Open Teaching in a Digital Age ‘Openness’ as the default action of the academic? Create LicenseRemixShare Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius & Michelle Willmers

The Notion of Academia Education is a social service Education should be about the greater good Academic is the creator of learning materials and tools Internet is changing research and teaching practice

Sharing doesn’t cost anything anymore The internet is creating new channels for collaboration and feedback Learning materials are social objects Sharing builds networks Sharing transforms practice Reach and impact is extended Do you share a little or share a lot?

Posted dissertation online –Over 27,500 views Image of networked teacher re- appropriated –Translated to multiple languages –Used around the world –Inspired the ‘networked student’ video circulating YouTube More amazing stories of openness

Open educational resources (OER) are educational materials (usually but not always digital) that are offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some type of license to re-mix, improve and redistribute.

Creative Commons: Making OER Possible

Questions to Ponder over Licensing Did I create this material? Whose work did I include in my material? Who do I want to share with? Plus those famous Creative Commons questions! Do you allow commercial uses of your work? Do you allow modifications of your work?

Iterations Start simple and let others build on top – Share-Alike Allow commercial use – Non Commercial Allow copies only – No Derivatives

Degrees of Openness

Open Scholar

Access, Appropriate, Localise

Questions for Reflection In what aspects of your academic life are you not open? Why? Does your institution place obstacles to openness? What would it take to convince you to be more open? What are your concerns?

With inspiration from Martin Weller, Reflections on Openness, Everaldo Coelho, Crystal Project, GNU Lesser General Public License Erica_Marshall, Remember Cassette Tapes?, CC BY-NC-SA courosa, Networked Teacher Diagram – Update, CC BY-NC-SA stylianosm, Networked Teacher (Greek), CC BY-SA wdrexler, Networked Student, langwitches, Der Vernetzte Lehrer, CC BY-NC-SA Michael Reschke, OERlogo, Public Domain Toru Iiyoshi & M. S. Vijay Kumar, Opening Up Education, CC BY-NC-ND Open Indiana University, Screenshot, Open MIT, Screenshot, OER Commons, Screenshot, Academic Earth, Screenshot, Jonas De Baere, strange way of building in the City, CC BY-NC NoIdentity, In Series, CC BY-NC-ND langwitches, Networked Teacher, CC References: In order of Appearance

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