5. As per Indian epic Mahabharata,
access to education was limited to
only those from royal family or priests
6. Even the current education in several expensive institutes is
closed education as it is accessible to only the privileged ones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chained_library
10. “Imagine a world in which
every single person on the
planet is given free access to
the sum of all human
knowledge.”
Jimmy Wales – founder wikipedia
11.
12. • Anyone Can Access ...
• Anything ...
• Anytime ...
• Anywhere ...
• At Unlimited Speed
13. open content for education
By Universities
By consortiums, or independent organizations
17. Started by Salman Khan (a graduate from MIT in Electrical & Comp Sc & MBA from Harvard)
Started to give lessons to his cousin using videos
As popularity increase he started videos on youtube
Later got funding from Bill gates foundation and Google.
27000 videos in repository
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18.
19. 6 reasons to use Open content
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http://www.slideshare.net/mweller/10-reasons-to-use-open-content-in-teaching
23. 4. Students get a range of voices
• Best practices and explanations from
reputed institutes / faculty.
• Faculty can also learn new ideas on
how to teach a concept
27. Excuses teachers give:
• Students would think that there is no value
addition from faculty ?
• Faculty would feel more confident if
content/PPT created by self.
• Students expect original contribution from
faculty.
• Content to be customized/tuned for “My”
teaching style, environment, curriculum
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28. How to use:
• Use small bits / pieces from open content
• Use OCW content as Additional Ref.
• Give reference to open content as pre-study
material to students before the class lecture.
• Share OCW sites to other faculty members.
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29. 4 Rs of open content
• Reuse - the right to reuse the content in its unaltered /
verbatim form (e.g., make a backup copy of the content)
• Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the
content itself (e.g., translate the content into another
language)
• Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content
with other content to create something new (e.g., incorporate
the content into a mashup)
• Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original
content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give
a copy of the content to a friend)
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30. Knowledge is the
only treasure
that increases by
sharing
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http://www.hindudevotionalblog.com/2011/09/goddess-saraswati-hindu-goddess-of.html
I think we can stop being snobbish about content not being for academic use now. There is both a good range of academic content out there, but also varied stuff that we can use in different ways. Sometimes an entertaining film makes a point better than a lengthy article and can provide the basis for discussion.
I think we could get 50% of courses from open content, so we focus on adding stuff we can’t get and adding in activity, structure, connecting narrative et
There is code called embed which is what allows you to put youtube videos etc on blogs. It means you can take content and easily embed it in your own site – including the VLE. I write a blog and almost every post has either a flickr photo, video, slideshare presentation, music from blip, etc embedded. Because it’s so easy to do it now seems a neglection of duty not to make something multi-media. So whereas before we needed to get LTS support to help with every bit of multimedia now it’s as easy as cut and paste.
Although we try and bring in other voices, it’s often people we know and they write in our style. By using 3rd party content students get to hear different views and also experience a range of styles – the OU voice isn’t the only one
I have come to believe that sharing is the driving force behind the digital transformation – we share all the time, whether it’s a joke, a resource, an idea, a link, some feedback, etc sharing doesn’t cost anymore and I think the key skill we can teach our students is how to be members of their academic community through the many different ways of sharing
Digital, or open, scholarship is my thing now – I think we shouldn’t underestimate the way new technologies are changing the practice of being an academic. The way we research, teach, disseminate, network, create and share knowledge are all changing in sometimes subtle ways. I think finding, creating, using and understanding 3rd party content is a key part of this