A discussion of the open educational possibilities using OJS for student journals and classroom journals.

1. Open Content,
Experiential Learning, and
Online Community-Building:
The Continuing Contribution of
Open Journal Systems to Open
Education
Kevin Stranack
Open Education 2011
October 27, 2011

2.  Open Source Community
Coordinator
 Librarian
 Graduate Student in Adult
Education

3. Open Journal Systems

4. Open
Source

5. How the community
broadened me from open
access to open education

6. Online, Peer-Reviewed, Open

7. Register

8. Submit

9. Receive

10. Communicate

11. • Review slide
Review

12. Decide

13. • Editing slide
Edit

14. • Publish slide
Publish

15. 10,000 OJS installations
around the world

16.  active open source community
 30+ translations
 48% in developing countries
 covers all subject areas
 rise of the scholar-publisher
 strong uptake by academic libraries
 lots of open content generated

17. Traditional Journals

18. Archived Journals

19. Proceedings

20. Books

21. Student Journals

22. Graduate Student Journals

26. Open
writing in public, learning in
public

27. Experiential
learning about the publishing
process by actively
participating in it

28. Collaborative
working with others through
peer review to improve their
research and writing

29. Self-Directed
students decide to do this
themselves

30. Connective
helps to build an online
community of peers

31. Undergraduate Journals

32. High School Journals

33. Open,
Experiential,
Collaborative,
Connective,
and...

34. Information Literate
building their information
literacy skills by actively
engaging in the peer review
process

35. Libraries

36. Library Publishing Services

39. Research Commons

40. Opportunity for libraries to become a
partner in learning that is…
 Open,
 Experiential,
 Collaborative,
 Self-Directed,
 Connective,
 and Information Literate

41. Course Journals

42. Students submit as authors
Students review each other’s work
Instructor acts as the editor
Best papers are published

43.  Open,
 Experiential,
 Collaborative,
 Connective,
 Information Literate

44. Plagiarism?

45.  161,800 downloads
 16 student articles have been
downloaded > 2500 times
 68 articles over 1000 times

46. Libraries, again
 Talk this up with faculty
 Provide technical support to
instructors
 Link students’ immediate course
experience with the wider world of
scholarly publishing
 Help students apply the lessons
learned to other courses

47. Find out more
 Web Site – http://pkp.sfu.ca
 Support Forum –
http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/
 Email – kstranac@sfu.ca
 Twitter – @stranack

48. Image Credits
http://www.everystockphoto.com/
http://www.istockphoto.com/