Getting switched on-removing to re-use and sharing

“Getting Switched ON!Open Nottingham, removing barriers for re-use and sharing”

Andy BegganHead of Learning TechnologyThe University of Nottingham

Steve Stapleton, Alison JohnsonBERLiN Project Team

ALT-C 8th Sept 2010

Outline of presentation About Nottingham About Open Nottingham Encouraging re-use

Removing barriers Digital Literacy programme New tools End-user feedback

Next steps

About Nottingham• Research led institution• Student numbers

• 40,000 students (postgrad and undergrad)• 6,000 international (130 countries)• Six campuses (inc. China and Malaysia)

• Learning Technology Support• Learning Engagement Team

• VLEs• E-assessment

• Learning Innovation Team• Video production• E-learning development (Xerte)

• Open Learning

What is Open Nottingham? U-Now – OCW/OER

Launched 2007 Member of OCWC

Visitors up 67% Q1 2009 HEA/JISC funded through BERLiN project 2009/10

Open Nottingham Open source tools Open learning support

U-Now iTunesU YouTube Edu

OER discovery & re-use

Encouraging re-use & sharingEncouraging re-use & sharing

In a recent staff survey the main benefits cited for publishing OER were:1. Enhancing University reputation (73%) 2. Sharing best practice (72%)3. Supporting students without formal access to HE (66%)

Whereas the main barriers were:1. Time constraints (65%)2. Fear over copyright infringement (58%)3. Ownership and legal barriers (43%)

In a recent staff survey the main benefits cited for publishing OER were:1. Enhancing University reputation (73%) 2. Sharing best practice (72%)3. Supporting students without formal access to HE (66%)

Whereas the main barriers were:1. Time constraints (65%)2. Fear over copyright infringement (58%)3. Ownership and legal barriers (43%)

1. Time constraints1. Time constraints

Connections•Internal•External•Partnerships

Connections•Internal•External•Partnerships

Open Nottingham Support

Open Learning Support Officer Promote new tools/services (e.g. XPERT) Provides support and advice Upload and cataloguing within OER repository Workflows to facilitate publication Resources can be:

Sent to team directly by email Submitted online via U-Now website School based initiatives

Digital Literacy Workshop

Aim: to inform and promote re-use of OER Discover or source Creative Commons educational resources

and images Use and attribute creative commons resources appropriately Explore the process and licences involved in creating and

publishing OERs as well as their own attitudes

Run 3 times so far… Optional module on

PGCHE from 2010-11 Open for Learning RLO

2. Copyright infringement 2. Copyright infringement 3. Ownership and legal barriers3. Ownership and legal barriers

Staff survey

XPERT Xerte Public E-learning ReposiTory

Over 60,000 resources Over 3,000 feeds

UK 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/

Where next? Open for learning workshops

Publish RLO openly

Open Nottingham Seminar Update of U-Now

Promoting staff contributions

School based approaches Release of module handbooks Links to University website Links to prospectuses

Reward and recognition? OER Africa

Any Questions?

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

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