Slides from presentations at Kwantlen Polytechnic, Langara, and Douglas in March 2017.

1. Beyond OER:
The Promises,
Pitfalls, and
Potential of
Open Education
@actualham
Presentation
CC BY
Robin DeRosa
Images
CC 0
Alan Levine

2. Open Education
•Open Educational
Resources
(#OER)
•Open Pedagogy
(#OpenPed)
•Open Access
(#OA)

3. How can we make college more affordable?

4. How can we improve learning?

5. How can we maximize the impact of our research?

6. How can we make college more affordable?

7. • 56% of students pay more
than $400 CAD per
semester
• 20% pay more than $650
CAD per semester
(think of as a % of tuition!)
• Students worry more
about paying for books
than they worry about
paying for college.

8. Effects of Textbook Prices
• 67% did not purchase
a required textbook
• 38% earned a poor grade
• 20% failed a course
• 48% occasionally or frequently
took fewer courses
• 26% dropped a course
• 21% withdrew from a course
2016 Survey of 22,000 students,
Florida Virtual Campus, comprised of the
12 universities and 28 colleges in the Florida state system.

9. CreativeCommons

10. OER
OpenStax Books

11. “Students who use
OER perform
significantly better
on the course
throughput rate
than their peers
who use traditional
textbooks, in
both
face-to-face
and online
courses that
use OER.” (2016)
Throughput Rate
an aggregate of:
drop rates,
withdrawal rates,
C or better rates.

12. How can we improve learning?

13. What is Open Pedagogy?
ACCESSIBLE
LEARNER-DRIVEN
CONNECTED
PUBLIC

14. CCBY Jonathan Brodsky https://flic.kr/p/37z2C2
Access, broadly writ.
Price (not cost) of college, digital divide & redlining,
accessibility & universal design, online safety & harassment

15. Student-Centered  Learner-Driven
Learning Outcomes; Policies (Attendance, Late Work);
Procedures (Assessments, Grading); Schedule of Work (Curated Reading); Assignments
COURSE LEVEL, PROGRAM LEVEL

16. Content
↓
Community
Connected

17. Public
public use
public support
public good

18. How can we maximize the impact of our research?

19. CCBY3.0 Creative Commons http://bit.ly/2mVWWp6
Icons CCBY3.0 The Noun Project

20. Open Access
“We can be confident that OA
journals are journals. There's more
than enough money already
committed to the journal-support
system. Moreover, as OA spreads,
libraries will realize large savings
from the conversion, cancellation,
or demise of non-OA journals.”
~Peter Suber
CC BY 3.0 US: http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

21. OER

22. Open Pedagogy

23. Domain of One’s Own
• Drag ’n Drop → Design
• Digital consumer → Digital
creator
• Data mining → Data control
• Audience of 1 → Public impact
• Web as broadcast station →
Web as open lab
• Work attached to course →
Work attached to student
• ePortfolio → ePort
http://kayleighbennett.com/

24. to OPEN
(vb.)
• Challenge barriers to
access.
Be honest and critical.
• Center learners.
Be radical and real.
• Facilitate connection.
Be a sticky node,
not a gate.
• Share your work.
Be generous and just.

27. Q&A
tweet thoughts, questions, ideas
@actualham
#OER, #OpenPed, #OA