Open Voices, Just Choices Speaker Series
David Wiley: Looking to the Future of OER
David Wiley, PhD
Looking to the Future of OER
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The difference between informational resources and educational resources, and why it matters.
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How to critically read research on the impacts of OER.
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Changing copyright licenses on your textbook doesn’t improve student learning–changing your pedagogy does.
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How the 5Rs apply to generative AI.
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How generative AI changes the future of OER.
About the Speaker

Dr. David Wiley is one of the founders of the open education movement. Among his many efforts, he created the first open license for creative works like educational materials (in 1998), created the 5Rs framework, founded the Open Education Conference, helped create the first zero textbook cost degree program, served as the first Education Fellow at Creative Commons, and co-founded Lumen Learning.
Dr. Wiley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing, MIS, and Entrepreneurship at Marshall University, where he is also an Academic Affairs Fellow focused on AI in education.
Watch the workshop
Access David’s Slide Deck
Resources Shared “When you create traditional OER, you’re just typing words. When you create open prompts, you’re just typing different words. YOU CAN DO THIS!”
- “Publications by Open Education Group” by the Open Education Group.
- Generative AI Resources
- Thought leader Andrej Karpathy
- Open Pedagogy
- Wiley, D., & Hilton III, J. L. (2018). Defining OER-Enabled Pedagogy. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 19(4). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v19i4.3601
“Looking to the Future of OER” by David Wiley is licensed under CC BY 4.0.