WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.540 --> 00:00:14.560 A:middle L:90% Yeah, fine. Good afternoon everyone. My name 2 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:17.870 A:middle L:90% is Anita Walz. I am the open Education, Copyright, 3 00:00:17.870 --> 00:00:21.910 A:middle L:90% and Scholarly Communications Librarian here at Virginia Tech and I 4 00:00:21.910 --> 00:00:24.699 A:middle L:90% am really, really excited to welcome you to Open 5 00:00:24.699 --> 00:00:28.539 A:middle L:90% Education Week. We have several more events this week 6 00:00:28.550 --> 00:00:31.539 A:middle L:90% that you can participate in. Uh, if you 7 00:00:31.539 --> 00:00:35.490 A:middle L:90% have a copy of this handout or you have access 8 00:00:35.490 --> 00:00:39.219 A:middle L:90% to our website, you'll know that there is a 9 00:00:39.229 --> 00:00:42.740 A:middle L:90% project showcase lightning round um, session coming up at 10 00:00:42.740 --> 00:00:46.310 A:middle L:90% 2 15. there's also a session tomorrow morning at 11 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:51.219 A:middle L:90% 905 by my colleague, two colleagues of mine on 12 00:00:51.229 --> 00:00:56.210 A:middle L:90% sharing original learning materials called that I may share. 13 00:00:56.219 --> 00:00:58.450 A:middle L:90% So if you're from Virginia Tech, you know, 14 00:00:58.460 --> 00:01:00.109 A:middle L:90% that's like that. I may serve. I like 15 00:01:00.109 --> 00:01:03.659 A:middle L:90% that a lot. Um, so I'm pleased to 16 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:07.359 A:middle L:90% have all of you here. We have quite a 17 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:11.750 A:middle L:90% few people who are also on online and participating remotely 18 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:15.480 A:middle L:90% . So hello to you. I believe that you 19 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.069 A:middle L:90% are all muted at this point. However, if 20 00:01:19.069 --> 00:01:22.209 A:middle L:90% you have questions, please raise your hand, please 21 00:01:22.209 --> 00:01:23.959 A:middle L:90% use the chat box and we'd like to open up 22 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.750 A:middle L:90% your lines during the Q and A. So that 23 00:01:26.750 --> 00:01:29.329 A:middle L:90% we can hear you and you can hear us. 24 00:01:29.340 --> 00:01:33.299 A:middle L:90% Um if you cannot hear, please also let us 25 00:01:33.299 --> 00:01:38.730 A:middle L:90% know that. So uh my supervisor and colleague of 26 00:01:38.730 --> 00:01:42.959 A:middle L:90% Professor Gail Mcmillan is going to introduce our speaker today 27 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:52.579 A:middle L:90% . Awesome. Doesn't okay yeah, thank you. 28 00:01:52.579 --> 00:01:55.849 A:middle L:90% Need to um Julie Speer. The Associate Dean for 29 00:01:55.849 --> 00:01:57.329 A:middle L:90% Research and Informatics was going to do this introduction, 30 00:01:57.329 --> 00:02:00.090 A:middle L:90% she would do much better job of it I'm sure 31 00:02:00.090 --> 00:02:01.200 A:middle L:90% , but just got young Children and was called away 32 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:05.340 A:middle L:90% at the last minute so I'm introducing Robert in her 33 00:02:05.340 --> 00:02:08.310 A:middle L:90% place. So Dr Robert, Biswas-Diener is highly 34 00:02:08.310 --> 00:02:12.439 A:middle L:90% sought after speaker not just on education, open education 35 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:15.189 A:middle L:90% but on topics of courage, happiness, strengths, 36 00:02:15.189 --> 00:02:19.250 A:middle L:90% wellbeing and culture. His research interests in income and 37 00:02:19.250 --> 00:02:22.800 A:middle L:90% happiness, culture and happiness and positive psychology have led 38 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:25.270 A:middle L:90% him to areas such as India, Greenland, Israel, 39 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:29.449 A:middle L:90% Kenya and Spain. He holds a PhD from the 40 00:02:29.449 --> 00:02:31.639 A:middle L:90% University of Tromso in Norway and is author of more 41 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:37.379 A:middle L:90% than 50 academic publications including the courage quotient and the 42 00:02:37.379 --> 00:02:39.669 A:middle L:90% upside of your dark side. He is currently co 43 00:02:39.669 --> 00:02:44.610 A:middle L:90% editing a book entitled Open the philosophy and practices that 44 00:02:44.610 --> 00:02:47.840 A:middle L:90% are revolutionizing science and education. It's with Ubiquity Press 45 00:02:47.849 --> 00:02:50.729 A:middle L:90% , which is interesting. We're just starting to look 46 00:02:50.729 --> 00:02:53.139 A:middle L:90% at Ubiquity Press here at Virginia Tech. He's a 47 00:02:53.139 --> 00:02:57.770 A:middle L:90% senior editor of Nova, open education Resource, providing 48 00:02:57.770 --> 00:03:01.270 A:middle L:90% free materials to students and instructors of psychology. Each 49 00:03:01.270 --> 00:03:05.039 A:middle L:90% year, Nova saves students over $1 million dollars in 50 00:03:05.050 --> 00:03:08.069 A:middle L:90% textbook costs. He currently lives in Portland Oregon and 51 00:03:08.069 --> 00:03:10.780 A:middle L:90% is joined here today by several members of his family 52 00:03:10.789 --> 00:03:16.439 A:middle L:90% . Perhaps he'll introduce us to. Right? Yeah 53 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:23.550 A:middle L:90% . Mhm. Thank you so much for joining me 54 00:03:23.550 --> 00:03:24.990 A:middle L:90% today. It means the world to me that you 55 00:03:24.990 --> 00:03:28.110 A:middle L:90% are willing to spend a little bit of your time 56 00:03:28.110 --> 00:03:30.009 A:middle L:90% with me. So I appreciate it. Thank you 57 00:03:30.009 --> 00:03:31.180 A:middle L:90% for all of those who are joining us remotely as 58 00:03:31.180 --> 00:03:34.750 A:middle L:90% well. I appreciate your time equally as much. 59 00:03:35.139 --> 00:03:38.319 A:middle L:90% I would like to start by apologizing about my face 60 00:03:38.330 --> 00:03:42.759 A:middle L:90% . Um when I teach at Portland State University, 61 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:45.159 A:middle L:90% as I occasionally do in my capacity as a part 62 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:47.659 A:middle L:90% time instructor of psychology, my students tell me that 63 00:03:47.659 --> 00:03:52.620 A:middle L:90% I have a mean face. Um and I usually 64 00:03:52.620 --> 00:03:57.639 A:middle L:90% say, shut up! I uh it's just the 65 00:03:57.639 --> 00:03:59.490 A:middle L:90% face I was born with. I want you to 66 00:03:59.490 --> 00:04:03.310 A:middle L:90% know that that I'm actually a nice person. I 67 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:08.180 A:middle L:90% totally am open to to your skepticism as to your 68 00:04:08.180 --> 00:04:12.289 A:middle L:90% questions. I'm friendly and if I arch my eyebrows 69 00:04:12.300 --> 00:04:15.210 A:middle L:90% , it simply means I'm thinking or I'm highly engaged 70 00:04:15.219 --> 00:04:16.019 A:middle L:90% . So know that ahead of time. I'm not 71 00:04:16.019 --> 00:04:19.970 A:middle L:90% mad at you. I like you. I will 72 00:04:19.980 --> 00:04:24.930 A:middle L:90% be speaking about Open today. Open as a movement 73 00:04:24.939 --> 00:04:26.819 A:middle L:90% as I think of it. I will be talking 74 00:04:26.819 --> 00:04:29.720 A:middle L:90% to you a little bit about the definitions of open 75 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:30.920 A:middle L:90% , different aspects of open. I'll be talking to 76 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:36.829 A:middle L:90% you about some of the most popular open uh practices 77 00:04:36.829 --> 00:04:41.819 A:middle L:90% and infrastructure about open policy. I'll be giving you 78 00:04:41.819 --> 00:04:45.170 A:middle L:90% specific examples of open, drawn largely from my own 79 00:04:45.170 --> 00:04:47.899 A:middle L:90% field of psychology, and I will drop down into 80 00:04:47.899 --> 00:04:53.910 A:middle L:90% a particular open educational resource at the tail end of 81 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:57.290 A:middle L:90% my presentation and that will be nova the project for 82 00:04:57.290 --> 00:05:00.949 A:middle L:90% which I do serve as senior editor, notably one 83 00:05:00.949 --> 00:05:02.720 A:middle L:90% of the things I will not be doing is opening 84 00:05:02.740 --> 00:05:06.420 A:middle L:90% my discussion on Open with a plea for saving students 85 00:05:06.420 --> 00:05:10.709 A:middle L:90% money. Now, I believe that students are the 86 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:13.860 A:middle L:90% epicenter of higher education. I believe that all of 87 00:05:13.860 --> 00:05:16.000 A:middle L:90% this, everything we do, from faculty to staff 88 00:05:16.009 --> 00:05:19.019 A:middle L:90% , from curriculum development, to the creation of syllabi 89 00:05:19.019 --> 00:05:21.899 A:middle L:90% and the delivery of education is in the service of 90 00:05:21.899 --> 00:05:25.730 A:middle L:90% students. I believe, the more effectively we can 91 00:05:25.740 --> 00:05:29.410 A:middle L:90% deliver that, the more pedagogical sophisticated we can do 92 00:05:29.410 --> 00:05:31.920 A:middle L:90% that, and the less expensively we can do that 93 00:05:31.930 --> 00:05:35.920 A:middle L:90% basically, the better. Unfortunately, students don't make 94 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:40.269 A:middle L:90% a lot of the critical decisions regarding the learning that 95 00:05:40.269 --> 00:05:42.889 A:middle L:90% happens to them, not with them, but to 96 00:05:42.889 --> 00:05:45.860 A:middle L:90% them. Um and so I am going to opt 97 00:05:45.860 --> 00:05:51.329 A:middle L:90% for making a far more overtly to instructors who largely 98 00:05:51.329 --> 00:05:57.449 A:middle L:90% act as gatekeepers for most of open practices and policies 99 00:05:58.939 --> 00:06:02.350 A:middle L:90% . Like to start, I'm telling you a little 100 00:06:02.350 --> 00:06:04.949 A:middle L:90% bit about open education resources and I'd like to start 101 00:06:04.949 --> 00:06:08.230 A:middle L:90% with a little story from When I was a child 102 00:06:08.230 --> 00:06:10.949 A:middle L:90% , I grew up in an academic household, my 103 00:06:10.949 --> 00:06:14.639 A:middle L:90% parents, both of whom are faculty members uh during 104 00:06:14.649 --> 00:06:17.350 A:middle L:90% the longest portion of their careers at University of Illinois 105 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:20.279 A:middle L:90% . Uh, they loved books as many academics do 106 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:24.370 A:middle L:90% . And our home had a beautiful library in my 107 00:06:24.370 --> 00:06:28.600 A:middle L:90% youth and it was filled with leather bound volumes and 108 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:30.269 A:middle L:90% with not one but two sets of encyclopedias. We 109 00:06:30.269 --> 00:06:34.089 A:middle L:90% had the complete encyclopedia Britannica as well as the Complete 110 00:06:34.100 --> 00:06:39.439 A:middle L:90% World Book. And I would love as a child 111 00:06:39.449 --> 00:06:42.949 A:middle L:90% going up by myself in the library and just pulling 112 00:06:43.339 --> 00:06:46.910 A:middle L:90% random volumes off the shelf and letting them fall open 113 00:06:46.910 --> 00:06:48.579 A:middle L:90% where they may and just learning about things like there's 114 00:06:48.579 --> 00:06:53.560 A:middle L:90% something called the Panama Canal. There's amazing feat of 115 00:06:53.569 --> 00:06:56.600 A:middle L:90% engineering. There's this guy called robert e lee. 116 00:06:56.620 --> 00:07:00.389 A:middle L:90% Just these books were just shock, full of fascinating 117 00:07:00.389 --> 00:07:03.889 A:middle L:90% facts in a size and language that even at my 118 00:07:03.889 --> 00:07:09.519 A:middle L:90% age I could digest very handily. I credit these 119 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:13.720 A:middle L:90% encyclopedias in many ways with stoking the natural curiosity I 120 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:15.610 A:middle L:90% had as a child and setting me ultimately on my 121 00:07:15.610 --> 00:07:21.660 A:middle L:90% career path towards towards scholarship really. But I think 122 00:07:21.660 --> 00:07:24.850 A:middle L:90% that it's important to reflect on the fact that I 123 00:07:24.850 --> 00:07:28.420 A:middle L:90% had a number of privileges that are not shared by 124 00:07:28.420 --> 00:07:30.550 A:middle L:90% many other people. I mean the fact that we 125 00:07:30.550 --> 00:07:33.430 A:middle L:90% owned two sets of encyclopedias in the home uh is 126 00:07:33.430 --> 00:07:35.980 A:middle L:90% I think testament in in and of itself to the 127 00:07:35.980 --> 00:07:40.649 A:middle L:90% fact that that I was already privileged over many other 128 00:07:40.649 --> 00:07:44.560 A:middle L:90% people. So wouldn't it be nice in the modern 129 00:07:44.569 --> 00:07:48.149 A:middle L:90% era and now in my adulthood, if everyone could 130 00:07:48.149 --> 00:07:51.180 A:middle L:90% have an encyclopedia and of course we do in fact 131 00:07:51.189 --> 00:07:57.350 A:middle L:90% live in uh in an era where encyclopedia is completely 132 00:07:57.350 --> 00:08:00.579 A:middle L:90% and freely available. We know it is Wikipedia. 133 00:08:00.579 --> 00:08:03.730 A:middle L:90% It's the online free encyclopedia and it is an example 134 00:08:03.730 --> 00:08:07.600 A:middle L:90% of an open education resource. I start with it 135 00:08:07.829 --> 00:08:11.240 A:middle L:90% in part because it is perhaps the most famous example 136 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:13.829 A:middle L:90% in the world of Open Educational Resource. It is 137 00:08:13.829 --> 00:08:20.509 A:middle L:90% free but it is not without its problems and I 138 00:08:20.509 --> 00:08:22.319 A:middle L:90% am aware of that and I want to hold it 139 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:26.439 A:middle L:90% out to you knowing that um when I ran this 140 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:28.160 A:middle L:90% by some of my colleagues this presentation, they said 141 00:08:28.170 --> 00:08:33.029 A:middle L:90% don't start with Wikipedia because people are worried about the 142 00:08:33.029 --> 00:08:37.669 A:middle L:90% accuracy of Wikipedia. I believe that there are that 143 00:08:37.669 --> 00:08:43.879 A:middle L:90% there are various reasons to be skeptical of Wikipedia recently 144 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:46.379 A:middle L:90% . There's been a lot of talk about the fact 145 00:08:46.379 --> 00:08:48.919 A:middle L:90% that many of the content contributors to Wikipedia are overwhelmingly 146 00:08:48.929 --> 00:08:54.340 A:middle L:90% male and there might be biases associated with that self 147 00:08:54.340 --> 00:09:01.289 A:middle L:90% selection. I believe that popular theories might get longer 148 00:09:01.299 --> 00:09:05.600 A:middle L:90% column inches than are more sophisticated, more difficult to 149 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:09.840 A:middle L:90% explain or more arcane theories. So I think that 150 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:13.399 A:middle L:90% there are probably some biases built into Wikipedia, but 151 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:16.200 A:middle L:90% I would argue that that's not a reason to dismiss 152 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:20.279 A:middle L:90% Wikipedia specifically or open education. Generally, I would 153 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:22.570 A:middle L:90% argue that that's a rationale for improving it. And 154 00:09:22.570 --> 00:09:24.929 A:middle L:90% I will in fact speak later on about a number 155 00:09:24.929 --> 00:09:30.789 A:middle L:90% of initiatives designed at improving the quality of Wikipedia. 156 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:33.379 A:middle L:90% Wikipedia is a good example of two things. 