Pedagogy in Public:Open Education Unbound

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Robin DeRosa@actualham

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It’s a Gateway Drug

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THE KEYNOTE

• Student textbooks cost about $1,200 per year.

• Students worry more about paying for books than they worry about paying for college.

• Textbook costs have risen 812% since 1978.

• $1,200 is equal to 12% of tuition at my university.

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Effects of Textbook Prices

• 60% of students report not purchasing a required textbook because of cost, and 23% regularly go without books due to cost

• 50% of students report taking fewer courses due to textbook costs

• 14% have dropped a course and 10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook costs

2012 Survey of 22,000 students, Florida Virtual Campus, comprised of the

12 universities and 28 colleges in the Florida state system.

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Square 1: Openly-Licensed Content(Public Domain Lit Shouldn’t Cost $87)

Collaboratively Built: Alums, Incoming Students, Professor

Constantly Evolving:

Students & Teachers

Add, Improve,

Share

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Interactive and Public Annotation

Even “the most boring book ever written” is interactive.

But textbooks? Ugh.

An Open “Textbook”Can Be:

• Interactive• Collaborative• Dialogic• Dynamic• Empowering• Contributory• Current• Accessible• Multimedia• Public• (Free)

Open Education

• Open Educational Resources (OER)

• Open Pedagogy• Open Access to

research

Open Pedagogy

• Improves access to education.• Treats education as a learner-driven

process.• Stresses community and

collaboration over content.• Connects the university to the wider

public.

Access• Save money on

textbooks, ok • But what other

barriers exist to access?• Digital divide• Universal

design• Trolling,

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Learner-Driven

• Learning Outcomes

• Policies• Texts• Assignments• Feedback &

Grading

CC not C• Course hashtags

(#opencomp)• Group projects• OpenLabs

Public

Blogs, PLNs, ePorts

• @gardnercampbell • @anrikard• @audreywatters

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Personal

Reflective Portfolio

Portal for sharing and collaborating

What is the Internet FOR, Anyway?

Pre-MedSport PerformanceArt TherapyMusic ProductionSustainable Food ProductionInternational BusinessWeather JournalismData AnalyticsVeterinary MedicineBiomedical Sciences

Oh yeah….and English!

OER Open Pedagogy Open Access

How does “open” affect

us as SCHOLARS?

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What Will the Digital Age Enable?

Technology allows for efficient worldwide dissemination of research and scholarship. But closed distribution models can get in the way. Open access helps to fulfill the promise of the digital age.

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We Can Do It!

“We can be confident that OA journals are economically sustainable because the true costs of peer review, manuscript preparation, and OA dissemination are

considerably lower than the prices we currently pay for subscription-based journals. There's more than enough

money already committed to the journal-support system. Moreover, as OA spreads, libraries will realize large savings

from the conversion, cancellation, or demise of non-OA journals.”

~Peter Suber

We Can Do It!

My Small Public University Annual Cost for Databases: $271,000

Annual Cost for Additional Journals: $251,000

TOTAL ANNUAL: $522,000

Open Education

UNBOUND

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My evening

• Barriers to open• Contingent labor and OER• Privilege and dominance in

open spaces• Screenshotting tweets• Embedding tweets• Exploiting tweeters• Slideshares and articles• Conferences• Skype dates• Plans for meetups• Sharing faculty observation

protocols• Not• Making• Powerpoint

OPEN (un)bound(ing)• Challenge barriers to access. Be

honest and critical.• Center learners. Be radical and real.

• Facilitate connection. Be a sticky node, not a gate.

• Share research. Be generous and just.

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Open is a practice, not a panacea.

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Robin DeRosa@actualham

#OPENunbound