Wednesday, September 27, 2006

7:00 am-4:00 pm

Registration

7:00-8:00 am

8:00-8:30 am
216 ECC

Welcome and eduCommons 2.1.0 Launch
David Wiley, COSL/Utah State University

What is Commercial Use?
Mia Garlick, Creative Commons

Video (226.6 MB, MOV*)

As General Counsel for Creative Commons, Mia oversees implementation of the domestic and international legal strategy for Creative Commons and advises on ongoing legal issues that arise in relation to Creative Commons licenses and activities. In this Keynote address, Mia will address the question, "What is commercial use?" in the context of the Creative Commons Non-commercial license option.

eduCommons: Lessons from the Field
John Dehlin, COSL/Utah State University

Video (202.9 MB, MOV*)

In this open discussion we will bring together current eduCommons adopters, along with potential adopters, to discuss the benefits, challenges, and opportunities of using eduCommons to manage your OpenCourseWare project. We will also demo some of the new features of eduCommons 2.1.0, and discuss the future direction of eduCommons.

Open Educational Resources Portal: Enhancing Open Educational Resources Through Community Engagement
Amee Godwin & Lisa Petrides, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)

Presentation (536 KB, PPT) :: Audio (19.5 MB, MP3*)

This session presents the soon-to-be released Open Educational Resources (OER) Portal. By generating feedback specifically on nascent OER Portal features including community, content re-use, and personalization, this session will support efforts to create a sustainable infrastructure for the portal and for open content in general.

The Role of Evaluation in (Re)-Using Open Education Science Resources
Flora McMartin, Sarah Giersch, & Glenda Morgan, Broad Based Knowledge

Presentation (944 KB, PPT) :: Audio (18.3 MB, MP3*)

Panelists in this session will focus on the role of evaluation in the use and dissemination of open education resources, drawing on their experiences evaluating projects such as the National Science Digital Library, MERLOT and COSL. The panelists will focus on how to evaluate content, community and collaboration.

Crossing International Borders: Cultural, Contractual and Technical Challenges
Larry Cooperman, University of California, Irvine

This paper describes the process by which learning content passes between international partners. It examines agreements between the University of California Distance Learning Center (DLC) and higher education institutions in Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil and shows how delivery of content was mediated by technical, cultural, and contractual challenges.

Intellectual Property in Open Educational Resources
Lindsey Weeramuni & Steve Carson, MIT OpenCourseWare

Presentation (10.6 MB, PPT) :: Audio (20.8 MB, MP3*)

Inclusion of third party content in OER projects is vital to increasing the volume of raw materials available for reuse and remix. It is possible to develop approaches that change dealing with third party content in open publication from a major concern to a routine part of the process.

What Makes an Open Education Program Sustainable? The Case of Connexions
Richard Baraniuk, Paul Dholakia, & Joey King, Rice University

Presentation (2.2 MB, PDF) :: Audio (22.3 MB, MP3*)

A critical issue facing all open education projects at present is the challenge of planning for and ensuring their sustainability, or long-term viability and stability. Our objective is to focus on this overlooked yet crucial question in the open education arena and explore issues of sustainability in depth.

Open Educational Resources in Europe: A Triptych of Actions to Support Participation in Higher Education
Paul Kirschner, Keep Jan van Dorp, Andrew Lane, & Peter Varwijk, Open Universiteit Nederland

Kirschner 1 (1.1 MB, PPT), Kirschner 2 (528 KB, PPT), Lane (1.1 MB, PPT), Van Dorp 1 (1.1 MB, PPT) :: Video (MB, MOV*)

Distance teaching universities have a history of offering pedagogically rich course-materials, targeting especially those individuals either not served by traditional universities (earning and learning, retraining, enrichment), have not entered into higher education because of multiple deprivations, or have prematurely dropped out and are opting for a second chance.

OCW's Impact: The Users' Perspective
Dawn Terkla & Lisa O'Leary, Tufts University

Presentation (5.7 MB, PPT)

When Tufts OpenCourseWare was launched in 2005, Tufts aim was "to share its expertise broadly and to empower others throughout the world, so they may reach their full potential" (Bacow, 2005). This presentation will describe the social and cultural impact that Tufts OCW initiative has had on its user community.

DIVA: Lessons in Open Systems from the Grass Roots to Beyond
Andrew Roderick, Chris Bettinger, & Daniel Koepke, San Francisco State University

This presentation explores lessons learned during the transition process of an open education initiative with grass roots origins to a large-scale, multi-campus operation. The Digital Information Virtual Archive (DIVA) provides examples of how operations embedded in localized settings can improve adoption and success.

