Martin Weller is Professor of Educational Technology at The Open University, UK. His keynote at the #EDEN2015 Annual Conference is captured on video and will be published on on EDEN's Youtube channel. Read about EDEN: http://www.eden-online.org

2. So, I’ve written this book…
Bit.ly/battle4open

3. Openness has been victorious
https://flic.kr/p/nLotCV

4. But now the real direction is to
be decided

5. This talk
Why a battle?
The roots of open ed
The victories
The battles
MOOCs & the silicon valley narrative
Conclusions

6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/clydeorama/5099069820/
Why call it “a
battle”?

7. There are real areas of conflict
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BY license!

8. There is real value to be won

9. The victor writes history – a
battle for narrative

10. Where did open education
come from?

11. Open universities – open access,
entry. Focus on methods,
removing barriers, not free

12. https://flic.kr/p/9Qqr3k
Free software – emphasis on rights
Open source – emphasis on
efficiency

13. https://flic.kr/p/a1V3bz
Web 2.0 - culture of sharing,
open practice

14. Open ed is a set of coalescing
principles

15. Common themes
Belief in openness
as public good
Becomes
mainstream
Gets adopted and
adapted
Resisted –
unworkable, low
quality,

16. https://flic.kr/p/75LVJi
Victories

17. Open access

18. Gold & Green route to OA

19. Major policies in many
countries

20. https://flic.kr/p/8ezjoA
Wiley survey - More than 50%
have published OA

21. Laakso M, Welling P, Bukvova H, Nyman L, Björk B-C, et al. (2011) The Development of
Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009. PLoS ONE 6(6): e20961.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020961
Growth of OA

22. OERS

23. Major OER initiatives in many
countries

24. https://flic.kr/p/9rnT2E
Open textbooks

25. Saylor: Increased
enthusiasm for study
(59%). Increased
interest in subject
(58%), Gaining
confidence (50%)
Over 30% of students
reported studying their
subject via OER
before joining their
course
60% CCCOER
identified reduced
cost of materials as a
driver of student
retention
OpenStax downloads
120K times, leading to
an estimated $3
million savings for
students (Green
2013)
Feldstein et al. (2013)
47% of students
purchased the paper
textbooks, 93% of
students reading the
free online textbook
Impact findings

26. The battles
https://flic.kr/p/aGe6WK

27. Hijacking ‘open’
https://flic.kr/p/aFgBVu

28. Udacity has an exclusive relationship,
so Georgia Tech cannot offer its own
content elsewhere. Udacity can,
however, offer that content to other
learners outside of the Masters
Open as in…

29. Owning ‘open’

30. https://flic.kr/p/nczqTb
The hybrid route swindle

31. Wellcome trust - 2012 – 2013, academics spent £3.88 million to
publish articles in OA journals– of which £3.17M was paying for
publications that Universities would then be charged again for
(http://access.okfn.org/2014/03/24/scale-hybrid-journals-
publishing/)
5-year mean:
£1,164 – OA journals
£1,849 – hybrid journals
(Pinfield, S., Salter, J. and Bath,
P.A. 2015)
https://flic.kr/p/8chgS3
Double dipping

32. MOOCs & The
silicon valley
narrative

33. Education is broken. Face it. It
is so broken at so many ends, it
requires a little bit of Silicon
Valley magic
Thrun
The models of higher
education that marched
triumphantly across the
globe in the second half
of the 20th century are
broken
(Avalanche report)
The education
space is massive,
very broken”
(Shirky)
Education is
broken.
Someone should
do something
degreed.com
“Education is
broken”

34. disruption is a
necessary and
overdue chapter in
our public schools.
(Christensen)
elements of the traditional university are
threatened by the coming avalanche. In
Clayton Christensen’s terms, universities are
ripe for disruption
(Avalanche report)
OERs have not
noticeably disrupted
the traditional
business model of
higher education .
(Korteyemer)
A disruption
obsession

35. Education is broken!
Education is ripe for
disruption!
MOOCs are
technological
solution!
Outsiders with new
ideas!
Irresistible MOOC
story for media

36. “The failure of MOOCs to disrupt higher education has nothing to do with
the quality of the courses themselves, many of which are quite good and
getting better. Colleges are holding technology at bay because the only
thing MOOCs provide is access to world-class professors at an unbeatable
price.”
A new narrative about MOOC
failure…

37. Terms became taken over

38. SPOCs
VOOCs
DOCCs
SMOCs
Micro-
MOOCs
Massive
Open Online
Content
Stick a MOOC on it

39. Creates false dichotomies
Open vs Closed
MOOCs as revolution vs MOOCs as irrelevant
cMOOCs vs xMOOCs
Commercial vs State
Online vs Face to Face

40. A lesson from recent history

41. Lessons from the VLE
Rapid adoption &
mainstreaming
Outsourcing &
sedimentation

42. https://flic.kr/p/dNxyCd
The charges
Systems - privileges a
technology
management mindset
Silos – does not allow
for the benefits of
openness
Missed opportunities –
learners use a system
unlike anything outside
of education
Costs – drain the
financial and also the
human resources,
Confidence – ed techs
are required to manage
the system
(Groom J & Lamb B
(2014) ‘Reclaiming
Innovation’. EDUCAUSE
Review, vol. 49, no. 3

43. https://flic.kr/p/fLj2C2
The cultural surrender of what
openness allows

44. Remember those common
themes?
Belief in openness
as public good
Becomes
mainstream
Gets adopted and
adapted
Resisted –
unworkable, low
quality,
You are
here

45. The longue duree
old attitudes of thought and action,
resistant frameworks dying hard, at
times against all logic