Steve Stapleton

OER and Institutional Change at Nottingham

Steve StapletonOpen Learning Support OfficerThe University of Nottinghamsteven.stapleton@nottingham.ac.uk

Outline of presentation

About Nottingham

The OER journey

Evidencing change

The next steps

About Nottingham• Research led institution

• Student numbers• 30,000 students (postgrad and undergrad)• 6,000 international (130 countries)• Six campuses (inc. China and Malaysia)

• E-Learning Support (Learning Team)

Background to OER

U-Now (Launched 2007)

Sponsored by PVC

Grew organically

Significant successes

Member of the OCWC

Joined OCWC in 2007/8Membership $500 p.a.

Mathematical institute, OxfordPeoples-uni.orgThe Open UniversityThe University of Nottingham

RSS submissionDoubled visitors to U-Now

Jan-Feb 2010 3713 visitors1494 via OCWC

Open Courseware Consortium

The BERLiN projectRe-invigorate work to support U-Now

Capturing resources from across all campuses

Module framework approachIntroduction to microeconomics

Multiple resource types

67% increase in visitors to U-Now Q1 2010 over the same period in 2009 (pre BERLiN).

Opening up: Staff attitudesOpen learning focus groups (Summer 2009)20 academic staff across 5 focus groups

Online staff survey (Mar 2010)6% of academic staff

Why is Nottingham involved?

1.Promotional opportunities2.Cost efficiencies3.Social responsibility

Staff survey

Staff survey

Institutional Change

Senior Management

Academic BoardsTeaching and

Learning Committees

School Based Approach

Academic Engagement: Top Down

Senior Management Buy-in

http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/about.html

12 months ago had no involvement in OER

School of Politics Case Study

Today are active in a wide range of OER activities…

Published 50 credits as part of BERLiN:

Understanding Global Politics

Introduction to European Politics

Theories and Concepts

School of Politics Case Study

Are involved in the school based pilot:

Publish 100% of module handbooks/reading lists

School specific RSS feeds

Surface OER in school web pages

Investigate the impact OER use has on students prospective students and staff

School of Politics

Politics in 60 seconds:

U-Now

YouTube Edu

Itunes U

Podcast site

School of Politics

150 Academics engaged

Resources across all faculties Over 600 credits

Dissemination and local

issues

Academic Engagement: Bottom Up

Align to Strategies

Embedding Use and Reuse

Image © Bill Moseley 2008Released under creative commons licence:

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31442459@N00/2516648940

3rd Party material

Open for Learning Workshop

PGCHE Optional Module

Open For Learning

Develop open contentliteracy

Image © Don Solo 2008Released under creative commons licence:

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/60648084@N00/2462966749

The Open For Learning module is…

“Really valuable, important to disseminate as widely as possible.”

Chris Middleton, Head of Academic Services, University of Nottingham

Tools

www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte

www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert

Rapid innovation project

XPERT

OER image search with attribution

Demonstration at ALT C (Sept)

UKOER~OER Africa /UKNC for UNESCO (ISWG) partnerships

OER ‘Shopping list’ to support African HEIs

Kenyatta project (others to follow)

Provides a compelling reason to get involved

For more information get in touch with steven.stapleton@nottingham.ac.uk

International partnerships

Next steps

BERLiN becomes Open Nottingham

Open Nottingham as a ‘Grand challenge’

Open Learning Support Officer role centralised

Open Nottingham Programme

Social responsibility

Promotion

Cost efficiencies

Increased academic and student use

Any Questions?

steven.stapleton@nottingham.ac.ukunow.nottingham.ac.uk

XPERTProducer-centric modelsXerte Public E-learning ReposiToryUK JISC funded under rapid innovation programmeTo progress the vision of a distributed architecture of e-learning resources for sharing and re-useBased on Xerte Online Toolkits

www.nottingham.ac.uk/xertewww.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/

Connections•Internal•External•Partnerships

Connections•Internal•External•Partnerships

Open Nottingham ProgrammeSocial responsibility

UKOER~OER Africa frameworkFE college support

PromotionU-Now reviewSchool based and subject based RSS Link to prospectuses / does it workConsideration of adverting within RSS

Cost efficiencies/Quality Try to understand and prove itEmbed useEngage with students, Sharing across campuses