1st 157 00:09:33.389 --> 00:09:37.299 A:middle L:90% . open education resources, that is part of the 158 00:09:37.299 --> 00:09:41.049 A:middle L:90% open movement has to do with creating materials that are 159 00:09:41.059 --> 00:09:43.840 A:middle L:90% available to all. It is also a good example 160 00:09:43.850 --> 00:09:48.889 A:middle L:90% of one element of the word open, which is 161 00:09:48.899 --> 00:09:52.450 A:middle L:90% free, Free to the point of zero cost. 162 00:09:52.940 --> 00:09:54.250 A:middle L:90% And I think that's kind of cool. But I 163 00:09:54.250 --> 00:09:56.509 A:middle L:90% also want to dis abuse those of you who think 164 00:09:56.509 --> 00:10:00.559 A:middle L:90% that open is simply about money. That that is 165 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:01.639 A:middle L:90% the end of the line. In terms of what 166 00:10:01.649 --> 00:10:05.850 A:middle L:90% open means. It is not just about free resources 167 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:09.250 A:middle L:90% , it's about share a bowl and reusable and remix 168 00:10:09.250 --> 00:10:13.649 A:middle L:90% herbal resources more on that later. So while Wikipedia 169 00:10:13.649 --> 00:10:16.070 A:middle L:90% is a nice entree, it would be nice to 170 00:10:16.070 --> 00:10:18.509 A:middle L:90% look at some other things. So I'd like to 171 00:10:18.509 --> 00:10:24.389 A:middle L:90% give you an example of open publishing. We're going 172 00:10:24.389 --> 00:10:26.149 A:middle L:90% to start with open science and then go to open 173 00:10:26.149 --> 00:10:31.580 A:middle L:90% publishing. There are also open scientific practices. So 174 00:10:31.590 --> 00:10:37.830 A:middle L:90% right now in science, many researchers have proprietary research 175 00:10:37.830 --> 00:10:41.750 A:middle L:90% protocols. They allude to what they have done with 176 00:10:41.750 --> 00:10:46.549 A:middle L:90% their research participants but they do not publish the specific 177 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:50.139 A:middle L:90% questionnaire they gave the specific prime ng they gave um 178 00:10:50.139 --> 00:10:52.809 A:middle L:90% , in some cases they describe it but they do 179 00:10:52.809 --> 00:10:56.509 A:middle L:90% not publish it in its entirety. I think that 180 00:10:56.509 --> 00:11:00.990 A:middle L:90% this potentially holds back science because it leads to a 181 00:11:00.990 --> 00:11:05.830 A:middle L:90% lack of identical replication efforts. And it also is 182 00:11:05.830 --> 00:11:09.700 A:middle L:90% problematic in that we're just not exactly 100 sure what's 183 00:11:09.700 --> 00:11:11.549 A:middle L:90% going on and we don't have the opportunity to comment 184 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:16.659 A:middle L:90% to our colleagues about potential ways to improve research methodology 185 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:20.460 A:middle L:90% . So the more open we can make the scientific 186 00:11:20.470 --> 00:11:22.490 A:middle L:90% process itself. And I think open data would be 187 00:11:22.500 --> 00:11:26.429 A:middle L:90% a perfect example of that. Increasingly, at least 188 00:11:26.429 --> 00:11:31.809 A:middle L:90% in my field of psychology, we are really pushing 189 00:11:31.809 --> 00:11:35.309 A:middle L:90% for more open data sets. The Association for Psychological 190 00:11:35.309 --> 00:11:39.529 A:middle L:90% Science A PS now has badges that they give to 191 00:11:39.539 --> 00:11:41.460 A:middle L:90% register data sets that says, hey, if you 192 00:11:41.460 --> 00:11:43.279 A:middle L:90% want to get into the dataset and you want to 193 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:46.759 A:middle L:90% conduct these exact same analyses yourself, you're welcome to 194 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:50.269 A:middle L:90% . I think that this is probably a good thing 195 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:54.590 A:middle L:90% on the whole in that it really promotes a sense 196 00:11:54.590 --> 00:11:58.450 A:middle L:90% of transparency among scientists. Probably cuts down in many 197 00:11:58.450 --> 00:12:03.450 A:middle L:90% ways on academic dishonesty in the most egregious cases. 198 00:12:03.460 --> 00:12:07.269 A:middle L:90% But it also allows uh, just for for double 199 00:12:07.269 --> 00:12:09.860 A:middle L:90% checking for, for small errors, allows for different 200 00:12:09.860 --> 00:12:15.309 A:middle L:90% types of of decision points that are critical to whether 201 00:12:15.309 --> 00:12:18.259 A:middle L:90% things turn out to be significant or non significant. 202 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:22.289 A:middle L:90% I believe ultimately these kind of open science practices are 203 00:12:22.289 --> 00:12:24.399 A:middle L:90% part and parcel of improving the quality of science. 204 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:30.240 A:middle L:90% And that's very different notion than than the Wikipedia idea 205 00:12:30.250 --> 00:12:33.820 A:middle L:90% of let's just make this material free. Scientists aren't 206 00:12:33.820 --> 00:12:35.480 A:middle L:90% being charged for this stuff anyway. This isn't about 207 00:12:35.490 --> 00:12:39.279 A:middle L:90% removing costs, this is about removing barriers. And 208 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:45.659 A:middle L:90% that's the other really important element to the open movement 209 00:12:45.669 --> 00:12:48.149 A:middle L:90% . The more transparent and the more share a ble 210 00:12:48.740 --> 00:12:52.779 A:middle L:90% concepts, protocols, ideas and resources are, the 211 00:12:52.779 --> 00:12:54.470 A:middle L:90% more we will be able to improve them. So 212 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:58.340 A:middle L:90% open is about lowering the cost of education. But 213 00:12:58.340 --> 00:13:01.389 A:middle L:90% I believe fundamentally it's about improving the quality of education 214 00:13:01.389 --> 00:13:03.690 A:middle L:90% . And I think actually that second part is the 215 00:13:03.690 --> 00:13:09.799 A:middle L:90% more important part of the two um open publishing you 216 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:11.700 A:middle L:90% can see because you've done what all people do and 217 00:13:11.700 --> 00:13:15.259 A:middle L:90% you've spent some time reading instead of instead of listening 218 00:13:15.259 --> 00:13:20.700 A:middle L:90% to me. Um Open publishing is another element obviously 219 00:13:20.710 --> 00:13:24.750 A:middle L:90% in academia and the way things currently stand, people 220 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:28.450 A:middle L:90% write for publication, but we publish in private journals 221 00:13:28.450 --> 00:13:33.269 A:middle L:90% that hide most of our academic publications, most of 222 00:13:33.269 --> 00:13:37.220 A:middle L:90% our research and theory behind pay walls, which are 223 00:13:37.220 --> 00:13:41.240 A:middle L:90% accessible largely to us to our colleagues um somewhat to 224 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:45.799 A:middle L:90% our students, but not always and less so to 225 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:48.379 A:middle L:90% the public and especially the taxpayers who ultimately and in 226 00:13:48.379 --> 00:13:52.129 A:middle L:90% most cases fund are very research. So, open 227 00:13:52.129 --> 00:13:56.659 A:middle L:90% publishing is an alternative to the existing publishing system. 228 00:13:58.340 --> 00:14:01.570 A:middle L:90% I'd like to give you an example of it from 229 00:14:01.570 --> 00:14:05.990 A:middle L:90% my field. There's a journal called The International Journal 230 00:14:05.990 --> 00:14:09.149 A:middle L:90% of Well Being. I study subjective well being. 231 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:13.080 A:middle L:90% Um that is happiness and I happen to be lucky 232 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:15.350 A:middle L:90% . I feel that there is a journal that is 233 00:14:15.350 --> 00:14:20.049 A:middle L:90% completely open source journal. Anyone can sign on or 234 00:14:20.049 --> 00:14:22.340 A:middle L:90% not sign on. You don't even have to have 235 00:14:22.340 --> 00:14:26.149 A:middle L:90% a user account and pull down PDFs of any article 236 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:30.450 A:middle L:90% ever published in the International Journal of Well Being, 237 00:14:31.539 --> 00:14:33.279 A:middle L:90% in all fairness, the International Journal of Well Being 238 00:14:33.289 --> 00:14:39.039 A:middle L:90% , which is a sponsored project from universities in the 239 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:43.830 A:middle L:90% United States and in New Zealand. Um it's is 240 00:14:43.830 --> 00:14:46.419 A:middle L:90% not the most prestigious journal in the world. I 241 00:14:46.429 --> 00:14:48.690 A:middle L:90% want to be honest about that. If I am 242 00:14:48.690 --> 00:14:52.909 A:middle L:90% looking for tenure, for example, um This probably 243 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:58.190 A:middle L:90% isn't my first bet for social or personality psychology, 244 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:01.559 A:middle L:90% my particular field. Um but if I'm looking to 245 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:03.759 A:middle L:90% make an impact, if I'm looking for people to 246 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:05.529 A:middle L:90% actually read my work and here I would argue that 247 00:15:05.529 --> 00:15:09.009 A:middle L:90% that's a great reason to write something is that you 248 00:15:09.009 --> 00:15:13.009 A:middle L:90% want readers. Um I do think that International Journal 249 00:15:13.009 --> 00:15:16.250 A:middle L:90% of Well Being is a good bet. So let 250 00:15:16.250 --> 00:15:18.909 A:middle L:90% me give you an example in the second issue of 251 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:20.490 A:middle L:90% I. J. W. It's been around for 252 00:15:20.490 --> 00:15:24.460 A:middle L:90% about five years now. I wanted to write about 253 00:15:24.470 --> 00:15:28.940 A:middle L:90% positive psychological practices in the Montessori school system. I 254 00:15:28.940 --> 00:15:35.240 A:middle L:90% focused especially on self determination theory and the way that 255 00:15:35.250 --> 00:15:39.620 A:middle L:90% Montessori may promote self determination and young kids. It 256 00:15:39.620 --> 00:15:43.490 A:middle L:90% was largely a theoretical article. It allowed me some 257 00:15:43.500 --> 00:15:46.970 A:middle L:90% linguistic daring do that is I was able to drop 258 00:15:46.970 --> 00:15:52.419 A:middle L:90% in uh some interviews with Montessori teachers, a little 259 00:15:52.419 --> 00:15:54.710 A:middle L:90% bit of Maria Montessori biography. Some things that I 260 00:15:54.710 --> 00:15:56.759 A:middle L:90% might not otherwise have been able to do in a 261 00:15:56.759 --> 00:16:00.309 A:middle L:90% traditional journal. And it went through the peer review 262 00:16:00.309 --> 00:16:04.889 A:middle L:90% process same as as any standard academic journal. And 263 00:16:04.889 --> 00:16:07.080 A:middle L:90% then five years later I followed up with them and 264 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:08.789 A:middle L:90% I said I just want to find out from you 265 00:16:08.789 --> 00:16:12.090 A:middle L:90% all if you've been tracking the statistics, how did 266 00:16:12.090 --> 00:16:18.490 A:middle L:90% my article do however you come about understanding its performance 267 00:16:18.500 --> 00:16:21.519 A:middle L:90% ? They said, well the pdf of your article 268 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:25.049 A:middle L:90% has been downloaded 8000 times in the last five years 269 00:16:25.539 --> 00:16:29.360 A:middle L:90% I think. That's pretty good. I don't know 270 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:33.299 A:middle L:90% even when I publish occasionally as I do in a 271 00:16:33.309 --> 00:16:37.429 A:middle L:90% more prestigious journal, How many people are actually reading 272 00:16:37.429 --> 00:16:40.870 A:middle L:90% it? But here I know that 8000 people around 273 00:16:40.870 --> 00:16:42.889 A:middle L:90% the globe took the time to download this article now 274 00:16:42.889 --> 00:16:45.179 A:middle L:90% . I don't know what they did with it. 275 00:16:45.179 --> 00:16:45.940 A:middle L:90% I don't know if they were using it for scratch 276 00:16:45.940 --> 00:16:48.730 A:middle L:90% paper or what. Um so we can't be totally 277 00:16:48.730 --> 00:16:52.049 A:middle L:90% certain, but I do know that the removal of 278 00:16:52.049 --> 00:16:55.929 A:middle L:90% the paywall, the removal of any kind of barrier 279 00:16:55.929 --> 00:16:57.720 A:middle L:90% to accessing it allowed it to be more shareable. 280 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:00.720 A:middle L:90% In one place. It was very heavily shared was 281 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:06.069 A:middle L:90% within the montessori school system. I don't believe that 282 00:17:06.069 --> 00:17:08.170 A:middle L:90% that otherwise would have been possible um in in the 283 00:17:08.170 --> 00:17:11.970 A:middle L:90% traditional academic setting. So this is an example of 284 00:17:11.980 --> 00:17:15.740 A:middle L:90% an alternative form of publishing, open publishing. Um 285 00:17:15.740 --> 00:17:18.910 A:middle L:90% and again, a good example of sharing and not 286 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:26.509 A:middle L:90% just economically free. When we talk about open, 287 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:30.829 A:middle L:90% we largely talk about the five ars of open, 288 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:37.450 A:middle L:90% the five different elements of of what open allows you 289 00:17:37.460 --> 00:17:41.640 A:middle L:90% to do. It is retain redistribute, reuse, 290 00:17:41.650 --> 00:17:47.230 A:middle L:90% revise and remix. If you were to create an 291 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:51.380 A:middle L:90% open material, whether that was an open course syllabus 292 00:17:51.940 --> 00:17:55.500 A:middle L:90% , an open activity for a class, uh an 293 00:17:55.509 --> 00:18:00.859 A:middle L:90% open chapter on your particular area of expertise, you 294 00:18:00.859 --> 00:18:03.880 A:middle L:90% would retain the rights to that material. I think 295 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:06.650 A:middle L:90% that that's kind of a cool thing. You would 296 00:18:06.650 --> 00:18:12.269 A:middle L:90% retain what you yourself created. Anyone who wanted to 297 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:15.299 A:middle L:90% use it or share it would have to credit you 298 00:18:15.299 --> 00:18:19.230 A:middle L:90% back, but you're welcome to share it anytime you 299 00:18:19.230 --> 00:18:22.839 A:middle L:90% want. I don't know if you've ever been in 300 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:26.259 A:middle L:90% a position where you've published something that became copyrighted and 301 00:18:26.259 --> 00:18:29.769 A:middle L:90% you didn't own the copyright. But it seems, 302 00:18:29.779 --> 00:18:33.970 A:middle L:90% I think strange and even awkward to go to a 303 00:18:33.970 --> 00:18:40.339 A:middle L:90% publisher and ask permission to do something like photocopy something 304 00:18:40.339 --> 00:18:44.170 A:middle L:90% you yourself wrote that would never be in existence if 305 00:18:44.170 --> 00:18:48.660 A:middle L:90% it weren't for you or you have students in a 306 00:18:48.660 --> 00:18:51.640 A:middle L:90% class that you want to read what you wrote, 307 00:18:51.650 --> 00:18:53.720 A:middle L:90% but you have to ask permission for them to photocopy 308 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:57.099 A:middle L:90% it. And so I think that the idea that 309 00:18:57.109 --> 00:19:03.579 A:middle L:90% you could retain control is actually fundamental and wonderful for 310 00:19:03.579 --> 00:19:06.970 A:middle L:90% the creators of what otherwise is thought of his intellectual 311 00:19:06.970 --> 00:19:10.670 A:middle L:90% property. You can redistribute it how you want it 312 00:19:11.339 --> 00:19:14.440 A:middle L:90% if you want a photocopy it, if you want 313 00:19:14.450 --> 00:19:17.309 A:middle L:90% to sing it as a song, If you want 314 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:18.569 A:middle L:90% to publish it as an e book, if you 315 00:19:18.569 --> 00:19:22.210 A:middle L:90% want 1000 flyers to be printed up, you can 316 00:19:22.210 --> 00:19:23.160 A:middle L:90% do it, you can do anything you want with 317 