Introduction to OPEN:For Students on Day One

(also…there is no “Day One”)

Robin DeRosa Your Trusty Prof

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DRIVE YOUR OWN BUS

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Start with OER: Gratis & LibreOpen 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 repurposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.

Hewlett Foundation: http://www.hewlett.org/programs/educat

ion/open-educational-resources

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Money Matters FO SHO• Students spend on average $1,200 a year on textbooks (U.S.

Public Interest Research Group, survey of 156 campuses in 33 states)

• That’s equal to more than 12% of PSU in-state tuition!• Since 1978, college textbook costs have increased

812%. To put that in context, it means that textbook prices have increased at 3.2 times the rate of inflation. (Mark J Perry, AEIdeas. http://www.aei.org)

• Used/rentals/ebooks don’t solve the problem. Used textbooks are undermined by new editions, rentals create a system where we remove books from learners (ugh!). Many ebooks have expiration dates and print limits.

This is not (only) about COSTWe could save you money in tons of easy ways:

– Increase all class sizes to 100+;– Increase all teaching loads to 6-6;– Close the library! Close the gym!– Turn off the heat!

Cheaper isn’t the (only) point. Affordability will help you get to the table…and stay here. But that is only the beginning of how OER can improve the learning process.

Resisting “Students as Consumers”

“Student-centered”

≠“give the customer what s/he wants.”

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Open Pedagogy: YOU READY?

• Community and collaboration over content.• Connects the university with the wider public.• Treats education as a learner-developed process.• Is skeptical of hoops, products, end-points, experts,

& gatekeeping.

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Required TextsLearning OutcomesSchedule of Work

AssignmentsGrading Criteria

Let’s Rethink Our Syllabus…Together

Required Texts: what does OER enable?

• Add Components• Revise & Reorder• Customize

Autonomy, Creativity, Critical Thinking

We Can Build Our Own Book

Learning Outcomes

What will your YOU bring to this class? Where will you take it?

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TechnoRhizomatic: Building your PLN

Schedule of WorkFunction of CONTENT:

for you to learn to identify what matters to you.

The shelf-life of discipline-specific content is short. The shelf-life of learner-centered inquiry is forever.

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CONTENT as Dynamic

“The amount of knowledge in the world has doubled in the past 10 years and is [now] doubling every 18 months…To combat the shrinking half-life of knowledge, organizations have been forced to develop new methods of deploying instruction.” ~Cathy Gonzalez

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Assignments: Help Design Them!

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Grading: Let’s Build a Process!• Training peer graders like we train standardized test graders

(the @Chris_Friend model)

• Open p2p Badges (the BC Campus model)

• Grading by contract and crowdsourcing (the @CathyNDavidson model)

• Grading by guided, frequent self-evaluation (the @Jessifer model)

• Grades that emphasize effort/engagement (the @davecormier model)

“Every study of peer review among students shows that students perform at a higher level, and with more care, when they know they are being evaluated by their peers than when they know only the teacher and the TA will be grading” ~Cathy N. Davidson

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Going Open: A Student Guide• Understand and ask for OER where appropriate• Create portfolios that you own, understand,

maintain, license, and leverage• Work with your profs to help create assignments

that are useful to you and to the field• Develop your PLN a little bit each day• Share your ideas and your work with the world• Let this course serve as a springboard for your

continuing educational growth• Let our classroom be a “real world” that you love.

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