This is an update of an earlier presentation so is part repeat, but reflects my own growing in understanding of open scholarship over the last year or so.

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2. The world is moving so fast that there are days when the person who says it can’t be done, keeps getting interrupted by the person doing it. anonymous Personally, I’m always ready to learn, Although I do not always like to be taught Winston Churchill

4. From Anderson & Anderson,( 2009) Online professional development conferences Canadian Journal of Learning Technologies 35(2)

5. My One (and only) Claim to Internet Fame Organized 1st ever online Conference Bangkok Conference for ICDE 1992 Ported between BitNet, UseNet FidoNet and NetNorth and email lists 6 Keynote speakers Total cost 6 * $30 See Anderson, T., & Mason, R. (1993). The Bangkok Project: New tool for professional development. American Journal of Distance Education, 7(2), 5-18 at http://tinyurl.com/5vq2fa9

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7. Open Scholar “the Open Scholar is someone who makes their intellectual projects and processes digitally visible and who invites and encourages ongoing criticism of their work and secondary uses of any or all parts of it--at any stage of its development”. Gideon Burton Academic Evolution Blog

8. Definitions of Open on the Web (From Google) affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed; affording free passage or access; open to or in view of all; accessible to all; assailable: not defended or capable of being defended loose: (of textures) full of small openings or gaps; start to operate or function not brought to a conclusion; not sealed or having been unsealed

9. “Something there is that doesn’t love a a wall, that wants it down” American Poet, Robert Frost Photo by Cudiaco

10. Harmonizing Disruptive Technologies “Managing and aligning pedagogical, technical and administrative issues is a necessary condition of success when using emerging technologies for (formal) learning” But it takes leadership and disruption!! Educating the Net Generation: A Handbook of Findings for Practice and Policy , 2009

11. Promising Signs of Change Ubiquity and multi-functionality of web 2.0 Growth of openness and online resources, OERs Increasingly effective pedagogical models and learning activities Real educational alternatives – including private sector Death and retirement

12. Values We can (and must) continuously improve the quality, effectiveness, appeal, cost and time efficiency of the learning experience. Student control and freedom is integral to 21st Century life-long education and learning. Education for elites is not sufficient for planetary survival

13. Open Scholars Use Open Access Software

14. Open Scholars are Transparent The ability to view and share thoughts, actions, resources, ideas and interests of others. “radically increase learner awareness of others’ learning activities in the PLE” Marc van Harmelen Manchester PLE Dalsgaard, C., & Paulsen, M. (2009) Transparency in Cooperative Online Education

15. Open Scholars Create: A new type of education work maximizing: Social learning Media richness Participatory and connectivist pedagogies Ubiquity and persistence Open data collection and research process Creating connections

16. Open Scholars Use and Contribute Open Educational Resources Because it saves time!!!

18. Key enablers Infrastructure: move to collaborative and cloud based development and distribution Design: Return to a focus on outcomes- not on particular tools, content or path Support: Institutional policy, funder incentives, appropriate licensing Experience: Need to gain awareness by piloting and including OERs in regular programming Culture: Do we define ourselves by the content we produce or the quality of the courses we deliver??. Is everything on the Internet OERs?

19. Why Should an Institution Share its Educational Resources? Experiences from OU UK (McAndrew et al, 2009) OpenLearn repacked and distributes thousands are course and modules Benefits: accelerating innovation, establishing collaborations, and Attracting new students to the University Increasing transparency Branding and image growth Costs (very little)

20. But we are haven‘t gotten $$$$ from the Hewlett Foundation Funding results: General adoption of more open approaches. from initial work on the concept of open content, to supporting the open provision of existing content to work on advocacy and models of use.

21. Open Scholars Self Archive Quality scholarship is peer and public reviewed, accessible, persistent syndicated, commented and transparent.

22. Open Scholars Apply their research

23. Open Scholars do Open Research Open Notebook: a laboratory notebook that is freely available and indexed on common search engines. …it is essential that all of the information available to the researchers to make their conclusions is equally available to the rest of the world. —Jean-Claude Bradley

24. Open Scholars License, Use (and re-use ) Open Data

25. http://www.concede.cc/index.php/products/open-data-set-on-ugc-in-higher-education/ EU Project

26. Open Scholars Filter and Share With Others

27. Open Scholars support emerging Open Learning alternatives In-Class Support in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania! The University of Dar es Salaam Computing Centre is going to offer you in-class facilitation of all of the openEd 2.0 course modules against a moderate fee.

