Speakers: Jane Park, Simeon Oriko (School of Open Kenya), Delia Browne (Copyright 4 Educators, National Copyright Unit of Australia), Maarten Zeinstra (Open GLAM, CC Netherlands), Liuping (eXtreme Learning Challenge, CC China Mainland), Maria Juliana (Copyright for Librarians in Spanish, CC Colombia), SooHyun Pae (P2PU translation, CC Korea)
Description: The School of Open is a community of volunteers focused on providing free education opportunities on the meaning, application, and impact of “openness” in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and science. Creative Commons affiliates will present their School of Open projects and courses, including the School of Open Kenya Initiative, School of Open in German, Copyright for Educators, Open data for GLAMs, and more. We will hold a panel discussion on lessons learned and how to scale the initiative globally in online, offline, and multilingual settings. What do affiliates want to achieve through the School of Open? What are affiliate priorities around “open” education and awareness building?
1. Expanding the School of Open
Affiliate Showcase
21-24 August, 2013
Buenos Aires, Argentina
3. Open source software
Open access
Open culture
Open educational resources
Open content
Open data
Open science
Open research
Open licensing
Open textbooks
Open courseware
Open policy
6. Open resources can improve
access to and participation in
research, education, technology,
and culture…
But not enough people know
what “open” means or how to
apply it
11. Platform & Learning support Community coordination & Logisti
Volunteer Community of Individuals &
Organizations
12. Platform & Learning support Community coordination & Logistic
Volunteer Community of Individuals &
Organizations
16. To date:
11 facilitated courses
12 stand-alone courses
10 workshops in 5 countries
700 participants
30 active volunteers affiliated w/6 orgs
Base governance structures
17. To come:
3 rounds of facilitated courses a year
More stand-alone courses
More workshops
More volunteers
Courses part of institutions
Research on impact of courses
Experimental learning models
19. Projects
1. School of Open Kenya
2. Copyright 4 Educators (AUS)
3. Open GLAM Data (Netherlands)
4. German School of Open
5. CC China Mainland eXtreme
Learning Challenge
6. Copyright for Librarians Latin Am.
7. CC Korea P2PU translation
27. Supporting SOO Government Buy-in
• Helpful if champions know how government works
• Identify “internal champions” (if as 'ambassadors')
• Promote as enabling access to Universal Education
• Show how initiative fits policy objectives, targets
• Demonstrate unlocks hitherto subdued creativity
• Have supporting local activities and achievements
• Observe National Education Ministry protocols
• Seek high-level government launch support
• Sustained follow-up with government officials
• Seek collaboration with known OER institutions
• Participate at various education and ICT policy fora
29. National Copyright Unit
(NCU)
• Copyright 4 Educators (AUS) is run by the NCU
• The NCU is funded by the Commonwealth and the State and
Territory governments and sits within the NSW Department of
Education and Communities
• The Ministers’ Copyright Advisory Group (CAG), through the
NCU, is responsible for copyright policy and administration for
the Australian school and TAFE sector. This involves:
– Managing the obligations under the educational statutory
licenses
– Advocating for better copyright laws on the School and
TAFE sector’s behalf
– Educating the School and TAFE sector regarding their
copyright responsibilities
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Slides available at:
This work is licensed under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia License
(unless otherwise noted)
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/au/
http://www.slideshare.net/nationalcopyrightunit/
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Copyright 4 Educators (AUS)
• The fourth cycle of the course was run in March 2013
• Very high retention rate
• Very happy learners
• Great results in terms of the uptake and understanding
of the information
• The fifth cycle of the course is currently running
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Why was the course so
successful?
• Everything was set up for the students
• The course was incorporated into the NCU’s workload
• As the course was a part of our daily workload, we were able
to quickly and effectively respond to issues
• We based groups on geographic location and school sector
• The only assignment for Week 2 was to get to know your
group and choose an ICT tool
• A lot of teachers and librarians signed up together and
requested to be in a group together
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Why was the course so
successful?
