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By: Patrick McAndrewPresented: CETIS/OU OER Workshop 27th February 2009More: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/node/959
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Learning from OpenLearn
Patrick McAndrew
Institute of Educational Technology
Designs
Stages
“… we chose the Creative Commons licence as the licensing mechanism that best allows us to deliver the outcomes of the OpenLearn project.”
Richard McCracken
LicencingBeing open has not caused us any problems - but• Commercial organisations may add conditions• Clean licencing is difficult• Mixed licencing is uncertain
• Need to accept some uncertainty
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Institutional impact• 3m new “users”• 232 countries• 7700 “sign ups”• 10 funded projects• 30 collaborations• Developed technology• Established methods• Changed image• Won awards• New plans
Approach• For learners and for educators• For the institution and for the world• Action research
Finding out
LearningSpace
LabSpace
V
Supported Open LearningSupported Open Learning
UsersUsers
ContentContent SupportSupport AssessmentAssessment AwardsAwardsIntegration to Disaggregation
Content
Content v social
User augmented content
Can we trust our users?
Labspace only• Collaboration space• Export formats• Exporting to Moodle• Duplicating courses• RSS feeds to other environments• XML upload and download
Collaborations
Time
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/60496147/
• Grow awareness• Carry out good intentions• Establish practice• Get feedback• Understand options
OLnet: Open Learning network
Network
Research
Fellowships
$3m 3year initiativeFrom producing open resources to use of open resources•Build capacity•Find evidence•Refine the issues
Dr Patrick McAndrewOpen Content InitiativeThe Open UniversityWalton HallMilton KeynesMK7 6AAwww.open.ac.uk/openlearn
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