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:29.890 A:middle L:90% it. You can also allow others to to share 318 00:19:29.890 --> 00:19:33.359 A:middle L:90% it in a like minded way. Again, they 319 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:36.190 A:middle L:90% were going to credit you, you're always going to 320 00:19:36.190 --> 00:19:40.319 A:middle L:90% be credited with original authorship, but they are going 321 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:41.849 A:middle L:90% to be able to reuse it in the ways they 322 00:19:41.849 --> 00:19:45.309 A:middle L:90% see fit. That is if they want to use 323 00:19:45.309 --> 00:19:48.009 A:middle L:90% it to teach a class great. But if they 324 00:19:48.009 --> 00:19:51.559 A:middle L:90% want to give it, um, for example, 325 00:19:51.569 --> 00:19:53.809 A:middle L:90% uh, to a client, if they're a psychotherapist 326 00:19:53.809 --> 00:19:56.500 A:middle L:90% , you say, oh, well, this is 327 00:19:56.500 --> 00:20:00.170 A:middle L:90% for educational purposes. But I've never said that this 328 00:20:00.339 --> 00:20:03.680 A:middle L:90% chapter on Freudian psychology could be used, uh, 329 00:20:03.690 --> 00:20:07.650 A:middle L:90% for some other reason, that seems commercial, right 330 00:20:07.660 --> 00:20:10.059 A:middle L:90% ? Because they're paying you as a then the client 331 00:20:10.069 --> 00:20:14.019 A:middle L:90% therapist relationship. But really what you're saying is is 332 00:20:14.019 --> 00:20:15.079 A:middle L:90% you all can reuse it just credit me as the 333 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:18.700 A:middle L:90% original author, but we use it how you want 334 00:20:18.710 --> 00:20:22.059 A:middle L:90% without having to ask me permission. Every single time 335 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:26.789 A:middle L:90% I was first introduced to this idea by eric Drucker 336 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:30.740 A:middle L:90% , who's an article who is an artist who many 337 00:20:30.740 --> 00:20:33.640 A:middle L:90% of you probably know, but don't know, you 338 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:34.980 A:middle L:90% know, he does a lot of new yorker uh 339 00:20:34.990 --> 00:20:38.099 A:middle L:90% covers, he's a painter and he's done some graphic 340 00:20:38.099 --> 00:20:41.700 A:middle L:90% novels and I saw him speak one time and just 341 00:20:41.700 --> 00:20:45.670 A:middle L:90% before he was leaving, he almost casually said, 342 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:48.700 A:middle L:90% so by the way, you can use any of 343 00:20:48.700 --> 00:20:51.980 A:middle L:90% my work in any way you want anytime you want 344 00:20:51.980 --> 00:20:52.920 A:middle L:90% , however you want, you can make money off 345 00:20:52.920 --> 00:20:55.289 A:middle L:90% it. I don't care, just do whatever you 346 00:20:55.289 --> 00:20:56.450 A:middle L:90% want. All you have to do is credit me 347 00:20:56.839 --> 00:21:00.700 A:middle L:90% . No, and I thought that is a really 348 00:21:00.700 --> 00:21:06.160 A:middle L:90% revolutionary thing. I can't believe my ears that you 349 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:08.309 A:middle L:90% would allow people to reuse things in this way. 350 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:11.059 A:middle L:90% He said, well, of course I created now 351 00:21:11.059 --> 00:21:11.210 A:middle L:90% . It's out in the world. And if you 352 00:21:11.210 --> 00:21:14.529 A:middle L:90% think you can do better than I can with it 353 00:21:14.539 --> 00:21:15.019 A:middle L:90% , if you think you can make more money than 354 00:21:15.019 --> 00:21:18.089 A:middle L:90% I can with it, why can't we both make 355 00:21:18.089 --> 00:21:21.940 A:middle L:90% money? It's not like somehow the money you're making 356 00:21:21.940 --> 00:21:23.400 A:middle L:90% is going to pull away from the money I'm making 357 00:21:23.410 --> 00:21:26.259 A:middle L:90% with it. Unless you think that your market and 358 00:21:26.259 --> 00:21:30.670 A:middle L:90% my market is the exact same market and it's not 359 00:21:30.140 --> 00:21:33.940 A:middle L:90% . And I just thought, I didn't know if 360 00:21:33.940 --> 00:21:36.609 A:middle L:90% I agreed with that or disagreed with it, but 361 00:21:36.609 --> 00:21:40.660 A:middle L:90% it was unusual enough, even radical enough that it 362 00:21:40.660 --> 00:21:45.309 A:middle L:90% started my wheels spinning and they spun right into the 363 00:21:45.309 --> 00:21:51.950 A:middle L:90% last to ours, revising and remixing when I speak 364 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:56.539 A:middle L:90% with people in higher education. And I tell them 365 00:21:56.549 --> 00:21:57.309 A:middle L:90% , hey, there's this great thing called open, 366 00:21:57.309 --> 00:22:00.200 A:middle L:90% We want to remove barriers. We want to give 367 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:03.740 A:middle L:90% better materials to students who want to give better pedagogy 368 00:22:03.740 --> 00:22:06.960 A:middle L:90% to instructors. They basically give me the thumbs up 369 00:22:07.539 --> 00:22:10.170 A:middle L:90% until it comes to these, I say. And 370 00:22:10.170 --> 00:22:14.460 A:middle L:90% when you create things, other people might revise it 371 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:19.309 A:middle L:90% or they might totally remix it and suddenly you can 372 00:22:19.309 --> 00:22:23.240 A:middle L:90% hear the brakes screeching to a halt and people are 373 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:26.329 A:middle L:90% like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what 374 00:22:26.329 --> 00:22:27.730 A:middle L:90% do you mean? People are going to revise my 375 00:22:27.730 --> 00:22:32.200 A:middle L:90% work after all, I am the king of this 376 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:34.220 A:middle L:90% 50. Um, I am the expert in my 377 00:22:34.220 --> 00:22:38.069 A:middle L:90% own field. Who is it that has the requisite 378 00:22:38.069 --> 00:22:45.039 A:middle L:90% knowledge, the literary acumen, the scientific widely nous 379 00:22:45.259 --> 00:22:49.089 A:middle L:90% that I have that could possibly have the authority to 380 00:22:49.089 --> 00:22:52.710 A:middle L:90% revise my work. And I would argue here nearly 381 00:22:52.710 --> 00:22:59.509 A:middle L:90% anyone that's again a bit of a radical idea for 382 00:22:59.509 --> 00:23:02.480 A:middle L:90% most people. So let me just show you an 383 00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:07.059 A:middle L:90% example of how it's actually done because what people are 384 00:23:07.059 --> 00:23:10.299 A:middle L:90% worried about is not what actually manifests. If I 385 00:23:10.299 --> 00:23:14.150 A:middle L:90% write, let's say a chapter for a psychology textbook 386 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:18.490 A:middle L:90% about the classic Ash experiment on conformity. And if 387 00:23:18.500 --> 00:23:21.319 A:middle L:90% any of you don't know that, I'll just teach 388 00:23:21.319 --> 00:23:23.839 A:middle L:90% it to you very quickly. Uh many decades ago 389 00:23:23.849 --> 00:23:26.880 A:middle L:90% , Solomon Ash brought folks into the lab. Most 390 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:30.589 A:middle L:90% of these people were not true research participants, they 391 00:23:30.589 --> 00:23:33.549 A:middle L:90% were confederates working with the researcher. One of them 392 00:23:33.549 --> 00:23:36.630 A:middle L:90% was an actual research participant. And they went down 393 00:23:36.630 --> 00:23:40.549 A:middle L:90% the line showing a series of lines some longer, 394 00:23:40.549 --> 00:23:42.230 A:middle L:90% some shorter and said, which is longer. And 395 00:23:42.230 --> 00:23:49.440 A:middle L:90% the confederates erroneously labeled the short line is longer defying 396 00:23:49.450 --> 00:23:53.299 A:middle L:90% obvious fact and observation until you get down to this 397 00:23:53.299 --> 00:23:56.569 A:middle L:90% one poor soul, this this final person who, 398 00:23:56.569 --> 00:24:00.119 A:middle L:90% who's the real research participant. And they look at 399 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:03.369 A:middle L:90% the short line and kind of shrug and say, 400 00:24:03.369 --> 00:24:04.880 A:middle L:90% well, I guess it's longer. Um, and 401 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:08.990 A:middle L:90% this is a study on conformity. I'm not, 402 00:24:08.990 --> 00:24:11.920 A:middle L:90% I'm just teaching you the broad strokes, but let's 403 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:15.190 A:middle L:90% say I wanted to write a textbook that would teach 404 00:24:15.190 --> 00:24:26.440 A:middle L:90% that to students. Yeah, and I want to 405 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:27.559 A:middle L:90% teach them about a replication of it. And I 406 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:32.400 A:middle L:90% say, hey, yeah, a conceptual replication of 407 00:24:32.400 --> 00:24:36.000 A:middle L:90% Ashes research might involve both male and female students. 408 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:38.089 A:middle L:90% Ashes only had male students in the original. So 409 00:24:38.099 --> 00:24:41.450 A:middle L:90% in a conceptual replication, we might want to add 410 00:24:41.460 --> 00:24:44.490 A:middle L:90% females to see if that generalizes. And instead of 411 00:24:44.490 --> 00:24:48.630 A:middle L:90% doing the lines longer and shorter, let's do something 412 00:24:48.630 --> 00:24:51.160 A:middle L:90% different. In our replication of the research. We're 413 00:24:51.160 --> 00:24:55.589 A:middle L:90% going to have participants who misidentify a cat is actually 414 00:24:55.589 --> 00:24:57.579 A:middle L:90% being a dog and that's what I write as the 415 00:24:57.579 --> 00:25:02.470 A:middle L:90% example in my research all well and good. I 416 00:25:02.470 --> 00:25:06.960 A:middle L:90% think that's quite fine. But let's say that you 417 00:25:07.539 --> 00:25:11.349 A:middle L:90% at Virginia Tech or any other school. So you 418 00:25:11.349 --> 00:25:12.809 A:middle L:90% know what? That's just a weird example. I 419 00:25:12.809 --> 00:25:17.509 A:middle L:90% just don't like the idea that that's the best example 420 00:25:17.509 --> 00:25:21.940 A:middle L:90% of conformity that you get 10 people misidentifying a cat 421 00:25:21.940 --> 00:25:23.500 A:middle L:90% saying no, no, that's clearly a dog and 422 00:25:23.500 --> 00:25:26.539 A:middle L:90% I just belies credibility to me. It's just a 423 00:25:26.539 --> 00:25:29.309 A:middle L:90% little too weird. What I would like to do 424 00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:32.730 A:middle L:90% is drop in a different example myself. That's an 425 00:25:32.730 --> 00:25:36.250 A:middle L:90% example of a revision right now with the traditional textbook 426 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:38.089 A:middle L:90% , you cannot do that. You have to do 427 00:25:38.089 --> 00:25:44.059 A:middle L:90% it in the actual class itself. And typically what 428 00:25:44.059 --> 00:25:45.769 A:middle L:90% an instructor would do is say, well, what 429 00:25:45.769 --> 00:25:47.789 A:middle L:90% you read in the textbook was this. But what 430 00:25:47.789 --> 00:25:49.089 A:middle L:90% I really think is this new act as a curator 431 00:25:49.089 --> 00:25:53.309 A:middle L:90% of knowledge in that capacity. But I think that 432 00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:59.460 A:middle L:90% it's probably okay to just drop in a new example 433 00:26:00.410 --> 00:26:03.599 A:middle L:90% and open resources allow you to do that. You 434 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:07.529 A:middle L:90% can drop in an open example that says, let's 435 00:26:07.529 --> 00:26:11.269 A:middle L:90% not go for really, really weird examples. Let's 436 00:26:11.269 --> 00:26:15.200 A:middle L:90% see if Yeah. Mhm. Let's say what we 437 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:19.250 A:middle L:90% really want to do is have participants misidentify a photo 438 00:26:19.250 --> 00:26:22.910 A:middle L:90% of the president. That seems a little bit better 439 00:26:22.910 --> 00:26:25.369 A:middle L:90% than the dog and cat example because no one would 440 00:26:25.369 --> 00:26:27.039 A:middle L:90% really misidentify a dog in a can, but it 441 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:30.930 A:middle L:90% seems more believable that people could misidentify the president and 442 00:26:30.930 --> 00:26:33.789 A:middle L:90% you want to drop that in this example, you 443 00:26:33.789 --> 00:26:34.619 A:middle L:90% can do that. You don't have to write and 444 00:26:34.619 --> 00:26:37.470 A:middle L:90% ask anyone's permission to do it. It just works 445 00:26:37.470 --> 00:26:48.089 A:middle L:90% for you. Yeah. Here is an even better 446 00:26:48.089 --> 00:26:51.160 A:middle L:90% way I think to do it. Uh This is 447 00:26:51.160 --> 00:26:56.450 A:middle L:90% a research methods in psychology textbook that is open licensed 448 00:26:56.940 --> 00:26:59.450 A:middle L:90% . That is you. If you happen to teach 449 00:26:59.450 --> 00:27:00.569 A:middle L:90% research methods, go ahead and sign this to your 450 00:27:00.569 --> 00:27:03.559 A:middle L:90% students right now, they won't pay a dime. 451 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:11.170 A:middle L:90% It was originally written by paul price but it was 452 00:27:11.170 --> 00:27:15.559 A:middle L:90% written as are many textbooks for an american audience. 453 00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:19.299 A:middle L:90% That means we're going to hear about Obama and Bush 454 00:27:19.309 --> 00:27:22.819 A:middle L:90% , we're going to hear about baseball and basketball, 455 00:27:22.829 --> 00:27:26.390 A:middle L:90% we're going to hear about 9, 11, we're 456 00:27:26.390 --> 00:27:29.099 A:middle L:90% going to hear about all these kind of very American 457 00:27:29.099 --> 00:27:33.980 A:middle L:90% types of things. But people in Canada who want 458 00:27:33.980 --> 00:27:37.809 A:middle L:90% to use this research methods book. I think that 459 00:27:37.809 --> 00:27:38.960 A:middle L:90% would be kind of cool if there were some Canadian 460 00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:42.890 A:middle L:90% examples. Instead of talking about 1976, the bicentennial 461 00:27:42.890 --> 00:27:45.410 A:middle L:90% of America, they could talk about 1967, the 462 00:27:45.410 --> 00:27:49.829 A:middle L:90% 100th anniversary of Canada. They can talk about Trudeau 463 00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:53.349 A:middle L:90% instead of Obama, they can talk about hockey instead 464 00:27:53.349 --> 00:27:56.049 A:middle L:90% of basketball. They can talk about things that Canadians 465 00:27:56.059 --> 00:28:00.950 A:middle L:90% might relate to more than simply american culture. And 466 00:28:00.950 --> 00:28:06.150 A:middle L:90% so uh Raji Janjalani who lives in british Columbia and 467 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:10.410 A:middle L:90% a colleague chungcheong, both of them got together and 468 00:28:10.410 --> 00:28:15.140 A:middle L:90% simply internationalized this volume. They converted everything from the 469 00:28:15.150 --> 00:28:18.289 A:middle L:90% english system of measurement into the metric system. They 470 00:28:18.289 --> 00:28:22.720 A:middle L:90% converted the american examples into Canadian examples and they didn't 471 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:25.569 A:middle L:90% have to ask anyone's permission to do it. Now 472 00:28:25.569 --> 00:28:26.450 A:middle L:90% . If you go and ask paul Price. Well 473 00:28:26.460 --> 00:28:30.029 A:middle L:90% , what do you think about this? I think 474 00:28:30.029 --> 00:28:33.089 A:middle L:90% he'd probably say great. I just maximized my impact 475 00:28:33.089 --> 00:28:36.920 A:middle L:90% . Now, maybe twice as many people are using 476 00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:38.339 A:middle L:90% my book or people are liking my book even better 477 00:28:38.349 --> 00:28:41.250 A:middle L:90% because it has a local flavor that helps engage them 478 00:28:41.250 --> 00:28:47.359 A:middle L:90% better, pedagogic li it's superior than what might otherwise 479 