Qatar University Technology Enhanced Learning & Openness for Faculty

Qatar UniversityTechnology Enhanced Learning & Openness

For Faculty

Doha30-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)

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.

Grow and protect the public commons by creatinglegal & technical tools, campaigns, and policy

designed to maximize creativity, sharing, and innovation.

http://creativecommons.org

Traditional © designed for old

distribution models

The problem:

Technically easy to share but legally not so easy.

Internet by Pat Guiney CC BY

creativecommons.org

We make sharing content easy, legal,

and scalable.

What do we do?

Free © licenses that creators can

attach to their works

How do we do it?

Step 1: Choose Conditions

Attribution

ShareAlike

NonCommercial

NoDerivatives

Best Practices for Attribution: (TASL)

TitleAuthorSource – Link to workLicense – Name + Link

House of Knowledge Variation1 by Adrien Sifre CC BY-NC-ND

Step 2: Receive a License

most free

least free

Lawyer ReadableLegal Code

HumanReadable Deed

MachineReadable Metadata

Where do these resources come from?

Openness in Education

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, …

most free

least freeNot OER

OER

5Rs: The Powerful Rights of OER

OER is Global

http://khanacademy.org

http://projects.siyavula.com http://nroer.in/

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

Open Textbooks

http://www.openstax.org

Free | Openly (CC) Licensed | Peer Reviewed

Print on demand at low cost.

http://open.bccampus.ca

Free | Openly (CC) Licensed | Peer Reviewed

Print on demand at low cost.

OpenStax College(Rice University)

Strategic Purpose

• Social and/or economic reasons?• Academic reasons?• Beyond generalities like “enriching the

knowledge economy”• A few examples …

Why do OER?

Global Economy

free tradeoffshore outsourcing

imports

Positives• lower prices• higher efficiency• more jobs• quality

Negatives• displaced workers• unemployment• lower wages• low & obsolescent skills• personal & family hardship

Economic Adjustments Required

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!

High Growth Industry Sectors

Generating OER for Fields of Study With Few Existing OER

Energy

Health ManufacturingBridgingBasic Education

Transportation InformationTechnology

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. StrategicAlignment

• 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 investmentboard

Public Workforce System

Job centers, adult education agencies, career and technical

education agencies

Partnerships

6. Align with Previously-Funded TAACCCT Projects

“We did this because open licensing increases the impact of our investment and helps us to be more strategic with our future investments.”

Why did we do this?

“From a public policy 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.”

“TAACCCT is a really 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.”

From• displaced workers• unemployment• lower wages• low & obsolescent skills• personal & family hardship

To• employed workers• higher skills• higher wages• growth industries

KEY POLICY: Education Grant Programs“All newly developed materials must be CC BY.”

2003-12 OER initiative to 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.

• Save students $• Generate

collaboration among institutions and across faculty at multiple institutions

• Localize and adapt textbooks for Canadian context

• Faculty fellows

House of Knowledge Variation1 by Adrien Sifre CC BY-NC-ND

Open Pedagogies

Improve course materials

http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/

Add to/improve the global knowledge commons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem

Design course assignments

http://assignments.ds106.us/

Create/curate supplemental resources

http://wiki.ubc.ca/Science:Math_Exam_Resources

https://www.oercommons.org/

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

Design a house, a chair, anything

http://www.wikihouse.cc/ http://www.wikiseat.org/

http://www.thingiverse.com/

http://creativecommons.org.nz/2013/05/wikihouse-nz/

http://opendesignnow.org/

http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/

https://www.opendesk.cc/

http://www.thingiverse.com

Benefits

• Brings peer 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

Openness in Qatar University TEL Initiative

Paul StaceyCreative Commons

web site: http://creativecommons.org e-mail: pstacey@creativecommons.orgblog: http://edtechfrontier.com

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