HELLO! I am Erik Christiansen Assistant Professor, Librarian @MRULibrary Twitter: @eriksation Email: echristiansen@mtroyal.ca EVERYTHING IS SHAREABLE Why Open Educational Resources are Critical to Lifelong Learning and the Sharing Economy TODAY WILL BE AN ADVENTURE! CC0 Image LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Understand the concept of open educational resources (OER) 2. Understand the role of OER in the open education movement 3. Know where to find OERs 4. Understand the role of librarians We’re going to build an open educational resource together! Introduction and Brainstorming Activity Let’s put our heads together 1 Please introduce yourselves! ➔ Your name and occupation/industry ➔ Give an example of an open (online or print) resource that you’ve used A little bit about my background... I like to tinker... First family computer Atari 1040 ST 8MHz Processor 1MB RAM 320x200 Resolution Became the building block for... ➔ Hardware hacking ➔ Web development ➔ Web usability ➔ The Internet of Things and sensors Homemade TV media centre: Raspberry Pi model B+ running OpenElec Learned through open resources Floppy disks Manuals Image by Jaakko Hakulinen, Flickr Web Communities What are Open Educational Resources? Why should librarians (or anyone) care? 2 “ the open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communications technologies, for consultation, use and adaption by a community of users for non-commercial purposes ~ “Open Educational Resources” coined at a 2002 UNESCO conference • “ digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research” ~ OECD in Giving Knowledge for Free (2007) OPEN EDUCATION A Brief History Joseph Beuys The World Wide Wayne Hodgins and the Free Web coins “learning International object” 1992 University 1994 1964 - 1973 MIT OpenCourseware 2002 - Present MIT OpenCourseWare ➔ Receives 2 million visits a month ➔ 2364 courses published MIT OpenCourseWare. (2016, October). Retrieved from https://ocw.mit.edu/about/site-statistics/ A Brief History Joseph Beuys The World Wide Wayne and the Free Web Hodgkins coins International “learning 1992 University object” 1964 - 1973 1994 MIT OpenCourseware Wikimedia Foundation 2002 - Present 2002 - Present OER In Higher Education Textbooks Multimedia Full Courses OER can be much broader ➔ Open source software / tools ➔ Presentations / slide decks ➔ Code repositories (GitHub) ➔ Open data ➔ Manuals and technical guides 5 Rs Retain Reuse Revise Remix Redistribute Interested Parties ➔ Librarians ➔ Students / learners ➔ Administration / leadership ➔ Government / policy makers Source: What are open educational resources? http://lumenlearning.com/about-oer/ Screenshot source: https://www.openeducationweek.org G ch ar se t) ata Re npu n D (i e Op Te Op ch So en no ft S log w ou y ar r e ce Title and Diagram Adapted from McNally, M. (2014). Broadening Access to Knowledge Re (O se Op ut arc en put h Ac ) ce ss N HI AC TE R OE OPENNESS AND THE ACADEMY Examples and Repositories Sharing is caring 3 FINDING OER MIT OpenCourseWare BC Campus / Open Stax OER Commons Search Activity Let’s put our heads together 4 Working in pairs or groups... 1. Choose a group name (3 min) 2. Copy the Template (slide 31) - right click + “Duplicate Slide” (2 Min) 3. Using an OER repository, find one OER that could be useful to your work, your patrons, or industry colleagues (15 min) 4. Fill in the blanks in the template (10 min) OER Repositories OER Commons Learning objects + textbooks https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/ MIT Open CourseWare Fully open courses https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm Merlot II Learning objects https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm BCCampus Open Textbooks Textbooks https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/ Open Stax Textbooks https://openstax.org/ Open Data Canada Data http://open.canada.ca/en/open-data Internet Archive Multimedia / web archive https://archive.org/ Open Source Software Directory Open source software https://opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com/ [Group Name] OER Title: URL: The repository where you found the OER Comments (Was the OER useful? If not, why? If you couldn’t find anything, what were you looking for?) Saint Red Deer OER Title: Stack Exchange / Stack Overflow / w3 Schools combination URL: http://stackexchange.com/sites, http://stackoverflow.com/, http://www.w3schools.com/ The repository where you Stackoverflow found through google, w3schools as supporting tool found the OER Comments (Was the OER useful? If not, why? If you couldn’t find anything, what were you looking for?) We thought about the combination of the open question answer forum stackoverflow, which is a great resource for find “how to do X” in a various coding langauges. Howver we included stackexchange because this format of voting answers up and down is availble for more than just coding. As an open educational resource it pairs really well with something like w3schools.com which is a tutorial site. The combination of a site where the answers are presented and contested, and a site where answers are presented as facts is a good way to explore and learn. Dudes Abide OER Title: Technologies for Creative Learning URL: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/media-arts-and-sciences/mas-714j-technolog ies-for-creative-learning-fall-2009/# The repository where you MIT OpenCourseware found the OER Comments (Was the OER useful? If not, why? If you couldn’t find anything, what were you looking for?) Green Apples OER Title: Alberta Library Directory URL: http://open.alberta.ca/publications/6656702 The repository where you Open Government Alberta found the OER Comments (Was the OER useful? If not, why? If you couldn’t find anything, what were you looking for?) Useful enough. Not a lot of context given for the document. Also, older versions of document listed, so we need to scroll through to find the most recent version. The Fantastic Beasts OER Title: Pybossa URL: http://pybossa.com/ The repository where you Open Source Software Directory found the OER Comments (Was the OER useful? If not, why? If you couldn’t find anything, what were you looking for?) “The ultimate crowdsourcing framework to