Open Education Now
Catherine Cronin
@catherinecronin
27 February 2021
#CESICon
#openedIE
Images from FemEdTech Quilt: Stitching together Open in Africa
CC BY @czernie, et al., and Hope CC BY @vivienrolfe
Open Education Now
Catherine Cronin
@catherinecronin
27 February 2021
#CESICon
#openedIE
Images from FemEdTech Quilt: Stitching together Open in Africa
CC BY @czernie, et al., and Hope CC BY @vivienrolfe
slides available: bit.ly/CESICON-Cronin
How are you?
Today we are at a pivotal moment in history. The Covid-19 crisis has resulted in a paradigm shift on how learners of all ages, worldwide, can access learning...
Therefore, in the spirit of a joint implementation of the OER Recommendation, UNESCO calls on the global community to support the use of OER for sharing learning and knowledge openly worldwide with a view to building more inclusive, sustainable and resilient Knowledge Societies.
UNESCO Call for Joint Action (28 April 2020)
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Image: CC BY-SA Wikimedia Deutschland
teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions (UNESCO)
Retain… make and own copies
Reuse… use in your own context
Revise… adapt, modify, improve
Remix… combine, re-combine
Redistribute… share with others
5Rs
Source: CC BY David Wiley Defining the “Open” in Open Content and OER
Image: CC BY-SA Wikimedia Deutschland
www.si.edu/openaccess
www.si.edu/openaccess
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en
EP
Open Educational Practices
Use/reuse/creation of OER and
collaborative, pedagogical practices employing social and participatory technologies for interaction, peer-learning, knowledge creation and sharing and empowerment of learners
CC BY catherinecronin adapted from nadineshaabana
Cronin (2017) Openness and Praxis
Why ‘Open’ for Teaching & Learning?
OER and OEP
have potential benefits in
3 areas…
Access ∙ Equity ∙ Pedagogy
Access ∙ Equity ∙ Pedagogy
Image: CC0 by Katie Moum
Access ∙ Equity ∙ Pedagogy
Image: CC0 by Katie Moum
Concept of ‘meaningful connectivity’
Access ∙ Equity ∙ Pedagogy
Image: CC0 by Oliver Cole
Access ∙ Equity ∙ Pedagogy
Image: CC0 by Markus Spiske
OPEN TEXTBOOKS
OER ASSIGNMENTS
EDIT WIKIPEDIA
In our short time together today,
let’s look at some OEP examples
in these three categories
OPEN TEXTBOOKS
OER ASSIGNMENTS
EDIT WIKIPEDIA
Open textbooks
Cox, Masuku & Willmers (2020)
Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project
University of Cape Town
The open textbook moves beyond the idea of a textbook as simply being the content provided to students to grow their knowledge in a field… empowering academics to build curricula in a more relevant fashion, giving marginalised voices expression and students power over how knowledge is created in order to transform universities in line with the Global South’s call for social justice.
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Co(creating) open textbooks
Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC/OER) course sections are those that do not require students to purchase a textbook.
The City University of New York (CUNY) (2020)
The pedagogical benefits to the student authors is also hard to overestimate.
Robin DeRosa (2018)
Plymouth State University
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Image: CC0 Giulia Forsythe
OPEN TEXTBOOKS
OER ASSIGNMENTS
EDIT WIKIPEDIA
OER assignments
Hendricks (2017)
University of British Columbia
...What if we changed “disposable assignments” into activities which actually added value to the world? Then students and faculty might feel different about the time and effort they invested in them. I have seen time and again that they do feel different about the efforts they make under these circumstances.
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Student-created OER
If you want a better web, you gotta help build a better web, right?... part of that is building critical literacies around edtech platforms and tools. Among educators… in K12 and higher ed.
Bonnie Stewart (2019)
#UWinToolParade @uwintoolparade and YouTube videos
University of Windsor
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Collaboratively co-created OER
Open pedagogy orients student scholarship to public audiences and to public good. In its conception, its process, and especially its exhibit and open presentation, And Still We Rise brought what students had been learning in the classroom to the campus community — and beyond, with the online exhibit — as a project for racial justice.
Beatty, et al. (2020)
‘And Still We Rise’ project
State University of New York (SUNY) Plattsburgh
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Image: CC0 James Sutton
OPEN TEXTBOOKS
OER ASSIGNMENTS
EDIT WIKIPEDIA
Edit Wikipedia
Rebecca O’Neill (2020)
Wikimedia Ireland
Distrust of Wikipedia is still rampant in universities and schools, telling students NEVER to use it, which is misguided. Wikipedia is 19 years old now, it probably isn’t going anywhere, so we just need to teach people how to use it well – as let’s face it, it will 9 times out of 10 be the first thing that Google will show you regardless.
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OEP: Creating/editing Wikipedia articles
Don’t cite Wikipedia, write Wikipedia.
Ewan McAndrew (2017)
Wikimedian in Residence, University of Edinburgh
Using Wikipedia… to empower students to think of themselves as authors and contributors to the information landscape.
Koziura, et al (2020)
Wikipedia Editing Project, Case Western University
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Image: CC BY Lorna Campbell
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Access ∙ Equity ∙ Pedagogy
resources
OER for developing open capabilities
National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Online community building
This collection is everything hopeful about open. It’s the entangled voices that gather in our shared spaces to talk about what’s wrong, and what could be better. We don’t have to agree on what open is. We don’t need a particular license or a common set of resources. What we need is the courage to walk into conversation...
Robin DeRosa (2020)
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Open pedagogy approaches
CC BY-SA
Among the [open education movement’s]
most inspiring developments has been a broadening and refocusing of the conversation to include open pedagogy and OEP, including approaches that extend beyond those that directly involve OER.
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A critical approach to open
Open education is not a short-term fix to a passing problem — it is a long-term solution to ensuring equitable, inclusive access to effective educational resources and learning opportunities.
Vézina & Green (2020)
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Images: CC0 (L to R) by Hedi Alija, Mihail Ribkin, David Kovalenko, eberhard grossgasteiger
Collaborative systemic approach
Le spectre de la rose Jerome Robbins Dance Division
from the New York Public Library (public domain)
To hope is to give yourself to the future, and that commitment to the future
makes the present inhabitable.
Rebecca Solnit (2004)
Hope in the Dark
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Le spectre de la rose Jerome Robbins Dance Division
from the New York Public Library (public domain)
Thank You,
Catherine Cronin
@catherinecronin