Documentation:TWP2015/Readings/Week 1

What is Openness?

• Christina has a blog post introducing openness generally and connecting it to open education, here: http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks/2015/04/11/what-is-open-education/
• Clint Lalonde has a great blog post on open as a noun, verb, adjective and attitude: http://clintlalonde.net/2012/10/18/open-is-a-noun-verb-adjective-and-an-attitude/
• Tony Bates has a solid section on open education in his new book: http://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/chapter/10-4-open-education/

Definitions of “Open” Related to Content

• The “open definition”: http://opendefinition.org/
• Wiley’s 5 R’s: http://opencontent.org/definition/
• The definition of “free cultural works”: http://freedomdefined.org/Definition
• Christina has a long and probably too detailed post about the similarities and differences between “open” and “free,” which might be given in something like a “for further study” section: http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks/2013/08/18/open-and-free/

Open Educational Resources

• Hewlett Foundation definition: http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education/open-educational-resources
• FAQ on open textbooks by BCcampus: http://open.bccampus.ca/open-textbook-faq/
• free software definition: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Open Pedagogy

• David Wiley’s 2013 post on open pedagogy: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2975
• Wiley’s 2015 post on open pedagogy: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3761
• archive of presentation on open pedagogy by BCcampus for 2015 open ed week has some good stuff--slides, google doc, blog post: http://open.bccampus.ca/2015/02/06/open-webinars-for-open-education-week/

Open Practice

• Brian Lamb explores the possibilities of open educational practice as a re-alignment strategy in his post: Open Ends? (April, 2015)
• Sahana Chattopadhyay discusses (in a blog post) what she (and others) call working out loud as a practice for building a shared learning network: Working Out Loud 101/Some Thoughts (May, 2015)

Connectivism

• Dave Cormier videos on cMOOCs-- if you want an introdution to cMOOCs
• “What is a MOOC”? (actually focused on cMOOCs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc
• “Success in a MOOC”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8avYQ5ZqM0
• cMOOCs and differences from “xMOOCs”
• An informative chart explaining differences between cMOOCs & xMOOCs: http://emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/emc/sites/default/files/userfiles/Greg/xMOOCs%20vs.pdf
• Jenny Mackness blog post: https://jennymackness.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/cmoocs-and-xmoocs-key-differences/
• Christina’s blog post on what a cMOOC is like: http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks/2013/02/21/mooc-by-another-name/

Creative Commons licenses

• This short "course" on CC licenses on P2PU has links to nice videos and brief explanations of what these licenses are all about, the different kinds, etc. https://p2pu.org/en/groups/get-cc-savvy
• Creative Commons license chooser: http://creativecommons.org/choose/
• Creative Commons page explaining the licenses: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Open Course Design

• Massive, Open and Course Design: Michael Feldstein (2013): nice post about goals, motivation and course design.
• Transparency as a catalyst for interaction and participation in open learning environments: Thomas P. Mackey (2011): a little dated but much good here including 7 characteristics of transparent design -.
• Design Elements in a Personal Learning Environment: Stephen Downes (2015)