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Una Daly, OpenCourseWare ConsortiumJohn Gonder, Las Positas College

Mid-Pacific ICT 2014 Conference

Opening Up ICT Education: Open Source, Open Textbooks, Open Courses, and Open Access Journals

Las Positas College

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Welcome

Una DalyDirector, Community College Outreach

OCW Consortium

John GonderDirector, Cisco Networking Academy

Las Positas College

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Agenda

• Introductions

• Community College Consortium

• Open Source to Open Access Movement

• Free and Open Resources in Classroom

• Applications • Questions & Answers

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OpenCourseWare Consortium (founded by MIT in 2002)

“Advance formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of

free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.”

280 institutions in 46 Countries

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• Promote adoption of OER to enhance teaching and learning

– Expand access to education– Support professional development– Advance community college mission

CCCOER Mission

Funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

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240+ Colleges in 15 States & Provinces

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Higher Education Context

• Textbook costs increased 82% in last decade.

• Student debt exceeds $1 trillion (2013)• Average student debt upon graduation is

$27,000

Image: Student Loan, Wikipedia

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Educational Openness

– Expand

Adapted from Paul Stacey, CC-BY 2013, UCT Pedagogy of MOOCs

Open Access

Open Source Software

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Open Source

Adapted from Paul Stacey, CC-BY 2013, OER, Open Textbooks, & MOOCs

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OER are teaching, learning, and research resources Reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license (creative commons) that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

Includes full courses and supplemental resources such as textbooks, images, videos, animations, simulations, assessments with licensed that allow:

• Reuse• Revise• Remix• Redistribute

Open Education Resources

Adapted from Paul Stacey, CC-BY 2013, OER, Open Textbooks, & MOOCs

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$2 billion funding over four yearsAll materials licensed for re-use (cc-by)

TAACCCT Grants

Adapted from Cable Green, CC-BY 3.0 2013, the Obviousness of Open

• Work-College Bridge• Health• Information Technology• Manufacturing• Energy• Transportation

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Open ICT Textbooks

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Open AccessFree, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, webwide.

Two Approaches: 1. Author’s institution pays fee for refereeing/publishing outgoing articles instead of charging the or by simply making online edition free for all.

2. Authors provide open access to their own published articles, by making eprints free for all.

Adapted from Paul Stacey, CC-BY 2013, OER, Open Textbooks, & MOOCs

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Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research

• White House Directive (2013)

Federal agencies with $100M in R&D expenditures must make results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication

• California State AB 609 Open Access progresses to Senate 2014.

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IEEE Open Access Journals• Fully Open Access & Hybrids

– Both are fully peer-reviewed– OA includes Emerging Topics in Computing

• Wireless, mobile, socio-technical special issues

• IEEE Access– Multidisciplinary open access mega journal– Rapid decision, author pays

“IEEE peer-reviewed journals receive more than three times the number of patent citations of

competing publishers.*

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ACM Open Access

• Options for Rights Management– Author may choose traditional copyright or may pay for

open access option.

• Open Access at SIG Conferences Option – SIGs will have the option to make the proceedings from

their conferences freely available via the ACM DL

• Many free career resources for students

• Textbooks available to ACM members– Student membership $20.00 annually

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Obviousness of “Open”

• Cooperation & Sharing is a win-win– Faculty have more choices– Can improve upon open resources

• Affordability– Students cannot afford textbooks.

• Self-interest– Good things can happen when I share …

• Social Justice Issue– Access to publicly funded research & digital resources

Adapted from Cable Green, CC-BY 3.0 2013, the Obviousness of Open

Image: Gary Simmons cc-by-nc

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John Gonder’s ICT Classroom• Improving teaching and learning with

– Open Source software– free and low-cost apps – free and low-cost textbooks and

instructional materials.– ACM student memberships

http://tinyurl.com/2014MPICTjohn gonder (las positas college)twitter @packetlevel, email jgonder at mac.com

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Thank you for coming!!

• Questions?

• Contact Info:Una Daly, [email protected]

John Gonder, [email protected]

Las Positas College