00:28:47.369 --> 00:28:48.950 A:middle L:90% be feel free when we get to the Q and 480 00:28:48.950 --> 00:28:52.869 A:middle L:90% A to ask questions about this or anything about revising 481 00:28:52.869 --> 00:28:55.630 A:middle L:90% or remixing because I know it is one of the 482 00:28:55.630 --> 00:29:00.049 A:middle L:90% most problematic elements for people I'm going to give you 483 00:29:00.049 --> 00:29:03.019 A:middle L:90% just also one more example right now I'm editing volume 484 00:29:03.029 --> 00:29:07.529 A:middle L:90% on open practices. The book itself will be open 485 00:29:07.539 --> 00:29:10.630 A:middle L:90% that is downloadable and freely available. And I'm getting 486 00:29:10.630 --> 00:29:12.660 A:middle L:90% chapters in from these authors all around the world and 487 00:29:12.660 --> 00:29:15.160 A:middle L:90% I just had a chapter come in and I think 488 00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:18.450 A:middle L:90% he's probably okay with me telling you his name from 489 00:29:18.450 --> 00:29:21.589 A:middle L:90% Wayne, Macintosh and New Zealand. And I gave 490 00:29:21.589 --> 00:29:25.009 A:middle L:90% him some editorial feedback. I said Wayne, Wouldn't 491 00:29:25.009 --> 00:29:27.420 A:middle L:90% it be nice for our readers if you rearrange the 492 00:29:27.420 --> 00:29:32.569 A:middle L:90% order of some of these examples and what he said 493 00:29:32.569 --> 00:29:37.140 A:middle L:90% to me is go ahead, go ahead and rewrite 494 00:29:37.140 --> 00:29:40.190 A:middle L:90% my chapter in the way that you think it will 495 00:29:40.190 --> 00:29:42.579 A:middle L:90% affect your readers. I'm not the editor, so 496 00:29:42.589 --> 00:29:45.160 A:middle L:90% I don't know what your editorial vision is. I 497 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:47.710 A:middle L:90% don't know what you think is going to be the 498 00:29:47.710 --> 00:29:49.099 A:middle L:90% most engaging to your readers. I do know what 499 00:29:49.099 --> 00:29:55.180 A:middle L:90% I'm talking about. Don't change my content Substantively but 500 00:29:55.180 --> 00:30:00.950 A:middle L:90% change my style cosmetically all you want and I trust 501 00:30:00.950 --> 00:30:03.829 A:middle L:90% you to do that. I am not so prideful 502 00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:07.890 A:middle L:90% of every semi colon and clause in my work that 503 00:30:07.890 --> 00:30:11.049 A:middle L:90% I can't allow a change in that. And I 504 00:30:11.049 --> 00:30:14.130 A:middle L:90% said as a courtesy, do you want me to 505 00:30:14.140 --> 00:30:18.190 A:middle L:90% send the revision back to you? Nope. Go 506 00:30:18.190 --> 00:30:22.049 A:middle L:90% for it. It is open licensed. Feel free 507 00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:26.079 A:middle L:90% to to remix this content and the way that is 508 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:30.329 A:middle L:90% going to improve it for your purposes. And a 509 00:30:30.329 --> 00:30:33.329 A:middle L:90% lot of people would worry, won't that reflect poorly 510 00:30:33.329 --> 00:30:37.390 A:middle L:90% on my reputation. So I do think there is 511 00:30:37.390 --> 00:30:40.259 A:middle L:90% a little bit of trust involved in the open movement 512 00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:42.119 A:middle L:90% . Wayne has to think that as an editor, 513 00:30:42.130 --> 00:30:45.859 A:middle L:90% I want a good product. It's the same trust 514 00:30:45.859 --> 00:30:48.690 A:middle L:90% that you put in the pilot of your airplanes, 515 00:30:48.700 --> 00:30:52.450 A:middle L:90% right? That guy or that woman also wants to 516 00:30:52.450 --> 00:30:55.150 A:middle L:90% live. You have to trust that they want to 517 00:30:55.150 --> 00:30:56.769 A:middle L:90% get home every bit as much as you do, 518 00:30:57.240 --> 00:31:00.480 A:middle L:90% right, That they're not, they don't need to 519 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:06.309 A:middle L:90% be, they don't need to be altruistic in their 520 00:31:06.309 --> 00:31:07.880 A:middle L:90% flying. They can be selfish and that's good enough 521 00:31:07.890 --> 00:31:18.000 A:middle L:90% because you will also benefit from that selfishness. one 522 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:22.809 A:middle L:90% of the most common questions I get about open materials 523 00:31:22.819 --> 00:31:26.269 A:middle L:90% is the idea of money, you heard me say 524 00:31:26.269 --> 00:31:29.069 A:middle L:90% in the case of eric Drucker, the artist, 525 00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:30.480 A:middle L:90% he said, go ahead and sell my artwork. 526 00:31:30.490 --> 00:31:36.420 A:middle L:90% Even now, that is very off putting to purveyors 527 00:31:36.430 --> 00:31:41.230 A:middle L:90% of intellectual property for any of us who have toiled 528 00:31:41.230 --> 00:31:44.940 A:middle L:90% away for our careers to carve out our corner of 529 00:31:44.940 --> 00:31:49.150 A:middle L:90% academic thought um with which we are principally known as 530 00:31:49.150 --> 00:31:52.750 A:middle L:90% the expert. The idea that someone else would take 531 00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:57.500 A:middle L:90% our ideas and sell it is anathema uh, to 532 00:31:57.509 --> 00:32:00.559 A:middle L:90% , to our system of commerce, to our understanding 533 00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:04.710 A:middle L:90% of expertise. Um it just in many ways is 534 00:32:04.710 --> 00:32:08.339 A:middle L:90% offensive and I completely get that. Um so what 535 00:32:08.339 --> 00:32:12.500 A:middle L:90% I usually say in response is well, are you 536 00:32:12.500 --> 00:32:15.490 A:middle L:90% making so much money off your intellectual property anyway, 537 00:32:15.500 --> 00:32:19.849 A:middle L:90% and if you are then it's probably a legitimate concern 538 00:32:19.849 --> 00:32:22.789 A:middle L:90% and if you're not probably quit worrying about it, 539 00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:23.950 A:middle L:90% but I do think that there's just sort of a 540 00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:29.359 A:middle L:90% fear that someone else might cash in and make millions 541 00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:31.369 A:middle L:90% millions of dollars like scrooge Mcduck, just be swimming 542 00:32:31.369 --> 00:32:34.619 A:middle L:90% in their piles of gold they made off of your 543 00:32:34.619 --> 00:32:37.859 A:middle L:90% intellectual property. And it would just frankly feel icky 544 00:32:38.339 --> 00:32:42.609 A:middle L:90% , like how could you spend so long writing something 545 00:32:42.609 --> 00:32:45.319 A:middle L:90% and then have someone else profit off it? Well 546 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:47.650 A:middle L:90% , you're already doing that, that is what the 547 00:32:47.650 --> 00:32:51.190 A:middle L:90% academic system is. Like if you ever published in 548 00:32:51.190 --> 00:32:52.859 A:middle L:90% a journal, someone else's profiting off your work, 549 00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:55.890 A:middle L:90% it's built into our system. The people who are 550 00:32:55.890 --> 00:33:00.849 A:middle L:90% profiting off your work more than any other person is 551 00:33:00.849 --> 00:33:06.559 A:middle L:90% academic publishers. Academic publishers are making more money collectively 552 00:33:06.940 --> 00:33:10.420 A:middle L:90% off of people who publish academic work than any individual 553 00:33:10.420 --> 00:33:14.690 A:middle L:90% academic. No, single academic has made as much 554 00:33:14.690 --> 00:33:17.190 A:middle L:90% as a publisher now. It's true. They're they're 555 00:33:17.190 --> 00:33:20.859 A:middle L:90% taking from so many different people, they're sort of 556 00:33:20.869 --> 00:33:22.049 A:middle L:90% making a little bit off of all of us and 557 00:33:22.049 --> 00:33:24.859 A:middle L:90% they're providing a service legitimately. I understand that, 558 00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:30.049 A:middle L:90% but I want to disabuse you of any kind of 559 00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:32.930 A:middle L:90% worry that someone might profit off your work because they 560 00:33:32.930 --> 00:33:37.329 A:middle L:90% already are. I would say if you want to 561 00:33:37.329 --> 00:33:38.400 A:middle L:90% profit off your work, just go ahead and start 562 00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:42.109 A:middle L:90% trying to profit off it yourself. Instead of trying 563 00:33:42.109 --> 00:33:45.039 A:middle L:90% to put barriers up to other people profiting off it 564 00:33:45.049 --> 00:33:46.119 A:middle L:90% , putting up barriers to other people profiting off, 565 00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:47.769 A:middle L:90% it is not going to make you a profit. 566 00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:57.849 A:middle L:90% Yeah, this is important. There is a license 567 00:33:57.849 --> 00:34:02.240 A:middle L:90% in place. The creative commons license that provides the 568 00:34:02.250 --> 00:34:09.949 A:middle L:90% fundamental infrastructure for how open materials are created, used 569 00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:15.090 A:middle L:90% , distributed, revised, sold, etcetera. Creative 570 00:34:15.090 --> 00:34:22.420 A:middle L:90% Commons was an attempt to answer intellectual copyright, intellectual 571 00:34:22.420 --> 00:34:27.840 A:middle L:90% copyright serves many good purposes. I'm not here to 572 00:34:27.849 --> 00:34:30.380 A:middle L:90% sort of throw copyright out just in the same way 573 00:34:30.380 --> 00:34:34.860 A:middle L:90% , I wouldn't want you to throw Wikipedia out instead 574 00:34:34.860 --> 00:34:37.969 A:middle L:90% . I'd want to improve copyright just as we want 575 00:34:37.969 --> 00:34:42.300 A:middle L:90% to improve Wikipedia and what creative comments has done is 576 00:34:42.300 --> 00:34:46.590 A:middle L:90% created an alternative licensure that allows you to choose one 577 00:34:46.590 --> 00:34:51.829 A:middle L:90% of six different licenses. These six different licenses go 578 00:34:51.829 --> 00:34:54.940 A:middle L:90% from the least restrictive to the most restrictive, the 579 00:34:54.940 --> 00:34:59.309 A:middle L:90% most restrictive you can see in the lower right hand 580 00:34:59.309 --> 00:35:02.780 A:middle L:90% corner. It is a creative commons license that requires 581 00:35:02.780 --> 00:35:06.539 A:middle L:90% that anyone who use your work for any reason must 582 00:35:06.539 --> 00:35:08.019 A:middle L:90% make attribution to you. That is they must say 583 00:35:08.019 --> 00:35:10.059 A:middle L:90% who it is by. So you see that little 584 00:35:10.059 --> 00:35:14.809 A:middle L:90% B. Y. That's attribution. They cannot use 585 00:35:14.809 --> 00:35:16.639 A:middle L:90% it commercially. You see the dollar sign crossed up 586 00:35:16.650 --> 00:35:20.429 A:middle L:90% . They can never use your work commercially. That's 587 00:35:20.429 --> 00:35:23.050 A:middle L:90% how you can protect yourself against profiteers if that's important 588 00:35:23.059 --> 00:35:29.070 A:middle L:90% to you and they cannot distribute it. But but 589 00:35:29.070 --> 00:35:35.119 A:middle L:90% they can they can use it in the upper left 590 00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:37.530 A:middle L:90% hand corner. You have the least restrictive license. 591 00:35:37.530 --> 00:35:39.699 A:middle L:90% They can do anything they want with it so long 592 00:35:39.699 --> 00:35:44.139 A:middle L:90% as they provide attribution back to the original source. 593 00:35:44.170 --> 00:35:46.730 A:middle L:90% And then you have every variation in between. So 594 00:35:46.730 --> 00:35:50.559 A:middle L:90% I think this is a great tool for empowerment for 595 00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:52.659 A:middle L:90% people who want to create materials that are of high 596 00:35:52.659 --> 00:35:55.320 A:middle L:90% quality but want them to be open, want them 597 00:35:55.320 --> 00:36:00.869 A:middle L:90% to be remove obstacles to sharing, because this allows 598 00:36:00.869 --> 00:36:04.190 A:middle L:90% you to choose the amount of sharing or the method 599 00:36:04.190 --> 00:36:06.880 A:middle L:90% of sharing or the ways of shared with which you 600 00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:10.489 A:middle L:90% yourself are comfortable. If you want to stop people 601 00:36:10.489 --> 00:36:13.940 A:middle L:90% from doing any commercial use of your work, you 602 00:36:13.940 --> 00:36:16.730 A:middle L:90% have the tool to do so if you are not 603 00:36:16.730 --> 00:36:19.820 A:middle L:90% that invested in this particular material and you want it 604 00:36:19.820 --> 00:36:22.110 A:middle L:90% to be shared as widely as possible, you have 605 00:36:22.110 --> 00:36:30.789 A:middle L:90% the tool for making exactly that happened. I'd also 606 00:36:30.789 --> 00:36:32.800 A:middle L:90% like to talk just a tiny bit about Andrew Gaggi 607 00:36:32.809 --> 00:36:36.260 A:middle L:90% . This is a word that I've heard relatively recent 608 00:36:36.269 --> 00:36:39.789 A:middle L:90% recently that I'm pretty charmed by. So we all 609 00:36:39.789 --> 00:36:43.539 A:middle L:90% know pedagogy but of course the root of the word 610 00:36:43.539 --> 00:36:47.510 A:middle L:90% pedagogy pedal has to do with instructing Children. But 611 00:36:47.510 --> 00:36:52.579 A:middle L:90% in higher education we are instructing adults and that means 612 00:36:52.579 --> 00:37:00.190 A:middle L:90% that the Androgel G must defer necessarily from pedagogy. 613 00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:02.849 A:middle L:90% The idea of pedagogy is what we know is the 614 00:37:02.849 --> 00:37:06.099 A:middle L:90% sage on the stage. I do a lot of 615 00:37:06.099 --> 00:37:08.409 A:middle L:90% lecturing, I am the font of knowledge and I 616 00:37:08.409 --> 00:37:14.710 A:middle L:90% am going to through my curation inside this wonderful mental 617 00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:16.650 A:middle L:90% hopper tell you only the most important things for you 618 00:37:16.650 --> 00:37:20.599 A:middle L:90% to know because I know what's best for you. 619 00:37:20.650 --> 00:37:22.699 A:middle L:90% That's how we treat Children. Andrew koji is the 620 00:37:22.699 --> 00:37:27.869 A:middle L:90% idea that the learner can also be a participant in 621 00:37:27.869 --> 00:37:30.530 A:middle L:90% his or her own learning. That is you're empowering 622 00:37:30.530 --> 00:37:36.059 A:middle L:90% learners as adults to act like adults and participate as 623 00:37:36.070 --> 00:37:38.960 A:middle L:90% equal partners. That's why you sometimes hear the phrase 624 00:37:39.030 --> 00:37:42.530 A:middle L:90% instead of the Sage on the stage, the guide 625 00:37:42.530 --> 00:37:45.679 A:middle L:90% on the side. Um and people who have this 626 00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:51.599 A:middle L:90% mentality work far more to do engaging classroom discussion. 