• The course was associated with the NCU and the NCU is
very well known and respected around Australia
• Quick peer review and quick, positive facilitator feedback on
assignments
• More than one facilitator
• The course satisfies professional development requirements
of our learners
• Because the course was run by the NCU, many managers
and principals required or strongly encourages their
teachers, librarians, etc to take the course
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Online course Do’s & Don’ts
• Have everything set up for the learners
• Preempt as many issues as possible
• Associate an online course with a physical, reputable
entity
• Support your learners to the nth degree
• Don’t overload learners at the beginning of the course
• Don’t require them to form their own groups
• Don’t expect them to be ICT experts
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OER in our course
• We had one assignment dedicated solely to OER
• This required the students to first tell us what they knew about
OER as well as explain OER basics
• It also required them to find five OER resources
• Many students responded they were surprised at how easy it was
to find OER as well as with the quality of the resources
• This also gave the NCU a great list of resources to put up on our
website, distribute to teachers and spread OER through
presentations
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Positive feedback
• I found the course really useful. It gave me a deeper understanding of copyright
and the issues related to use of materials in school settings. I also enjoyed
'meeting' and getting to know and work with some new colleagues. Thanks for your
help and support Catherine and Rose and thank you Jessica and Delia for making
me think!
• Just want to give a big, public thumbs up to Group 13 who, after a rocky start with
no-shows, additions and withdrawals, finally got settled and worked so well together
coping with the extra workload and continuallychanging roster! Thanks to the teams
who gave us such positive feedback all the way through. We felt that the course
was really well-constructed and paced and each of us learned so much that we now
feel we can guide our colleagues, as teacher librarians seem to be the go-to people
for copyright issues in schools. Thanks Jessica and Delia for all the support and
feedback - it's critical to have such authoritative sources covering your back. Really
appreciated.
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Positive feedback
• I found both presenters to be very knowledgeable, approachable and supportive -
there is a forum available for each topic and each one of my curly questions was
answered promptly and professionally. If I had to recommend one professional
learning opportunity for you to undertake this year as a teacher librarian, this would
be it. The fact that it is free, does not involve travel or accommodation for those of
us not in a metropolitan area and can be done at a time which suits you but within a
manageable timeframe that is relatively easy to commit to are bonuses.
• Thanks Jessica and Delia for a well structured course that was supported by
constructive feedback each week. Thank you also to Group One's members, my
work colleagues. We worked very well together and also became proficient in using
Lync online meetings which we held twice a week to formulate our responses.
Thanks for your support, Kerry, Leita, Jan and Mirdula.
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For More Information
Copyright 4 Educators (AUS)
https://p2pu.org/en/courses/632/copyright-4-educators-aus/
Delia Browne
delia.browne@det.nsw.edu.au
(
Smartcopying Website
www.smartcopying.edu.au
44. eXtreme Learning Process
• A Peer-to-Peer Learning methodology
• A theoretical learning concept
• Aims to breakthrough traditional pedagogy ideals by
carrying out new models of education.
46. • Founded in year 2007
• Advocates “learn by playing”
• Dedicated as a research center
• A meeting point
Pro. Benjamin Koo Hsueh-Yung from
Tsinghua University
48. Feature 1: Dual-stage Design
You want to design the challenge, or want to take one?
CC Volunteers designed IP
rules for the course, educated
participants
about CC,
49. In the 1st XLP Event early 2013
CC China Mainland volunteers designed the IP rules for this
course, by integrating real-life IP law and regulations with the
scenarios of the course. In the copyright rules, students were
directed on how to claim their copyright in their slides, photos,
and business plans, as well as to effectively share their works
by using CC licenses.
52. Feature 4: Content-oriented
• Flexibility makes ‘university’
• A single learning workflow --- adapt to different themes and
contents
• Future process can be tailor to meet special needs
That’s the future university, the School of Open!
54. • Digital Nation: Starting from summer 2013, XLP events are
targeted at building a sustainable digital nation. The
summer events include ‘XLP Family International’, ‘Tsinghua
MEM Orientation’, and ‘Tsinghua International Summer
Program, LEGO2NANO’.
• Future Universities: an online-to-offline learning ecology,
composed of digital tools for content management, time
management, workflow management, and team
management. The goal is to connect the challengers from all
around the world to a shared timeline and resource library,
whether they are online or offline. This makes it possible for
all the learners to access as much learning resources as
possible.
71. Korean translation
• Started March 2013 as a pilot for Asia Pacific
• Courses in SOO vs. P2PU interface
• Group translation – for better translations and
more fun
• Via GitHub
• Currently in review of the first draft
75. Tips for translators
• Have someone familiar w/ GitHub and
someone who has experience in localization if
possible
• Be ready to translate without context – spend
more time on review
76. Questions to P2PU team
• Any reference file in excel format with
categories?
