TLT 2010 keynote address

1. The Future of Education David Wiley, PhD Department of Instructional Psychology & Technology Brigham Young University

2. Yes, You May Absolutely… Video, photograph, record, live blog, tweet, facebook, and otherwise write about or remix this presentation

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4. Openness, Data, and the Future of Education David Wiley, PhD Department of Instructional Psychology & Technology Brigham Young University

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

7. Open, adj . Describes educational artifacts

8. Open Textbooks Open Educational Resources Open Courseware (Open Source Software)

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

10. The 4Rs Reuse – copy verbatim Redistribute – share with others Revise – adapt and improve Remix – combine with others

12. Offers easy to use 4R’s licenses

14. 2009 2007 2008 2006 2005 2004 2003 CC Licensed Items Online (Millions) 50 100 150 200 250

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

16. Open, adj . Generous, sharing, giving

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

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

19. Society’s Siren Song “ Be selfish. Sue your neighbor. It’s legal. It’s ok.”

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

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

22. Openness is the only means of doing education

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

24. Education, n . A relationship of sharing

25. Successful Educators Share most thoroughly with the most students

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

27. “ 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

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

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

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

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

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

33. An Indescribable Advance The first time in human history

34. Expertise and Its Expressions Give without giving away

35. Unprecedented Capacity We can share as never before

36. Unprecedented Capacity We can educate as never before

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

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

39. 15 th Century Perhaps the greatest technological advance ever

41. 15 th Century Also the most draconian restrictions on information dissemination ever

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

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

44. “ 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, 15 th Century

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

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

47. Alas Our day isn’t that different

48. Learning Management Systems Technology used against its own potential made to conceal and withhold

51. “ Lids Down, Please!” Faculty refuse to compete for attention

52. 2008 Professor in Southern US Claimed (C) of his class lectures, declared student notes derivative works, and asserted control over their use

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

56. The Bible

59. Soaring Demand for Education 120M in post-secondary education worldwide 150M more projected to enter

60. In India Alone, They Need… 2400 new universities in the next 25 years One new university every two weeks

61. Collision Powerful new media and technology, ravenous demand, outdated thinking reinforced by policy

62. Sound Familiar? Education is on the edge of its own Reformation

63. Will We Reform Internally? Or will factions and sects have to split off?

64. What Does Reform Look Like? We only need to look at society around us…

65. Analog  Digital Music, Phones, TV, Newspapers, Movies, Journals, Communications, Intelligence, Defense

66. Tethered  Mobile Phones, Internet Access, Employment

67. Isolated  Connected People, Content, Systems

68. Generic  Personal Cars, Computers, Mobile Phones

69. Consuming  Creating Radio / Podcasting, Newspapers / Blogs Movies / Vodcasting

70. Closed  Open Software (OSs, Applications), Content (Blogs, Wikis)

71. Then vs Now Analog  Digital Tethered  Mobile Isolated  Connected Generic  Personal Consumption  Creating Closed  Open

72. Education vs Everyday Analog  Digital Tethered  Mobile Isolated  Connected Generic  Personal Consumption  Creating Closed  Open

73. “ Daily Divide” Is a Huge Threat And the wider the disconnect, the less relevant higher education feels

76. What About E-learning?

77. What About E-learning? Very innovative in 1995!

78. Characteristics of E-learning Analog or Digital Tethered or Mobile Isolated or Connected Generic or Personal Consuming or Creating Closed or Open

79. Connecting You can’t connect to something if you don’t have access to it

80. Personalizing You can’t adapt or localize something if you don’t have permission

81. Creating You won’t be creative if there’s no outlet for your work

82. How Can We Be More Open? Some examples…

97. How Can We Be More Open? Some examples… on a budget

105. Where I’m Going You many not want to come, and that’s fine…

115. More Open We Are The better education will be

116. Not a Technology Problem Not only do the technologies we need exist, they’re free and open!

117. This Is an Institutional Will Problem How can we motivate ourselves and our institutions

118. “ It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” W. E. Deming

119. The Only Proper Role of Tech Increase our capacity to be generous

120. Thank You! [email_address] http://davidwiley.org/