15. “Nearly one-third of the world’s
population (29.3%) is under
15. Today there are 158 million
people enrolled in tertiary
education1. Projections
suggest that that participation
will peak at 263 million2 in
2025. Accommodating the
additional 105 million students
would require more than four
major universities (30,000
students) to open every week
for the next fifteen years.1 ISCED levels 5 & 6 UNESCO Institute of Statistics figures
2 British Council and IDP Australia projections
By: COL
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20. Cost of “Copy”
For one 250 page book:
• Copy by hand - $1,000
• Copy by print on demand - $4.90
• Copy by computer - $0.00084
CC BY: David Wiley, BYU
21. Cost of “Distribute”
For one 250 page book:
• Distribute by mail - $5.20
• $0 with print-on-demand (2000+ copies)
• Distribute by internet - $0.00072
CC BY: David Wiley, BYU
22. Copy and Distribute (and storage)
are “Free”
This changes everything
CC BY: David Wiley, BYU
23. Movies, TV Shows, Songs, and
Textbooks
Movies and TV Shows:
• Amazon Prime – $6.59/month
($79/year) for access to 10,000 movies
and TV shows
• Netflix – $7.99/month for access to
20,000 movies and TV shows
• Hulu Plus – $7.99/month for access to
45,000 movies and TV shows
CC BY: David Wiley: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2348
24. Movies, TV Shows, Songs, and
Textbooks
Music:
• Spotify – $9.99/month for access to 15
million songs
• Rhapsody – $14.99/month for access
to 14 million songs
CC BY: David Wiley: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2348
25. CC BY ND / Delta Initiative / http://tinyurl.com/bw3ztnt
48. OER are
teaching, learning, and
research materials in any
medium that reside in the
public domain or have been
released under an open
license that permits their free
use and re-purposing by
52. 5 Challenges of OER (for this afternoon):
(1) Faculty Doesn't Know what To Do with OER
(2) Not Everyone Trusts Free Resources
(3) Expectations Around OER Quality are High
(4) Institutional Processes Aren't Always Flexible
(5) No Effective Discovery and Assessment OER
Tool
http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2013/04/24/5-Hurdles-to-OER-
54. There is a direct relationship between
textbook costs and student success
60%+ do not purchase textbooks
at some point due to cost
35% take fewer courses due
to textbook cost
31% choose not to register for
a course due to textbook cost
23% regularly go without
textbooks due to cost
14% have dropped a
course due to textbook cost
10% have withdrawn from a
course due to textbook cost
Source: 2012 student survey
by Florida Virtual Campus
www.projectkaleidoscope.org
55. The Vision
100% of students have
100% free, digital access to all materials on day
1
Drive student success by
designing, adopting, measuring and
improving OER-based courses
www.projectkaleidoscope.org
56.
57.
58. Received funding to provide faculty
development on your campus:
- The impacts of high textbook
costs
- Open textbooks as a solution
- Stipends for faculty reviews of
open textbooks
What can you do?
The Open Textbook Initiative
University of Minnesota
For more information: http://z.umn.edu/opentextbooks
60. • We must get rid of our “not invented
here” attitude regarding others’ content
–move to: "proudly borrowed from there"
• Content is not a strategic advantage
• Nor can we (or our students) afford it
WA Community Colleges:
61. English Composition I
• 60,000+ enrollments / year
• x $175 textbook
• = $10.5 Million every year
62. English Composition I
• 55,000+ enrollments / year
• x $175 textbook
• = $9.6+ Million every year
64. Does it make any sense WA State and
K-12 Districts together spend
$130M/year
on textbooks and the results are:
• Books are (on average) 7-10 years out of
date
• Paper only / no digital versions.
