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Una Daly, OpenCourseWare ConsortiumJohn Gonder, Las Positas College
Mid-Pacific ICT 2014 Conference
Opening Up ICT Education: Open Source, Open Textbooks, Open Courses, and Open Access Journals
Las Positas College
Welcome
Una DalyDirector, Community College Outreach
OCW Consortium
John GonderDirector, Cisco Networking Academy
Las Positas College
Agenda
• Introductions
• Community College Consortium
• Open Source to Open Access Movement
• Free and Open Resources in Classroom
• Applications • Questions & Answers
OpenCourseWare Consortium (founded by MIT in 2002)
“Advance formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of
free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.”
280 institutions in 46 Countries
• Promote adoption of OER to enhance teaching and learning
– Expand access to education– Support professional development– Advance community college mission
CCCOER Mission
Funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
240+ Colleges in 15 States & Provinces
Higher Education Context
• Textbook costs increased 82% in last decade.
• Student debt exceeds $1 trillion (2013)• Average student debt upon graduation is
$27,000
Image: Student Loan, Wikipedia
Educational Openness
– Expand
Adapted from Paul Stacey, CC-BY 2013, UCT Pedagogy of MOOCs
Open Access
Open Source Software
Open Source
Adapted from Paul Stacey, CC-BY 2013, OER, Open Textbooks, & MOOCs
OER are teaching, learning, and research resources Reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license (creative commons) that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
Includes full courses and supplemental resources such as textbooks, images, videos, animations, simulations, assessments with licensed that allow:
• Reuse• Revise• Remix• Redistribute
Open Education Resources
Adapted from Paul Stacey, CC-BY 2013, OER, Open Textbooks, & MOOCs
$2 billion funding over four yearsAll materials licensed for re-use (cc-by)
TAACCCT Grants
Adapted from Cable Green, CC-BY 3.0 2013, the Obviousness of Open
• Work-College Bridge• Health• Information Technology• Manufacturing• Energy• Transportation
Open ICT Courses
Open ICT Textbooks
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Open AccessFree, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, webwide.
Two Approaches: 1. Author’s institution pays fee for refereeing/publishing outgoing articles instead of charging the or by simply making online edition free for all.
2. Authors provide open access to their own published articles, by making eprints free for all.
Adapted from Paul Stacey, CC-BY 2013, OER, Open Textbooks, & MOOCs
Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research
• White House Directive (2013)
Federal agencies with $100M in R&D expenditures must make results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication
• California State AB 609 Open Access progresses to Senate 2014.
IEEE Open Access Journals• Fully Open Access & Hybrids
– Both are fully peer-reviewed– OA includes Emerging Topics in Computing
• Wireless, mobile, socio-technical special issues
• IEEE Access– Multidisciplinary open access mega journal– Rapid decision, author pays
“IEEE peer-reviewed journals receive more than three times the number of patent citations of
competing publishers.*
ACM Open Access
• Options for Rights Management– Author may choose traditional copyright or may pay for
open access option.
• Open Access at SIG Conferences Option – SIGs will have the option to make the proceedings from
their conferences freely available via the ACM DL
• Many free career resources for students
• Textbooks available to ACM members– Student membership $20.00 annually
Obviousness of “Open”
• Cooperation & Sharing is a win-win– Faculty have more choices– Can improve upon open resources
• Affordability– Students cannot afford textbooks.
• Self-interest– Good things can happen when I share …
• Social Justice Issue– Access to publicly funded research & digital resources
Adapted from Cable Green, CC-BY 3.0 2013, the Obviousness of Open
Image: Gary Simmons cc-by-nc
John Gonder’s ICT Classroom• Improving teaching and learning with
– Open Source software– free and low-cost apps – free and low-cost textbooks and
instructional materials.– ACM student memberships
http://tinyurl.com/2014MPICTjohn gonder (las positas college)twitter @packetlevel, email jgonder at mac.com
Thank you for coming!!
• Questions?
• Contact Info:Una Daly, [email protected]
John Gonder, [email protected]
Las Positas College
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