Keynote #OER15 (Wales)

1. Dr. Cable Green
Director of Global Learning
cable@creativecommons.org
twitter: @cgreen
Taking
OER
Mainstream
#oer15 #oerplan

2. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

3. (1) OER Infrastructure

4. OER are teaching, learning, and
research materials that reside in
the public domain or have been
released under an open license
that permits their free use and
re-purposing by others.

5. FREE
+
LEGAL RIGHTS:
REUSE
REVISE
REMIX
REDISTRIBUTE
RETAIN

8. Step 1: Choose Conditions
Attribution
ShareAlike
NonCommercial
NoDerivatives

9. Step 2: Receive a License

13. MILLION
BUTTONS
A DAY
27
That’s only on individual websites.
Doesn’t count Flickr, Wikipedia, YouTube…

14. most freedom
least freedom
Not OER
OER

15. (2) OER Value
Proposition

16. • Reducing barriers to education, including
access, cost, language and format.
• Transforming teaching and learning and
enabling open practice / open pedagogy.
• Enabling the free access to and reuse of
human knowledge, in all of its forms.
• Enhancing educational opportunities to foster
development and more productive, free
societies.

17. • Re-professionalizing teaching.
• Connecting communities of educators around
openly licensed content.
• Increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of
public funds spent on education.
• Introducing internet and digital technologies
into education.

18. (3) OER Research

19. OER Research Hub: opportunities
• 37.6% of educators and 55.7% of formal learners say that using
OER improves student satisfaction.
• 27.5% of educators and 31.9% of formal learners agree that OER
use results in better test scores
• 79.4% of OER users adapt resources to fit their needs
• 79.5% of educators use OER to get new ideas and inspiration
• 88.4% of learners say that the opportunity to study at no cost
influenced their decision to use OER
• 74.9% of informal learners use OER to have a learning
experience
• The more educators use OER, the more they are willing to
share

20. OER Research Hub: opportunities
• 40.9% of all formal learners in our sample consider that OER
have a positive impact in helping them complete their course of
study
• 79.6% of formal students think they save money by using OER
• 31.5% of informal learners say that their interest in using OER is a
chance to try university-level content before signing up for a
paid-for course.
• 31.3% say their use of OER influenced their decision to register
for their current course.
• 83.2% of informal learners say they are more likely to take
another free course or study a free open educational resource,
and 24.2% say that they would go on to take a paid for course as
a result of using OER.

21. OER Research Hub: challenges
• Knowing where to find resources is one of the biggest
challenges to using OER
• General knowledge of well-established OER
repositories is low
• Only 12.4% of educators create resources and publish
them on a Creative Commons license
• Only 15.5% of informal learners select OER with an
open license allowing adaptation despite the fact that
84.7% say they adapt the resources they find to fit
their needs. = copyright violation or fair use/dealing?
• Brand awareness of OER and easy location are major
obstacles to overcome.

22. U.S. PIRG
• 2014 study by U.S. PIRG found that 65% of
students surveyed have skipped one or more
required textbooks due to cost.
• 78% of whom did so believing it could harm
their grade in a course.
• Florida students survey: 35% reported taking
fewer courses and 14% said they had dropped a
course due to the cost of textbooks.
• 2015 study by U.S. PIRG found that replacing an
expensive textbook with an open textbook saves
students $128 per course.

23. Open Education Group:
The Review Project
• openedgroup.org/review
• Studies that included data on both efficacy
and perception
• Studies that focused on efficacy
• Studies that focused on perceptions

24. OPENING the Curriculum:
Open Educational Resources in U.S.
Higher Education
Dr. Jeff Seaman
Researcher & Co-Director
Babson Survey Research Group

25. Faculty OER Awareness
5.1%
15.2%
13.8%
65.9%
AWARENESS OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Very Aware
Aware
Somewhat Aware
Not Aware

26. Criteria for Selecting Resources
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Cost
Faculty ratings
Provided by my institution
Up to date
Ready to use
Easy to find and select
Easy to adapt
Comprehensive range of materials
Mapped to learning outcomes
Ease of use
Wide adoption
Works with LMS
Cover a wide range of subjects
Trusted quality
Proven efficacy
MOST IMPORTANT CRITERIA FOR SELECTING TEACHING RESOURCES

27. (4) OER Momentum

29. (5) What Cable Green
wants to see in the
world…
… as OER goes mainstream

30. Default set to OPEN
• All publicly funded education and research
resources are CC BY licensed or dedicated to
the public domain using CC0 (no embargo
period).
• Textbooks, curriculum... all education
resources are freely and openly available, in
editable file formats, in all languages.