28. Open Scholars Know How to License Their Work for Maximum Impact

29. CC Licensing Options

30. Open Scholars Publish in Open Access Journals Open Access Journals have increased citation ratings: Zawacki-Richter, O., Anderson, T., & Tuncay, N. (2010). The growing impact of open access distance education journals – a bibliometric analysis. Journal of Distance Education, 24(3) Analysis of Google citations for 12 Distance Education Journals (using Harzing’s Publish or Perish tool) 6 open access, 6 commercially published Early results show roughly equal citations/paper, but recent gains in citations by open access journals

31. Open Scholars Write and Read Open Access Books aupress.cawww.irrodl.org

32. Are you Ready to Take the Pledge?? I pledge that: “ I will no longer submit my work to closed publications, nor participate in review or editorial functions for closed publications.”

33. Open Scholars comment openly on the works of others Bookmarking and Annotation add value Cite-u-like, Mendely, Diigo, Scholar.com VLE additions like Margenalia.

34. Open Scholars Build Networks

35. Open Scholars Lobby for Copyright Reform Source: swiss-copyright.ch

36. Open Scholars Assign Open Textbooks

37. Open Scholars Assign Open Reading

38. Open Scholars Induce Open Students Students as co-creators Students gaining experience as writers, authors and teachers Getting over the use, but don’t contribute barrier Students engaged in meaningful work Extensive literature on value of peer instruction - especially for gifted students Empowering learners as future teachers

39. Open Scholars support Open Students OpenStudents.Org

40. Open Scholars Teach Open Courses George Siemens & Stephen Downes Introduction au technologieémergentes Dave Cormier Hans Poldoga – http://www.hanspoldoja.net/ Alec CuorosOpen Access Course: Social Media & Open Education (Fall 2009)

41. Edufeedr.orgUniversity of Tallinn

42. Open Scholars are Change Agents Open scholars develop tools and techniques to help cross-pollination, sustain and grow effective learning networks. From (Looi 2001).

43. Issues, Economics &Open Philosophy

44. Who Pays for Free content? ‘Freemium: free & “pro” versions 1% of users support all the rest Advertising: provide a special audience Cross-Subsidies: free lunch if you buy beer Zero-Marginal Cost: online music Labor Exchange: Digg or Google 411 Gift Economy: $$$ aren’t everything Chris Anderson’s Taxonomy of Free Wired: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all

45. Openness and the Survival of Public Institutions What if a private, for profit company offered to deliver a higher quality education (and was willing to prove it) for considerably less cost to the government than the public system? Openness is a way for public institutions to very visibly give back to the people.

46. The Political Economy of Peer Production Michael Bauwens produce use-value through the free cooperation of producers a 'third mode of production' neither for-profit or public NOT exchange value for a market, but use-value for a community www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=499

47. Prod-Users:From production to produsage Axel Bruns 2008 Users as active participants in production of artifacts: Examples: Open source movement Wikipedia Citizen journalism (blogs) Immersive worlds Distributed creativity - music, video, Flickr

48. Placing Boundaries on the Openess “Good fences make good neighbors” American poet Robert Frost

49. Placing Boundaries on the Openness A good fence helpeth to keepe peace between neighbours; but let vs take heed that we make not a high stone wall, to keepevs from meeting.[1640 E. Rogers Letter in Winthrop Papers (1944) IV. 282]

50. Creating Boundaries by Recommendations/input of others

51. You Don’t Have to work for an Open University to be an Open Scholar Some Open Universities are very closed! Openness is as much a personal as an institutional decision We need to move all of our institutions to Openness

52. Openness is a Spiral of Growth… but you have to start somewhere

53. Boundless Opportunities for Unanticipated consequences Challenges of net privacy/presence Emergent adaptation by students and teachers Misuse and exploitation

55. Social Networking helps us create our own boundaries Text Text 55 Stepanyan, Mather & Payne, 2007

56. Boundary Controls in Elgg

57. Open Net Research/Community Networks OERs, YouTUBE MY AU Login Discovery Read & Comment rights Passwords Passwords AlFresco CMS Course Development Athabasca Landing E-Portfolios Profiles Groups/Networks Bookmark Collections Blogs Athabasca University Sample CC Course units and Branded OERs ELGG Single Sign on AUspace Moodle Media lab Registry Library CIDER Secondlife campus

58. Conclusion “Open Access is more than a new model for scholarly publishing, it is the only ethical move available to scholars who take their own work seriously enough to believe its value lies in how well it engages many publics and not just a few peers.” Gideon Burton, Academic Evolution Blog

59. Your comments and questions most welcomed! Terry Anderson terrya@athabascau.ca Homepage: http://cde.athabascau.ca/faculty/terrya.php Blog: terrya.edublogs.org