The document summarizes the DELILA project which aimed to provide open educational resources (OERs) to support embedding digital and information literacy into teacher training courses. The project involved converting existing teaching materials into OERs and customizing repositories at partner institutions to host the resources. Key challenges included addressing intellectual property rights and keeping materials up to date. Lessons learned included the need to consider OER aspects like licensing earlier in the resource creation process.
1. Open Educational Resources: opportunities and challenges? Dr Jane Secker, LSE, Dr Steven Warburton, University of London, Dr Stylianos Hatzipanagos, Kings College London               This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License .
Say hello to Jane! Nancy on maternity leave and Ann-Marie taking over. Came out of chatting about Carillo with Jane.
Developing Educators Learning and Information Literacy for Accreditation Most HE institutions run some kind of PGCert and there is a place for OERs within them, as they use reasonably generic material and sharing material would save duplicated effort. DELILA aims to provide materials for this purpose using training material from LSE and the University of Birmingham. The effect of this will be a better informed and skilled teaching community that in turn will pass on knowledge and skills to HE students. We know that other countries are further ahead with this than us, for example ANTS (Animated Tutorial Sharing) and weâre not trying to reinvent the wheel but we want to see what works best in the UK and this is one way of sharing material. Why UoB and LSE â similar enough to work well together but different enough to highlight best practice etc - Compare LSE and Bham â at LSE the Teaching and Learning Centre run the PGCert, it contains 5 modules â 3 modules are needed for Associate level and 5 modules are required for Fellowship of HEA. At Bham, the Centre for Learning and Academic Development run the PGCert, there are 2 associate modules that make 60 credits overall â 20 credits are required for Associate and the full 60 are required for Fellow of HEA.
What is UKPSF Am doing a PGCert â experience Who in audience knows about UKPSF? Explain what it is â standard used for HEA accredited courses have to meet OER best practice â CORRE framework. Created as part of the OTTER ( Open, Transferable and Technology-enabled Educational Resources ) project at Leicester University Futurelab DL framework â Jane discovered as LSE use DL more than UoB currently. Not as comprehensive at the 7 pillars but very useful nonethless. We concluded that the UKPSF is underpinned with IL and DL but its not explicit - they are reviewing it to hopefully make it more so!
Work packages 1-8, introduce briefly. Up to WP5, highlight that reports for each WPs are going on blog â outputs page.
Learning curve as we have never converted OERs â OTTER website very useful. Also quite time consuming, eg trying to find widely accessible technologies IPR issues â most content had some 3rd party content, usually screenshots of proprietary databases. JISC has provided some guidance of copyright clearance of OERs. Contact legal advisors to ensure openness in line with Institutional policy. UoB people involved at this stage â Legislation Manager in LS, Director of Library Services, Director of Academic Services and PVC for Education. Verbal agreement has been given to make the materials in DELILA openly available via our IR and OpenJorum. Project has opened up further debate with new PVCs for Research and Education around IPR Review content using relevant parts of CORRE framework - Use audit spreadsheet to identify content needing adaptation and to what extent. CORRE (Content, re-use and Re-Purposing, Evidence and Openness) framework was developed by an OER Phase 1 project OTTER â provides an overview of stages to go through when converting content into open content. Lso seeks to address pedagogical, legal, technical, institutional and socio-cultural aspects of converting material to OERs. 4 stages of process: Content â materials gathered, credit weight recorded and assessed (WP 1 and 2) Openness â legal, pedagogic and technical aspects of process, IPR clearance Re-use/Re-purpose â validation process where material achieves actual OER status Evidence â assess the value and usefulness of an OER by tracking its use. Building evidence gathering process â people who reuse DELILA material include further information about how they themselves are using them. Stage 2 of CORRE framework: Rights clearance â copyright, IPR and licensing Transformation for usability â decoupling, scaffolding, meshing, sequencing, editing Formatting for accessibility â conversion, standardisation, metadata, pedagogical wrap around Third party content â screenshots most common, usually third party content; logos from institutions were cleared for use; used a 1-4 scale for reusability with 1 being material with no external content and with institutional permission to 4 being material made entirely of external content and having no institutional permission. Dealing with screenshots â mostly illustrative rather than pedagogically necessary so can easily be removed and a placeholder inserted â easier than contacting the publisher for permission to use the screenshots of their databases. Placeholder would explain what was previously there allowing the person who reuses the resources to add their won, more meaningful, screenshot in place. Add CC information to document property where possible (do this using Microsoft Research which allows a Creative Commons link. Check accessibility (add heading levels etc â recommend this is added to the creation workflow), add metadata including rights info, author, date of creation, keywords etc. convert Word to any other formats for re-use eg Open office Word etc. Metadata - HEA to provide tags which can be used for each section of the UKPSF so if looking for material for a specific part of UKPSF can search by tag and find appropriate material. Embedding metadata using file properties and CC licence.
Deposit work flows from JorumOpen, Birmingham and LSE will be identified and used by team members to deposit material in repositories Applications such as SWORD â a small working group which is part of the JISC Digital Repositories Programme - will be investigated by repository staff at both institutions and a briefing written to indicate how these time saving processes are applicable to project content. If SWORD or harvesting is to be used, repository staff to implement use for direct upload from local repositories to JorumOpen If no direct depositing can be done, project team to deposit content in JorumOpen. If everyone can agree on tags and metadata then IL stuff would be easily findable in Jorum. Would encourage people to use our tags which are based on S7P (what are they?) Easier to find if weâre all using the same language.
Have permission to add OERs to ur repository for this project but Uni owns rights generally and we have no clear view of sharing these types of resources CC licences â we agreed to use 3.0 but plug-in for automatic integration into word/PPT automatically attributes 2.5 Moving forward â Shadow DELILA, UoB planning to re-use some of LSEâs DL material
Found material all over the place â recommend a single place where all IL and DR is kept (IR?) Would recommend making OER compatibility part of authorsâ workflow If youâre planning on releasing material as OERs then keep the audit process and documentation in mind as a standard procedure to record teaching material creation. Ask team members to submit their best training for OER conversion to spread the workload