Open Educational Resources: Opportunities and Challenges
Jan Hylen, OECD

Presentation (286 KB, PPT) :: Video (93.2 MB, MOVVideo (202.9 MB, MOV*)

The paper will present preliminary findings from a OECD/CERI study on OER. Results from surveys, case studies and expert papers will be presented illuminating why institutions and individuals are involved in the use and production of OER and how they deal with issues such as long-term sustainability and licenses.

Enhancing Youth-Managed Resource Centers in Nepal
Tiffany Ivins & Jeffrey Lee, World Education

Presentation (7.5 MB, PPT)

Nepalese youth trained as community facilitators are mobilizing rural people by increasing their access to open educational resources, tools, and software. These tools augment understanding of relevant topics for village development; materials are customized to local culture across a continuum of themes, including: health, agriculture, income generation, and literacy.

The Challenges, Frustrations and Triumphs of Remixing an Open Source Engine for Educational Games
Tim Stowell & Brett Shelton, Utah State University

Presentation (3.8 MB, PPT) :: Audio (18.3 MB, MP3*)

This presentation will follow one group's progress of taking a recently released open source and highly successful commercial game engine (Quake 3), modifying it using a number of techniques and resources, and developing an educational game with the goal of teaching a work of classic American poetry.

Hike in Logan Canyon

Join us for a hike in beautiful Logan Canyon. The hike will be at 6,000 feet in elevation. Hikers should bring a jacket and water. Hikers will be transported directly to dinner at the conclusion of the hike.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

7:00 am-4:00 pm

Registration

7:00-8:00 am

8:00-8:30 am
216 ECC

myOCW Preview
Steve Carson, OCW Consortium

To support OCW and OER users, the OCW Consortium is developing an educational networking site called myOCW. myOCW supports blogs, favorite links lists and file storage for both individuals and groups, and integrates information from other web tools via RSS feeds. myOCW will be publicly available in early 2007.

The Perpetual Education Fund
Rex Allen, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

"Education is the key to opportunity" (Hinkley, 2001). The Perpetual Education Fund offers loans to students in developing nations so they can get an education, get a better job and better serve their family, their Church, and their community. But it is more than just a loan. It involves a process that helps students to dream­-to see their potential and the resources around them. It teaches students to plan-to choose a great career, select an appropriate education, find work, and organize their finances so students can achieve their dreams.

The Day the Internet Exploded in My Face
Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT OCW

Presentation (2.4 MB, PPT) :: Video (283.8 MB, MOV*)

The Visualizing Cultures course site on MIT's OCW was voluntarily shut down due to a cyber-onslaught of hostile messages from the Chinese community worldwide, triggered by images depicting Japanese atrocities during the Sino-Japanese War. This talk will trace these events and describe how the site was restored intact.

Mellon-funded Open Source Projects for Higher Education
Chris Mackie, Mellon Foundation

By their natures, OER initiatives require substantial financial sponsorship. In this session, Chris Mackie, an officer with the Program in Research in Information Technology (RIT) of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will lead a discussion of Mellon's/RIT's approach to the funding of open technology and open content projects, as well as funding priorities going forward.

Creating an Intellectual Commons for Geoscience Education
Sean Fox & Cathryn Manduca, Carleton College

Presentation (2.2 MB, PPT) :: Audio (21.3 MB, MP3*)

Teach the Earth creates a web of resources for geoscience faculty from the work of multiple NSF funded projects. By emphasizing connections among the resources, discovery is integrated with faculty use of Google to find materials and places these resources in a context that emphasizes best practice in remixing. The result is a rapidly growing site used by approximately 1/4 of geoscience faculty.

Reflections of an International Community of Interest on OER
Susan D'Antoni, UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Created by UNESCO/IIEP over the period 2005/2006, an international Community of Interest on Open Educational Resources of 550 members from 95 countries has been discussing examples of OER development and use, and exploring and debating key issues. This Community has a number of reflections to share.

Sustainability and the Culture of Teaching: Starting them Young
Terri Bays, University of Notre Dame

Presentation (932 KB, PPT) :: Audio (18.6 MB, MP3*)

This paper explores the benefits of two innovations to OpenCourseWare course production by field-specific graduate students and workshops for advanced undergraduates' translation of OCW courses. Both seek to enhance the culture of teaching, not only among the faculty, but also among graduate and undergraduate students as future faculty.

China Open Resources for Education Upadate
Fun-Den Wang, CORE

OER This presentation will provide an update on China Open Resources for Education activities.

DIY Educators Gone Wild: Where are the Instructional Mash-Ups?
Brian Lamb, University of British Columbia

What are mash-ups? Where did they come from? Are mash-ups changing how we work the web? Is narrative disintegrating before our eyes? Can educators learn to let go and love the remix? Can universities open up their API's? How many copyright violations can be jammed into one presentation?

