Online Courses Go Open Source David Wiley, Utah Open High School ( Rob Darrow, Clovis Online School, Central California ( Joshua Marks, Chief Technology Officer, Curriki ( Virtual School Symposium 2009

Who we are and how we got connected. Rob David Joshua David Joshua Rob

Open Online School of Utah - David Wiley A Moonshot for Bloom’s 2 Sigma Challenge

CC BY Bloom’s 2 Sigma Challenge Bloom, 1984

CC BY One-to-One Tutoring And other methods compared to 30 students in the classroom

CC BY Average Tutored Student by 2 SD In other words, the average student is capable of much more

CC BY Tutoring is Expensive So we teach class instead!

CC BY Bloom, 1984 If the research on the 2 sigma problem yields practiced methods (methods that the average teacher or school faculty can learn in a brief period of time and use with little more cost or time than conventional instruction), it would be an educational contribution of the greatest magnitude. (p. 5)

CC BY To Tutor Or Not to Tutor? That is the (false) question

CC BY “Strategic Tutoring” What if we could do just-in-time, just-on-topic, one-on-one tutoring?

CC BY Obs. 1 - Requires Great Insight We’d have to know who needs help, when, and what they need help with

CC BY Obs. 2 - Requires Great Curriculum The more the student can learn from the materials, the less tutoring is required

CC BY Obs. 3 - Data Is the Key You’d need live, fine-grained data about student, assessment, and curriculum performance

CC BY Simultaneous Continuous Improvement Working in a way that constantly improves both student learning and the curriculum

CC BY Curriculum Use Curriculum Redesign Student Performance Data Data Describing Curriculum Performance Data Supporting Strategic Tutoring The Loop

CC BY OHSU Teaching Model Create and aggregate great curriculum, let it do as much instructing as possible, follow-up with “strategic tutoring”

CC BY How Do You Improve Curriculum? Performance data alone aren’t sufficient – you need permission

CC BY Open Educational Resources Give OHSU the permissions it needs to engage in continuous improvement

CC BY OHSU Charter Requires OER Founders’ way of “burning the ships”

CC BY Two Quick Screenshots From the Agilix BrainHoney system

CC BY State Standards As Skeleton Standards provide the framework for content aggregation and assessment

CC BY Restricting Access to the Bible Zealously and passionately

CC BY Supporting Strategic Tutoring Data visualized in an easy to use manner

CC BY When Tech and Policy Collide A story from history:

CC BY Watch Out Bloom, Here We Come! OHSU is only a few weeks but the model is already proving terrifically effective

CC BY Lots of Research to be Done We would love more research partners!

Clovis Online School Background - Rob Darrow A California charter school Grades 9 and 10. Will grow grades 11 and 12. Serving students of Central California Currently 65 students with 12 part time teachers Full time staff: principal, secretary and technology specialist

Course Development Goal: content should be sharable Content Development o Teachers complete written outline o Organized by modules and lessons o Each lesson (objective, introduction, lesson, assignment/assessment) o Text first, then add multimedia elements Integrates into Moodle Starting place: clovisonlineschool.pbworks.com

Collaboration is the key For content For teaching online For sharing ideas For providing best online instruction for all students Collaboration = better final product Courses always being improved

Content Collaboration

Curriki background - Joshua Marks Curriki Background Find, Contribute and Connect Any Resource Type Using Curriki Resources Aligning to Standards Groups Overview Open Source Curriculum and licensing

Open Educational Resources David Wiley The Briefest Possible Introduction

From slow, expensive copies to fast, inexpensive copies The Gutenberg Difference

From fast, inexpensive copies to instantaneous, free copies The Internet Difference

education blesses people’s lives, and we can make instant, free copies of materials, then what kind of ethical obligation do we have? If...

Just because you can copy doesn’t mean you’re allowed to Small (c) Problems

Hacking (c) to leverage the nonrivalrous nature of digital educational materials Open Educational Resources

Providing users a collection of rights called “the four R’s” - for free Open, adj.

Reuse - verbatim copies Redistribute - share copies Revise - make adaptations Remix - combinations / mashups The 4Rs

Communicate 4R Permissions Since this overrides default copyright, only a copyright license can grant

Offers easy to use 4Rs licenses

Check the “Copyright Statement” or “Terms of Use”! Without a CC license you will (likely) not have 4R permissions. Free = Open

CC Licensed Items Online (Millions)

Declining Budgets and No Bail Out More and more institutions are sharing and reusing OERs

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