Leadership in the Context of Open

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Leadership in the Context of Open

David Wiley, PhD



Overview

• Nice and Open

• The Power of Open

• On MOOCs (#fail)

• Leadership and Openness


Nice and Open

Meanings matter


“Nice” - late 13c.

"foolish, stupid"


“Nice” - late 20c.

"kind, thoughtful"


What If…

Someone famous revived the old meaning?


"Nice people are certain to fail my course."

Which “nice”?


“Open” – Early 70s

”no admission requirements"


“Open” – Late 00s

Evolved into a much more robust, nuanced, specific meaning


Open Educational Resources?

(1) Any kind of teaching materials – textbooks, syllabi, lesson plans,

videos, readings, exams


Open Educational Resources?

(2) Free and unfettered access, and(3) Free permission to engage in the

“4R activities”


• Use a verbatim copyReuse

• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise

• Combine two or moreRemix

• Share with othersRedistribute

The 4Rs


What If…

Someone famous revived the old meaning?


“I’m teaching an open online course this fall.”

Which “open”?

(Thanks, MOOCs.)


Genuine Confusion

Open = free!


Deliberate Misappropriation

“Openwashing”


Why Does It Matter?

Open is extremely powerful

Fauxpen is not


Power of Openness in Education

• Alignment with goals of education• Alignment with nature of knowledge• Alignment with technical capability of the net

• Decreasing costs• Improving learning outcomes• Empowering faculty

• Facilitating the unexpected







Education is Sharing

Faculty with studentsStudents with teachers


Faculty Share With Students

Knowledge and skillsFeedback and criticism

Encouragement


Students Share With Faculty

Questions in ClassAssignments

Exams


Successful Educators

Share most compeltelywith the most students


2008 Professor in Southern US

Claimed (c) of his class lectures, declared student notes derivative works,

and asserted control over their use


“Demented with the mania of owning things”Walt Whitman


If there is no sharing…

there is no education.


Interlude: A Riddle

What can you give without giving it away?


Knowledge is Nonrivalrous

Can be given without being given away


“He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.”

Thomas Jefferson


Physical Expressions Are Not

To give a book you must give it away


Expressions Are Different

To give a book you must give it away


When Expressions Are Digital

They also become nonrivalrous




Unprecedented Capacity

We can share as never before


Except We Can’t

© regulates copying, adapting,and distributing those copies


InternetEnables

What to do?

CopyrightForbids



Use copyright to enforce sharing


http://creativecommons.org/


What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?

(1) Any kind of teaching materials – textbooks, syllabi, lesson plans,

videos, readings, exams


What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?

(2) Are free for anyone to access, and(3) Include free permission to engage

in the 4R activities


• Use a verbatim copyReuse

• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise

• Combine two or moreRemix

• Share with othersRedistribute

The 4Rs


InternetEnables

OERAllows

Leveraging the full technical capability of the internet









Tuition and Fees are Political

What about textbook adoptions?



Textbook Costs

The lowest hanging fruit


e.g., Developmental Math

$180, MyMathLab, and a financial aid check


Textbook Costs

$1229 year ($3131 tuition)60% sometimes skip23% regularly skip


Are They Really THAT Expensive?

Provider CostNetflix – 20,000 Movies $7.99 / monthHulu Plus – 45,000 TV Shows $7.99 / monthSpotify – 15M Songs $9.99 / month

Total $25.97 / month

CourseSmart – 1 Biology Textbook $20.25 / month


Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiative

NGLC funding8 community colleges / OA colleges


Core Activity

Defining and aggregating outcomesFinding and aligning OERs to outcomes

Creating 100% OER textbook replacements


X-Institutional Collaboration Goals

Cover 10 GE courses and 4,000 studentsDrop required textbook cost by 50%


Phase 1 Results

Covered 11 GE courses and 9,000 studentsDropped required textbook cost to $0Increased success rate by 14% average


Displacing Adoptions

Make the required textbook cost $0


Phase 2

Cover 35 GE courses28 Institutional partners


Open Course Frameworks

Making OER Simple to Adopt


Open Course Frameworks• Start from learning outcomes,• curated collections of OER,• openly licensed with detailed attribution,• organized in a way that looks and feels like

an online course,• intended to be modified before use,• compatible with ImprovOER continuous

quality improvement service.















Textbook Zero

Entire degree program based on OERUp to 40% off the cost to graduate

First pilot opens Fall 2013 at Tidewater CC












Wither MOOCs?

How did we get off the rails?


“OpenCourseWare”

2002




OpenCourseWare Consortium


Self-paced Open Online Courses

2002



OER as Video + Practice

2006




Open University Courses

2007



MOOC

2008







Most MOOCs are Fauxpen

No admission requirements, but…Full copyright – No 4Rs

Draconian TOS


“You may not take any Online Course offered by Coursera or use any Statement of Accomplishment as part of any tuition-based or for-credit certification or program for any college, university, or other academic institution without the express written permission from Coursera.”


Leadership

Imagining and demonstrating what’s possiblewith OER and open approaches


Making Education Affordable

Axe 25% - 40% off the cost to graduate


“Personalized Learning”

Imagine if Netflix…

Trapped in algorithm hell


Personalized Learning

Learning that’s interesting and relevant

Faculty revise/remix for their classStudents revise/remix for each other


Killing “Disposable Assignments”

http://pm4id.org/


Data + OER

Continuous improvement




What Happens If We Don’t Lead?

Someone else does

c.f., MOOCs


Discussion

http://davidwiley.org/

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