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POLICIES FOR OPEN
EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES - UoM
M. D. Nowbuth
Head, Civil Engineering Department
&
S. Gunness
Lecturer, Virtual Centre for Innovative Learning Technologies (VCILT)
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Agenda
Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Why OERs?
Users & Providers – Some Examples
Benefits & Downsides
Barriers
Creative Commons Licensing Framework
Open Educational Practices
Potential OEP Policy for UoM
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Open Educational Resources (OERs)
“Open Educational Resources" -first adopted at UNESCO's 2002 Forumon the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in DevelopingCountries.
Open Educational Resources (OER) - any educational resources, including:
curriculum maps,
course materials,
textbooks,
streaming videos,
multimedia applications,
podcasts, and any other materials
designed for use in teaching and learning - openly available for useand reuse by educators and students - without an accompanying needto pay royalties or licence fees (COL, 2011).
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Why OERs?
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Vast amount of educational materials available in
digital format – Avoid duplication of resources
Increasing Cost – Education Sector
Can reach a wider community.
Provide the basis to promote a Knowledge based
economy
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Transformative Educational Potential of OER
Users & Provides of OERs
Several institutions – Educational Institutions, ResearchCentres, International organisations (Promoting OERs)
UNESCO - „Open Educational Resources (OER) provide a strategic opportunity to improve thequality of education as well as facilitate policy dialogue, knowledge sharing and capacity building. „
COL – Commonwealth of Learning: „The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) isstrongly committed to the creation, adaptation and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) becausethey have the potential to increase access to education while cutting costs and improving quality. Theyare, therefore, an important element of COL's mission of Learning for Development.’
OER has emerged as a concept with great potential to supporteducational transformation.
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Examples
MIT OpenCourseWare project (2100 modules)
China Open Resources for Education (CORE)
NPTEL – India : The National Programme on Technology
Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), (IITs and IISc) –
EdX –US –Programmes – Certificate level.
World Bank: Open Knowledge Repository (Publications)
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Websites - Examples
COL – OER Repository
[http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook
/educator/Find/General_repositories
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Benefits
Learners
• Flexibility of resources
• Bench marking
• Peer to Peer learning encouraged
Educators
• Collaborative teaching
• Avoid duplication of educational content development
• International collaborations with peers
Institutions
• Recognition & Enhanced reputation
• More visibility
• New Partnerships/Linkage – international
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Downsides to OERs
Quality of the educational materials ??
Content not always well presented
Not regular updated, (over time no longer)
Needs to be adapted (repurpose) for local use.
IPR issues not always clear to users and potentialproducers of OERs
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OERs - Licence
Key point which differentiate OERs from other
educational resources – its licence
Openly licensed content – not necessary free to use
(need permission).
OERs – Creative Common licence framework facilitates
reuse, and potentially adaptation, without first
requesting permission from the copyright holder.
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Creative Commons Licencing Framework
It provides legal mechanisms to ensure that authorsof materials:
can retain acknowledgement for their work whileallowing it to be shared,
can seek to restrict commercial activity if they wish,and
can aim to prevent people from adapting it ifappropriate.
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Creative Commons Licence
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Type Possibility Code
1 Most accommodating CC-BY
2 No derivatives allowed – use as it for both commercial and non-
commercial
CC-BY-ND
3 Derivatives allowed but for non-commercial use & derivates to
be licensed under identical terms.
CC-BY-NC-SA
4 All new creations to be licensed under the identical terms. CC-BY-SA
5 New derivatives need not be licensed under same licence. CC-BY-NC
6 Most restrictive – can only be used for non-commercial and
cannot be modified.
CC-BY-NC-ND
Open Educational Practices - Towards an
OER Policy
Main components to be addressed:
1. Awareness of OERs – availability and access
2. Copyright – Users & Producers (Liabilities )
3. Quality Assurance Policies
4. Technical facilities
5. Library facilities
6. Incentives – international collaboration
7. Costs implications
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UoM – Towards an OER Policy
Existing facilities
CPDL/VCILT
Blended modules (50 modules online – All Faculties
concerned)
Full programmes online (3 Full programmes – VCILT)
Quality Assurance Procedures – Robust for
Conventional modes
Library support facilities
CITS – Technical Support
CCRC – IPR/Copyright/
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Existing Facilities - Blended Modules
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Lifelong Learning Cluster
• VCILT
• CPDL
• CITS
Bottom up initiatives
• SIDECAP
• VUSSC
• OLnet
Degree of Student
involvement
• BSc/MSc EdTech
• Student as Producers project
Quality of the service!
.......“Universities should understand that their real
potential educational value lies in their ability to
provide effective support to students through their
ability to provide intelligent assessment and critical
feedback to students on their performance- the focus
being less on the content, but moreso on the quality
of service.” .....Butcher (2010)
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OUR STUDENTS ARE ONLINE!
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Thanking you for your attention
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