analyze or enrich data that can’t be processed by machines alone.” Some features in Pybossa are: ● Uploading videos and PDFs etc. ● Import data from Amazon S3, Flickr, Dropbox, Google, Twitter, SoundCloud… ● Export the data in JSON, CSV or to a data repository like open source CKAN if you prefer. Random OER Title: Create Your Own Comics Online URL: www.makebeliefscomix.com The repository where you MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching found the OER Comments (Was the OER useful? If not, why? If you couldn’t find anything, what were you looking for?) This looks like something fun. We were looking for library resources but found that there’s no one respository. Calmar OER Title: Computer Literacy URL: http://www.jegsworks.com//Lessons/index.htm The repository where you Merlot II found the OER Comments (Was the OER useful? If not, why? If you couldn’t find anything, what were you looking for?) Very helpful and up to date. Would be useful to patrons in the library. Marvelous Marmots OER Title: Auf nach West Canada URL: The repository where you Internet archive found the OER Comments (Was the OER useful? If not, why? If you couldn’t find anything, what were you looking for?) CircForce! OER Title: Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Xchange URL: http://scifi.stackexchange.com/ The repository where you No repo, just interwebs. found the OER Comments (Was the OER useful? If not, why? If you couldn’t find anything, what were you looking for?) We wanted to know what deal Lando made with Darth Vader at the end of Empire Strikes Back, so we looked on this amazing crowdsourced resource to mine the hive mind because the deal was not made clear in the movie. Vicdrewy OER Title: Data Management URL: https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-str-002-data-management-spring-2016/w orkshop-materials/ The repository where you MIT found the OER Comments (Was the OER useful? If not, why? If you couldn’t find anything, what were you looking for?) Use/resuse/open license info not apparent on individual resources Closed format - PDF - hard to remix etc By the MIT librarian - yay! Metadata lacking; what year was the resource created? Speaking notes lacking from the slide deck - uncertain what some of the slides mean? groupname is our name OER Title: Introductory chemistry - 1st Canadian Edition URL: https://bccampus.ca/ The repository where you BC campus open textbook project found the OER Comments (Was the OER useful? If not, why? If you couldn’t find anything, what were you looking for?) Yes mostly. Not the most usability friendly interface for online reading. But free textbook with free ancillary resources (example course .pptx). Downloading may be better (eduroam didn’t download fast enough). Critical OER Guild OER Title: Energyville URL: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/energyville; https://web.archive.org/web/20130218211921/http://www.energyville.com/e nergyville/ The repository where you OER Commons found the OER Comments (Was the OER useful? If not, why? If you couldn’t find anything, what were you looking for?) This OER found in OER commons is highly biased and shows that we need critical information literacy skills when approaching OER. The OER commons link just took us to the Chevron website so we had to do some Internet Archive sluething to find the game. Frank and Megan OER Title: Glaciers URL: The repository where you OER Commons found the OER Comments (Was the OER useful? If not, why? If you couldn’t find anything, what were you looking for?) Can choose the language, available in French and English. Simulations available for environmental conditions, science and math Software requirements available Teacher submitted activities From University of Colorado Making your OER Available to Everyone 6 ALBERTA OER TOOLKITS ➔ Champion’s Kit ➔ Starter Kit http://albertaoer.com Considerations for Users Does the OER Exist? Who is your Audience? Adapted from McNutt K. and Christiansen, E. (2016). Alberta OER Toolkits Expertise Required? Accessibility and Usability CC0 Image CC0 Image Adapted from McNutt K. and Christiansen, E. (2016). Alberta OER Toolkits CC0 Image Copyright and Licensing Open Licensing Frameworks UofA Copyright Tutorials ➔ Creative Commons ➔ GNU Public License ➔ MIT License http://copyright.ualberta.ca Role of Librarians ➔ ➔ ➔ ➔ Locating resources Evaluation of resources / information literacy Copyright and licensing Advocacy ◆ Spreading the word about OER ◆ Including high-quality OER in your libguides ➔ Dissemination Conclusion 7 SOCIAL BENEFITS OF OER They promote lifelong learning They expand access to learning materials to students inside, and outside, the academy. THANKS! Any questions? You can find me at @eriksation / echristiansen@mtroyal.ca REFERENCES Christiansen, E., McNally M., Lock, J., Welch, J., Sou, L. (2016). The starter kit. Retrieved from http://albertaoer.com/content/resources Jhangiani, Rajiv S., Rebecca Pitt, Christina Hendricks, Jessie Key and Clint Lalonde. 2016. Explore Faculty Use of Open Educational Resources at British Columbia Post Secondary Institutions. https://bccampus.ca/files/2016/01/BCFacultyUseOfOER_final.pdf Lumen Learning. (2015). What are open educational resources? Retrieved from http://lumenlearning.com/about-oer/ McNally, M. (2014). Broadening access to knowledge. Retrieved from https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/jw827c89b#.WDSsMLIrL4Y McNutt, K., Christiansen, E., Welch, J., Sou, L. (2016). The champions toolkit. Retrieved from http://albertaoer.com/content/resources MIT OpenCourseWare. (2016, October). Retrieved from https://ocw.mit.edu/about/site-statistics/monthly-reports/MITOCW_DB_Rpt_2016_10_v1.pdf •MIT. 2016. “MIT OpenCourseWare Site Statistics.” https://ocw.mit.edu/about/site-statistics/Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). 2007. Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources. http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/givingknowledgeforfreetheemergenceofopeneducationalresources.htm PARTICIPANT ATTRIBUTIONS [LAST, FIRST - OCCUPATION - PLACE OF WORK ] For an editable version of this document, please contact Erik Christiansen using the link below. Website: https://erikchristiansen.net/contact/