Talk delivered at TEDxNYED about the role of new media and technology in the future of education, and the relationship between openness and education.

1. Open Education and the Future David Wiley, PhD Brigham Young University David O. McKay School of Education Instructional Psychology and Technology

2. Openness… In Education? Let’s begin by defining terms

3. Open, adj. Describes educational artifacts

4. Open Textbooks Open Educational Resources Open Courseware

5. Open, adj. Teaching materials freely shared with permissions to engage in the “4R” activities

6. The 4Rs Reuse Redistribute Revise Remix

7. While Nouns Differ… The operationalizing actions are the same

8. Open, adj. Generous, sharing, giving

9. Your Inner Two-year Old Overcoming the impulse to scream “Mine!”

10. Law and Policy “Enable” Us To shout “Mine!” ever more loudly, convulse ever more uncontrollably, and hit each other with ever larger toys

11. Society’s Siren Song “Be selfish. Sue each other. It’s legal. It’s ok.”

12. Education Is Not Immune This kind of thinking is accepted

13. Role of Openness in Education? A terrible, insidious question

14. Openness is the only means of doing education

15. If There Is No Sharing… There is no education

16. Education, n. A relationship of sharing

17. Successful Educators Share most thoroughly with the most students

18. Effect of New Media / Tech? Incredible opportunities for openness / education / sharing

19. Expertise Is Nonrivalrous Can be given without being given away

20. “He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.” Thomas Jefferson

21. Teachers Would Be Like Bees! They could only teach once

22. Expressions Are Different To give a book you must give it away

23. Expressions Are Different To give a book you must give it away

24. Expressions Are Different n’t ^ Digital expressions are nonrivalrous

25. E.g., Online Book We can all read simultaneously

26. An Indescribable Advance The first time in human history

27. Expertise and Its Expressions Give without giving away

28. Unprecedented Capacity We can share as never before

29. Unprecedented Capacity We can educate as never before

30. (Education Involves More) (It turns out the Internet is pretty good at facilitating these other things as well.)

31. Sharing the Stage Technology always plays opposite it’s nemesis, policy

32. 15th Century Perhaps the greatest technological advance ever

34. 15th Century Also the most draconian restrictions on information dissemination ever

35. The Bible Huge demand for vernacular editions, but illegal (and expensive)

36. Instead of Obliging… Ramped up production of “indulgences” and stricter laws against vernacular editions

37. “Whosoever reads the Scriptures in the mother tongue, shall forfeit land, cattle, life, and goods from their heirs forever, and so be condemned for heretics to God, enemies to the crown, and most arrant traitors to the land.” English Law, 15th Century

38. Collision Powerful new technology, huge demand, outdated thinking reinforced by law

39. The Reformation Powerful new technology, huge demand, outdated thinking reinforced by law

40. Alas Our day isn’t that different

41. Course Management Systems Technology used against its own potential made to conceal and withhold

42. 2008 Professor in Southern US Claimed (C) of his class lectures, declared student notes derivative works, and asserted control over their use

43. Makes Me Wonder… Can they ever become professors? Can they ever be employed?

44. Soaring Demand for Education 120M in higher education worldwide 150M more projected to enter

45. In India Alone, That’s… 2400 new universities in the next 25 years One new university every two weeks

46. Collision Powerful new media and technology, ravenous demand, outdated thinking reinforced by law

47. Sounds Familiar Education is on the edge of its own Reformation

48. Openness

49. Blessed With New Media / Tech To be more open? To preserve the status quo?

50. Role of New Media / Tech Increase our capacity to be open

51. More Open We Are The better education will be

52. Thank You http://davidwiley.org/ @opencontent