Open Content,

Experiential Learning, and

Online Community-Building:

The Continuing Contribution of

Open Journal Systems to Open

Education

Kevin Stranack

Open Education 2011

October 27, 2011

Open Source Community

Coordinator

Librarian

Graduate Student in Adult

Education

Open Journal Systems

Open

Source

How the community

broadened me from open

access to open education

Online, Peer-Reviewed, Open

Register

Submit

Receive

Communicate

• Review slide

Review

Decide

• Editing slide

Edit

• Publish slide

Publish

10,000 OJS installations

around the world

active open source community

30+ translations

48% in developing countries

covers all subject areas

rise of the scholar-publisher

strong uptake by academic libraries

lots of open content generated

Traditional Journals

Archived Journals

Proceedings

Books

Student Journals

Graduate Student Journals

Open

writing in public, learning in

public

Experiential

learning about the publishing

process by actively

participating in it

Collaborative

working with others through

peer review to improve their

research and writing

Self-Directed

students decide to do this

themselves

Connective

helps to build an online

community of peers

Undergraduate Journals

High School Journals

Open,

Experiential,

Collaborative,

Connective,

and...

Information Literate

building their information

literacy skills by actively

engaging in the peer review

process

Libraries

Library Publishing Services

Research Commons

Opportunity for libraries to become a partner in learning that is…

Open,

Experiential,

Collaborative,

Self-Directed,

Connective,

and Information Literate

Course Journals

Students submit as authors

Students review each other’s work

Instructor acts as the editor

Best papers are published

Open,

Experiential,

Collaborative,

Connective,

Information Literate

Plagiarism?

161,800 downloads

16 student articles have been

downloaded > 2500 times

68 articles over 1000 times

Libraries, again

Talk this up with faculty

Provide technical support to instructors

Link students’ immediate course experience with the wider world of scholarly publishing

Help students apply the lessons learned to other courses

Find out more

Web Site – http://pkp.sfu.ca

Support Forum –

http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/

Email – kstranac@sfu.ca

Twitter – @stranack

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