• Students can’t write / highlight in books
• Students can’t keep books at end of
year
• All rights reserved… teachers can’t
72. Current research funding cycle does not maximize
dissemination, economic efficiency, social impact
Government RFPs
announced, resear
ch grants awarded
Scientific research
conducted and
papers written
Articles
submitted to
journals and
peer review
occurs
Acceptance in
journals; authors
transfer copyright
to publishers
Articles published
in mainly closed
access journals
Libraries subscribe
or public pays per
article fee to view
on publisher's
website
Public granted little
or no reuse rights
beyond access to
read articles
Slow scientific
progress, poor
return on public
investment
73. Optimized research funding cycle maximizes
public access, economic efficiency, social impact
Government RFPs
announced, open
license
requirements
included, research
grants awarded
Scientific research
conducted and
papers written
Acceptance in
journals; public
access policy
ensures deposit in
open repository
Articles published
in traditional
journals under
embargo
Public can
download articles
from open access
repository
Public granted full
reuse rights under
open licenses
Accelerated
scientific
progress, optimal
return on public
investment
Articles
submitted to
journals and
peer review
occurs
74. When the Marginal Cost of Sharing is $0…
- educators have an ethical obligation to share
- governments need to get maximum ROI by
requiring publicly funded resources be openly
licensed resources
- governments and educators need openly
licensed content: (a) so you can revise & remix
(b) buying and maintaining is cheaper than
leasing (w/time bombs)
75. White House issues directive supporting
public access to publicly funded research
82. U.S. House Appropriations Committee draft FY2012
Labor, Health and Human Services funding bill
SEC. 124. None of the funds made available by this Act
for the Department of Labor may be used to develop
new courses, modules, learning materials, or projects in
carrying out education or career job training grant
programs unless the Secretary of Labor certifies,
after a comprehensive market-based analysis, that
such courses, modules, learning materials, or projects
are not otherwise available for purchase or licensing
in the marketplace or under development for
students who require them to participate in such
education or career job training grant programs.
http://appropriations.house.gov/UploadedFiles/FY_2012_Final_LHHSE.pdf
83. U.S. House Appropriations Committee draft FY2012
Labor, Health and Human Services funding bill
SEC. 124. None of the funds made available by this Act
for the Department of Labor may be used to develop
new courses, modules, learning materials, or projects in
carrying out education or career job training grant
programs unless the Secretary of Labor
certifies, after a comprehensive market-based
analysis, that such courses, modules, learning
materials, or projects are not otherwise available for
purchase or licensing in the marketplace or under
development for students who require them to
participate in such education or career job training grant
programs.
http://appropriations.house.gov/UploadedFiles/FY_2012_Final_LHHSE.pdf
84. CC BY-NC-ND
046: Rule #2: See Rule #1 By: William Couch
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wcouch/226861055
86. • Efficient use of public funds to
increase student success and
access to quality educational
materials.
• Everything else (including all
existing business models) is
secondary.
Only ONE thing Matters:
87. Faculty: My asks of you:
(1) Before you order your textbook(s
for next semester… please look
at Open Textbooks (e.g., OpenStax)
and other OER.
(2) What OER can you reuse, revise
remix from others?
88. College Leadership: My ask of you:
• Add OER / OA to strategic plans
• Open Policy on discretionary gran
• Support faculty: time/money
• Make this a OSU-wide conversati
• Make heroes out of open leaders
• Track & report cost savings, KPIs
• CC licenses on Coursera MOOCs
89. Join me later today:
2:30-3:15pm
Scarlet + Gray Room (220)
Demos, how to find, modify, mark,
create, and use others’ OER.
95. Credits
● Open Policy Network slides – from Tim Vollmer @ Creative Commons
● Big idea Icon - from the Noun Project, Public Domain
● Blueprint Icon - by Dimitry Sokolov, from The Noun Project - CC BY
● Check List Icon - by fabrice dubuy, from The Noun Project - CC BY
● Hackathon - by Iconathon 2012 - CC0
● Question Icon - by Rémy Médard, from The Noun Project - CC BY
Hinweis der Redaktion
Note – RIP through slides!
Ohio State is an important part of my life.My wife and I went to OSU … me trying to figure out how learning with technology in publicaffected learning in the School of Communication ……..Lesley in Veterinary medicine.We married.
Then this happened.
Which led to this.
Lesley and I didn’t have family in Ohio.The McCains – Thom and Jan - took us in.Thom was my advisor .. my mentor…. a professor in the Ohio State School of Communication. This, BTW, is the proper way to hold new babies.
This is not.
And so Nate, our first son, grew up at the McCain’s home.There was gardening, music and plenty of sweets.