627 00:37:51.610 --> 00:37:53.829 A:middle L:90% This is something that's always happened um in the humanities 628 00:37:53.829 --> 00:37:57.519 A:middle L:90% in terms of seminars, but in terms of large 629 00:37:57.519 --> 00:38:00.230 A:middle L:90% classes, um intro psychology for example, it's often 630 00:38:00.230 --> 00:38:05.380 A:middle L:90% been a lecture style course. So, so really 631 00:38:05.389 --> 00:38:08.190 A:middle L:90% what I think open does is it allows us to 632 00:38:08.190 --> 00:38:12.849 A:middle L:90% share what we can call pedagogy, or if you 633 00:38:12.849 --> 00:38:15.300 A:middle L:90% like the word Andrew Gaggi, we can share techniques 634 00:38:15.309 --> 00:38:20.409 A:middle L:90% for improving education, making sure that education is a 635 00:38:20.409 --> 00:38:23.750 A:middle L:90% little bit more sophisticated, a little bit more engaging 636 00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:28.719 A:middle L:90% and ultimately more effective. Right now. There are 637 00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:30.440 A:middle L:90% a few barriers to people sharing what they do. 638 00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:37.000 A:middle L:90% Young faculty members pre tenure sometimes worry that that if 639 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:39.449 A:middle L:90% they come up with a great classroom demonstration of a 640 00:38:39.449 --> 00:38:44.139 A:middle L:90% particular phenomenon or concept, they don't want to give 641 00:38:44.139 --> 00:38:45.710 A:middle L:90% it out because this is one of the reasons why 642 00:38:45.710 --> 00:38:49.719 A:middle L:90% they're getting such high teaching recommendations. If they give 643 00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:52.239 A:middle L:90% it to their tenured peers and raise their teaching recommendations 644 00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:57.090 A:middle L:90% , well then where's their unique contribution? I would 645 00:38:57.090 --> 00:39:00.030 A:middle L:90% argue their unique contribution isn't coming up with the wonderful 646 00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:04.280 A:middle L:90% uh demonstration to begin with. And you only harm 647 00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:07.079 A:middle L:90% students by clinging to it. That is harm all 648 00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:10.219 A:middle L:90% students and you help students widely if you're willing to 649 00:39:10.219 --> 00:39:19.539 A:middle L:90% share it. Mhm. A few examples of Andrew 650 00:39:19.539 --> 00:39:22.789 A:middle L:90% Gaggi are the Wikipedia initiative. This is something that 651 00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:27.769 A:middle L:90% the Association for Psychological Science took on. Um And 652 00:39:27.769 --> 00:39:30.019 A:middle L:90% it it partnered with Wikipedia and A. P. 653 00:39:30.019 --> 00:39:31.909 A:middle L:90% S. Said look, we don't love what you've 654 00:39:31.909 --> 00:39:35.670 A:middle L:90% done with the field of psychology. We think that 655 00:39:35.670 --> 00:39:37.679 A:middle L:90% that while there's some pretty robust and decent articles, 656 00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:39.940 A:middle L:90% we also think that there are a number of articles 657 00:39:39.940 --> 00:39:43.949 A:middle L:90% on a number of psychological concepts which need to be 658 00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:46.659 A:middle L:90% shored up, We'd like to see improved. And 659 00:39:46.659 --> 00:39:51.170 A:middle L:90% we believe that we the experts, the contents experts 660 00:39:51.179 --> 00:39:53.050 A:middle L:90% , psychologists are probably the best able to do this 661 00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:58.289 A:middle L:90% . And we would like to recruit our own students 662 00:39:58.300 --> 00:40:01.349 A:middle L:90% in this process if we can engage our students and 663 00:40:01.349 --> 00:40:05.739 A:middle L:90% the idea that they can get into Wikipedia and take 664 00:40:05.739 --> 00:40:08.679 A:middle L:90% the information they're learning right now in class and modify 665 00:40:08.679 --> 00:40:13.710 A:middle L:90% a Wikipedia article to improve that article. So they 666 00:40:13.719 --> 00:40:17.449 A:middle L:90% are going to improve the overall quality of learning educational 667 00:40:17.449 --> 00:40:20.960 A:middle L:90% resources for all. And it's what I would call 668 00:40:20.969 --> 00:40:22.880 A:middle L:90% a legacy assignment. That is, it is not 669 00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:25.889 A:middle L:90% a disposable assignment. It's not writing a paper. 670 00:40:25.889 --> 00:40:29.449 A:middle L:90% The only your instructor will read. You know, 671 00:40:29.449 --> 00:40:30.869 A:middle L:90% you have an end of one in terms of leadership 672 00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:32.559 A:middle L:90% and you know that as soon as they're done, 673 00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:35.440 A:middle L:90% marking it up and giving it back to you, 674 00:40:35.809 --> 00:40:37.889 A:middle L:90% you're going to recycle it. You'll never, ever 675 00:40:37.889 --> 00:40:39.769 A:middle L:90% look at it again unless you try and pass it 676 00:40:39.769 --> 00:40:43.469 A:middle L:90% off to another instructor in another class later on for 677 00:40:43.469 --> 00:40:46.849 A:middle L:90% credit. But basically there is an assumption that this 678 00:40:46.849 --> 00:40:52.380 A:middle L:90% is just disposable information with Wikipedia. It's public information 679 00:40:52.389 --> 00:40:57.650 A:middle L:90% and it endures. And I think that students feel 680 00:40:57.650 --> 00:41:00.829 A:middle L:90% the weight of that a little bit more. Here 681 00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:05.320 A:middle L:90% is a student from North uh, from Northeastern University 682 00:41:05.329 --> 00:41:08.469 A:middle L:90% who says I was encouraged by more than the grade 683 00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:12.960 A:middle L:90% . I wanted to contribute to something long lasting and 684 00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:16.260 A:middle L:90% something bigger than myself. And here we have a 685 00:41:16.260 --> 00:41:21.280 A:middle L:90% very adult type of assignment. I know an instructor 686 00:41:21.289 --> 00:41:25.050 A:middle L:90% in Minnesota who was teaching a history of psychology course 687 00:41:25.059 --> 00:41:30.329 A:middle L:90% , took her her class to a local, um 688 00:41:30.710 --> 00:41:31.389 A:middle L:90% , it was a museum, but it used to 689 00:41:31.389 --> 00:41:37.090 A:middle L:90% be an asylum for the treatment of mental disorders and 690 00:41:37.099 --> 00:41:40.190 A:middle L:90% she had them really look at the museum and then 691 00:41:40.190 --> 00:41:45.170 A:middle L:90% get into the state archives and pull up information about 692 00:41:45.170 --> 00:41:49.730 A:middle L:90% the history of this building that had never been discovered 693 00:41:49.730 --> 00:41:52.829 A:middle L:90% before. And because of the information, the students 694 00:41:52.829 --> 00:41:54.800 A:middle L:90% in this class found, the museum actually created an 695 00:41:54.800 --> 00:41:59.900 A:middle L:90% entirely new display. And I think that that's kind 696 00:41:59.900 --> 00:42:00.960 A:middle L:90% of cool. These students thought, wow. Now 697 00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:04.780 A:middle L:90% in a museum somewhere, there is an actual display 698 00:42:04.780 --> 00:42:07.460 A:middle L:90% that we created through our own knowledge. And does 699 00:42:07.460 --> 00:42:09.550 A:middle L:90% that teach the history of psychology you bet. But 700 00:42:09.550 --> 00:42:13.530 A:middle L:90% it does it in a very adult way using legacy 701 00:42:13.530 --> 00:42:16.409 A:middle L:90% assignments. The reason we know about these is because 702 00:42:16.409 --> 00:42:20.150 A:middle L:90% they are made public. The assignments that most of 703 00:42:20.150 --> 00:42:22.610 A:middle L:90% you, given your classrooms are not made public in 704 00:42:22.619 --> 00:42:27.369 A:middle L:90% a widely shareable way. But now that you know 705 00:42:27.369 --> 00:42:31.090 A:middle L:90% about this history of psychology assignment, maybe you see 706 00:42:31.090 --> 00:42:36.130 A:middle L:90% some modification of that that might be appropriate to something 707 00:42:36.130 --> 00:42:37.909 A:middle L:90% that you're doing, whether in psychology or another field 708 00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:40.219 A:middle L:90% . So the more we are sharing our ideas for 709 00:42:40.219 --> 00:42:43.809 A:middle L:90% teaching and engaging students, I think the better off 710 00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:52.690 A:middle L:90% both faculty and students are. Now, let's get 711 00:42:52.690 --> 00:42:57.269 A:middle L:90% to the pesky problem of textbooks. This is going 712 00:42:57.269 --> 00:43:00.260 A:middle L:90% to be my introduction to nova, the open Educational 713 00:43:00.260 --> 00:43:05.869 A:middle L:90% Resource upon which I work most closely. This is 714 00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:07.510 A:middle L:90% the first of several sides of student data. I'll 715 00:43:07.510 --> 00:43:13.059 A:middle L:90% show you this was taken from about 90 students at 716 00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:17.550 A:middle L:90% Community College. So two year institution in Oregon and 717 00:43:17.559 --> 00:43:21.590 A:middle L:90% the single question was, I have been unable to 718 00:43:21.590 --> 00:43:28.769 A:middle L:90% afford textbooks for some courses. 40 of the students 719 00:43:28.769 --> 00:43:30.219 A:middle L:90% said I could not afford it, not, I 720 00:43:30.219 --> 00:43:34.659 A:middle L:90% chose not to buy it. Not. I complained 721 00:43:34.670 --> 00:43:37.530 A:middle L:90% that it was too expensive, but I could not 722 00:43:37.539 --> 00:43:40.769 A:middle L:90% afford it. If you would like a little bit 723 00:43:40.769 --> 00:43:45.190 A:middle L:90% of data from closer to home In a recent sample 724 00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:51.539 A:middle L:90% of Virginia Tech University students, 300 students. The 725 00:43:51.550 --> 00:43:55.260 A:middle L:90% expected amount That VT you students would spend on textbooks 726 00:43:55.260 --> 00:44:00.320 A:middle L:90% and one semester is$600. So go and ask 727 00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:04.000 A:middle L:90% 300 students as was done here on this campus. 728 00:44:04.889 --> 00:44:07.139 A:middle L:90% How much did you actually spend? You would expect 729 00:44:07.139 --> 00:44:12.920 A:middle L:90% that number to be 600. It was$325. 730 00:44:13.989 --> 00:44:17.550 A:middle L:90% They're buying roughly half of their textbooks. I know 731 00:44:17.550 --> 00:44:20.989 A:middle L:90% here on campus this week, the slogan around Open 732 00:44:20.989 --> 00:44:23.579 A:middle L:90% education week has been because you don't want students to 733 00:44:23.579 --> 00:44:27.130 A:middle L:90% have to get a second job just to be able 734 00:44:27.130 --> 00:44:29.500 A:middle L:90% to afford their textbooks. Well, don't worry because 735 00:44:29.500 --> 00:44:30.449 A:middle L:90% they're not getting a second job. It's way easier 736 00:44:30.449 --> 00:44:34.889 A:middle L:90% to just not by the textbook. And I think 737 00:44:34.889 --> 00:44:37.019 A:middle L:90% that's problematic if, if it's not just the textbook 738 00:44:37.019 --> 00:44:39.380 A:middle L:90% , but all the ancillary materials that go with it 739 00:44:39.389 --> 00:44:43.980 A:middle L:90% , the course where and the assignments and the computer 740 00:44:43.980 --> 00:44:45.769 A:middle L:90% codes and all those things that, that would be 741 00:44:45.769 --> 00:44:50.300 A:middle L:90% materials that they would otherwise be required for of course 742 00:44:50.309 --> 00:44:52.070 A:middle L:90% . Um, I think this is happening at an 743 00:44:52.070 --> 00:44:54.760 A:middle L:90% alarming rate at two year institutions and a four year 744 00:44:54.760 --> 00:45:00.920 A:middle L:90% institutions. Again, this is from Jamaica to community 745 00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:02.519 A:middle L:90% College in Oregon. If I had a choice between 746 00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:06.730 A:middle L:90% a course that used open materials versus one that did 747 00:45:06.739 --> 00:45:08.889 A:middle L:90% not, I would select the course that had open 748 00:45:08.889 --> 00:45:16.880 A:middle L:90% materials. The overwhelming majority said, I strongly agree 749 00:45:16.889 --> 00:45:20.599 A:middle L:90% . If you combine the people who somewhat agreed and 750 00:45:20.599 --> 00:45:23.030 A:middle L:90% the people who strongly agreed, you see a preference 751 00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:29.280 A:middle L:90% in students saying I want open materials by and large 752 00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:30.670 A:middle L:90% . The only people who are saying I don't want 753 00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:36.340 A:middle L:90% open materials. Our instructors and the instructors have very 754 00:45:36.340 --> 00:45:42.110 A:middle L:90% legitimate reasons for saying that switching textbooks is a pain 755 00:45:42.489 --> 00:45:45.170 A:middle L:90% . I get it. You have to have different 756 00:45:45.179 --> 00:45:46.780 A:middle L:90% test banks, you have to have different power points 757 00:45:46.780 --> 00:45:50.380 A:middle L:90% , You're doing different lectures, you have to learn 758 00:45:50.380 --> 00:45:52.010 A:middle L:90% a different set of materials, you have to put 759 00:45:52.010 --> 00:45:55.710 A:middle L:90% in new book orders forms with the school bookstore. 760 00:45:57.190 --> 00:46:00.389 A:middle L:90% It is a hassle for people who already are committed 761 00:46:00.389 --> 00:46:07.170 A:middle L:90% workers and working hard but students overwhelmingly want cheaper yet 762 00:46:07.170 --> 00:46:13.860 A:middle L:90% still high quality materials. And this is where Nova 763 00:46:13.869 --> 00:46:15.960 A:middle L:90% comes in. I'm going to tell you about nova 764 00:46:15.969 --> 00:46:20.300 A:middle L:90% a little bit and I want to for warn you 765 00:46:20.309 --> 00:46:22.239 A:middle L:90% that it's going to sound like a sales pitch because 766 00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:24.920 A:middle L:90% I'm gonna tell you some awesome stuff about Nova. 767 00:46:24.929 --> 00:46:28.099 A:middle L:90% I'm going to tell you how great nova is, 768 00:46:28.099 --> 00:46:30.889 A:middle L:90% how proud I am of nova. How if you 769 00:46:30.889 --> 00:46:32.690 A:middle L:90% do anything with psychology, if you haven't walked by 770 00:46:32.690 --> 00:46:36.119 A:middle L:90% the psych department on your camp is you should probably 771 00:46:36.130 --> 00:46:40.489 A:middle L:90% use Nova and it might sound sales e to you 772 00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:44.000 A:middle L:90% . But I want you to remember this one thing 773 00:46:44.380 --> 00:46:46.550 A:middle L:90% I have nothing to sell. We don't make any 774 00:46:46.550 --> 00:46:51.219 A:middle L:90% money at nova. There's no cost associated it. 775 00:46:51.230 --> 00:46:54.480 A:middle L:90% It's all free. So all I'm doing instead of 776 00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:58.210 A:middle L:90% trying to sell you on Nova is trying to give 777 00:46:58.210 --> 00:47:00.639 A:middle L:90% you nova and I would just simply ask, will 778 00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:04.809 A:middle L:90% you take it or not? So what is nobody 779 00:47:04.809 --> 00:47:09.260 A:middle L:90% nova? Um is a psychologist funded psychologist created and 780 00:47:09.269 --> 00:47:15.210 A:middle L:90% it is a tool for teaching and learning psychology for 781 00:47:15.219 --> 00:47:25.219 A:middle L:90% free. We created an online platform that has essentially 782 00:47:25.219 --> 00:47:30.010 A:middle L:90% free textbooks in psychology. You can download them, 783 00:47:30.010 --> 00:47:32.030 A:middle L:90% you can share them with your students. You never 784 00:47:32.030 --> 00:47:35.860 A:middle L:90% have to ask our permission. You can modify them 785 00:47:35.860 --> 00:47:38.389 A:middle L:90% if you want. You can change the order. 786 00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:42.880 A:middle L:90% You can uh do all sorts of things with them 787 00:47:42.880 --> 00:47:44.900 A:middle L:90% . We also have a blog. We have teachers 788 00:47:44.900 --> 00:47:47.280 A:middle L:90% writing for us sharing their best ideas from their classroom 789 00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:50.190 A:middle L:90% . What makes them passionate. What clicks with their 790 00:47:50.190 --> 00:47:53.329 A:middle L:90% students? We have ancillary materials are textbooks are fully 791 00:47:53.329 --> 00:47:59.260 A:middle L:90% supported by power points by test banks by an instructor's 792 00:47:59.260 --> 00:48:02.849 A:middle L:90% manual, the instructor's manual spearheaded by the former president 793 00:48:02.849 --> 00:48:06.519 A:middle L:90% of the Society for Teaching and Learning of Psychology. 