Kyoto University OpenCourseWare as an Associative Intellectual Portal Site
Naoko Tosa & Michihiko Minohr, Kyoto University

Presentation (21.8 MB, PPT) :: Audio ( 17.1 MB, MP3*)

It is the purpose of Kyoto University OCW to expand own inspiration interestedly and pleasantly and portal site which gives us mental motivation. The final target of this study is to lead to the concept of "corporative knowledge -- cultural forming".

Considerations in Open Publishing Formats: A Panel Discussion
Richard Baraniuk & Joey King, Rice University, Cec d'Oliveira & Steve Carson, MIT OpenCourseWare

Presentation (1.6 MB, PDF) :: Presentation (11.3 MB, PPT) :: Audio (22.3 MB, MP3*)

Rice Connexions and MIT OpenCourseWare are two successful OER projects, but projects using different methods and technologies. In this panel discussion, staff from both projects will explore how the different goals of each project lead to different decisions regarding the formats of open materials they publish.

Opencourseware Localization: Lessons Learned in the Chinese Context
Meng-Fen Grace Lin, University of Houston

This presentation introduces Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS), an innovative model that utilizes volunteers to undergo a localization mission to translate and adapt OCW materials into the Great China Region. However, a swarm of challenges lurks behind OOPS' promising possibilities. These challenges include translation quality, access to copyrighted materials, and intra-cultural differences in Chinese.

The Sakai-OCW-eduCommons Project
Joseph Hardin, University of Michigan

Presentation (14 MB, PPT) :: Audio (13.5 MB, MP3*)

The diverse educational resources, the localized courses and objects created during learning activities in our major institutions around the world, can become a rich set of resources and complete courses for open learning, as MIT OCW has shown, but only if we can free them easily, quickly and inexpensively from their original, restricted, institutional online systems. This is the goal of the Sakai-OCW-eduCommons work.

A Dialogue on OER and Social Authoring Models
Ruth Rominger & Paul Stacey, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education

Presentation (1.9 MB, PPT) :: Audio (19.8 MB, MP3*)

This session will be a dialogue between the presenters and the audience on a set of criteria and key decisions relevant to all OER models, and a social authoring model for collaborative course content development in a distributed network of authors. Presenters will share project experiences and data to date.

Taking the Tools to the Content: Learner Support for OER
David Wiley, Shelley Henson, Justin Ball, COSL/Utah State University

COSL is designing a set of small, synergistic tools designed specifically to advance the state of the art in supporting end users' abilities to find educational resources, reuse educational resources, and close the feedback loop between end users and content authors.

Community Education OpenCourseWare
Rogelio Morales & Ivan Saavedra, OCW Consortium

Presentation (114 KB, PPT) :: Audio (14.7 MB, MP3*)

Based on the Educational Material CE-OCW, this project intends to spread the word about results and research projects with high impact that improve social development. The project presents content with an easy to understand academic level, and is intended to be easy for someone who has not finished high school or primary school.

Open Learning Environments: Building an International Team to Distribute Development & Provide Instructional Support
Jacques du Plessis, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Presentation (360 KB, PDF) :: Audio (22.4 MB, MP3*)

Reuse/Remix This foreign language open learning project demonstrates how to pool global expertise. International participation ensures authentic and current contributions, live interactivity in feedback and support, and development of a sharing community around language and culture. This development distributes ownership to shape the vision to learn a foreign language online.

Friday, September 29, 2006

7:00 am-3:00 pm

Registration

7:00-8:00 am

8:00-8:30 am
216 ECC

Closing Remarks
David Wiley, COSL/Utah State University

The Technology of Open Education
Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Presentation (6.3 MB, PPT) :: Video (595.5 MB, MOV*)

Erik Duval is a professor in the research unit on hypermedia and databases at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He serves as president of the ARIADNE Foundation, technical editor for the IEEE standard on Learning Object Metadata, and coordinator of the work on learning objects, metadata and interoperability within the ProLearn Network of Excellence. In this Keynote address Erik will discuss the technology of open education.

Using Folksonomies to Add Instructional Value to Field Science Data
Eric Kansa & Sarah Kansa, Alexandria Archive Institute

Presentation (11 MB, PDF) :: Video (MB, MOV*)

Primary field science data can have significant value for instruction. However, getting such complex and varied content into a meaningful and easy to use framework represents a tremendous challenge. This paper discusses adapting "Web 2.0" ideas for cost-effective sharing, value-added use, and instructional remixing of field science data.

Hitting the Trifecta: A Professional Development Model for Creating, Using and Disseminating Open Education Resources
Sarah Giersch, Andy Walker, Mimi Recker, & Rena Janke, National Science Digital Library

Giersch (937 KB, PPT) :: Walker (5.7 MB, PPT) :: Walker Audio (14 MB, MP3*)

This session presents a teacher professional development model developed by the Digital Libraries go to School project. Presenters will discuss the curriculum, which utilizes the Instructional Architect and the National Science Digital Library. Presenters will share preliminary data, lessons learned, and discuss future work including evaluation and scaling.

