OER on the web - a call to action

Reality Check


Enlightenment

  • Let us embrace freedom, openness, and decentralization in the context of OER as role model for our digital society!

    1. We find OER with ordinary search engines on the web.

      A future where enlightenment empowers students

      “A future where enlightenment empowers students” ; from GitLab. Generated with DALL-E. No copyright, no restrictions.

    2. We teach and learn with OER without being subjected to surveillance capitalism.
    3. We educate and empower to collaborate on OER with free/libre and open source software.
    4. We maintain OER in a global society with the capabilities offered by industrial-strength decentralized version control systems such as Git.
    5. We benefit from learning analytics under truly informed consent.

OER on the Web

  • Find and use OER on the web
    • Rely on search engines and browsers
      • Platform-independent use, also mobile and offline
    • OER with chat, annotation, social presence
  • Publish outside LMS silos and outside surveillance capitalism!

Search result for OER with [[https://metager.de/][metaGer]]

“Search result for OER with metaGer” under CC0 1.0; from GitLab


Legalese, Licensing, Collaboration

  • Teach and learn with OER outside surveillance capitalism

    A brain breaking free from surveillance on the internet

    “A brain breaking free from surveillance on the internet” ; from GitLab. Generated with DALL-E. No copyright, no restrictions.

  • Publish without invasive tracking
    • Benefig from learning analytics under truly informed consent
      • What do instructors need to know why? What learners?
      • Let’s build that!
  • Empower to collaborate (on OER) with free/libre and open source software
    • Strategically (money!) build infrastructure (software, hardware, cloud, AI)
      • Maintain OER as global society
      • With capabilities of decentralized version control, e.g., Git
        • Teach version control along with digital writing
        • With ensuing discussions of communication, collaboration, organization, ownership, trust

Conclusions


Reality Check Revisited


Reality Check Revisited

  • Open Educational Resources (OER), characterized by 5 Rs of openness (4 Rs in [HWSJ10])
    • Permissions to retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute
  • Suppose that after this conference you aim to remix a presentation

    • Where do you find it?

      Transparency

      “Transparency” by Wichai Wi under CC BY 3.0 US; cropped from the Noun Project

      • On the decentralized web, with source material in Git
      • Under our control

    • What source format do you obtain?

      mistake

      “mistake” by Kamin Ginkaew under CC BY 3.0 US; cropped from the Noun Project

      • PDF, Powerpoint, and video with various issues
      • Contents bound to organization-specific layout

    • What to do with revised contents?

      Conflict

      “Conflict” by lastspark under CC BY 3.0 US; cropped from the Noun Project

      • Do you notify the author? Do you collaborate? How?
      • How and where do you redistribute?

Reality Check Revisited

  • Open Educational Resources (OER), characterized by 5 Rs of openness (4 Rs in [HWSJ10])
    • Permissions to retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute
  • Suppose that after this conference you aim to remix a presentation

    • Where do you find it?

      Transparency

      “Transparency” by Wichai Wi under CC BY 3.0 US; cropped from the Noun Project

      • On the decentralized web, with source material in Git
      • Under our control

    • What source format do you obtain?

      infrastructure

      “infrastructure” by Nithinan Tatah under CC BY 3.0 US; cropped from the Noun Project

      • Exchange lightweight markup, editable with any software, rendered into HTML
      • For platform-independent consumption, including offline and mobile

    • What to do with revised contents?

      Conflict

      “Conflict” by lastspark under CC BY 3.0 US; cropped from the Noun Project

      • Do you notify the author? Do you collaborate? How?
      • How and where do you redistribute?

Reality Check Revisited

  • Open Educational Resources (OER), characterized by 5 Rs of openness (4 Rs in [HWSJ10])
    • Permissions to retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute
  • Suppose that after this conference you aim to remix a presentation

Reality Check Revisited

  • Open Educational Resources (OER), characterized by 5 Rs of openness (4 Rs in [HWSJ10])
    • Permissions to retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute

  • Suppose that after this conference you aim to remix a presentation

    See [Lec19b],[Lec19c] for some details on my approach.


 

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Dr. Jens Lechtenbörger

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Bibliography

  • [HWSJ10] Hilton, Wiley, Stein & Johnson, The four ‘R’s of openness and ALMS analysis: frameworks for open educational resources, Open Learning 25(1), 37-44 (2010).
  • [Lec19b] Lechtenbörger, Emacs-reveal: A software bundle to create OER presentations, Journal of Open Source Education (JOSE) 2(18), (2019). https://doi.org/10.21105/jose.00050
  • [Lec19c] Lechtenbörger, Simplifying license attribution for OER with emacs-reveal, in: 17. Fachtagung Bildungstechnologien (DELFI 2019), 2019. https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/24399

License Information

This presentation contains AI generated images, which raises difficult legal questions. I believe them to be free from restrictions of copyright (as they were not generated by human beings) and distribute them without restrictions. I might be wrong, though.

Source code and source files are available on GitLab under free licenses.

Except where otherwise noted, the work “OER on the web - a call to action”, © 2021, 2023 Jens Lechtenbörger, is published under the Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 4.0.