794 00:48:06.530 --> 00:48:09.369 A:middle L:90% So we look heavily at the science of teaching and 795 00:48:09.369 --> 00:48:14.699 A:middle L:90% Learning when creating best practices for our power points and 796 00:48:14.699 --> 00:48:17.530 A:middle L:90% our instructor's manual materials. Again, all of its 797 00:48:17.530 --> 00:48:21.199 A:middle L:90% for free, we just want to give it away 798 00:48:21.570 --> 00:48:24.000 A:middle L:90% and we do give it away after an initial hurdle 799 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:28.070 A:middle L:90% of resistance from people. We have made pretty good 800 00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:30.869 A:middle L:90% strides. So in preparation for this particular talk, 801 00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:34.079 A:middle L:90% I looked at the last seven days at Noma. 802 00:48:34.469 --> 00:48:36.869 A:middle L:90% Um and we have people requesting our test bank and 803 00:48:36.869 --> 00:48:37.650 A:middle L:90% when they request our test bank, we asked them 804 00:48:37.650 --> 00:48:39.619 A:middle L:90% a couple questions. What do you want the test 805 00:48:39.619 --> 00:48:45.059 A:middle L:90% bank for? Is that class? Is nobody your 806 00:48:45.059 --> 00:48:49.139 A:middle L:90% primary textbook? And how many students are there in 807 00:48:49.139 --> 00:48:51.719 A:middle L:90% that class? If you look at the last seven 808 00:48:51.719 --> 00:48:54.079 A:middle L:90% days and you figure, let's just call it$50 809 00:48:54.090 --> 00:48:58.909 A:middle L:90% per textbook and savings. You you can come up 810 00:48:58.909 --> 00:49:00.010 A:middle L:90% with all sorts of metrics. You know, some 811 00:49:00.019 --> 00:49:02.670 A:middle L:90% textbooks are more than$200. But what about people 812 00:49:02.670 --> 00:49:06.639 A:middle L:90% who rent electronic versions? So I'm just going to 813 00:49:06.639 --> 00:49:09.010 A:middle L:90% give it an even number$50 50 per student in 814 00:49:09.010 --> 00:49:13.789 A:middle L:90% the last seven days. Nobody has saved students$15,000 815 00:49:14.369 --> 00:49:15.800 A:middle L:90% . And that's a pretty typical week for us. 816 00:49:16.869 --> 00:49:21.280 A:middle L:90% I think that's kind of cool. That's the proud 817 00:49:21.280 --> 00:49:25.210 A:middle L:90% part. Here's what noble looks like when you get 818 00:49:25.210 --> 00:49:29.820 A:middle L:90% on. We created a platform by which you can 819 00:49:29.820 --> 00:49:32.269 A:middle L:90% look at 100 different learning modules and we have a 820 00:49:32.269 --> 00:49:36.309 A:middle L:90% dragon drop system. You can see over on the 821 00:49:36.320 --> 00:49:39.280 A:middle L:90% right hand portion, there's sort of a blank part 822 00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:43.050 A:middle L:90% of the screen and on the left is where all 823 00:49:43.050 --> 00:49:45.909 A:middle L:90% the different teaching modules are. You just drag it 824 00:49:45.909 --> 00:49:47.289 A:middle L:90% with your cursor anything you want, drag it over 825 00:49:47.289 --> 00:49:51.130 A:middle L:90% to the right and boom, it's in your textbook 826 00:49:51.139 --> 00:49:52.320 A:middle L:90% . You want to change the title? Just type 827 00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:54.389 A:middle L:90% it in. You want to rearrange the order of 828 00:49:54.389 --> 00:49:58.230 A:middle L:90% the modules, go for it. You can see 829 00:49:58.230 --> 00:50:00.750 A:middle L:90% that there is already a module on the right called 830 00:50:00.750 --> 00:50:04.210 A:middle L:90% the psycho physiological methods in neuroscience. Yes, we 831 00:50:04.210 --> 00:50:07.750 A:middle L:90% have a module on that. We're dragging over right 832 00:50:07.750 --> 00:50:10.289 A:middle L:90% now. A module on research design. If I 833 00:50:10.289 --> 00:50:13.320 A:middle L:90% want to change the order of those, I simply 834 00:50:13.320 --> 00:50:15.710 A:middle L:90% drag and drop them where it says new textbook at 835 00:50:15.710 --> 00:50:19.219 A:middle L:90% the top. I can type in any title. 836 00:50:19.219 --> 00:50:22.739 A:middle L:90% I want Robert Psych 101 textbook for example, can 837 00:50:22.750 --> 00:50:27.699 A:middle L:90% brand in any particular way I want. We have 838 00:50:27.710 --> 00:50:30.079 A:middle L:90% 100 different modules, all of which are expert written 839 00:50:30.460 --> 00:50:35.320 A:middle L:90% that cover every area of psychology. We have very 840 00:50:35.329 --> 00:50:38.570 A:middle L:90% typical modules, things like research design, that you 841 00:50:38.570 --> 00:50:42.510 A:middle L:90% would expect in almost any psychology course, we have 842 00:50:42.510 --> 00:50:45.420 A:middle L:90% very up to date ones, the replication crisis in 843 00:50:45.420 --> 00:50:49.719 A:middle L:90% psychology that has been edited and revised as recently as 844 00:50:49.730 --> 00:50:53.780 A:middle L:90% this week to capture publications that have come out as 845 00:50:53.780 --> 00:50:57.980 A:middle L:90% recently as last week. That's how up to date 846 00:50:57.980 --> 00:51:01.440 A:middle L:90% it is. Um we have lesser used but very 847 00:51:01.449 --> 00:51:06.889 A:middle L:90% interesting corners of psychology covered like the biochemistry of Love 848 00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:08.420 A:middle L:90% . If that's not something you know about, feel 849 00:51:08.420 --> 00:51:12.809 A:middle L:90% free to get a nova account and read the biochemistry 850 00:51:12.809 --> 00:51:15.170 A:middle L:90% of love, make yourself an expert. It's pretty 851 00:51:15.170 --> 00:51:20.909 A:middle L:90% interesting. Yeah, So just a few things about 852 00:51:20.909 --> 00:51:22.909 A:middle L:90% no better glance. We have 100 learning modules written 853 00:51:22.909 --> 00:51:27.139 A:middle L:90% by 120 different psychologists from all over the world, 854 00:51:27.150 --> 00:51:30.610 A:middle L:90% from everywhere from two year Ecologist to Harvard. We've 855 00:51:30.610 --> 00:51:35.360 A:middle L:90% got the entire range. Um it is learning management 856 00:51:35.360 --> 00:51:37.369 A:middle L:90% system and screen reader compatible. We really do try 857 00:51:37.369 --> 00:51:40.059 A:middle L:90% and make accessibility a priority of ours. It's something 858 00:51:40.059 --> 00:51:45.139 A:middle L:90% that we're concerned about. We have everything supported with 859 00:51:45.150 --> 00:51:49.440 A:middle L:90% ancillary materials, We have print versions available, uh 860 00:51:49.449 --> 00:51:52.550 A:middle L:90% there's a photograph of our print version so you can 861 00:51:52.550 --> 00:51:54.719 A:middle L:90% get a soft cover print version of what is comparable 862 00:51:54.719 --> 00:52:00.449 A:middle L:90% to an introductory to psychology textbook. Are book you 863 00:52:00.449 --> 00:52:04.280 A:middle L:90% do have to pay for, I have to admit 864 00:52:04.289 --> 00:52:06.840 A:middle L:90% because it costs money to print, it's$12, 865 00:52:06.849 --> 00:52:10.269 A:middle L:90% so if you want a$12 book, there you 866 00:52:10.269 --> 00:52:15.780 A:middle L:90% go. Um currently we have about 30,000 users that 867 00:52:15.789 --> 00:52:22.369 A:middle L:90% that grows by about 10,000 per term um especially is 868 00:52:22.369 --> 00:52:24.539 A:middle L:90% growing in the two year institution, although we've been 869 00:52:24.539 --> 00:52:29.639 A:middle L:90% formally adopted by by a number of four year institutions 870 00:52:29.639 --> 00:52:31.829 A:middle L:90% as well as well as uh as uh sort of 871 00:52:31.829 --> 00:52:36.469 A:middle L:90% an ad hoc material by individual instructors within departments. 872 00:52:36.849 --> 00:52:43.630 A:middle L:90% Um At some schools we save students six figures a 873 00:52:43.630 --> 00:52:45.960 A:middle L:90% year just at that institution alone, and that's how 874 00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:51.739 A:middle L:90% we measure our impact. We want adoption desperately because 875 00:52:51.750 --> 00:52:53.659 A:middle L:90% every dollar saved we think is making the world a 876 00:52:53.659 --> 00:52:55.809 A:middle L:90% better place. So the more dollars we save, 877 00:52:55.820 --> 00:52:59.269 A:middle L:90% the better it is and that's our incentive for making 878 00:52:59.269 --> 00:53:02.090 A:middle L:90% high quality materials. So one of the very first 879 00:53:02.099 --> 00:53:06.469 A:middle L:90% things we did in our bid to make high quality 880 00:53:06.469 --> 00:53:09.360 A:middle L:90% materials is we recruited content experts and here I'm saying 881 00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:14.489 A:middle L:90% expert with a capital E. When we wanted someone 882 00:53:14.489 --> 00:53:17.199 A:middle L:90% to write about eyewitness testimony, we got Elizabeth Loftus 883 00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:22.570 A:middle L:90% , the world's foremost authority in eyewitness testimony. When 884 00:53:22.570 --> 00:53:23.519 A:middle L:90% we want someone to write about self control. We 885 00:53:23.519 --> 00:53:27.980 A:middle L:90% went and got Roy Baumeister, the world's foremost authority 886 00:53:27.989 --> 00:53:30.349 A:middle L:90% . And that's what we have from most of our 887 00:53:30.349 --> 00:53:32.090 A:middle L:90% modules. People who at least in our field of 888 00:53:32.090 --> 00:53:36.570 A:middle L:90% psychology, our famous. So when folks say, 889 00:53:36.570 --> 00:53:37.380 A:middle L:90% well, how do we know your materials are any 890 00:53:37.380 --> 00:53:39.250 A:middle L:90% good? It's easy just to say, well, 891 00:53:39.250 --> 00:53:42.949 A:middle L:90% do you think that Elizabeth Loftus or Roy Baumeister any 892 00:53:42.949 --> 00:53:45.369 A:middle L:90% good? And there's usually sort of a pick your 893 00:53:45.380 --> 00:53:49.960 A:middle L:90% jaw up off the floor kind of moment for people 894 00:53:49.960 --> 00:53:53.369 A:middle L:90% when they see that these people wrote free textbooks. 895 00:53:53.650 --> 00:53:57.550 A:middle L:90% Um in fact, we even have some textbook authors 896 00:53:57.559 --> 00:54:00.940 A:middle L:90% who have written for us, uh which I think 897 00:54:00.949 --> 00:54:07.329 A:middle L:90% is very magnanimous people by the way, are not 898 00:54:07.329 --> 00:54:13.869 A:middle L:90% simply willing to concede the expert writing is enough to 899 00:54:13.880 --> 00:54:16.659 A:middle L:90% assure quality. The most common question of course is 900 00:54:16.670 --> 00:54:20.889 A:middle L:90% , hey, do you do peer review? And 901 00:54:20.900 --> 00:54:23.260 A:middle L:90% I laugh a little bit when I hear that question 902 00:54:23.269 --> 00:54:27.760 A:middle L:90% , are your materials peer reviewed? Because to think 903 00:54:27.760 --> 00:54:31.230 A:middle L:90% that we would stop at pure review vastly underestimates. 904 00:54:31.230 --> 00:54:37.269 A:middle L:90% I think what is possible when you have academics publishing 905 00:54:37.269 --> 00:54:42.130 A:middle L:90% our own textbooks, peer review is something that a 906 00:54:42.139 --> 00:54:45.389 A:middle L:90% commercial textbook publisher would do so that they can sell 907 00:54:45.389 --> 00:54:46.550 A:middle L:90% their book and they could say yes, we peer 908 00:54:46.550 --> 00:54:51.389 A:middle L:90% reviewed it. We care so much more about our 909 00:54:51.389 --> 00:54:53.829 A:middle L:90% content about our pedagogy because we ourselves are instructors, 910 00:54:53.829 --> 00:54:57.699 A:middle L:90% we ourselves are psychologists. So let me show you 911 00:54:57.699 --> 00:55:04.269 A:middle L:90% what No, but our quality assurance program, it's 912 00:55:04.280 --> 00:55:07.599 A:middle L:90% expert written, its editorial review that as we send 913 00:55:07.599 --> 00:55:12.300 A:middle L:90% it through two different editors, it is peer reviewed 914 00:55:12.309 --> 00:55:15.159 A:middle L:90% . Yes, we definitely do that. It's student 915 00:55:15.159 --> 00:55:17.460 A:middle L:90% reviewed. We worked with psych I the National Honor 916 00:55:17.460 --> 00:55:23.030 A:middle L:90% Society for Psychology and had multiple students rate and review 917 00:55:23.039 --> 00:55:25.610 A:middle L:90% every single module we published. We want to make 918 00:55:25.610 --> 00:55:29.369 A:middle L:90% sure that students like it and that it's engaging and 919 00:55:29.369 --> 00:55:31.949 A:middle L:90% that it's clear and that the illustrations an example work 920 00:55:31.960 --> 00:55:35.030 A:middle L:90% every bit as much as we want to make sure 921 00:55:35.030 --> 00:55:37.989 A:middle L:90% that the research is accurately reported. Uh We go 922 00:55:37.989 --> 00:55:42.409 A:middle L:90% through an accessibility review and here I want to admit 923 00:55:42.409 --> 00:55:45.920 A:middle L:90% to you that these materials are imperfect and our work 924 00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:49.239 A:middle L:90% in progress. Uh we have a number of embedded 925 00:55:49.239 --> 00:55:52.539 A:middle L:90% videos in our in some of our modules that are 926 00:55:52.539 --> 00:55:59.050 A:middle L:90% not closed captions uh or accessible. And so we're 927 00:55:59.050 --> 00:56:01.360 A:middle L:90% working to revise that because as we get that kind 928 00:56:01.360 --> 00:56:05.409 A:middle L:90% of feedback from people, we are able, because 929 00:56:05.409 --> 00:56:07.139 A:middle L:90% we're not a print text book, you know, 930 00:56:07.139 --> 00:56:08.099 A:middle L:90% that the video, we can just drop in a 931 00:56:08.099 --> 00:56:10.539 A:middle L:90% new link and change it in an afternoon. And 932 00:56:10.539 --> 00:56:13.679 A:middle L:90% we try and be very, very responsive to that 933 00:56:13.690 --> 00:56:15.159 A:middle L:90% . But we do go through an accessibility review. 934 00:56:15.369 --> 00:56:19.920 A:middle L:90% We go through an empirical review. We're actually testing 935 00:56:19.920 --> 00:56:22.719 A:middle L:90% this. We're asking researchers to go out and publish 936 00:56:22.719 --> 00:56:27.059 A:middle L:90% on it and we'll find what you find. We 937 00:56:27.059 --> 00:56:29.639 A:middle L:90% hope that you find that we're good, but we're 938 00:56:29.639 --> 00:56:31.360 A:middle L:90% also researchers and we want you to take an objective 939 00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:34.840 A:middle L:90% stance and find whatever it is. We also go 940 00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:38.469 A:middle L:90% through international review. So we have foreign instructors um 941 00:56:38.480 --> 00:56:42.699 A:middle L:90% look at different areas where they think we might be 942 00:56:42.710 --> 00:56:45.659 A:middle L:90% to american in our language or in our examples. 943 00:56:45.230 --> 00:56:51.030 A:middle L:90% Um and we try and internationalize our text to the 944 00:56:51.030 --> 00:57:00.099 A:middle L:90% extent possible. A little bit about a recent study 945 00:57:00.099 --> 00:57:01.800 A:middle L:90% that was done. Um one of the places, 946 00:57:01.809 --> 00:57:06.610 A:middle L:90% one of the locations was here in Virginia had an 947 00:57:06.619 --> 00:57:13.369 A:middle L:90% end of almost 1500 undergraduate students. Um Some amount 948 00:57:13.380 --> 00:57:16.530 A:middle L:90% used nobody and hard copy form, the majority in 949 00:57:16.530 --> 00:57:21.380 A:middle L:90% electronic form 170 of them used both. Now I 950 00:57:21.380 --> 00:57:24.010 A:middle L:90% think that that's interesting that they used both that they 951 00:57:24.010 --> 00:57:28.750 A:middle L:90% were not limited to one or the other. They 952 00:57:28.750 --> 00:57:30.730 A:middle L:90% didn't have to just rent their e book and then 953 00:57:30.730 --> 00:57:34.030 A:middle L:90% never have a hard copy. Um they were able 954 00:57:34.030 --> 00:57:37.429 A:middle L:90% to buy the hard copy for$12 and access the 955 00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:42.369 A:middle L:90% electronic version anytime they wanted and indeed they could access 956 00:57:42.369 --> 00:57:45.940 A:middle L:90% additional modules if they got onto the noble website that 957 00:57:45.940 --> 00:57:49.530 A:middle L:90% may not be included in the original site. In 958 00:57:49.530 --> 00:57:53.570 A:middle L:90% this um 65 of the students who said they used 959 00:57:53.570 --> 00:57:58.739 A:middle L:90% the electronic version, reported actually reading the book and 960 00:57:58.739 --> 00:58:04.010 A:middle L:90% that's more than Admitted to reading the print version, 961 00:58:04.010 --> 00:58:07.829 A:middle L:90% which is about 52%. It was 52%. Um 962 00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:12.170 A:middle L:90% Now I think that that's actually probably somewhat typical. 