• Status - next release schedule
77. Report on the Workshop „Wikimedia meets
School of Open“, Berlin, March 2013
Goals:
- kick-off German as a new language for SoO
- produce new/translate existing courses
Idea:
Celebrate the official launch of the School of
Open in a productive way
78. Workshop Logistics
- Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) provided
venue and basic catering
- It was presented as a joint project, the
introduction to P2PU/SoO was done
together by WMDE and CC DE
- People were invited in a joint effort by CC
DE and WMDE; 9 attendees + facilitators
- Workshop scheduled from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
79. Outcomes
- 3 course stubs in German:
- follow-up plans to meet on a regular basis at
HIVE Berlin
- some new connections between key
persons in the community
• „Bilder auf Wikimedia Commons hochladen“
(Contribute to Wikimedia Commons)
• „Wie erstelle ich einen Kurs auf P2PU?“
(How to create a P2PU course)
• „Freie Lernmaterialien in der Schule - OER für Lehrkräfte“
(OER for Educators)
80. Lessons learned
- Personal invitations were the only
reliable way of reaching the right people,
mailing lists and blog announcements
didn't suffice
- individuals should be appointed as stewards
for a course, otherwise the work remains
unfinished
- half a day is NOT enough if people first
need an introduction to P2PU, its interface
and the general course concept
81. Questions
• What do affiliates want to achieve through SOO?
• What are affilates’ priorities around open ed
awareness building?
• What is the best way to address educational
resources in different languages and cultures?
• How should we advocate/educate about CC to other
people?
• How does SOO fit into the big picture, eg. Global OER
UNESCO movement
• How do you get a supportive community to continue to
build on an initial course?
83. Creative Commons and the double C in a circle are registered trademarks of
Creative Commons in the United States and other countries. Third party
marks and brands are the property of their respective holders.
Please attribute Creative Commons with a link to
creativecommons.org
Notas del editor
We realized that there are a lot of movements out there already around “open” – most of which were kicked off by the open source movement in software, this ethic around sharing and collaboration and free knowledge or access to information.
Of course there are subtle and not so subtle differences in how all of these movements define and advocate for “open”. Open as it applies to health data for example is very different as it might apply to classroom materials.
But we also recognized that these movements are more alike than they are different, and that much of the commonality has to do around these freedoms of being able to share and remix and redistribute materials and tools, all of which Creative Commons enables through its licenses.
Because we offer a variety of free education opportunities that includes online courses, but are not limited to online courses. Currently, our volunteers contribute in one of 3 ways:by promoting School of Open through workshops and events that give people hands-on experiences in teaching and learning about some aspect of openby building and running online courses on some aspect of openby designing and running in-person training programs teaching about open in collaboration with some entity, such as a school or institution
So I came on as a Project Manager to coordinate the School of Open one year ago (many of you know that before that I was working for Creative Commons in various other capacities; I’ve been with CC a very long time). But so essentially, in one year this is what we’ve achieved as a community:We officially launched the School in March this year with 17 online courses, 4 of which were facilitated. And we’re currently in the middle of a second round of facilitated courses.So to date we have run or are running a total of 11 facilitated courses, 13 other courses which are not facilitated by stand-alone, which means anyone is free to work through them at their own pace;We’ve run at least 10 workshops in 5 countries since we beganAnd the approximate total participants in all of our online courses and workshops is 700We have 30 or so active volunteers – people who have built courses or run workshops as part of the School, and they are affiliated with at least 6 organizations or institutionsAnd also, we have some basic governance structures which guide how the School of Open itself is governed as an open community project
Here’s what we foresee to come:* Next year, we want to be able to run 3 regular rounds of facilitate courses spread throughout the yearMore stand-alone courses as demand requires for different audiences More workshops at various eventsMore volunteers – maybe we won’t increase the total number of active volunteers, but because volunteers cycle in and out, we always need to new volunteersWe want to look into getting certain course required as part of professional development training or academic programs – because we’ve found that more people participate if it’s required or recommended by their org or institutionWe are doing some preliminary research on course participants to see if their attitudes towards open change after they take a School of Open courseAnd with P2PU, we will explore and implement experimental learning models, such as badges for recognitionOh and one very important thing that Is not up here is that we will seek funding for the School as a whole, so that we can host things like meetings for volunteers to get together to create and run more courses and workshops
And there are probably additional ways that volunteers will contribute to the School that we haven’t envisioned yet.So that’s the School of Open in a nutshell. Now I want to give our volunteers a chance to talk about their School of Open projects that they are running in their regions, starting with Simeon who is one of the leaders behind the School of Open in Kenya.