I am here today because of this man: Dr. Thom McCain.My job description at Creative Commons is to ensure everyone on the planethas access to a high quality affordable education.I wrote that … because Thom told me I had a responsibility as an educator. He told me my job was to critique and share knowledge, to push boundaries and to never accept the status quo.He told me I have a responsibility to leverage the tools of our time … to help others.Thom called his graduate students “Young Turks” … and he saddled us with the responsibility to change the world for the better.Thom is here with us today – Thom please stand up and take a bow.Thank you, Thom.
This is what Thom taught me…
Education / Research Dream is simple: Everyone in the world can attain all the education they desire. It will require we share the educational resources we produce and that we spend our limited public resources wisely.
And the world needs this dream to come true … and quickly… if we are to meet the global demand for higher / tertiary education.Sir John Daniel, Former President & CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning notes:What do you think the odds are the world will buildfour major universities (30,000 students) to open every week for the next fifteen years?
StoreCopyDistribute
Clearly, the Internet has empowered us to copy and share with an efficiency never before known or imagined. However, long before the Internet was invented, copyright law began regulating the very activities the Internet makes essentially free (copying and distributing).Consequently, the Internet was born at a severe disadvantage, as preexisting laws discouraged people from realizing the full potential of the network.
In 2007, there was a meeting in Cape Town, South Africa.We are on the cusp of a global revolution in teaching and learning. Educators worldwide are developing a vast pool of educational resources on the Internet, open and free for all to use. These educators are creating a world where each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge.
Sharing educational resources is a global movement.In 2002 UNESCOparticipants expressed “their wish to develop together a universal educational resource available for the whole of humanity”10 years later = 195 nations – debated and signed the Paris OER Declaration – moving the World’s nations toward open policies and support for OER.
within the jurisdiction, public and legal lead volunteers help to make the licenses work in their individual countries’ legal systemwe have 75 active affiliate teams with several more in process
CC is the law catching up with the way the internet actually works.
Open license is key.Free as in free beer and free as in freedom
Open license is key.Free as in free beer and free as in freedom
What about something small – local? Do open policies make sense on a smaller scale?Even one open textbook for a top 100 course makes sense.But WA should (a) ask if anyone else has already done this and openly licensed it (e.g., CK12), (b) alert other states / countries that it is going to make this investment and share.
BROWSER CC BY exampleOhio State is also working on publically available, free sharing of information. U.OSU is a wordpress-based platform that allows OSU community members to share ideas. Remember Free vs. Openhttps://u.osu.edu/hackingthethesis/ Recommendation: follow Gabe’s lead: Hacking the Thesis by Gabe Tippery is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
2000 sites created in first 4 months, more than 3300 sites now.
Free and affordable digital content created by the Ohio State community at digitalbookstore.osu.eduFree: http://digitalbookstore.osu.edu/book/plan-opportunity-regional-sustainability-plan-mississippi-gulf-coastFree is good. Open is better. Explain why.
Joe taught me about the importance of Open Access.
The current market is failing because existing publishers are not offering what we’re asking for. We would welcome it if they chose to compete to provide what the new environment demands.
White House Public Access PolicyEffortto return scholarly publishing to its original purpose: to spread knowledge and allow that knowledge to be built upon.policy introduced Feb 22, 2013allowable embargo 12 months19 federal agenciesagencies must coordinate and have plans in place by Aug 22, 2013John Holdren, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, “has directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication and requiring researchers to better account for and manage the digital data resulting from federally funded scientific research.”---------------Open Access FASTRlegislation introduced Feb 14, 2013public access to publicly funded research after allowable 6 month embargofederal agencies with extramural research over $100M/yearState levelCaliforniapassed Assembly, now debated in Senate12 month embargoIllinoisNew YorkOERnew U.S. GAO report shows textbooks becoming increasingly expensive (textbook costs to students at higher education institutions are rising 6% per year on average, and have risen 82% over the last decade). Openly licensed textbooks can be a piece of the solution. California Senate Bill 520 - http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB520This bill would establish the California Online Student Access Incentive Grant program. The bill would require the online courses supported by incentive grant funds to be placed in the California Virtual Campus. Online courses means educational materials that been released with an intellectual property license that permits their free use or repurposing by others. Open DataObama Executive Order on Open DataProject Open DataOpen licenses (aligned with Open Knowledge Definition) may be used by agencies for data outside of that in public domain under Section 105
Challenge: Existing Structures are Difficult to Change Most educational content business models built on gatekeeping and locking up resources (to make them rivalrous) are challenged by these trends that allow digital resources to be non-rivalrous. Existing business models are starting to fight, and they have money and lobbyists.
