Presentation for Course Professional use of internet and social media for university faculty staff University of Fort Hare and University of Limpopo, South Africa

1. Open Access & Open Educational Resources
mirjam schaap, September 2013
Course Professional use of internet and social media for university faculty staff
University of Fort Hare and University of Limpopo, South Africa

2. Day 3
 Open Access
 Open Educational Resources (OER)
 Open Course Ware (OCW)
 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS)
 Use internet & social media for learning activities in class

3. Open Access

4. Open Access
Digital, online, free of charge & copyright free publications:
● don’t charge the reader
● charge the authors to publish (or use other funds)
Open Access Journals: making peer-reviewed papers
available without subscription fees

5. Predatory open access publishing
Dishonest publishers trying to make money without
furthering scholarship:
● Accepting articles quickly with little or no peer review
● Notifying of article fees only after paper acceptance
● Aggressively campaigning to submit articles
● Listing members editorial boards without permission
● Mimicking name - web style of established journals
Source: wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_open_access_publishing

6. Beall's List of Predatory Publishers
http://www.academia.edu/115
1857/Bealls_List_of_Predatory
_Open-Access_Publishers
Do not publish or serve on
editorial board of journals on
this list!

7. Open Access Journals
 BioMed Central (BMC) journals http://www.biomedcentral.com/journals
 Springer Open http://www.springeropen.com/journals
 PLoS One http://www.plosone.org/home.action
 Nature Scientific Reports http://www.nature.com/srep/index.html
 BMJ Open http://bmjopen.bmj.com/
 SAGE Open http://sgo.sagepub.com/
 AIP Advances http://aipadvances.aip.org/
 Wiley Open Access http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/view/index.html
 Open Biology http://rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/

8. Lists with Open Access Journals
These lists include journals previous slide:
 Wikipedia list Open Access Journals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_access_journals
 Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): http://www.doaj.org/
 Africa Open Access Journals: http://www.ajol.info/
 AOSIS Open Journals http://www.openjournals.net/
 The Scientific Electronic Library Online SA http://www.scielo.org.za/
 SUN journals http://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/List_of_Journals

9. Open Educational Resources (OER)
&
Open Courseware (OCW)

10. Open Educational Resources (OER)
“Open Educational Resources are materials used to
support education that may be freely accessed,
reused, modified and shared by anyone.”
- Stephen Downes

11. Difference between OCW and OER?
Source: Embracing OER & MOOCs to TRANSFORM EDUCATION...? Zaid Ali Alsagoff
http://www.slideshare.net/zaid/embracing-oer-moocs-to-transform-education slide 34

12. OER Development Life cycle
Source: Embracing OER & MOOCs to TRANSFORM EDUCATION...? Zaid Ali Alsagoff
http://www.slideshare.net/zaid/embracing-oer-moocs-to-transform-education slide 92

13. Aims and objectives -> select sources
Source (Page 178): http://www.col.org/PublicationDocuments/pub_PS_OER_web.pdf
In: Embracing OER & MOOCs to TRANSFORM EDUCATION...? Zaid Ali Alsagoff

14. OER search engines
 http://www.opentapestry.com/ocwfinder
 http://doer.col.org/
 http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
 http://free.ed.gov/
 http://xpert.nottingham.ac.uk/
 http://www.temoa.info/

16. Institutions offering OERs
 http://www.oercommons.org/
 http://www.oerafrica.org/
 http://open.umich.edu/
 http://www.merlot.org/
 http://cnx.org/
 http://en.wikiversity.org/
 http://wikieducator.org/OER_university

17. Institutions offfering OCWs
MIT OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu/
Open Yale Courses: http://oyc.yale.edu/
The Open University: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
Open Learning Initiative : http://oli.cmu.edu/
University of the People: http://www.uopeople.org/
Open Courseware Consortium: http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

18. Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCs)

19. MOOCs – professional development for free
Massive - enrollment
Open – anyone can join
Online - fully online
Course – begin-start

20. Upcoming / less known MOOC platforms
 https://www.khanacademy.org/
 https://www.futurelearn.com/
 https://p2pu.org/en/
 https://www.canvas.net/

21. Biggest MOOC platforms
 https://www.coursera.org/
 https://www.edx.org/
 https://www.udacity.com/

22. Enjoy our 3
days sharing
and learning !
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