Slides for a Learning Enhancement Network event at the University of Strathcydle on 'Open educational resources: finding, using, sharing?'

1. Open Educational Resources: finding, using, creating? R. John Robertson, Learning Enhancement Network 25th March 2010 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland License.

2. Overview Purpose and Introductions OER context and initiatives What is an Open Educational Resource? Finding OERs Using OERs Why create/ release OERs?

3. Purpose and introductions To provide an overview of open educational resources To identify some ways to find resources To discuss some of the reasons why you might consider sharing some of your resources 3

4. UKOER and JISC CETIS 4

5. Open Educational Resources: context Photo credit and license: ‘Open’ Flickr user: mag3737 CC: BY NC SA http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1914076277/

6. OER: a wider context Openness Open Source Open Access Open Data Open Licensing – Creative Commons Existing practices of sharing Potential business model? 6

8. Open Education: a rough guide characterised by a commitment to create, share and use/remix educational resources. no set choices of platform, standard, format, or type of material, but lots of lightweight and informal approaches use of clear licensing and some avoidance of resources with restricted license. Beginning to move towards the educational mainstream?

9. OER initiatives (1/3)

10. OER initiatives (2/3)

11. OER initiatives (3/3) MIT OpenCourseWare OU OpenLearn Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative OpenMichigan CCLearn/ Creative Commons UKOER iTunesU 11

12. OER background ideologies? Open Education: a spectrum of ideologies and reasons do we need institutions? RLOs – automatically finding paths of learning? Marketing, reputation, recruitment Cost savings and efficiency Photo credit and license: CC: BY NC SA ‘Questions’ Flickr User: Bill McIntyrehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/billmcintyre/2084652206/sizes/s/

13. What is an OER? Photo credit and license: ‘Questions’ Flickr User: oberazzi CC: BY NC SA http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberazzi/318947873/

14. What is an Open Educational Resource? (1/2) An image to whole course with learning design, outcomes, and contents pdf, course designs ppt, lecture videos, images, animations question items textbooks ... 14

15. What is an Open Educational Resource? (2/2) Distinguishing features... Educational origin/ association/ purpose/ function... Open license (frequently CC) Usually non-transactional granting permissions without further request 15

16. Finding OERs (1/3) Google Yes, but lots of noise online resource management tools Flickr (general search or photostream e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/core-materials/ ) Youtube (general search or channel e.g. http://www.youtube.com/user/wellcometrust ) Scribd (general search or user e.g. http://www.scribd.com/jarossiter ) iTunesU (general search or institutional channel) Slideshare (general search or project user e.g. http://www.slideshare.net/skillsforscientists) 16

17. Finding OERs (2/3) Specialist stores (some examples) Jorum (http://www.jorum.ac.uk/ ) HEA subject centre sites (http://humbox.eprints.org/ ) Institutional repositories (e.g. http://repository.leedsmet.ac.uk/main/index.php) Wellcome Trust (http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/ ) BUFVC (http://bufvc.ac.uk/ http://bobnational.net/ ) 17

18. Finding OERs (3/3) Specialist search (some examples) Folksemantic (http://www.folksemantic.com/ ) OerCommons (http://www.oercommons.org/ ) Creative Commons (http://opened.creativecommons.org/Find_OER) Xpert (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/) 18

19. Using OERs Possible issues: ‘not invented here’ – trusting it? time commitment – finding it? judging its worth? localisation – adapting it for my context/class? using – what can I do with it? understanding licenses 19

20. After using, sharing? 20

21. Why create/ release OERs? For individuals Supporting current students Altruism Reputation Efficiency and management Capitalising on stuff you’re doing anyway 21

22. Why create/ release OERs? For institutions Reputation, reputation, reputation Efficiency and management Funding requirement Recruitment Student support and retention 22

23. Concerns about OERs (1/2) For institutions Giving away education Giving away content that could be sold Losing competitive edge Poor materials reflecting on reptuation Liability and risk 23

24. Concerns about OERs (2/2) For individuals Thinking materials not good enough to share Liability Plagiarism? Diminishing their value to the institution? 24

25. Discussion 25

26. Further Information Contact details robert.robertson at strath.ac.uk