David Wiley Friday Planning

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Friday, April 17 at 10:30-11:30 in 315 Rider Building

Here is some bio information on Wiley:

Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University
An internationally recognized expert in the area of reusable educational resources and has authored dozens of books, peer-reviewed journal articles, and magazine columns dealing with educationally effective uses of technology.
Chief Openness Officer of Flat World Knowledge, a low cost, opensource, textbook publishing enterprise.
Founder of the Open High School of Utah, an online charter high school.
Prior to joining Brigham Young, he was an Associate Professor of Instructional Technology and Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University.
Believes that educational materials and resources to be offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses, such as a Creative Commons license, to re-mix, improve and redistribute.
The topic of his keynote address is "The Impact of Openness on the Future of Higher Education".

Gary's questions:

Thought's on state-mandated online learning experiences, similar to the one passed in Michigan a few years ago. I'd like to hear about advantages/disadvantages to this approach & how such decisions might impact OHSU
I'd be interested in a short overview of how an OHSU course is assembled. I understand that resources are collected from a variety of OER sites. It looks as though they are all then managed via HippoCampus in some way? I'd like to hear how that happens and the amount of customization that is available to individual instructors.
What is Dr. Wiley finding to be the most effective way to go about raising the idea of open educational resources to administrators and decision-makers? I work in a college that is typically somewhat slow to adopt new approaches and technologies. What are the best angles to take in lobbying for exploration in these areas?
Regarding Flatworld Knowledge: the build-a-book option is a fantastic idea; I'd be interested to hear how instructors are responding to it. Also, the social networking tools sound intriguing but I'm having trouble finding where the community tool are within the textbooks.

Allan's questions:

I've been thinking of services such as CoursePackets.net that accept collections of academic resources, clear copyright, and create electronic or printed packets. This is different than the idea of a custom textbook since the sources can come from multiple publishers and/or copyright holders.
- At some point, will publishers shift to the business of refining and marketing content and let other companies such as coursepackets.net handle assembly, printing, and distribution?
- How would a company like CoursePackets.net and Flat World Knowledge play together? For example, "Project Management in a Virtual World" is under a non-commercial Creative Commons license. Would that mean that CoursePackets.net couldn't make, sell, and distribute printed copies? Or would you expect them to work with the authors to make a commercial arrangement?

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