This presentation covers key terms in open education for a workshop "Open Education for Collaboration, Flexibility, and Global Visibility", which I gave at University of Nairobi on August 27, 2013. All of the materials for the workshop are available at http://openmi.ch/uon-aug2013.

1. Kathleen Ludewig Omollo
University of Michigan - Open.Michigan Initiative
Audience: University of Nairobi School of Public Health
Download slides: http://openmi.ch/uon-aug2013
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1
Key
Definitions
Open Education for Collaboration,
Flexibility, and Global Visibility

2. Terms to Define 2
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Follow along with handout:
http://www.slideshare.net/kludewig/uon-sph-oer-workshop-key-terms-handut

3. Open Access 3

4. “Free availability on the public Internet,
permitting any users to read, download, copy,
distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts
of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass
them as data to software, or use them for any
other lawful purpose, without financial, legal,
or technical barriers other than those
inseparable from gaining access to the Internet
itself.”
Budapest Open Access Initiative,
http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/
Open Access 4

5. Open Educational Resources 5

6. “teaching, learning and research materials in
any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in
the public domain or have been released under
an open license that permits no-cost access,
use, adaptation and redistribution by others
with no or limited restrictions”
UNESCO
More: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/What_is_OER%3F
Open Educational Resources /
Open CourseWare
6

7. Open and Distance Learning 7

8. Open and Distance Learning /
Open University
8
“approaches to learning that focus on freeing
learners from constraints of time and place… all or
most of the teaching is conducted by someone
geographically removed from the learner… open
admissions, and freedom of selection of what, when
and where to learn.”
UNESCO: http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-
URL_ID=22329&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

9. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) 9

10. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) 10
Image CC:BY Mathieu Plourde (Wikimedia

11. Open Source Software 11

12. “Open source doesn't just mean access to the
source code. The distribution terms of open-
source software must comply with the following
criteria:
Free Redistribution, Source Code, Derived
Works, Integrity of The Author's Source Code…
License Must Be Technology-Neutral…
Open Source Initiative, http://opensource.org/osd
Open Source Software 12

13. Open Content 13

14. Any content that is:
1.Free to access
1.Publicly available
2.Shared under some licenses to use, adapt,
redistribute
Open Content 14

15. Open Licenses 15

16. CC BY U-M. Full poster at http://open.umich.edu/sites/default/files/howto-create-share-connect-poster.pdf
Open Licenses 16

17. 17
Open Practices 17

18. • “using the content, tools and
processes shared with us;
• enabling others to use, share
and adapt what we create;
and
• supporting transparency in our
content, tools and processes”
School of Open,
Peer to Peer University
Image CC:BY-SA
opensourceway (Flickr)
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Open Practices 18

19. Open Innovation 19

20. Open Innovation 20
“a way of companies doing innovation and
research and development, where they make
much greater use of external technologies in
their own business, and in turn, let their unused
ideas be used by others in their business.”
Henry Chesbrough

21. Open Data 21

22. Open Data 22
"Open data is the idea that certain data should
be freely available to everyone to use and
republish as they wish, without restrictions from
copyright, patents or other mechanisms of
control." –Wikipedia
“Open data is both raw and processed
information.” – School of Open

23. Open Government 23

24. Open Government 24
“data or information produced or commissioned
by government or government controlled
entities… that is that is free for anyone to use,
re-use and re-distribute”
http://opengovernmentdata.org/about/.

25. Open Policy 25

26. Open Policy 26
Publicly funded materials should be publicly
available and openly licensed.

27. Open Education 27

28. Open Education / Open Learning 28
“The fundamental design of Open Education
intends to produce a threefold educational
experience that combines learning/research,
communication and collaboration, and the
ability to share findings with a specific
population.”
Wikipedia

29. Summary 29
Open can mean different things based on the
context. It may be mean reducing barriers to
some or all of the following:
•Access
•Duplication
•Adaptation
•Participation
Image CC:BY-SA Colleen Simon
(Flickr)

30. Questions? 30

31. Attribution Key
for more information see: http://open.umich.edu/wiki/AttributionPolicy
Use + Share + Adapt
Make Your Own Assessment
Creative Commons – Attribution License
Creative Commons – Attribution Share Alike License
Creative Commons – Attribution Noncommercial License
Creative Commons – Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike License
GNU – Free Documentation License
Creative Commons – Zero Waiver
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