca/Science:Math_Exam_Resources https://www.oercommons.org/
- 42. Solve a global,social, or economic challenge Based on Open Models Concept paper written by Paul Stacey, Garin Fons, and Theresa Bernardo. Paper available at: http://bit.ly/1rKij7w
- 43. Design a house,a chair, anything http://www.wikihouse.cc/ http://www.wikiseat.org/ http://creativecommons.org.nz/2013/05/wikihouse-nz/ http://www.thingiverse.com/
- 44. http://opendesignnow.org/ http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/ https://www.opendesk.cc/ http://www.thingiverse.com
- 45. Benefits • Bringspeer 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
- 51. Openness in QatarUniversity TEL Initiative
- 52. Paul Stacey CreativeCommons web site: http://creativecommons.org e-mail: pstacey@creativecommons.org blog: http://edtechfrontier.com presentation slides: http://www.slideshare.net/Paul_Stacey https://www.facebook.com/creativecommons http://creativecommons.org/weblog