Slides for the OEPS Thinking About Open workshop held at Heriot-Watt University on 30 April 2015. Facilitators: Bea de los Arcos and Beck Pitt You can also watch Martin's keynote here: https://youtu.be/AYQ1Y-2KXZs

1. Opening Educational Practices in
Scotland
Thinking About Open
Introduction
What does openness mean to you?

2. Who are we?
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NatalieEggleston;(R)BeadelosArcos(OER15)CC-BY4.0
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3. Workshop Overview
#OEPS @OEPScotland

4. What does openness mean to you?
“Open,Open,Open.”CC-B&4.0InternationalBeckPitt

5. 5
Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
I use free online resources
I adapt free online resources
I create resources & share them
freely online
I support others in using/sharing
resources
Adapted from Catherine Cronin: https://catherinecronin.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/gmitworkshop/
CC-BY-SA

6. Opening Educational Practices in
Scotland
Thinking About Open
What is open?

7. Which example resonates best
with you?
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8. Coffee Break!
ByRogerPricefromHongKong,HongKong(CoffeetimeUploadedbyFæ)[CCBY2.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)],viaWikimediaCommons

9. Opening Educational Practices in
Scotland
Thinking About Open
Keynote: Martin Weller
The Battle for Open

10. Lunchtime!
ByTimLucasfromSydney,Australia(Lunch)[CCBY2.0(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)],
viaWikimediaCommons

11. Opening Educational Practices in
Scotland
Thinking About Open
Why and how can open make a difference?

12. • On average total textbook costs are around $1200 each year in the United
States
• In the United States “…Textbook wholesale prices have risen more than four
times the rate of inflation over the last two decades (1990-2009)”
(Student PIRGs research)
• “…the textbooks actually cost more than
the tuition for most students.”
(Barbara Illowsky, author of Collaborative Statistics)
• 63% of respondents to the 2012 Florida
Student Textbook Survey “…reported not
having purchased the required textbook
because of the high cost…”
Picture credit: Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/04/college-textbook-prices-
increase_n_2409153.html)
Open Textbook Overview
Slide: OER Research Hub e.g. http://www.slideshare.net/OER_Hub/oerrh-
open-textbooksoaweekoct14final

13. http://openstaxcollege.org/faculty
Saved students over $30
million since June 2012
From 40 adoptions in 2012 to
1061 by 2014
1 million downloads of
OpenStax materials
http://openstaxcollege.org
Image and information from OpenStax
College’s 2014 Progress Report:
http://openstaxcollege.org/news/our-
textbooks-have-saved-students-30-million
CC-BY
First textbook published June 2012
12 open textbooks published to date
iBooks available in 32 countries
OpenStax College Overview
Slide: OER Research Hub e.g. http://www.slideshare.net/OER_Hub/oerrh-
open-textbooksoaweekoct14final

14. What is the biggest challenge of using OER?
OER Research Hub findings
• Finding suitable resources in my subject area
58%
• Finding resources of sufficient high quality
56%
• Knowing where to find resources 53%

16. What about Quality?
Further Reading:
Textbook Writing Sprint with K12 Teachers in South Africa:
http://kefletcher.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/textbook-writing-sprint-with-k12.html
Clint Lalonde (BCcampus): Reflections on an Open Textbook Sprint:
http://oerresearchhub.org/2014/07/02/clint-lalonde-bccampus-reflections-on-an-open-
textbook-sprint/
“Because I've got a high-quality primary source of information, I've got more
time to find supplements, labs, to do activities, and to have discussions with my
students. My instructional practice has definitely improved since I'm not having
to seek out high-quality sources of information and have a trusted source.”
(Educator using OpenStax College textbooks, 2014-5 Survey)
Picturecredit:PublicDomain

17. Opening Educational Practices in
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Thinking About Open
Making Change Happen

18. collaboration

19. OER Guidance for Schools, DigiLit Project
Leicester
http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/ls/open-education/

20. Guidance on creating/using OER, GCU
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/library/usingthelibrary/copyright/creatingcontent/

21. OER Impact Map: http://oermap.org
#oermap

22. Tea Time!
"Mt.Lavinia-Governor'sHighTea"byPerMossebyfromSweden-Mt.Lavinia:Governor'sHighTea.
LicensedunderCCBY-SA2.0viaWikimediaCommons-
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mt._Lavinia-
_Governor%27s_High_Tea.jpg#/media/File:Mt._Lavinia-_Governor%27s_High_Tea.jpg

23. Opening Educational Practices in
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Thinking About Open
Open Licensing

24. Why use open licenses?
• Enables you to share effectively and facilitate
reuse;
• Helps tell others how you’d like your material
to be used;
• You retain the copyright to
the material.
CC-B&4.0InternationalBeckPitt

25. Source: Creative Commons, CC-BY 4.0

26. Screenshot source: Clint Lalonde. Twitter

27. Useful Resources
• Creative Commons Choose a License: https://creativecommons.org/choose/
• Watch Paul Stacey (Creative Commons) explain different licenses in this great webinar
produced as part of the Bccampus P2PU Adopting Open Textbooks course:
https://p2pu.org/en/courses/2675/content/5829/
• Understanding Open Licensing leaflet produced by the DigiLit OER for Schools project in
Leicester: http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/ls/open-education/
• Glasgow Caledonian University: Reusing Content
https://p2pu.org/en/courses/2675/content/5829/
• Best Practices for Attribution:
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Best_practices_for_attribution
• Flickr CC Attribution Helper http://flickr-cc-helper.surge.sh
• Got a question or issue you want advice on? P2PU have a Creative Commons, Copyright and
Other such Dilemmas forum: http://community.p2pu.org/t/creative-commons-copyright-and-
other-such-dilemmas/1731
• What is open access? http://opensource.com/resources/what-open-access
• How open it it? SPARC produced leaflet on open access:
http://sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/hoii_guide_rev4_web.pdf
• And finally… test your remix skills with a great Remix Game by David Wiley:
http://opencontent.org/game/betagame.html

28. Opening Educational Practices in
Scotland
Thinking About Open
Round-Up

29. Thank you
We’d love your feedback!
Any questions or comments?
@celTatis
B.de-los-Arcos@open.ac.uk
@BeckPitt
Beck.Pitt@open.ac.uk
@OEPScotland
oepscotland@gmail.com
CC-B&4.0InternationalBeckPitt

30. Further reading
Z-Degree:
• Lumen Learning Success Story: Tidewater Community College:
http://lumenlearning.com/success-story-tidewater/
• The Hewlett Foundation blog: Z as in Zero: Increasing College Access and Success
through Zero-Textbook-Cost Degrees http://www.hewlett.org/blog/posts/z-zero-
increasing-college-access-and-success-through-zero-textbook-cost-degrees
• Tidewater Community College video: Cost Cutting College Education’s Future
https://youtu.be/RdeS2ZUGIsE?list=UUZ8kKg7SydcT1nlBtuaskvg
• CCCOER webinar: Increasing College Access and Success with Zero-Textbook Cost
Degree Programs http://www.slideshare.net/UnaDaly/oew-2015-zero-textbook-
cost-degree
• Peer to Peer University (P2PU) School of Open: http://schoolofopen.p2pu.org