31. Publicly funded
resources should be
openly licensed
resources.

32. openpolicynetwork.org

33. Institute for Open Leadership
2nd Institute: January, 2016
Location TBD

34. Learning shifts to solving
global grand challenges
• OER are continuously and collectively updated
by teachers and students … constructivist /
connectivist, open practice pedagogies
dominate.
• “Succeeding” in school means contributing to
and improving the world’s educational
resources, and solving / making progress on
global challenges.

35. Education produces
and uses open data
• Data is:
–Collected
–Privacy is protected (opt-out options, etc.)
–Dedicated to the public domain using CC0
–Used to improve OER, enable personalized
learning pathways (when solo), and inform
collective action on global challenges.

36. So… what do we do
next .. to move OER
into the
mainstream?

37. Cape Town
Open Education Declaration
Paris OER Declaration

38. (6) Time for an OER
implementation
strategy?
Let’s talk about it…

39. tinyurl.com/oerstrategy
Please review / comment later
(not right now ;)

40. • Would the OER movement benefit from a
coordinated OER implementation strategy
to accelerate OER going mainstream?
• If so, is this the right list of opportunities?
• What other opportunities are there for
those of us working in OER to better
collaborate?

41. Drafting Committee
• Nicole Allen: SPARC
• Delia Browne: National Copyright Office,
Australia
• Mary Lou Forward: Open Education
Consortium
• Cable Green: Creative Commons
• Alek Tarkowski: Centrum Cyfrowe

42. #oer15
#oerplan
(tweet contributions) – on screen

43. Extent of Market Penetration Necessary to
Consider OER a “Success”?
#oer15 #oerplan
• Disrupting the educational materials and services
market so that it flips to OER as the primary model
for resource production.
• Shifting public funding models to pay for
publishing services, rather than paying for
individual copies of textbooks.
• Mainstreaming OER among educators so it
competes with the traditional publishing model in
terms of reach and use.
• Sufficient quantity of high quality OER necessary
to provide choice.

44. Top Strategic Priorities for OER?
#oer15 #oerplan
• Build OER content to fill gaps or enable productive
reuse.
• Develop open policies that require public and
foundation funded educational resources are
openly licensed (CC BY preferred) by default.
• Create and enable effective research studies in
conjunction with OER development and use.
• Create communities that support, in a grassroots
manner, the development and mainstreaming of
OER.
• Develop national OER models or strategies that can
be replicated in other countries.

45. Top Strategic Priorities for OER?
#oer15 #oerplan
• Build key tools that enable more effective
discovery and reuse.
• Moving beyond content-related issues and
focusing on the practices of educators that can
be achieved with a shift to open resources, i.e.
“open practice” / “open pedagogy”.
• Better communications about the value of OER.
• Scale OER in a specific sector, i.e. K-12, higher
education, workforce development, lifelong
learning, etc.

46. Are these OER Movement Challenges?
#oer15 #oerplan
• Linear Rate of Growth
• Absence of Standards
• Insufficient Awareness
• Difficulty of Discovery
and Use
• Inconsistent Breadth
and Depth
• Lack of Evidence
• Questions About
Sustainability
• Unfulfilled Promise of
Reuse
• Poor Branding
• Perfect as an Enemy of
the Good
• Lack of OER heroes

47. Opportunities: Demand
#oer15 #oerplan
• Build Evidence Base
• Improve Communications
• Embed OER In the Teaching Profession
• Engage Key Constituencies
• Empower the grassroots
• Coordinate Demand With Supply

48. Opportunities: Supply
#oer15 #oerplan
• Focus on Productization
• Tools for Discoverability and Reuse
• Build Supply to Meet Demand
• Accessibility
• Open Up Existing Platforms and Resources

49. Opportunities: Capacity
#oer15 #oerplan
• International Growth
• National Mainstreaming
• Open as an Aspect of Digital in Education
• Government Funding
• Improve Movement-Wide Coordination
• Connect With Other Open Movements

51. Dr. Cable Green
Director of Global Learning
cable@creativecommons.org
twitter: @cgreen
Taking
OER
Mainstream
#oer15 #oerplan