Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Politics of Piracy (Max Klein and Patrick Berger)/Schedule/12

In Class Editing Party

In class we are going to have an editing party instead of discussion. The campus ambassadors will be there to assist you with any questions. So bring your laptop and any paper resources for your article and we'll work together. We're inviting the newly formed Wikipedia Club at Berkeley to join us and coercing them into bringing snacks.

If you get a lot of work done on your article in class then there will be very little work left to do for PoP this semester (cool?!).

Introduction

The Open Education Movement is a multi-faceted, disparate, conglomeration of smaller movements, initiatives, and projects led by many–including institutions (educational, philanthropic, for-profit/non-profit, private/public, etc), groups, and individuals (researchers, educators, administrators, concerned citizens, those concerned with social justice, learners, eduPunks [srsly], hackers, etc).

Two of the easiest movements to identify and understand are the Open Access and Open Educational Resource movements.

Open Access more generally refers to the ability for persons anywhere to access knowledge. This is very clearly illustrated in the drive to open access to research, i.e. articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals. For more information check out the Right to Research Coalition.

Open Educational Resources are different from mere Open Access because to create “openness” here means to license them in such a way that allows other people to use, reuse, remix, and build upon these resources. Motivations for this movement run from global (such as for medical education at http://open.umich.edu/) to local (such as the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources http://oerconsortium.org/)

Readings

“For Exposure, Universities Put Courses on the Web” NY Times. D.D. Guttenplan. Nov 1, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/world/europe/01iht-educLede01.html

OPTIONAL

“California Dreamer” (UC Berkeley Cyber Campus Initiative instigated by Christopher Edley). Inside Higher Ed. August 3, 2010. http://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/print/news/2010/08/03/california

“Estimating ‘Reuse / Remix’ Value of 7 OER Projects” (includes Berkeley Webcast). Flexknology (blog). Jared Stein. Feb 5, 2009. http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2009/02/05/7oer/

“Open Content Licensing” Education Week – Digital Directions. Katie Ash. July 28, 2008. http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2008/07/23/02openlicense_web.h02.html

Writing

Let's practice making some Open Educational Resources ourselves. Work some more on your Wikipedia article a before the editing party so we can answer and questions you have about your article.