1. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License From OpenCourseWare to Open CourseWare Brandon Muramatsu, mura@mit.edumura@mit.edu MIT Office of Educational Innovation and Technology 1 Citation: Muramatsu, B., (2010). From OpenCourseWare to Open CourseWare. Presented at OER’11: Manchester, UK, May 12, 2011. With a Space

2. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Continuing the Cat Meme… 2 Source: icanhascheezeburger. (2009, March 9). algeblah confuzez mi. Retrieved May 11, 2011 from icanhascheeseburger.com website: http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/03/07/funny-pictures-algeblahconfuzezmi/http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/03/07/funny-pictures-algeblahconfuzezmi/

3. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License But I’m a dog person… …everyone say, “Awwwww!” 3 Source: icanhasahotdog. (2009, August 2). Puppy Defense System CODENAME: CUTENESS. Retrieved May 11, 2011 from icanhascheeseburger.com website: http://dogs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/08/02/cute-puppy-pictures-codename-cuteness/http://dogs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/08/02/cute-puppy-pictures-codename-cuteness/

4. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License The talk I was going to give was going to go something like… We’re experimenting with what we can do with the course materials published in MIT OpenCourseWare –for– MIT. Namely, let’s restructure the materials and import them into Moodle and build assessments around them … turning them into “real” Open CourseWare. And then, here’s a working example and what we learned… But… 4 With a Space

5. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Somewhere along the way I got sidetracked… This little conference in [the other] Cambridge… http://bit.ly/ocwcglobal-wrapup http://bit.ly/ocwcglobal-wrapup …so, my apologies… Instead I’ll describe the motivation and process we will be exploring this summer. 5

6. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Caveats I’m with the MIT Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (OEIT) I don’t work for MIT OpenCourseWare I *do* work with them So, I don’t represent MIT OpenCourseWare Also, I’m not making institutional commitments about MIT or MIT OpenCourseWare 6

7. @bmuramatsu Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Wouldn’t it be great if MIT OpenCourseWare…? About a year ago… Early 2010 7

8. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License MIT OCW is a Publication MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT. OCW is not an MIT education. OCW does not grant degrees or certificates. OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty. Materials may not reflect entire content of the course. 8 Reference: MIT OCW. (2010). About OCW. Retrieved on May 5, 2010 from MIT OCW Website: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/about/index.htmhttp://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/about/index.htm

9. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License …but…we’re at MIT, certainly we should be able to do more with OpenCourseWare… Wouldn’t it be great if MIT OCW…? 9

10. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License …aha! We were asking the wrong question! 10 What if we experimented with MIT OCW…? flickr@microrama

11. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Sure…OEIT can develop a custom copy of MIT OCW Mirror of MIT OCW site Within boundaries of Creative Commons License, by-nc-sa Project Greenfield http://greenfield.mit.edu 11 flickr@microrama

12. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Project Greenfield MIT Faculty have asked us about… Interactivity Tools and services Innovative browse mechanisms OEIT’s goals are to: Support MIT faculty Experiment, to show what’s possible (e.g., Web 2.0) Prototype tools and services … all with MIT OCW course materials 12 Project Greenfield

13. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Further Motivations OEIT Experiment with tools, content delivery Internal to MIT Lots of internal discussions Increase use of MIT OCW for on-campus courses Experiment with other LMS/VLEs External to MIT Increase in OER and especially open course development (Saylor Foundation saylor.org, Washington SBCTC Open Textbooks, etc.)saylor.org New models in certification (P2PU, KNEXT, etc.) 13

14. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License “New” (Old?) Terminology Open CourseWare Especially in the context of the Educause Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) program 14 With a Space

15. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Open CourseWare Should facilitate rich interactivity with instructor, peers, and content; Must be of the highest pedagogical and technical quality, integrating effective teaching strategies and interactive technologies; Should include clear student learning objectives and assessment strategies that monitor and review student success; Must be standards-based to ensure they can be used broadly, yet be customizable to the needs of different learners/instructors (including persons with disabilities); [and] Should be openly licensed to allow institutions and faculty to tailor to local needs and improve the courseware over time. 15 With a Space Reference: Next Generation Learning Challenges. (2011). Open Core CourseWare. Retrieved May 11, 2011 from Next Generation Learning Challenges Website: http://nextgenlearning.org/the-grants/wave-1-challenges/open-core-courseware/articles/open-core-courses

16. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License MIT OpenCourseWare Serves a number of user groups: Faculty looking to teach a new subject, to see how other faculty (esp. MIT faculty) teach courses Students, at MIT and elsewhere, looking for resources to help them with a course Independent learners Is a publication Snapshot of courses taught by a particular faculty in a particular term Has whatever materials the faculty made available Typically has slides and lecture notes, perhaps assignments and exams. 16

17. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License MIT OCW Scholar Goals Designed for independent learners who have few additional resources available to them. The courses are substantially more complete than typical OCW courses and include new custom- created content as well as materials repurposed from MIT classrooms. The materials are also arranged in logical sequences and include multimedia such as video and simulations. 17 Reference: MIT OCW. (2011). OCW Scholar. Retrieved May 11, 2011 from MIT OCW Website: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ocw-scholar/http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ocw-scholar/

18. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Features of OCW Scholar Courses Modularized Content With Quizzes Includes Video Includes link to OpenStudy groups Good step, but pretty big concept chunks Formative assessments, but static and in PDF format <- consistent with other MIT OCW materials Link to specific time segments Can ask a question and get an answer, but still not a “course” 18 Designed for independent learners

19. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License What are others doing to build upon MIT OpenCourseWare?—OpenStudy Allowing users to connect with other learners OpenStudy (9 courses) 19 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science 18.01 Single Variable Calculus (Fall 2006) 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 6.002 Circuits and Electronics 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism 18.01 Single Variable Calculus (Fall 2006) 18.02 Multivariable Calculus 18.06 Linear Algebra Source: OpenStudy http://openstudy.com/questions/A-6500-kg-helicopter- accelerates-upward-at-0.60-ms-while-lifting-a-1200-kg-car.--a-What-is-the-lift-force-exerted- by-the-air-on-the-r-4cbd2903fddb3a7f0a66df45 http://openstudy.com/questions/A-6500-kg-helicopter- accelerates-upward-at-0.60-ms-while-lifting-a-1200-kg-car.--a-What-is-the-lift-force-exerted- by-the-air-on-the-r-4cbd2903fddb3a7f0a66df45

20. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License What are others doing to build upon MIT OpenCourseWare?—Nixty “Tracking progress through a course” Nixty-versions of MIT OCW Courses 20 Source: Nixty, http://nixty.com/course/Physics-I-Classical-Mechanics-MIT-Walter-Lewinhttp://nixty.com/course/Physics-I-Classical-Mechanics-MIT-Walter-Lewin

21. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License What are others doing to build upon MIT OCW ?—Saylor Foundation Remixing OERs, including MIT OCW Includes Learning Outcomes Adding Final Assessments 21 Source: Saylor Foundation, http://www.saylor.org/courses/ma252 http://www.saylor.org/courses/ma252

22. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Reusing Courses, or Teaching directly from OERs/OCWs Questions of scale, and… How much investment are you willing to undertake? For example, MIT OCW, consistent with their mission takes a large investment to achieve the breadth, instead of focusing on all the other things that would make “Open CourseWare” How much investment is necessary to create a “course” from the course materials? 22

23. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License So what does this mean for the project? Other Developments and OCW Scholar 23

24. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Interactivity “Should facilitate rich interactivity with instructor, peers, and content.” I’m not sure about this one yet. External OERs and learning objects? 24

25. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License High Quality “Must be of the highest pedagogical and technical quality, integrating effective teaching strategies and interactive technologies.” Arguably, high quality already But, not designed for “teaching from…” Newly designed for “learning from…” Not especially interactive—but lots of resources out there 25

26. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Learning Objectives and Assessment “Should include clear student learning objectives and assessment strategies that monitor and review student success.” Snapshot of course, with materials provided by faculty Broadly speaking only engineering faculty have somewhat detailed learning objectives (because of accreditation) May or may not include assessments 26

27. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Customizable “Must be standards-based to ensure they can be used broadly, yet be customizable to the needs of different learners/instructors.” Arguably already broadly used, but room for improvement Technically hard to customize, because of how materials are published (PDF) 27

28. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License What might the end result look like (for MIT)? OCW Scholar + Collaboration + Assesments + Facilitators = Open CourseWare Might be an ongoing instantiation of a massively open online course Probably be able to import this Open CourseWare course into your LMS/VLE 28

29. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License OpenEd 2011 OpenEd 2011, October 24-27 Park City, Utah <-It’s not Logan! Think ski resort! Call for Presentations: Monday, May 16 Presentations, Open Science Fair, Questioning Our Assumptions http://OpenEdConference.org 29

30. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Thanks! Brandon Muramatsu, mura@mit.edumura@mit.edu MIT Office of Educational Innovation and Technology 30 Citation: Muramatsu, B., (2010). From OpenCourseWare to Open CourseWare. Presented at OER’11: Manchester, UK, May 12, 2011.

31. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Greenfield as a Platform Tools Integrated Recommender Video Tools Concept Tools [Jeff Merriman’s presentation] CaPRéT [newly funded JISC project] Instructional Design and Assessments 31

32. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Integrated Recommender Recommender relates content MIT OCW Courses -> MIT OCW Courses ? MIT OCW Courses OERs Based on Folksemantic.com/OER Recommender Currently overlay of OCW/OER sites 32 MIT Faculty: Dave Pritchard, Physics & Haynes Miller, Mathematics

33. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Intrasite Hyperlinking (cont.) 33

34. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Concept Browser OCW is working on providing concept-type descriptions for some course materials OCW Scholar Concept level (1-10 concepts per course) Includes learning objectives, some formative assessment Created by faculty Core Concept Catalog Very high-level, course concepts Hand applied 34

35. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Concept Browser What are we doing? iPad application (Vijay Umapathy, M.Eng. student) Search by concept, browse multiple media (text and video) “Playback” from the concept Core Concept Catalog 35

36. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Intrasite Hyperlinking (Link within the site) Cross-reference key terms internally across all OCW content ? Service: ? Could limit to OCW content, or expand to selected/all OER repositories ? Could link to Wikipedia for definitions ? Development: ? Needs subject list, key terms, controlled vocabulary ? Testing with content experts for relevance of search results 36

37. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License CaPRéT (Cut and Paste Reuse Tracking tool) Cut and paste from a lecture? ✔ Simple cut and paste supported from HTML pages ~ Simple cut and paste possible from PDF/Word/etc. ? What about tynt.com-style support ? When the user highlights text, an automatic linkback to exact location in original page is created ? Extend tynt.com to add attribution information automatically and pasted with text 37 Reference: Muramatsu, B. (2009, August 27). Plagiarism is Good™ Revisited. Retrieved on May 5, 2010 from Brandon Muramatsu’s Website: http://www.mura.org/2009/08/plagiarism-is-good-revisited/http://www.mura.org/2009/08/plagiarism-is-good-revisited/

38. Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Building Upon MIT OpenCourseWare These work well because MIT OpenCourseWare remains a publication “Magnify the value of [the] publication.” These services are provided and supported external to MIT OpenCourseWare Very “light” integration (page/links or copy of content) 38 Source: MIT OpenCourseWare. (2010). MIT OpenCourseWare Teams Up with OpenStudy to Help OCW Users Connect and Study Together [Press Release]. Retrieved from:http://ocw.mit.edu/about/ media-coverage/press-releases/mit-opencourseware-teams-up-with-openstudy-to-help-ocw-users- connect-and-study-together/MIT OpenCourseWare Teams Up with OpenStudy to Help OCW Users Connect and Study Together http://ocw.mit.edu/about/ media-coverage/press-releases/mit-opencourseware-teams-up-with-openstudy-to-help-ocw-users- connect-and-study-together/