OER Framework for K12

Rory McGrealUNESCO/COL/ICDE Chair in OER

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License(some images fair dealing)

Canada Report

• Provincial• No Government policies• Few initiatives• Policy proposals (HEIs)

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THE BIG Canadian SPLIT

• School Level vs Higher Education Ministries• Paris Declaration on OER

OER

7*What? Why? Where? Wow?

OER:Pedagogy

AccessibilityReusabilityPersonalisation

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OER: Quality

OER: BenefitsEnrichmentPrimary learning source (text)New learning models

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Commercial ContentVendors can control how, when, where, and with what specific brands of technological assistance audiences are able to access content

You buy but you don’t get David Wiley

OER: CostsSunk Costs: 0Variable Costs(minimal) : Site maintenanceStorageUpdating

ReviewingAdapting

SHIFT Funds

(Free but with awareness, implementation/standardisation costs)

Maximise budgets

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OER: Technology

Portability (multidevice/Platforms/geographic)Versioning

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OER: CostsSunk Costs: 0

Free but ImplementationStandardisation costs

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OER: CostsVariable Costs(minimal) :

Site maintenanceStorageUpdating

ReviewingAdapting

SHIFT Funds

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Maximise budgets

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OER: Cost Example (notional)

Commercial text cost: $80Digital OER cost: $ 0OER Printing: $ 5SAVINGS: $75

ASSUMED SAVINGS (one course):5000 students = $400 000 (digital)5000 printed @ $5= $375 000 (printed)

5 Courses per year ($400K X 5)= $2 m12 grades = $24 million

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Commercial CostsSunk Costs: ???Variable Costs(minimal) :

Site maintenance ?Storage ?Updating

Reviewing Same as OERAdapting Not possible

OER: Sustainability (notional)

5 Courses per year ($400K X 5)= $2m12 grades = $24 million

Commercial text amortised over 5yrs = ($24m /5) = $4,8 million/yr

OER Sustainability:Honorarium $5K for 2 teachers in five subjects in 12 grades($5 X 2 X 5 x 12) = $300K4 OER experts full time: $320K

TOTAL Cost: $390K per year(Savings: +$4 million)

Initial Investment: $100 millionCost per computer: $188Ancillary costs: $ 60 (servers, networks, support etc.)

Sustainability:Computers: $48Services: $27Total: $75/yr/

student

OER Advantages

CostAdaptabilityUpdatingLocalisation

ChallengesEntrenched practicesSpecial interests

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OER as Change Facilitator

Course ASSEMBLY

Cost sharing

Increases access

Drives innovation & change

Canadian Supreme Court

Pentalogy, July, 2012

5 Court cases2012

• Entertainment Software Association, et al. v. Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada

• Rogers Communications Inc., Rogers Wireless Partnership and Shaw Cablesystems G.P., Bell Canada and Telus Communications Company and Respondent SOCAN can be found here:

Re:Sound v. Motion Picture Theatre Associations of Canada, et al.

• Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, et al. v. Bell Canada, et al.

• Province of Alberta; et al. v. "Access Copyright"

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Fair DealingSC strongly restated fair dealing as a RIGHT• Copy portions without permission for research

AND• Education NOT separate from research

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Fair DealingWRONG RIGHT

NO Class copies Class copies are ok

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Fair DealingOverly restrictive & unnecessary requirements

MUST have aLarge & liberal interpretation

AUCC Silence•

• The “Pentalogy” and Alberta v. AC vindicate the principled decision to oppose the AUCC’s recommendation for a fair dealing policy and opt out of the AUCC-Access Copyright model license -- Mark McCutcheon

• Includes EDUCATION in Fair Dealing• Expands the pentalogy conditions even further

Fear of being sued is reduced:MUST prove financial harm$5K limit on fines for non-commercial

infringements

Technological

Protection

Measures

Canadian DMCA in Action: Court Awards Massive Damages in First Major Anti-Circumvention Copyright Ruling -- Michael Geist

Nintendo vs Go Cyber Shopping

access control TPMs do not need to employ any barrier to copying in order to be “effective”digital lock rules create legal rights to limit access even without any actual copying.

$20,000 max. per infringement: $11.7 million.  + $1 million in punitive damages.

Canada has one of the most restrictive and potentially punitive digital lock rules in the world

It's fascinating that we live in a society where openness and sharing can actually be considered crimes. - Stephen Downes

The restriction of the commons by patents, copyright, and databases [right] is not in the interests of society and unduly hampers scientific endeavour.

Papal Encyclical“On the part of rich countries there is excessive zeal for protecting knowledge through an unduly rigid assertion of the right to intellectual property . . .”

- Pope Benedict XVI

Papal Encyclical“On the part of rich countries there is excessive zeal for protecting knowledge through an unduly rigid assertion of the right to intellectual property . . .”

- Pope Benedict XVI

God is on our side

rory@athabascau.ca