Presentation given by Mr. Chris Andrew Yebuah from University of Ghana to the AITI-KACE OER seminar on Jan 10, 2013. Slides are CC BY NC Chris Yebuah.

1. pen Educational Resources
CREATING, USING AND SHARING
Chris Andrew Yebuah
OER Media Specialist
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ University of Ghana

2. List of Acronyms
• OER – Open Educational Resources
• UG – University of Ghana
• CHS – College of Health Sciences
• DVD – Digital Versatile Disk
• HTML – HyperText Markup Language
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3. Joining OER Tech-Team
• Experience from Media and Entertainment
• The Challenge of doing Media for Education
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4. Creating OER Materials
1. Select departmental OER
coordinator!
Each CHS department appoints an
OER project coordinator to oversee
OER development within the
2. Identify authors & topics! department.
The OER project coordinator
convenes a departmental meeting
with lecturers and the OER media
specialists to identify authors and
topics for OER. !
3. Develop content !
The media specialists schedule an appointment
with the faculty members to develop the
resource. This often entails filming a lab
demonstration or surgical procedure. During
this step, the doctor or media specialists solicit
consent from all those to be filmed (e.g.,
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5. Creating OER Materials
4. Edit!
The media specialists make any
necessary edits to audio and video,!
looking for any technical, copyright
or privacy concerns in the
resource.!
5. Package!
The media specialists
package the OER into an
HTML template and onto a
DVD with a cover label. !
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6. Creating OER Materials
6. Review by authors!
The authoring lecturers
and
others in the department
review the OER for
accuracy and pedagogy.!
Repeat as necessary! 7. Distribute within CHS!
Depending on the feedback, The resource is distributed to
the OER media specialists may CHS students via DVD or
need to re-film or re-edit through restricted local access
components of the module.! on the UG OER site. !
8. Review by Dean!
The Dean of the School
reviews the OER for
accuracy and pedagogy.!
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7. Creating OER Materials
9. Publish!
The module is made public
on
the African Health OER
Network websites. !
We now have a Server which is running with OER materials
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8. Lighting
• Check light source
• Check power source
• Do not put all lights in one plug
• Do ambiance lighting
• Check whether light and power
interfere with audio signal
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9. Audio
• Record and check if it sounds
good.
• Monitor while recording
• Make sure the sound fits the video
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10. Videoing
• Check the colour balance
• Be confident
• Understand what you are videoing
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11. Video: Open Education Matters-Why is it
important to share content-CC BY Funktionell
http://sharingoer.com/Sharing_OER/Video.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=dTNnxPcY49Q
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12. Thank You
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13. References
• Slide 1: http://www.123rf.com/photo_12284959_planet-earth-
earth-globe-3d-render-maps-courtesy-of-nasa.html
• Slide 3:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8769680@N08/8056633112/
• Commonwealth of Learning – Perspectives on open and
distance learning - Open Educational Resources and Change
in Higher Education: Reflections from Practice - Jenny Glennie,
Ken Harley, Neil Butcher and Trudi van Wyk, Editors -
Published by Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2012,
http://www.col.org/psoer
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