OER Hope for 2011

[Cable Green]

‘Tis the time of year for resolutions, bid ideas, hopes and dreams…             

My hope for 2011 is:  K-20 educational institutions make “open licensing on all publicly funded content” the default… rather than the exception.

Big idea: Taxpayer-funded educational resources should be open educational resources.  Information that is designed, developed and distributed through the generosity of public tax dollars should be accessible to the public that paid for it -- without artificial restrictions and/or limits.

 

Possible Policy:

·         Any [insert your State here] public or private K-20 education institution that receives any state operating, capital or student financial aid funding shall openly license (creative commons attribution licensing) and share, in a common open repository, all instructional resources created in part or in whole with state funding including: courses, textbooks, course packs, lesson plans, syllabi, slides, lecture notes, audio and video, simulations, academic journals, research data, digital labs, and other educational materials.

 

Slogan(s): 

·         You should get what you paid for.

·         Public access to publicly funded educational materials.

 

What is your hope for 2011?

 

Cable

 

 

Cable Green, PhD

Director of eLearning & Open Education

SBCTC

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[Randy Fisher]

Hi All,

Great resolution Cable.

My hope is that charitable / philanthropic organizations ensure that any content / materials developed as a result of their funding / investment, have a similar open license.

- Randy

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[Wayne Mackintosh]

Hi Cable,

Great ideas and thoughts for a more open new year!

My wish for 2011 is for all educators around the world to support, encourage and reward decisive educational leadership.

The educational and economic value proposition of sharing knowledge using OER is a no-brainer. Most educators understand this. Our challenge regarding mainstream adoption of OER is a leadership challenge -- so let's help and support our leaders in taking the responsibility to lead.

We educators can do our bit, and lead by example. That is moving from the notion of sharing to LEARN, to learning to SHARE.

2011 will be a quantum shift year for open education!

Cheers
Wayne

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[Paul Stacey]

Cable:

I like your big idea.

My hope for 2011 is that we'll see the formation of international "open curricula working groups". After providing annual funding for OER development here in British Columbia for seven years we've found that clusters of significant development have formed in specific academic domains. Based on OER grants made to date the largest amount of OER development has occurred in five academic fields of study - 1. Sciences, 2. Health, 3. Business, 4. Social Sciences, 5. Recreation & Tourism. We're planning to form Open Curricula working groups around each of these fields of study with OER developers from across multiple institutions. My hope is that we can form international open curricula working groups that network our respective regional efforts together to collectively build out open curricula around specific academic domains. I'd welcome feedback from anyone interested in working on this together.

Over the holidays I came up with my own big idea synthesizing together open source software, open access research publishing, open government/data, open educational resources and open pedagogies into something I call - the University of Open.

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[Wayne Mackintosh]

Paul,

The "University of Open" is a visionary and timely concept.  We're convening an open planning meeting in Dunedin, New Zealand on 23 February 2011 which is taking the first steps in planning the implementation of the futures you are talking about.

Any chance you can join us at this open planning meeting?

We're starting with the OER for assessment and credit for students project which will create pathways for informal OER learners to gain formal academic credit. This is one the critical path steps towards instituting the "OER university".

See:  http://wikieducator.org/OER_for_Assessment_and_Credit_for_Students/About

Working together we achieve more than working alone!

Cheers
Wayne