963 00:58:12.170 --> 00:58:15.079 A:middle L:90% So yes we want those numbers to be higher than 964 00:58:15.079 --> 00:58:19.610 A:middle L:90% that. Uh We want our students reading of course 965 00:58:19.619 --> 00:58:22.849 A:middle L:90% . Um But I think that it's interesting that that 966 00:58:22.849 --> 00:58:27.380 A:middle L:90% students really did gravitate towards the digital format. Um 967 00:58:27.389 --> 00:58:29.349 A:middle L:90% If you would have looked five years ago, six 968 00:58:29.349 --> 00:58:31.949 A:middle L:90% years ago at student surveys um you'd still find a 969 00:58:31.949 --> 00:58:36.619 A:middle L:90% lot of people preferring the hard copy and print versions 970 00:58:36.630 --> 00:58:39.869 A:middle L:90% . You're finding some shift in that um as new 971 00:58:39.869 --> 00:58:43.519 A:middle L:90% students are coming on and they are more familiar with 972 00:58:43.519 --> 00:58:46.239 A:middle L:90% digital medium and just our digital readers, like large 973 00:58:46.239 --> 00:58:50.380 A:middle L:90% sized tablets for example, are getting better. We 974 00:58:50.389 --> 00:58:55.849 A:middle L:90% are finding more and more digital use. Um and 975 00:58:55.849 --> 00:58:59.449 A:middle L:90% we are now in the process or not. We 976 00:58:59.449 --> 00:59:00.760 A:middle L:90% but someone external to us is in the process of 977 00:59:00.769 --> 00:59:07.159 A:middle L:90% testing reading comprehension and in memory for key concepts between 978 00:59:07.170 --> 00:59:10.889 A:middle L:90% NOva and a traditional that is for profit textbook. 979 00:59:10.889 --> 00:59:15.599 A:middle L:90% I wish I could give you the final thing. 980 00:59:15.610 --> 00:59:17.599 A:middle L:90% Just say, oh yeah, we're just as good 981 00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:21.860 A:middle L:90% as them or whatever it is. But for now 982 00:59:21.860 --> 00:59:23.039 A:middle L:90% the jury is out so I don't want to over 983 00:59:23.039 --> 00:59:25.989 A:middle L:90% promise anything. I don't think it's a bad textbook 984 00:59:27.000 --> 00:59:29.340 A:middle L:90% , but let's let the data speak for themselves. 985 00:59:30.219 --> 00:59:31.980 A:middle L:90% Um and I do want to mention one other thing 986 00:59:31.980 --> 00:59:35.489 A:middle L:90% that I think is pretty interesting about. No, 987 00:59:35.489 --> 00:59:38.860 A:middle L:90% but the fact that the textbooks are customizable means that 988 00:59:38.860 --> 00:59:42.789 A:middle L:90% I can drag and drop any number of these 100 989 00:59:42.789 --> 00:59:45.780 A:middle L:90% modules as fewer as many as I want and assign 990 00:59:45.780 --> 00:59:49.110 A:middle L:90% them to my students. I just press publish and 991 00:59:49.119 --> 00:59:52.739 A:middle L:90% and send the link to my students Because of this 992 00:59:52.739 --> 00:59:53.969 A:middle L:90% . For the first time in history, we have 993 00:59:53.969 --> 00:59:57.619 A:middle L:90% completely re envisioned what a textbook can do. So 994 00:59:57.619 --> 01:00:00.800 A:middle L:90% I want you to imagine this As the instructor. 995 01:00:00.809 --> 01:00:02.840 A:middle L:90% I think that there might be 10 modules that are 996 01:00:02.840 --> 01:00:07.349 A:middle L:90% critical to the course I'm teaching, but I might 997 01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:08.170 A:middle L:90% be able to open it up to my students and 998 01:00:08.170 --> 01:00:10.170 A:middle L:90% say, I want you to choose five modules in 999 01:00:10.170 --> 01:00:16.050 A:middle L:90% addition that you are interested in and every single student 1000 01:00:16.059 --> 01:00:19.289 A:middle L:90% in the course could have a different text book, 1001 01:00:19.289 --> 01:00:24.400 A:middle L:90% an individualized textbook that covers a core curriculum plus their 1002 01:00:24.400 --> 01:00:29.469 A:middle L:90% own unique interest. Now, usually when I mention 1003 01:00:29.469 --> 01:00:30.849 A:middle L:90% this idea, about half the people in my audiences 1004 01:00:30.849 --> 01:00:32.630 A:middle L:90% are like, wow, that's really cool, and 1005 01:00:32.630 --> 01:00:35.469 A:middle L:90% the other half of like, that sounds like a 1006 01:00:35.480 --> 01:00:40.789 A:middle L:90% teaching nightmare. Um I think both both sentiments are 1007 01:00:40.789 --> 01:00:45.289 A:middle L:90% probably correct, but but I think that it may 1008 01:00:45.289 --> 01:00:47.469 A:middle L:90% not be as much of a teaching nightmare management hassle 1009 01:00:47.469 --> 01:00:50.610 A:middle L:90% as you would think, and that is because I 1010 01:00:50.610 --> 01:00:52.500 A:middle L:90% think that you could um tailor it to your own 1011 01:00:52.500 --> 01:00:55.480 A:middle L:90% particular course syllabus, so if you want a student 1012 01:00:55.480 --> 01:01:00.199 A:middle L:90% to write about a particular topic, why don't you 1013 01:01:00.199 --> 01:01:02.050 A:middle L:90% just have them write about a topic that they've already 1014 01:01:02.050 --> 01:01:07.179 A:middle L:90% chosen as one of their elective modules? Um and 1015 01:01:07.179 --> 01:01:09.289 A:middle L:90% they're creating their own textbook anyway, um and you 1016 01:01:09.289 --> 01:01:12.929 A:middle L:90% can see the textbook. So I just think that 1017 01:01:13.010 --> 01:01:15.980 A:middle L:90% that, to me is an exciting prospect that by 1018 01:01:15.980 --> 01:01:19.150 A:middle L:90% reimagining what a textbook is and what it can do 1019 01:01:19.159 --> 01:01:22.469 A:middle L:90% , we're actually totally imagining how a textbook is potentially 1020 01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:28.320 A:middle L:90% used in the classroom. So as I finish up 1021 01:01:29.309 --> 01:01:30.719 A:middle L:90% , I want to just remind you of this one 1022 01:01:30.719 --> 01:01:31.289 A:middle L:90% thing. I just talked to you all about the 1023 01:01:31.289 --> 01:01:35.989 A:middle L:90% different virtues of nova. The reason I've done that 1024 01:01:35.989 --> 01:01:37.650 A:middle L:90% is I just really wanted to kind of take you 1025 01:01:37.650 --> 01:01:40.099 A:middle L:90% on a slightly deeper dive into an open educational material 1026 01:01:40.110 --> 01:01:43.440 A:middle L:90% to, to show you that I think that that 1027 01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:45.679 A:middle L:90% many of these materials, not only ours, but 1028 01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:51.369 A:middle L:90% others are high quality, there are definitely user friendly 1029 01:01:51.380 --> 01:01:55.380 A:middle L:90% . They are pedagogic lee sophisticated. And again, 1030 01:01:55.389 --> 01:01:58.800 A:middle L:90% I am not here to sell you on, no 1031 01:01:58.800 --> 01:02:00.300 A:middle L:90% , but and I'm not here to sell you on 1032 01:02:00.309 --> 01:02:05.280 A:middle L:90% open because there's nothing to sell its all gift giving 1033 01:02:05.289 --> 01:02:07.469 A:middle L:90% . So all I'm here to do is offer you 1034 01:02:07.469 --> 01:02:09.139 A:middle L:90% the gift. And ultimately, again, you have 1035 01:02:09.139 --> 01:02:13.099 A:middle L:90% to decide for yourself if it's a gift worth taking 1036 01:02:13.110 --> 01:02:15.289 A:middle L:90% and if you're the type of person that likes to 1037 01:02:15.289 --> 01:02:24.690 A:middle L:90% take gifts, thank you so much. Uh we 1038 01:02:24.690 --> 01:02:27.880 A:middle L:90% have time for some questions to answer. I'd also 1039 01:02:27.880 --> 01:02:30.940 A:middle L:90% like to invite my colleague and father, uh Ed 1040 01:02:30.940 --> 01:02:38.050 A:middle L:90% Diener up to answer questions as well. He and 1041 01:02:38.050 --> 01:02:44.219 A:middle L:90% my mother both were instrumental in the creation of Nova 1042 01:02:44.219 --> 01:02:46.670 A:middle L:90% . They spearheaded the idea of it. Um, 1043 01:02:46.679 --> 01:02:50.349 A:middle L:90% got together a number of our colleagues in in an 1044 01:02:50.349 --> 01:02:52.969 A:middle L:90% initial conference that led to the idea, um, 1045 01:02:52.969 --> 01:02:57.440 A:middle L:90% and ultimately the practical execution of Nova. So if 1046 01:02:57.440 --> 01:02:59.460 A:middle L:90% you have questions for either of us, be happy 1047 01:02:59.460 --> 01:03:05.269 A:middle L:90% to take, going to get a microphone, Go 1048 01:03:05.269 --> 01:03:07.940 A:middle L:90% ahead. The title, Know about your company name 1049 01:03:07.949 --> 01:03:10.820 A:middle L:90% . What your foundation? What does it mean? 1050 01:03:12.300 --> 01:03:14.659 A:middle L:90% Okay, so the question is, uh, where 1051 01:03:14.659 --> 01:03:15.800 A:middle L:90% did we get the name, Nova? It's not 1052 01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:19.309 A:middle L:90% an acronym, which a lot of people think, 1053 01:03:19.320 --> 01:03:23.469 A:middle L:90% um, not another book association or something like that 1054 01:03:23.469 --> 01:03:25.610 A:middle L:90% . It's it has nothing to do with that. 1055 01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:29.750 A:middle L:90% We just wanted a name that was latin. It 1056 01:03:29.760 --> 01:03:34.730 A:middle L:90% because academics love latin. Um that was short, 1057 01:03:34.739 --> 01:03:37.820 A:middle L:90% it was easy to remember and we landed on nova 1058 01:03:38.199 --> 01:03:42.409 A:middle L:90% . It's evocative I think in its latin roots of 1059 01:03:42.420 --> 01:03:45.139 A:middle L:90% newness, freshness. So it's a little confusing in 1060 01:03:45.139 --> 01:03:49.070 A:middle L:90% Virginia, especially up north because we call it all 1061 01:03:49.070 --> 01:03:52.039 A:middle L:90% that nova. Of course college there is called Nova 1062 01:03:52.050 --> 01:03:54.920 A:middle L:90% , even though it's not related. So it's using 1063 01:03:54.920 --> 01:04:00.070 A:middle L:90% Nova. So that's great and probably they were primed 1064 01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:05.719 A:middle L:90% to do it. It's inevitable. Mhm. Yes 1065 01:04:05.719 --> 01:04:11.000 A:middle L:90% , I should study with monastery that. Did you 1066 01:04:11.000 --> 01:04:13.860 A:middle L:90% say that was on a document? Oh yeah, 1067 01:04:13.869 --> 01:04:15.829 A:middle L:90% you can go to the International Journal of Well being 1068 01:04:15.840 --> 01:04:23.309 A:middle L:90% . Uh yeah, the monastery spreading documented. Absolutely 1069 01:04:23.309 --> 01:04:25.929 A:middle L:90% . So it's a peer reviewed publication just as any 1070 01:04:25.929 --> 01:04:29.309 A:middle L:90% other would be in an academic journal. If you 1071 01:04:29.320 --> 01:04:31.130 A:middle L:90% , for example, googled my name, robert Biswas 1072 01:04:31.130 --> 01:04:34.809 A:middle L:90% Diener and Montessori or International Journal of Well Being, 1073 01:04:34.809 --> 01:04:36.570 A:middle L:90% It would take you right there, you don't need 1074 01:04:36.570 --> 01:04:39.719 A:middle L:90% an account. All you would have to do is 1075 01:04:39.730 --> 01:04:43.420 A:middle L:90% is read it online or download the pdf freely available 1076 01:04:44.679 --> 01:04:46.099 A:middle L:90% . And he spent a listening, I'll tell you 1077 01:04:46.099 --> 01:04:56.860 A:middle L:90% offline. Um yes, I was wondering actually two 1078 01:04:56.869 --> 01:05:00.780 A:middle L:90% questions about one is what's your plan going forward as 1079 01:05:00.780 --> 01:05:04.059 A:middle L:90% far as the content. You talked about how students 1080 01:05:04.059 --> 01:05:09.920 A:middle L:90% and faculty can uh different modules together to create textbooks 1081 01:05:09.929 --> 01:05:14.010 A:middle L:90% . But obviously the city of Psychology is that stagnant 1082 01:05:14.019 --> 01:05:16.320 A:middle L:90% or static? So what is your plan for updating 1083 01:05:16.329 --> 01:05:20.710 A:middle L:90% the continent on an ongoing basis? And then secondly 1084 01:05:20.719 --> 01:05:26.070 A:middle L:90% , um uh as you talk about this uh project 1085 01:05:26.070 --> 01:05:28.460 A:middle L:90% in other countries, what kind of feedback are you 1086 01:05:28.469 --> 01:05:33.010 A:middle L:90% hearing as far as beyond just translations in other languages 1087 01:05:33.489 --> 01:05:36.219 A:middle L:90% ? Um Do you want to talk about your thoughts 1088 01:05:36.219 --> 01:05:42.690 A:middle L:90% about updating site texts in general roberts? Afraid to 1089 01:05:42.690 --> 01:05:44.730 A:middle L:90% put me on here because he knows what I might 1090 01:05:44.730 --> 01:05:49.710 A:middle L:90% say, which is Regular text books are updated every 1091 01:05:49.710 --> 01:05:54.230 A:middle L:90% 2-3 years in psychology for a reason. It has 1092 01:05:54.230 --> 01:05:57.110 A:middle L:90% nothing to do with the Great Progress in the field 1093 01:05:57.489 --> 01:06:00.059 A:middle L:90% and realize I'm a researcher. I research night and 1094 01:06:00.059 --> 01:06:03.449 A:middle L:90% day. There's a few big findings in psychology every 1095 01:06:03.449 --> 01:06:05.809 A:middle L:90% once in a while. It's not quite genetics where 1096 01:06:05.809 --> 01:06:09.630 A:middle L:90% things are coming out every minute. So we don't 1097 01:06:09.630 --> 01:06:12.460 A:middle L:90% really need quite that frequent of things. And the 1098 01:06:12.460 --> 01:06:13.739 A:middle L:90% reason they do it, of course, is so 1099 01:06:13.739 --> 01:06:15.840 A:middle L:90% you can't use the old textbooks. So there's no 1100 01:06:15.840 --> 01:06:16.699 A:middle L:90% more used textbooks. You have to buy the new 1101 01:06:16.699 --> 01:06:20.849 A:middle L:90% textbook. It's a gimmick. Um, but we 1102 01:06:20.849 --> 01:06:25.429 A:middle L:90% are updating ours, but we don't have a, 1103 01:06:25.440 --> 01:06:28.300 A:middle L:90% so I'm the writer of one of the chapters. 1104 01:06:28.679 --> 01:06:30.940 A:middle L:90% I can go back and look at that chapter and 1105 01:06:30.940 --> 01:06:32.730 A:middle L:90% say, you know what for undergraduates? This is 1106 01:06:32.730 --> 01:06:34.739 A:middle L:90% still pretty up today, even though it's two or 1107 01:06:34.739 --> 01:06:38.460 A:middle L:90% three years old. Can look at another chapter, 1108 01:06:38.460 --> 01:06:40.699 A:middle L:90% perhaps a genetics chapter where you say, you know 1109 01:06:40.699 --> 01:06:44.159 A:middle L:90% , all this stuff on epigenetic has come out robert 1110 01:06:44.170 --> 01:06:46.030 A:middle L:90% . Maybe it's time to get a new chapter in 1111 01:06:46.030 --> 01:06:49.110 A:middle L:90% that area. So we're gonna update over time just 1112 01:06:49.110 --> 01:06:51.590 A:middle L:90% like a regular book does. But right now. 1113 01:06:51.980 --> 01:06:55.250 A:middle L:90% Well, there's several problems with textbooks, but that's 1114 01:06:55.250 --> 01:06:59.000 A:middle L:90% one of the huge problems textbook writers for intra site 1115 01:06:59.679 --> 01:07:02.050 A:middle L:90% are writing that book every day of their life because 1116 01:07:02.050 --> 01:07:04.019 A:middle L:90% they have to just as soon as they finish one 1117 01:07:04.019 --> 01:07:06.449 A:middle L:90% addition, they start writing the other David Myers, 1118 01:07:06.449 --> 01:07:10.639 A:middle L:90% the biggest selling textbook insight. That's all he does 1119 01:07:10.639 --> 01:07:13.409 A:middle L:90% full time. He's retired. He sits there 40 1120 01:07:13.409 --> 01:07:15.300 A:middle L:90% 50 hours a week. He reads the newspaper, 1121 01:07:15.300 --> 01:07:17.280 A:middle L:90% brings in new things, read Studies, brings in 1122 01:07:17.280 --> 01:07:19.760 A:middle L:90% new things, but most of these and if you 1123 01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:21.929 A:middle L:90% know, the replication crisis, you don't want to 1124 01:07:21.929 --> 01:07:25.480 A:middle L:90% bring in a lot of things until, you know 1125 01:07:25.480 --> 01:07:28.389 A:middle L:90% , they replicate. So we're doing another book where 1126 01:07:28.389 --> 01:07:30.670 A:middle L:90% I'm saying review the field, but only review what 1127 01:07:30.670 --> 01:07:33.219 A:middle L:90% replicates and the same thing in a textbook you want 1128 01:07:33.219 --> 01:07:35.420 A:middle L:90% to put in their stuff that we really know, 1129 01:07:35.420 --> 01:07:40.269 A:middle L:90% not some cute sort of new things. And I'd 1130 01:07:40.269 --> 01:07:43.099 A:middle L:90% like to follow up on that by saying, uh 1131 01:07:43.480 --> 01:07:45.190 A:middle L:90% , while I completely agree with that, I think 1132 01:07:45.190 --> 01:07:50.780 A:middle L:90% that we do not need as much updating based on 1133 01:07:50.780 --> 01:07:55.440 A:middle