The US House Appropriations Committee released a draft fiscal year 2012 funding bill. Included in this bill is the following provision, which would appear to strip the ability of the DOL to support any further OER investments:Really? No one is allowed to build anything with public funds, with our tax dollars, “…unless the Secretary of Labor certifies, after a comprehensive market-based analysis, that such courses, modules, learning materials, or projects are not otherwise available for purchase or licensing in the marketplace or under development…"?Really?If the American people want to get maximum benefit from their precious public investments, the US Congress would rewrite the budget language to:"SEC. 124. None of the funds made available by this Act for the Department of Labor may be used to purchase proprietary, non-openly licensed new courses, modules, learning materials, or projects in carrying out education or career job training grant programs unless the Secretary of Labor certifies, after a comprehensive Open Educational Resources analysis, that such courses, modules, learning materials, or projects are not otherwise available under an open license that allows free reuse for students who require them to participate in such education or career job training grant programs."Let’s get to the crux of the issue. This is not about duplicating publisher works - this is about we, the tax payers, getting free and legal access to what we paid for... and our students, tax paying citizens, having access to high quality, affordable, openly licensed learning materials.The Department of Labor (DOL) has put forth a simple, rational public policy: Taxpayer-funded educational resources should be open educational resources. Information that is designed, developed and distributed through the generosity of public tax dollars should be accessible to the public that paid for it. If the publishers wish to debate, it will be on this point.What publishers and industry trade associations would do well to recognize is the CC BY license does not restrict commercialization of the open content produced by the DOL grantees. To be clear, the commercial publishers can take ALL of the content created in this DOL grant, modify it, make it better, add value, and sell it. The consumer (states, colleges, students) will then have a choice: (a) use the free openly licensed version(s) or (b) purchase the commercial for-a-fee version. If the commercial content / services are worth paying for, people will pay. If not, they won’t. Releasing information created with public funds should be a public right – not viewed as a disadvantage to commercial interests.How can you tell me I can’t have access to what I paid for – that’s crazy.
If we are to fight this nonsense, Open Policy strategy must follow NEW RULES. Disruptive Innovation Lessons (Clayton Christensen): Never attack existing business models head-on – incumbents typically win because you are playing by their rules rather play by new rules that “the trends” afford – KEY point to remind policy makers – I’ve found this is NOT obvious to people.e.g., Open Course Library – we changed the rules - $30 cap – want to play? We will do this with or without you… would rather partner, but don’t oppose us – we have all the best arguments and the public is on our side.And as Professor Eben Moglen reminds us: when we openly license our work, and leverage the Internet as a free distribution channel, we put the creator / the author, and not the distributor, in control of human knowledge.We make things and we give them away. Here we made this, would you like it? Take some it's freehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN00_v7gpbo&feature=youtu.be&t=6m45s----------------(1) Choose the most open license (e.g., public domain, CC BY) possible to (a) increase the degrees of freedom for downstream use, (b) increase interperability among licenses = more re-mix opportunities, and (c) reduce concern from existing for-profit businesses.
We have to think bigger and make smarter decisions collectively. Winston Churchill said: “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.”This is the opportunity of our time – we can share, for the marginal cost of 0, give up nothing, and share knowledge with the world. We ought be straight, honest, expose the amount and flow of the $$$, make the open policy argument, and force the opposition to make their best arguments – and be ready to counter quickly.The open community is passionate and powerful if called to action for an important cause. Don’t work alone – share new policies with each otherWe all need to try to implement open policies where we can – some policies will take quicker than others due to local opportunities and challenges.We need to help one another pass open policies (testify, meetings, webinars)we can revise and remix others’ policies and legislationWhat can WE (the global Open community) do to help Governments, Foundations, States / Provinces, Systems, Institutions to adopt open policies?PresentationsInsert open policy into strategic plans – system efficiency plans – education reform plans – government efficiency plans, etc. Every opportunity!Share what their peers have done – no one wants to be left behindProvide draft open policy language, translated, customized for local needs.
Most important, take Policy makers back to first principles…