openness and change in learning technologies

Amber Thomas, Academic Technology TeamA mash-up For Warwick’s Computer Sciences Educational Technology Group

my background

JISC Information StrategiesNational Grid for LearningFerl (Information and Learning Technologies for FE)West Midlands Share project at University of WorcesterJISC: Open Access Repositories, Rapid Innovation, Jorum, Open Educational Resources

Now heading up Academic Technology Team: eLearning support, moodle, digital humanities, Russ!

openness in universities

(Eduwiki Conference 5th Sep 2012)

Amber Thomas

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openness: the sunlight effect

“Freedom of information legislation comprises laws that guarantee access to data held by the state”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_laws

opening up access to information, data and processes floods sunlight into areas that were

previously hidden from public view, and in doing so it also nurtures growth

dimensionsof openness

Tim Berners Lee et alhttp://5stardata.info/

1 star: make your stuff available on the Web (whatever format) under an open license2 stars: make it available as structured data (e.g., Excel instead of image scan of a table)3 stars: use non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel)4 stars: use URIs to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff5 stars: link your data to other data to provide context

dimensionsof openness

Peter ReedMMU now liverpool

http://scieng-elearning.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/

visualising-openness.html

dimensionsof openness

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forms of openness in universities

open ...data

standardssource

innovationscholarship

accesscontent

education

... in universities

Open Data

Making data available for public access and reuse

in universities:open administrative data

open research dataopen bibliographic data

open cultural data

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“clim

ate gate”

key information setsnational libraries

world bank

#ukdiscovery

jisc obmd

data journalism

linked data

CERN

Open Standards

Open =“non-proprietary”

in universities:Content

MetadataCourse Data

Systems

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IMS standards

Dublin CoreXCRI-CAP

CERIF

Library standards

SWORD

Open Source

Open can mean process and/or product

in universities:Learning management systemsContent management systems

Enterprise systemseven Library Management Systems

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sakaii

mahara wordpress

moodle

Open Innovation

usually more about the process than the product OR the product is free

it’s about being tactically liberal with IP

in universities:crowdsourcing

public engagementpartnerships with businesses

£L T

jisc elevator OU i-spot

old weatherJISC BCE

transcribing

bentham

Open Scholarship

It’s about collaborative processes and sometimes reusable outputs. Sometimes important to be public, sometimes not.

in universities:collaborationpeer reviewdata sharing

£L T

peer evaluation .org

alt metric

s

blogging

tweeting

e-science

digital humanities

Open Access

Opening up research papers to be free to researchers and to the public

in universities:author contracts

new forms of open publicationrepositories of research outputs

£L T

JISC CORE

wikipediaFinch Report

digital citation

Harvard

Statement

Open Content

in education context, often called open educational resources

in universities:using web resources licensed for reuse

teachers sharing their resourcescourse materials

£L T

wikipedia

itunesU

MIT OCW

Jorum

OpenLearnKhan academy

#ukoer

Open Education

public access to content and learning opportunities

in universities:free online learning

peer learningnew models of accreditation

£L T

phonar

MITx EdX

MOOCs

open badges

Stanford AI

OERu

summary: openness in universities

openness in universities comes in many flavours

datastandards

sourceinnovationscholarship

accesscontent

education

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Universities are changing

Opening up access to information, data and processes floods sunlight

into areas that were previously hidden from public view, and in

doing so it also nurtures growth.

characteristics of openness vary

Amber Thomas, JISC. (ALT-C September 2012)

When ideals meet reality:lessons from open source, open

standards and open access

curves and cycles: hype, change, learn

cynical

jaded

purist

evangelisti

c

curious

pragmatic

types of change

splash, ripple or dissolve?

polar- -isation

VLEs are dead

MOOCstake over

The End of the university

I hate badges

“The use of technology seems to divide people into strong pro- and anti-camps

or perhaps utopian and dystopian perspectives”

Martin Weller, The Digital Scholar

dialectics of open and free

branching

tipping points into the mainstream

pace

key messages

• We are all unique in our encounters with new things.

• Polarisation often masks the real questions. • There is often a dialectic around open and free. • Often it’s not just one model that comes to

dominate. Sometimes when mainstreaming happens we don’t recognise it.

• Change can take a lot longer than we hope. But then sometimes it hits us fast!

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openness and change in learning technologies

Amber Thomas, Academic Technology TeamA mash-up For Warwick’s Computer Sciences Educational Technology Group