Open Education

Open Education

David Wiley, PhDDepartment of Instructional Psychology & Technology

Brigham Young University

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If the Book Didn’t Change Education

Can the internet?Can openness?

Openness… In Education?

Let’s begin by defining terms

Open, adj.

Describes educational artifacts

Open Textbooks

Open Educational Resources

Open Courseware

(Open Source Software)

Open, adj.

Teaching materials freely shared with permissions to engage in the “4R” activities

The 4Rs

Reuse – copy verbatimRedistribute – share with others

Revise – adapt and improveRemix – combine with others

Communicate 4Rs Permissions

Since this overrides default copyright,you must use a copyright license

Offers easy to use 4R’s licenses

While Nouns Differ…

The operationalizing actions are the same

Open, adj.

Generous, sharing, giving

Open, adj.

Providing (1) access and (2) local control

Your Inner Two-year Old

Overcoming the impulse to scream“Mine!”

Law and Policy “Enable” Us

To shout “Mine!” ever more loudly,convulse ever more uncontrollably,

and hit each other with ever larger toys

Society’s Siren Song

“Be selfish. Keep it to yourself. It’s legal. It’s ok.”

Education Is Not Immune

This kind of thinking is accepted

Role of Openness in Education?

A terrible, insidious question

Openness is the only means of doing education.

If There Is No Sharing

There is no education

Successful Educators

Share most thoroughly with the most students

Expertise Is Nonrivalrous

Can be given without being given away

“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

Expressions Are Different

To give a book you must give it away

Expressions Are Different

To give a book you must give it away

Expressions Are Different

Digital expressions are nonrivalrous

n’t^

E.g., Online Book

We can all read simultaneously

An Indescribable Advance

The first time in human history

Expertise and Its Expressions

Give without giving away

Unprecedented Capacity

We can share as never before

Unprecedented Capacity

We can educate as never before

Stewardship

For which we are accountable

Open Educational Resources

Open Course Ware

Open Course Ware

Open Courses

Open Courses

Open Textbooks

Open Textbooks

Repository Examples

OpenCourseWare Examples

Open Courses Examples

Open Textbook Examples

Expanded Funding

Department of Labor

$2 Billion for high-demand one or two year programs

Accreditation

Get credit for what you know

University of the People

OER University

Mozilla Badge Lab

Extension and Land-Grants

Increasing reach and access

Adopting Open Textbooks

Improving affordabilityimproves access

Buy One, Get One

The public that funded workdeserves access to the work

“Classroom Exhaust”

The by-products of classroom teaching,like syllabi, lecture notes, slides,

assignments and quizzes

We Want to Increase Access

Openness and online materialsgive us incredible opportunities

What Would Morrill 3.0 Be?

It would definitely reimagine access in the context of new tools and

new capabilities

“Can XYZ Change Education?”

As Smokey the Bear said,“Only You Can.”

Thank You

david.wiley@byu.edu@opencontent

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