L:90% the science as as many people think, but we 1134 01:07:55.440 --> 01:07:58.769 A:middle L:90% do a number of updates all the same. The 1135 01:07:58.780 --> 01:08:01.030 A:middle L:90% most frequent updates. We do have to do with 1136 01:08:01.039 --> 01:08:03.429 A:middle L:90% editorial concerns. You know, we might catch him 1137 01:08:03.429 --> 01:08:06.730 A:middle L:90% a spelling or something small like that. Um, 1138 01:08:06.739 --> 01:08:12.559 A:middle L:90% we sometimes do some cosmetic uh sort of a facelift 1139 01:08:12.559 --> 01:08:15.940 A:middle L:90% to to some of our modules because we've gotten some 1140 01:08:15.940 --> 01:08:17.909 A:middle L:90% feedback from students that it's just a little dense in 1141 01:08:17.909 --> 01:08:20.869 A:middle L:90% its language, um, and and we want better 1142 01:08:20.869 --> 01:08:25.119 A:middle L:90% transition sentences in it, and we're able to do 1143 01:08:25.119 --> 01:08:28.159 A:middle L:90% that very, very quickly, sometimes within an hour 1144 01:08:28.170 --> 01:08:31.239 A:middle L:90% or two of of receiving feedback often, you know 1145 01:08:31.239 --> 01:08:33.550 A:middle L:90% , the same week, something like that, although 1146 01:08:33.550 --> 01:08:35.590 A:middle L:90% we try our strategy is to try and hold off 1147 01:08:35.590 --> 01:08:42.529 A:middle L:90% on really substantive revisions until academic break time. So 1148 01:08:42.529 --> 01:08:45.739 A:middle L:90% , in the summer or over winter break, because 1149 01:08:45.739 --> 01:08:46.789 A:middle L:90% we don't want to change the text book in the 1150 01:08:46.800 --> 01:08:49.159 A:middle L:90% middle of the term when the instructors like, where 1151 01:08:49.159 --> 01:08:51.470 A:middle L:90% did this paragraph? And this new example come from 1152 01:08:51.470 --> 01:08:54.310 A:middle L:90% , the students know, and the instructor doesn't. 1153 01:08:54.319 --> 01:08:58.239 A:middle L:90% So we typically make our grand revisions twice a year 1154 01:08:58.250 --> 01:09:00.260 A:middle L:90% , um and they are on a very much a 1155 01:09:00.260 --> 01:09:05.350 A:middle L:90% module by module basis. Um, so the replication 1156 01:09:05.359 --> 01:09:08.859 A:middle L:90% module, um, it's something that there's a lot 1157 01:09:08.859 --> 01:09:12.869 A:middle L:90% of action happening about right now and we are updating 1158 01:09:12.869 --> 01:09:16.199 A:middle L:90% that. Um but something like um the conformity and 1159 01:09:16.199 --> 01:09:21.060 A:middle L:90% obedience chapter for for undergraduate textbook, we're not gonna 1160 01:09:21.060 --> 01:09:26.079 A:middle L:90% see too much more happen, although we're open. 1161 01:09:26.090 --> 01:09:28.920 A:middle L:90% Um if a landmark new study comes out or or 1162 01:09:28.920 --> 01:09:30.399 A:middle L:90% replication study comes out, we're certainly open to changing 1163 01:09:31.869 --> 01:09:35.770 A:middle L:90% and then about the international talking with other. Yeah 1164 01:09:36.770 --> 01:09:42.630 A:middle L:90% . Yeah, so uh the question is, and 1165 01:09:42.630 --> 01:09:45.510 A:middle L:90% what kind of feedback have we gotten from an international 1166 01:09:45.520 --> 01:09:48.579 A:middle L:90% audience? So of course noble materials are in english 1167 01:09:48.579 --> 01:09:51.739 A:middle L:90% , so what you expect is the english speaking countries 1168 01:09:51.739 --> 01:09:55.880 A:middle L:90% are the largest users of Nova. Um So it 1169 01:09:55.880 --> 01:09:58.670 A:middle L:90% is being used pretty widely in Australia, in the 1170 01:09:58.670 --> 01:10:00.710 A:middle L:90% UK. Canada is the most widely used outside the 1171 01:10:00.710 --> 01:10:02.760 A:middle L:90% U. S. And somewhat in New Zealand. 1172 01:10:02.770 --> 01:10:10.590 A:middle L:90% Um they often want things in metric system, for 1173 01:10:10.590 --> 01:10:14.250 A:middle L:90% example, they want the opportunity to have more locally 1174 01:10:14.250 --> 01:10:17.699 A:middle L:90% engaging types of examples. So we just got some 1175 01:10:17.699 --> 01:10:23.699 A:middle L:90% feedback from South Africa um saying we want the ability 1176 01:10:23.699 --> 01:10:26.800 A:middle L:90% to change some of this content both to put some 1177 01:10:26.800 --> 01:10:29.550 A:middle L:90% South African specific research in here. You don't have 1178 01:10:29.550 --> 01:10:31.409 A:middle L:90% a lot of studies of South Africans reported. But 1179 01:10:31.409 --> 01:10:33.050 A:middle L:90% of course we have our own journals, our own 1180 01:10:33.050 --> 01:10:35.970 A:middle L:90% Sites, Society and our own research and we want 1181 01:10:35.970 --> 01:10:39.600 A:middle L:90% to drop that in. And of course they're they're 1182 01:10:39.600 --> 01:10:43.720 A:middle L:90% welcome to do that. It is not yet translated 1183 01:10:44.600 --> 01:10:47.569 A:middle L:90% . And one of the interesting things about translation is 1184 01:10:48.560 --> 01:10:53.210 A:middle L:90% having that crossed out dollar sign in the creative commons 1185 01:10:53.210 --> 01:10:57.159 A:middle L:90% . That noncommercial license, which which we do have 1186 01:10:57.159 --> 01:11:00.029 A:middle L:90% right now is a barrier to translation because a lot 1187 01:11:00.029 --> 01:11:01.500 A:middle L:90% of times people want to translate our materials, but 1188 01:11:01.500 --> 01:11:03.000 A:middle L:90% they want to be able to sell it for some 1189 01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:06.630 A:middle L:90% nominal costs, to recoup their own very substantive translation 1190 01:11:06.630 --> 01:11:11.880 A:middle L:90% costs. Um so, so even we wrestle with 1191 01:11:11.890 --> 01:11:15.930 A:middle L:90% the degree of permissiveness and I think each individual institution 1192 01:11:15.930 --> 01:11:17.369 A:middle L:90% kind of has to make their own decisions about that 1193 01:11:17.380 --> 01:11:19.600 A:middle L:90% . Now, interestingly, we still own the material 1194 01:11:19.600 --> 01:11:24.479 A:middle L:90% so we can grant any individual translator permission. So 1195 01:11:24.479 --> 01:11:27.390 A:middle L:90% if someone came to us from tech millennial in, 1196 01:11:27.399 --> 01:11:29.729 A:middle L:90% in Mexico and said we want to translate for our 1197 01:11:29.729 --> 01:11:32.039 A:middle L:90% university, we would absolutely give them permission to and 1198 01:11:32.050 --> 01:11:35.069 A:middle L:90% even to, to sell it if they wanted and 1199 01:11:35.069 --> 01:11:36.840 A:middle L:90% we can do that on a case by case basis 1200 01:11:39.060 --> 01:11:41.270 A:middle L:90% . Yeah, someone else. Uh, you first 1201 01:11:41.859 --> 01:11:44.170 A:middle L:90% . Um, no, it is a great discipline 1202 01:11:44.170 --> 01:11:46.880 A:middle L:90% specific platform. So could you talk a little bit 1203 01:11:46.880 --> 01:11:50.630 A:middle L:90% more about how it could be transferred to other disciplines 1204 01:11:50.640 --> 01:11:54.399 A:middle L:90% ? Um, what's the technology that's running behind it 1205 01:11:54.399 --> 01:11:56.710 A:middle L:90% ? And then maybe more importantly, is the platform 1206 01:11:56.720 --> 01:11:59.039 A:middle L:90% open and share a bowl as well. It's a 1207 01:11:59.039 --> 01:12:01.579 A:middle L:90% great question and one I wish you wouldn't have asked 1208 01:12:01.949 --> 01:12:04.819 A:middle L:90% because I have to say that it was designed in 1209 01:12:04.819 --> 01:12:10.149 A:middle L:90% ruby on rails and its proprietary, we own the 1210 01:12:10.149 --> 01:12:14.340 A:middle L:90% NOva software so it is not uh open software, 1211 01:12:14.340 --> 01:12:15.699 A:middle L:90% it's not droop Ally or another computer language that would 1212 01:12:15.710 --> 01:12:18.149 A:middle L:90% be open. Um That's not to say that we 1213 01:12:18.149 --> 01:12:20.869 A:middle L:90% wouldn't be willing to share the platform. Um It 1214 01:12:20.869 --> 01:12:24.170 A:middle L:90% just happens to be that we didn't design it that 1215 01:12:24.180 --> 01:12:28.479 A:middle L:90% way. Um but but we're not opposed to the 1216 01:12:28.489 --> 01:12:30.920 A:middle L:90% free sharing or the openness of our platform. Um 1217 01:12:30.930 --> 01:12:34.180 A:middle L:90% so it is very disciplined specific. Obviously we're just 1218 01:12:34.180 --> 01:12:36.529 A:middle L:90% all about psychology, which is great if you love 1219 01:12:36.529 --> 01:12:39.960 A:middle L:90% psychology as much as we do and we're obviously pretty 1220 01:12:39.960 --> 01:12:43.649 A:middle L:90% gaga over it. Um But what we wanted to 1221 01:12:43.649 --> 01:12:45.640 A:middle L:90% do is we wanted to we want a proof of 1222 01:12:45.640 --> 01:12:48.289 A:middle L:90% concept in psychology, we wanted to get psychology right 1223 01:12:48.300 --> 01:12:50.279 A:middle L:90% and show that we could get a lot of adoptions 1224 01:12:50.289 --> 01:12:56.140 A:middle L:90% , very high quality materials uh in the area we 1225 01:12:56.140 --> 01:13:00.039 A:middle L:90% know best before we start rolling it out to sociology 1226 01:13:00.039 --> 01:13:03.399 A:middle L:90% or or business or economics or any other. Um 1227 01:13:03.399 --> 01:13:05.720 A:middle L:90% and probably we would roll it out to the other 1228 01:13:05.720 --> 01:13:10.140 A:middle L:90% social sciences even before we went to the life sciences 1229 01:13:10.140 --> 01:13:12.500 A:middle L:90% or anything else. Um but that's not to say 1230 01:13:12.500 --> 01:13:15.989 A:middle L:90% there are other other groups. Open stacks associated with 1231 01:13:15.989 --> 01:13:20.649 A:middle L:90% Rice University is a great example of um A very 1232 01:13:20.649 --> 01:13:25.779 A:middle L:90% different module. They have free textbooks that cover. 1233 01:13:25.779 --> 01:13:29.289 A:middle L:90% I think maybe they have something like 15 different disciplines 1234 01:13:29.289 --> 01:13:32.199 A:middle L:90% . They're targeting high enrollment courses. Um and also 1235 01:13:32.210 --> 01:13:34.960 A:middle L:90% very open license and you can use those for free 1236 01:13:34.960 --> 01:13:39.760 A:middle L:90% . So they are generalists where we are more specific 1237 01:13:39.760 --> 01:13:44.979 A:middle L:90% in nature. one more comment about that. So 1238 01:13:45.550 --> 01:13:47.939 A:middle L:90% we had a surprising amount of pushback initially with our 1239 01:13:47.939 --> 01:13:54.039 A:middle L:90% textbook, we were surprised economists say textbooks are one 1240 01:13:54.039 --> 01:13:57.670 A:middle L:90% of the areas that don't follow typical economic supply and 1241 01:13:57.670 --> 01:14:00.390 A:middle L:90% demand. Why is that? Because most of the 1242 01:14:00.390 --> 01:14:01.489 A:middle L:90% time you think do I want to buy a ford 1243 01:14:01.500 --> 01:14:04.069 A:middle L:90% or do I want to buy a Bentley? I 1244 01:14:04.069 --> 01:14:06.079 A:middle L:90% think I'll buy a ford because you know what a 1245 01:14:06.079 --> 01:14:11.550 A:middle L:90% Bentley cost 20 times as much in textbooks. It's 1246 01:14:11.550 --> 01:14:14.100 A:middle L:90% not like that. The professor says, do I 1247 01:14:14.100 --> 01:14:15.659 A:middle L:90% want a ford or do I want to Bentley? 1248 01:14:16.130 --> 01:14:18.989 A:middle L:90% I think I'll take the mentally the students are paying 1249 01:14:18.989 --> 01:14:24.939 A:middle L:90% for it. So there's no Incentive for professors who've 1250 01:14:24.939 --> 01:14:28.279 A:middle L:90% been using David Myers. Good friend of ours textbook 1251 01:14:28.279 --> 01:14:30.520 A:middle L:90% for the last 20 years to switch his textbooks. 1252 01:14:30.520 --> 01:14:35.560 A:middle L:90% Good. His textbooks interesting. But although we thought 1253 01:14:35.939 --> 01:14:40.869 A:middle L:90% professors would say wow, I teach 500 students a 1254 01:14:40.869 --> 01:14:45.039 A:middle L:90% year, have a say where I am now 800 1255 01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:46.880 A:middle L:90% a year,$100. A textbook. I would 1256 01:14:46.880 --> 01:14:53.680 A:middle L:90% save them$8,80,000. And and that's huge, right 1257 01:14:53.689 --> 01:14:56.539 A:middle L:90% ? If the professor had to pay 10 of the 1258 01:14:56.539 --> 01:14:59.760 A:middle L:90% 80,000, he or she would switch textbooks, but 1259 01:14:59.760 --> 01:15:00.750 A:middle L:90% they don't. And we thought that they would be 1260 01:15:00.750 --> 01:15:03.880 A:middle L:90% more concerned and they do express concern, but it's 1261 01:15:03.880 --> 01:15:06.130 A:middle L:90% not enough to get them to switch over. So 1262 01:15:06.130 --> 01:15:09.050 A:middle L:90% where is the pressure going to come? Part of 1263 01:15:09.050 --> 01:15:11.239 A:middle L:90% it is going to come from our quality product And 1264 01:15:11.239 --> 01:15:15.350 A:middle L:90% over time Professor C and new professors use it. 1265 01:15:15.359 --> 01:15:19.010 A:middle L:90% Another one has to come from open source people either 1266 01:15:19.010 --> 01:15:23.260 A:middle L:90% in the university and the state legislature. Other people 1267 01:15:23.260 --> 01:15:27.520 A:middle L:90% who are reminding professors somehow of the student costs. 1268 01:15:27.520 --> 01:15:29.060 A:middle L:90% One of the things that my wife and I were 1269 01:15:29.060 --> 01:15:32.239 A:middle L:90% so interested in Is as education gets broader and goes 1270 01:15:32.239 --> 01:15:35.869 A:middle L:90% overseas, think of the cost of this$1200 a 1271 01:15:35.880 --> 01:15:41.420 A:middle L:90% year paying for textbooks and a lot of scholarships won't 1272 01:15:41.420 --> 01:15:43.689 A:middle L:90% pay for textbooks, they only pay for tuition. 1273 01:15:43.699 --> 01:15:46.979 A:middle L:90% So we're very concerned about the cost of college education 1274 01:15:46.989 --> 01:15:48.829 A:middle L:90% . But then as roberts pointed out, you know 1275 01:15:48.829 --> 01:15:50.899 A:middle L:90% , the quality has to be there too. And 1276 01:15:50.899 --> 01:15:56.369 A:middle L:90% I think it's we're there now and there was one 1277 01:15:56.369 --> 01:16:01.069 A:middle L:90% last question. Okay. Oh, we asked me 1278 01:16:01.069 --> 01:16:04.329 A:middle L:90% a chat, would you ask that? Yeah. 1279 01:16:04.340 --> 01:16:08.359 A:middle L:90% Yeah. And we would like to take questions from 1280 01:16:08.369 --> 01:16:10.909 A:middle L:90% from the remote viewers as well. If if there 1281 01:16:10.909 --> 01:16:14.350 A:middle L:90% are folks who want to give us questions via chat 1282 01:16:15.729 --> 01:16:17.979 A:middle L:90% so far we don't have any. So if you 1283 01:16:17.989 --> 01:16:21.470 A:middle L:90% focus on blind questions, please you have seen up 1284 01:16:21.479 --> 01:16:26.609 A:middle L:90% or yeah, speak up or forever hold your peace 1285 01:16:26.619 --> 01:16:30.939 A:middle L:90% because we we have we have one in, we 1286 01:16:30.939 --> 01:16:32.010 A:middle L:90% have one here in person. So we'll take this 1287 01:16:32.010 --> 01:16:35.000 A:middle L:90% is the last question I guess. Just wait 1 1288 01:16:35.000 --> 01:16:38.569 A:middle L:90% 2nd. We're going to get the microphone. Thank 1289 01:16:38.569 --> 01:16:40.869 A:middle L:90% you as far as you know, are you the 1290 01:16:40.869 --> 01:16:45.779 A:middle L:90% only father and son psychology researcher who are advocates in 1291 01:16:45.779 --> 01:16:51.319 A:middle L:90% the world? We are the only father son doctoral 1292 01:16:51.319 --> 01:16:56.550 A:middle L:90% level psychologists who study subjective well being and also advocate 1293 01:16:56.630 --> 01:17:00.409 A:middle L:90% open research and materials in the world, correct? 1294 01:17:00.409 --> 01:17:05.220 A:middle L:90% And we are the leading father and son team competition 1295 01:17:05.220 --> 01:17:09.380 A:middle L:90% that we think we have. And that is Deaner 1296 01:17:09.380 --> 01:17:12.960 A:middle L:90% Deaner, Deaner, Diener and Diener of Biswas diener 1297 01:17:12.970 --> 01:17:16.300 A:middle L:90% because his older twin sisters who teased him mercilessly as 1298 01:17:16.300 --> 01:17:18.520 A:middle L:90% he grew up are now psychologist, my wife's a 1299 01:17:18.520 --> 01:17:21.260 A:middle L:90% psychologist and I am so all five of but we've 1300 01:17:21.260 --> 01:17:25.359 A:middle L:90% never published together, all five of us, but 1301 01:17:25.359 --> 01:17:28.619 A:middle L:90% we can do so for free now and thank you 1302 01:17:28.619 --> 01:17:36.890 A:middle L:90% so much appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you 1303 01:17:44.829 --> A:middle L:90% . Mhm.