Presentation by Andy Beggan (BERLiN Project, University of Nottingham) on OER activity for SCORE event, Birmingham, 10 March 2010

1. Enhancing and expanding Nottingham’s existing Open Educational Repository to progress the vision of sustainable OERs10th March 2010 Andy Beggan E-Learning Team Leader The University of Nottingham

2. Outline of presentation Background to OER at Nottingham Strategic drivers How we’re meeting them? Discoverability, reuse & repurposing Current activities BERLiN project Examples of OER Next steps

3. Background: OER @ Nottingham U-Now launched 2007 under the e-learning strategy Led by Prof Chris Ennew, PVC for Internationalisation A member of the Open Courseware Consortium 17,836 visitors 2009 1713 Jan 2010 2000 Feb 2010 Over 1900 downloads for ‘Anatomists cookbook’

4. University Strategic Drivers

5. University Strategic Drivers Social responsibility Promotional opportunities Cost efficiencies Mutually supportive with multiple cross over

6. OER Africa feedback on U-Now Address multiple audiences at the same time Display Intended level of use and target audience Brief description Licence File size Technical information and publisher Downloading instructions Different approaches to navigation (browse, filter, search) Encourage editing and repurpose UKOER~OER Africa / UNESCO partnerships OER ‘Shopping list’ to support African HEIs 1. Social Responsibility

7. 2. Promotional Opportunities

9. 3. Cost Efficiencies

10. XPERT Traditional producer-centric models Xerte Public E-learning ReposiTory JISC funded under rapid innovation programme To progress the vision of a distributed architecture of e-learning resources for sharing and re-use Based on Xerte Online Toolkits www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/

11. XPERT

12. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/

13. WebCT & Equella

14. Joined OCWC in 2007/8 Membership $500 p.a. Mathematical institute, Oxford Peoples-uni.org The Open University The University of Nottingham RSS submission Doubled visitors to U-Now Jan-Feb 2010 3713 visitors 1494 via OCWC Open Courseware Consortium

15. ‘Google-ability’ Google Search – all items can be found Content Links (Reciprocal) Code Future developments Tag clouds Media types Pedagogic types JACS Biographical data

16. BERLiN Project BERLiN: Building Exchanges for Research & Learning in Nottingham HEA/JISC funded 12 month project under OER Programme, end April 2010 To support a step change in releasing open learning resources across all faculties at Nottingham Expansion of the University’s OER (u-Now) to cover content across all five faculties (360 credits) 325 credits published so far…

17. BERLiN submissions High-level support encouraging participation Capturing examples from across all campuses Issues assigning credits? Led to ‘module frameworks’ Introduction to microeconomics Rich learning objects add further depth No limitations of what can be made available Podcasts, videos, interactive learning content, PDFs, etc Copyright ‘hurdles’ main barrier

18. Next steps Social responsibility UKOER~OER Africa framework Promotion U-Now website review School based and subject based RSS feeds Support growth of local communities Link to prospectuses / school webpages Cost efficiencies ‘21st Century Information Skills’ Appropriate reuse and repurpose of OER Workshops, seminars, PGCHE New tools and technologies

19. Any Questions? http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/