Open Content in Education: The Instructor Benefits of MIT OpenCourseWare
Preston Parker, Utah State University

Presentation (149 KB, PPT) :: Audio (21 MB, MP3*)

The current "closed content" understanding of Intellectual Property is being challenged in educational arenas where a freedom to exchange ideas and content is viewed as beneficial. This qualitative case study analyzes benefits that come to instructors who contribute their content to MIT OpenCourseWare, thereby employing an "open content" understanding.

Tools for Creating Open Content: CMS4OCW and CMS4ROCKL. When Teachers Want to Share.
Pedro Pernias & Manuel Marco Such, Universidad Alicante

CMS4OCW (Content Management System for Open Course Ware) and CMS4ROCLK (Content Management System for Reusable Open Content for Knowledge and Learning) are tools developed to support the OpenCourseware philosophy for Higher Education Organizations or teachers or collectives of teachers who wants to share their educational proposals.

When Teachers Reuse and Remix Interactive Online Resources
Joel Duffin, Utah State University

Presentation (103 KB, PPT) :: Audio (20.7 MB, MP3*)

The eNLVM makes it possible for teachers to easily reuse and remix interactive online math resources including applets, activities, lessons, and assessments. This session reports research on resource reuse and remix by teachers registered to use the eNLVM. Teacher profiles will be described and explanations will be given.

Defining the Process of Localizing Open Content Math Resources for Tonga
Joanne Bentley, Utah State University

Presentation (373 KB, PPT) :: Audio (19.7 MB, MP3*)

In the past, localizing US content for an international audience has focused on translation and superficial cultural adaptations. We will look at the instructional design process engaged in for localizing open-content high school math resources to bridge the gap between the PSSC exam in Tonga and a university-entrance math exam.

Remixing Higher Education-The Open Content University
Jason Cole, Open University

Presentation (2.1 MB, PPT) :: Video (212.8 MB, MOV*)

This session will discuss potential new organizational forms for educational institutions made possible by the combination of open content and open source software. Building on ideas ranging from Buckminster Fuller to Web 2.0, we can trace a possible future for higher education.

Support Services for OCW and Other OERs in Japanese National Gateway
Tsuneo Yamada & Yasutaka Shimizu, National Institute of Multimedia Education

Presentation (1.4 MB, PPT) :: Audio (8.2 MB, MP3*)

In the spring of 2006, NIME joined the Japan OpenCourseWare Consortium as an affiliate member. NIME started metadata tagging services for the member institutions and accumulated 447 JOCW metadata (as of 30th June, 2006). In addition, through its gateway service (called "NIME-glad"), NIME provides federated search function to domestic/overseas users.

Open Source 3D Simulations in Science and Engineering Education
John Belcher, MIT

Presentation (12 MB, PPT) :: Audio (18.2 MB, MP3*)

3D simulations in science and engineering can convey an unparalleled feel for physical phenomena. Is it possible to create a world wide community of open source developers for such content? We suggest a model for such a community centered at research universities interested in open education.

A Research Agenda for Open Educational Resources: Summary and Highlights of an On-line Forum
Kim Tucker, CISR/Meraka Institute

Presentation (683 KB, PPT)

The International Institute for Educational Planning on-line discussion was initiated by asking subscribers to pose top priority research questions for OER. The one hundred plus questions generated were classified into 12 categories and formed the basis for discussion which covered existing OER initiatives, current levels of use, collaborative authoring, technology, learning from other "open" initiatives, quality assurance, dissemination and access (in the broad sense). The presentation covers selected topics which may inspire debate and sow the seeds of global action.

Open Kitchen: A Learning Objects Repository for Teachers by Teachers
Fulya Sari, Bogazici University

Presentation (7.5 MB, PPT) :: Audio (20 MB, MP3*)

An R&D project examining the relationship between learning object characteristics and teachers' use and reuse. Objects will be classified using teacher-relevant metadata such as learning process intended, use environment, etc., by teachers in addition to authoritative metadata. Software will also help teachers create materials and provide reuse feedback into the repository.

Extending Community Engagement for Open Content Re-use
Tom Carey & Gerry Hanley, California State University

Presentation (3.3 MB, PPT) :: Audio (22.7 MB, MP3*)

Growing availability of open resources has not produced widespread re-use in traditional higher education. MERLOT has initiated pilot studies extending our repository of teaching expertise to better support re-use, enhancing contributions from resource authors, reviewers, re-users, teaching communities sharing goals and challenges, and faculty development offices.

Closing Party at Brandon's House

Please join us for a fun way to end OpenEd 2006.