Expanding our sense of the possible
Thinking more imaginatively about learner-centered OER
Steel Wagstaff & Apurva Ashok | OERizona | October 29, 2019
Provocateurs
Steel Wagstaff
Educational client manager & �product owner, Pressbooks
Apurva Ashok
Program Manager & Textbook Success Program facilitator, Rebus Community
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Open Education & Its Generosities
What we mean when we say �Open = Free + Permissions
OER are high-quality teaching, learning, & research materials that are free for people everywhere to use and repurpose.
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The Permissions of OER
The 5Rs
In addition to being free, these five permissions (described by David Wiley) are constitutive of “open content.”
Retain
The right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)
Reuse
The right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
Revise
The right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
Remix
The right to combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new
Redistribute
The right to make and share copies of the original content, and any revisions or remixes you’ve made with others
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Prompts & Inspirations
Expanding the horizon of possibility for publishing and teaching & learning
Common Uses for Open Texts
Replace $$$ Textbooks
Free textbooks for high-enrollment courses
Remixed versions of existing OER
Manuals, handbooks, guides, course ‘teasers’
Collections & Anthologies
Collections of CC-licensed & public domain work
Anthologies of writing published pre-1923 (US)
Government documents or other public material
Student-centered Projects
Renewable assignments, “object studies,” field work
Student writing, class projects, ePortfolios
Service learning & university/community partnerships (with GLAMs)
Above: Sample training material, extension/outreach courses, festschrift for emeritus professor
Web literacy for student fact checkers
An “unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker” written by Mike Caulfield to “supplement generic information literacy with specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly.”
Blueprint for Success in College & Career
An award-winning guide to student classroom & career success by Dave Dillon, Linda Bruce Hill, Alise Lamoreaux, Phyllis Nissila, and Thomas Priester which focuses on focusing on study skills, time management, career exploration, health, & financial literacy.
The Open Anthology of Earlier American Lit
A new anthology of Early American Literature made with texts in the public domain & largely edited and compiled by students. The project was started by Robin DeRosa at Plymouth State University and is now edited by Tim Robbins at Graceland University.
Antologia abierta de literatura hispana
An open anthology built by Julie Ward & students in her Intro to Hispanic Literature course at the University of Oklahoma. Looking for teachers to expand the anthology through Edición Crítica assignments in their classes.
Folk Farmsteads on �the Frontier
Anna Andrzejewski’s students wrote these books after 4-week field schools in North Dakota spent studying farm buildings constructed by German & Russian immigrants. Anna also oversaw a student-authored book on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Madison buildings.
Creators, Collectors & Communities
Ann Smart Martin and her students partnered with a nearby historical museum to publish an award-winning exhibit catalogue and multimedia-rich eBook accompaniment with deeply researched “object studies.”
https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/mthoreb/
https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/driftless
Human Anatomy Lab Manual
Malgosia Wilk-Blaszczak & three undergrad teaching assistants produced a lab manual for use in human anatomy courses (with support from Michelle Reed, the school’s OER librarian).
https://uta.pressbooks.pub/anatomylab
American Democracy Educator’s Forum
John Zumbrunnen assembled this public-domain collection of primary texts for a summer-long online seminar on democratic ideas for high school teachers. John also built discussion activities into the text using Hypothesis (a free & open source annotation tool).
https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/adefbillofrights/
Agent-Based Evolutionary Game Dynamics
Luis and Segis Izquierdo (brothers working at Spanish universities) worked with Bill Sandholm (an economist working in Wisconsin) to make this guide to evolutionary game theory and agent based modeling using NetLogo, open source modeling software.
https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/agent-based-evolutionary-game-dynamics/
Português para principiantes
This Brazilian Portuguese language textbook written by Claude LeRoy and Mary Schil was digitized and updated in 2016 by Ellen Sapega and Jared Hendrickson and now includes 140+ H5P interactive components, 40 audio dialogues, and 1000+ vocabulary words pronounced by native speakers.
https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/portuguese/
Entering the Conversation
A compilation of openly-licensed writing assembled by Naomi Salmon for use in college composition courses. Naomi also helped the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s freshman writing program make a program-specific remix featuring exemplary student essays.
https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/opencomp/
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Open Pedagogy & Its Pleasures
Coming to see knowledge making & sharing as communal tasks
Open pedagogy … [is] a process of designing architectures & using tools for learning that enable students to shape the public knowledge commons of which they are a part.
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Practicing Open Education with Learners
See Liz Mays’s Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students, Terry Greene’s patchbooks for Faculty & Learners, Naomi Salmon’s OER Activity Sourcebook, and the Open Pedagogy Notebook.