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Higher Education in Perpetual Beta:
Why “Open” is Our Future
Cable GreeneLearning Director
http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen
Why does networked matter?
seamless connection of people, resources & knowledge
digitization of content mobile, personal global platform for
collaboration outsourcing open-sourcing
In a flat world, the synthesizers of ideas will rule.
And they will use open web 2.0 software standards, and practices to distribute their ideas.
And we can makeall of our “digital stuff”available toall people…and most of itwill get used...by someone.
"According to an IBM study, by 2010, the amount of digital
information in the world will double every 11 hours."
http://elearning101.org
Choices:
(1) Open up andleverage global input
OR
(2) close up shop
One way to deal is with…
Open Educational Resources
State of the Art (and Open / FREE)
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11309&mode=toc
Because when we cooperate and share, we all win – exponentially.
Reedʼs Law: Networks grow [in value] exponentially by the number of nodes.
It’s a social justice issue: everyone has the right to access global knowledge.
Why is “Open” Important?
Institute for the Future whitepaper: Technologies of Cooperation
Definition of OER
Digitized materials, offered freely and openly for educators, students, to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/openeducation
What about Copyright / IP?CC Video
- JSB
http://wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/ComingApart
OpenLearn (UK) - DEMO
OCW – MIT (MIT HS) China Open Resources for Education has
translated 109 MIT OCW courses into Simplified Chinese.
Rice Connexions
(a few) Open Content Repositories
and there is this smallcollection of articles:
What are Open Textbooks?
“Open textbooks” are free, online, open-access textbooks. The content of open textbooks is licensed to allow anyone to use, download, customize, or print without expressed permission from the author.
http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org
Examples of Free, Open Textbooks
Why do we Need Open Textbooks? 2005 GAO report: College textbook prices have
risen at twice the rate of annual inflation over the last two decades
At 2-year public institutions, the average cost of books and supplies per first-time, full-time student (’03-’04) was $886 = almost 75% of the cost of tuition and fees $898 at 4-year public institutions, about 26% of the cost
of tuition and fees
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05806.pdf
May, 2007: Dept of Ed.
http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/course_correction.pdf
What does the report say?
Digital textbooks must meet three criteria: affordable, printable and accessible.
Digital textbooks done wrong: Publisher e-textbooks fail to meet the criteria.
Digital textbooks done right: Open textbooks meet all of the criteria.
We must get rid of our “not invented here” attitude regarding others’ content move to: "proudly borrowed from there"
Content is not a strategic advantage
Nor can we (or our students) afford it: Students want open, free textbooks
Hey Higher Ed!
“As uncomfortable a proposition as this new openness may be for some, I believe it is the future of higher education.”
In web 2.0, everything is public & higher education needs to
get used to it.
Future of Openness in Education
David Wiley 2006. Open source, openness, and higher education.
What Happens if weDon’t Change?
Google, Amazo
n, Apple, O
pen Sourc
e,
Open Content, O
pen Textbooks…
Higher EducationFu
nct
ion
al P
oss
ibili
ties
Time
Harder to catch-up …
Or even understand.
In the end, catching up with today’s information technologies is not about technology itself; it is about a new world of open, online sharing where everyone has the power to create and disseminate their ideas, courses and textbooks and to re-mix and use others’ work.
But the biggest shift is cultural.
And it will take leadership to get there…
… from the Strategic Technology Plan
http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu http://blog.elearning.sbctc.edu
Dr. Cable [email protected] (360) 704-4334Twitter: cgreen
http://www.go2web20.net
RSS
RSS: Really Simple Syndication
Hmmm… well what does that mean?
Who Here Reads Newspapers?
News Story Syndication
Story is written
Story
is se
nt to
“the
wire”
Papers pick up
‘feed’ off the
wire
Story appears here
Syndication
Syndication
Appears in Appears in many papersmany papers
RSS is like reading a newspaper
Lots of newspapers!
Social Bookmarking
http://delicious.com
Share Slides (and use others’)
http://www.slideshare.net
Blog
http://blog.elearning.sbctc.edu
“Micro-Blogging”
http://twitter.com
Strategic Technology
Planhttp://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/college/dl/StrategicTechnologyPlan-final.pdf
1. Our state’s most urgent need: educate more people to higher levels
2. Fuller use of information technology is key to making education more accessible
3. One, single-minded goal: to mobilize technology to increase student success
Strategy I: Create a single, system-wide suite of online teaching and learning tools that provides all Washington students with easy access to “anywhere, anytime” learning.
Strategy II: Create a seamless P-20 system for personalized online student services including: recruitment, retention, advising, course catalogue, transfer, and financial aid management.
Strategy III: Create a system of lifelong learning and change management for faculty, staff and college leadership.
Strategy IV: Use data to drive continuous improvement in both student success and administrative efficiency.
Strategy V: Treat information technology as a centrally funded, baseline service in the system budget.
Five strategies for transformation
We will not try to do what others can do better, faster, and for less money.
We will shift our best and brightest IT staff from software developers to integration experts who tie together best-of-breed applications.
This plan also recommends a shift from locally-developed software and hosting services.
Bottom Line
Accountability Shared technology, support services and content is a
responsible use of public funds.
Accessibility All students, faculty and staff need access to enterprise
eLearning & administrative systems and support services to compete in the global market.
Affordability No College can afford all necessary eLearning &
administrative systems & support services individually.