Transforming Practice Through Research

The UK

Cabinet 2060?

Monopolising knowledge

• OER 2011 included Towards the Triumph of the Commons that equated HE with the process of enclosure that devastated English common land in the late eighteenth century.

• Edupreneurs?

• Uncertain boundaries make the Creative Commons licensing system much more than ‘a peasant’s revolt’.

What are OERs?Open Educational Resources are digital resources that can be used openly and freely by anyone interested in that field.

Creative Commons licences encourage their re-use, re-purposing, re-mixing and re-distribution.

IPR? Fair use? YouTube?

OER University OpenLearnPeer to Peer University JorumiTunesU OCW

MITx

“Going to Harvard from

your own bedroom” (BBC

News, 2011)

OCW 2011: 100 million

OCW 2021: 1 billion?

OpenLearn 2011: 40 million

MITx 2012

http://www.isingilizcem.com/en/lounge/

idioms/

June 2012: Hilary Clinton

announces $2billion

government investment in

OERs over the next decade.

N0032220 Sasha Andrews, Wellcome Images. Jimma Town Ethiopia 2006

http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078/

So we need bigger mouths.

“Delicious is like a virtual fieldtrip through a library built by the recommendations of others.”

– Chris Sessums

Social tagging

http://1.bp.blogspot.com

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Digital literacy:

digital maturity

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‘Students as producers’

prolearn-academy.org

Community Challenge 2012-13

Additional Learning Lecture and Seminar Series at UCBC : Community As Curriculum

Write a 2,500 word essay on the above

• How do I find stuff?• How do I know it’s accurate?• How do I share content?• How do I filter content?• How do I keep up with all the news?• How do I file content?• How do I categorise content?

scavenging.files.wordpress.com

Initiative

Employment?

Tutorial: Using a search engineLearning Outcome: A clear understanding of the

role of the critical factors in the systemSummary: through preparing their own account

of using a search engine, to demonstrate the role of the critical factors, using the Library guidelines; presenting it to their group; defending it against questions and comments; and revising their account in the light of the tutor’s summary of the discussion

Tutorial: On a system or processLearning Outcome: A clear understanding of the

role of the critical factors in the systemSummary: through preparing their own account

of the system/process, to demonstrate the role of the critical factors, using the resources provided; presenting it to their group; defending it against questions and comments; and revising their animation in the light of the tutor’s summary of the discussion

Tutorial: The water cycleLearning Outcome: A clear understanding of the

role of the critical factors in the systemSummary: through preparing their own

animation of the water cycle, to demonstrate the role of the critical factors, using the OER cycle; presenting it to their group; defending it against questions and comments; and revising their animation in the light of the tutor’s summary of the discussion

Tutorial: The water cycleLearning Outcome: A clear understanding of the

role of the critical factors in the systemSummary: through preparing their own

animation of the water cycle, to demonstrate the role of the critical factors, using the OER cycle; presenting it to their group; defending it against questions and comments; and revising their animation in the light of the tutor’s summary of the discussion

Benefits from OEP (open educational practices)

OER repository

Community Challenge

• Food• Exclusion• Cohesion• Advertising• Health

• Effects of the internet• Diversity• Collaboration• Copyright/copyleft• Problem solving

Anarchogogy in action: 15 tools and counting

AnyModule.com

• Could these themes or others apply to your course?

• Interested in the receipt of a ‘readymade’ alternative assignment?

• Flexible interpretations of regulations can be achieved.

“The resources that their home institution owns or subscribes to no longer have to be the primary source of information for staff or students” (White and Manton, 2011: 4).

100%

UCBC OERs (tag OERC4E)

Showcased at HEA 2012

National Conference

Student

References

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

(Thanks to Steve Wheeler, Plymouth University for many of these slides and Simon Thomson, Leeds Metropolitan University for the ‘jet pack ascent of man’)

White, D. and Manton, M. (2011) JISC-funded OER Impact Study. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearning/oer/OERTheValueOfReuseInHigherEducation.pdf (accessed 24 October 2011).