1. Introduction to Open Education
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Introduction to Open Education

2. First, a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya7aW8BRPTM

3. https://opensource.com/resources/what-open- education
Open Education
Open education is a philosophy about the way people should produce, share, and build on knowledge.
Proponents of open education believe everyone in the world should have access to high-quality educational experiences and resources, and they work to eliminate barriers to this goal.
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4. Open Education The technology we use today allows us to:
share our own educational materials freely and extend our reach for teaching and educating others
find & use existing free high-quality educational materials that meet our own instructional goals and the needs of our students
build upon the works of others to enhance the quality of existing teaching and learning materials

5. Barriers to Open Education
Barrier to Sharing and Reusing Materials
Copyright – All Rights Reserved
Solution: Creative Commons – Some Rights Reserved
Openly licensed teaching and learning materials

6. Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: program/open-educational-resources
Focus on Free
Open Educational Resources

7. Free Access + Free Permissions - The 5 R’s
Open licenses provides at least 2 kinds of permissions:
Reuse – Permission to make and reuse exact copies
Redistribute – Permission to share copies with others 
Open should also provide these additional permissions: 
Revise – Permission to change, adapt, and alter the resource
Remix – Permission to combine the OER with other materials to produce a new work
Retain – Users have the right to make, archive, and “own” copies of the content
Free Access + Free Permissions David Wiley -

8. OER Types of OER Courses Modules Learning Objects Textbooks Videos
Test Banks
Images
Types of OER

9. Open Access to OER Learning Materials
LibreTexts
Open Access to OER Learning Materials

10. COOL4Ed Faculty Showcase demonstration

11. Impact of Textbook Costs on Students
The findings suggest that the cost of textbooks is negatively impacting student access to required materials (66.6% did not purchase the required textbook) and learning (37.6% earn a poor grade; 19.8% fail a course). Time to graduation and/or access is also impacted by cost. Students reported that they occasionally or frequently take fewer courses (47.6%); do not register for a course (45.5%); drop a course (26.1%), 2016 or withdraw from courses (20.7%).
Florida Student Textbook Survey
Florida Virtual Campus. (2016) Florida Student Textbooks and Course Materials Survey. Tallahassee, FL: Author. Retrieved from

12. Quality Question
Open Textbook Quality Varies
As with traditionally published resources
No perfect textbook
Peer Reviews
Open Textbook Library
OpenStax, UNG Press: Pre-production peer review
Open textbooks can be adapted and edited to fit the learning objectives and goals for a course

13. Efficacy and Perceptions of OER
Students who use OER tend to do as well or better than their peers using traditional textbooks in terms of course completion and passing rates.
Literature indicates that open textbooks are connected with high student and faculty satisfaction, lower costs, and similar or better educational outcomes.
Hilton, J. (2016). Open educational resources and college textbook choices: a review of research on efficacy and perceptions. Educational Technology Research and Development, 64(4). pp 573–590. 

14. The Open Education Group
An interdisciplinary research group that (1) conducts original, rigorous, empirical research on the impact of OER adoption on a range of educational outcomes and (2) designs and shares methodological and conceptual frameworks for studying the impact of OER adoption.

15. OER-Enabled Pedagogy
“The set of teaching and learning practices that are only possible or practical in the context of the 5R permissions that are characteristic of OER”

16. OER-Enabled Pedagogy Rationale
Students learn by doing/making
Copyright prohibits broad categories of activity (e.g., making copies or creating derivative works) without permission from a rights holder
Therefore, copyright necessarily limits the ways in which students can learn
The 5R’s of OER lift these restrictions
Therefore, students are free to engage in a broader range of activities and, learn in a broader range of ways

18. Disposable Assignments
“These are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away. Not only do these assignments add no value to the world, they actually suck value out of the world.” David Wiley

19. Renewable Assignments
Students create new artifacts (essays, poems, videos, songs, etc.) or revise/remix existing OER
The new artifact has value beyond supporting the learning of its author
Students are invited to publicly share their new artifacts or revised/remixed OER
Students are invited to openly license their new artifacts or revised/remixed OER

21. Is it OER-Enabled Pedagogy? Four-Part Test
Are students asked to create new artifacts (essays, poems, videos, songs, etc.) or revise/remix existing OER?
Does the new artifact have value beyond supporting the learning of its author?
Are students invited to publicly share their new artifacts or revised/remixed OER?
Are students invited to openly license their new artifacts or revised/remixed OER?

22. OER & OER-Enabled Pedagogy
Allows students to learn in new and different ways
Allows students to revise/remix materials to create something new
Creates value beyond the student’s individual learning
Focus on pedagogical value
OER
Allow instructors to revise/remix materials to meet their needs
Allow instructors to move beyond the constraints of a single text
Create value for the student (save money, reduce DFW rates, increase grades)

23. OER provide a means for Why Open Matters
Cost savings
Access
Student retention and success
By using OER, Open Pedagogy (OER-enabled pedagogy) helps to achieve the goal that everyone in the world should have access to high quality educational experiences and resources

24. Thank You! Contributors to these slides: Lucy Harrison, ALG
Marie Lasseter, ALG
Judy Orton Grissett, GSW