This document summarizes a presentation given by Ming Nie and Gabi Witthaus from the Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester to the University of South Africa (UNISA) in June 2012. The presentation provided an overview of open educational resource (OER) development in the UK and OER work being done at the University of Leicester, including various OER projects, repositories, and initiatives to support OER creation and use. It also included a discussion of how UNISA could apply lessons from the University of Leicester's OER work.
1. OER-based design for learning and its
impact on research in teaching and
learning at UNISA
Ming Nie, Research Associate
Gabi Witthaus, Research Fellow
Beyond Distance Research Alliance
University of Leicester
Unisa Seminar, June 2012
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2. Outline
Poll: OERs at Unisa
Part 1: OER development in the
UK
Part 2: OER work at Leicester
Discussion
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3. Poll & braindump
1. Have you created any OERs?
2. Why/ why not?
3. Do you use any OERs?
4. Why/ why not?
5. Are you doing any research into OERs?
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21. TIGER OERs by Subjects
Leicester Model (and applications)
Theory and early concepts on team working
Team working and collaborative practice
Patient safety
Service improvement
Leading public health
Interprofessional care planning/discharge
TOSCE: Team Objective Structured Clinical
Examination
Postgraduate certificate in practice education
Parenting and Disability
Mental health
Dementia
Prescribing
Stroke
Diabetes
Diabetes in the young
Neuro rehabilitation
Listening
Police, paramedic and midwifery IPE
Total: 1985 learning hours
www.le.ac.uk http://tiger.library.dmu.ac.uk/
23. Leicester Microbiology
Bytes iTunes podcasts
164 episodes; each file downloaded average of 73x every month at peak
(Courtesy of Dr Alan Cann, University of Leicester Department of Biology
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http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/microbiologybytes-enhanced/id177803088)
24. TOUCANS – OERu research
www.le.ac.uk www.toucansproject.wordpress.com
28. A global inventory of national and
large-scale OER initiatives
Country reports
EU-wide policy papers
www.le.ac.uk http://www.poerup.info/index.html
29. Open practices
OPAL: Open Educational Practices (OEP)
Open courses and delivery
MOOCs (Massively Open Online Course)
Open accreditation:
OER test
OERu
Open design
Open scholarship
Open research
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http://humbox.ac.uk/ HumBox is a repository for storing, managing and publishing Humanities teaching resources, including a mixture of handouts, exercises, podcasts and videos.
http://hlsweb.dmu.ac.uk/ahs/elearning/RITA/Resources.html VAL (Virtual Analytical Laboratory) offers a range of OERs on lab skills, including animations and videos. The repository is developed by DMU. The idea for VAL came about when academics realised that many new students were entering on DMU’s Biomedical Science BSc Honours programme or Medical Science BMedSci Honours programme with no laboratory experience, and also, students returning to years 2 and 3 after the holidays were often a bit rusty.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/ Xpert is an OER aggregator developed by the University of Nottingham, which allows you to search CC licensed resources, especially multimedia resources, including pictures, sounds and videos.
http://tiger.library.dmu.ac.uk/ TIGER develops and releases Open Educational Resources (OERs) for Interprofessional Education (IPE) in Health and Social Care. It is a collaborative effort between the three institutions: Leicester, DMU and Northampton. TIGER released an equivalent of nearly 2000 learning hours of teaching resources into TIGER repository.
www.le.ac.uk/spider
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/613445810/ James Cridland
www.wikieducator.org/oeru
http://www.poerup.info/index.html http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/Countries_with_OER_initiatives#United_Kingdom POERUP : is about policies for OER uptake. It is made up of a consortium consisting of a group of organisations across Europe and Canada interested in understanding how better to foster the uptake of OER by governments and groups of educational institutions. Partners are from Canada, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK. POERUP will produce: - POERUP wiki: A global inventory of at least 100 national and large-scale OER initiatives. - 11 country reports plus 13 more country mini-reports. These are created based on literature review and document analysis of relevant policy papers and country reports from previous projects. - Based on the inventory and the country studies to produce 3 EU-wide policy papers for schools, universities, and colleges and other organised education providers. This results in a set of policies and guidelines.