OER (Open Education Resources) – an overview with Cable Green (CCK11)

Guest Speaker:

Cable Green – http://www.educause.edu/Community/MemDir/Profiles/CableGreen/42658
Director of eLearning & Open Education

Discussion of Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges

http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu/

http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/general/a_strategictechplan.aspx – Strategic Technology Plan – faculties in higher institutions will begin to share all information and those that do will survive.

http://opencourselibrary.org/  or http://www.sbctc.edu/college/_e-elearningopencourselibrary.aspx Sharing and building quality, educational materials so more people can access and succeed in higher education.
 – Working with textbook companies to help include information.  Faculty are unwilling to give up on quality and the textbook companies have the better quality information.  (perhaps the right searching tools and techniques are not available).
– Washington State will be getting this material “with or without the textbook companies, but would rather do it with the them”.
-No longer standing by $100+ textbooks.  Must be cheaper and affordable.  When public funds are used to produce (something) it should have an open license on it. CC by licence ideally.

Another goal:
Taking 34+ colleges (institutions) from the thinking that “it’s mine” to “proudly borrowed from there”.

Common Cartridge: http://www.imsglobal.org/commoncartridge.html – from Global Learning Consortium

Open Licensing on Competive Grants http://www.sbctc.edu/general/admin/Tab_9_Open_Licensing_Policy.pdf
 “All digital software, education resources and knowledge produced through competitive grants, offered through and/or managed by the SBCTC, will carry a Creative Commons Attribution License.”

Moderator (Stephen Downes): Either LGP-L or BSD license – allows open sourcing, allows commercial development

(benefits example – you share, someone else takes, modifies, improves upon, reshares)

LeahGrrl 1: “Survivors develop agendas for change while things are in flux.” (Internet Time Alliance)
http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources – http://oerconsortium.org/
 
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Open Discussion:
 
MIT OpenCourseWare Turns 10: What’s Next for Open Education?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mit_opencourseware_turns_10_celebrating_a_decade_o.php
 
Quality OERs units + PLEs + Internet + Assessment + Accreditation = new educational models / opportunities
 
Example in US:
Higher Education = $10 Billion (from students, students get it from federal $, state $, cash, debt)
 
Text books in school tend to be 5-6 years old. 
 
Open license – with $10B for K-20 will cover:

• 150 highest enrolled courses in higher ed (BAs, BSc, etc)
• open textbooks – instructional materials
• open course ware
• K-12 (8 subjects each grade)
• open textbooks & materials
• open course ware

We need

• Quality
• CC BY
• C – fed, states
• RFP

Example: English 101 – 50000 students

Recommend checking out the recording of this webinar if you get the chance.  It’s extremely interesting the position Washington State has taken on OERs.