CORE-Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment - for Materials

CORE-Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials

“The UK must have a core of open access learning resources organised in a coherent way, to supporton-line and blended learning by all higher education institutions, and to make it more widely available in non-HE environments.”

(Sir Ron Cooke, 2008)

• Contributors have/are making their teaching and training resources available (images, videos, presentations, etc) in collaboration with the CORE-Materials team

• Over 1,200 learning and teaching resources now for use, sharing and re-purposing – with strategies for expansion

• Value-added to existing resources, which are promoted worldwide and available via:• the CORE-Materials website• Web 2.0 file-sharing sites• JorumOpen national repository

CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials

Introduction

…provide e-Learning resources: videos,

images, case studies, lectures, etc.

Legal (IPR) and technical input from

CORE-Materials project team…

…enables release of OERs via a range of services

under Creative Commons licenses

CORE-Materials COLLABORATIVE OPEN RESOURCES - FOR MATERIALS

20 project partners from HE, FE, industry and

professional body…

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CORE-MaterialsWebsite

OPENThese resources

are subject to Copyright

CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials

Sustainability (1)

‘Sustainability’ as a discussion topic running constantly throughout the lifetime of CORE-Materials– This helped identify early barriers to OER release / use, and informed planning of project impact and development

Promotion of CORE-Materials through the national Subject Centre: UKCME – Drawing on UKCME’s identified community of users; Incorporating awareness of OER issues into UKCME events and training courses (targeted at New Lecturers, Student Representatives, Post-Graduate Demonstrators, Programme Leaders)

CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials

Discipline-specific CORE-Materials repository –includes a user-interface with a faceted search facility

Sustainability (2)

Sharing lessons learned; e.g. technical, legal, institutional, evaluative

“TMS [in March 2010] suggest that, at the least, all U.S. materials departments and societies should be aware of the products of CORE-Materials and learn from their concept and processes. At the best, there may be ways of collaborating that could benefit all parties."

Guidance documentation – (e.g. IPR, Consortium Agreements, institution engagement, uploading, etc)

CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials

Resources shared via Web 2.0 file-sharing sites –providing enhanced functionality and tracking of OERs

Portability of OERs – multi-file FlashTM resources can be run independently on a user’s own system

Sustainability (3)

Promotion of added-value functions gained from developing and using ‘open’ resources:

Curriculum content – existing courses enhanced and modules / programmes developed with OERs

CORE-Materials COLLABORATIVE OPEN RESOURCES - FOR MATERIALSSubject Strand

CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials

Resource Guides – developed in collaboration with the subject community and institutional senior managers

Personal Learning Environments – demonstrating resource collections and OERs for learners

Sustainability (4)

Highlighting benefits to both ‘communities of practice’ and the HE sector / industry:

“Don’t start by asking who will pay for your content, but ask who will pay attention, who will trust you, who will follow you – and work with all involved parties to convert that attention into income.” (Leonard, 2009)

CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials

In Summary

Focus on sustainability from the start (seeing it similar to project dissemination and evaluation)

Look to share lessons learned – e.g. project successes, outputs and outcomes – with others

Actively promote added-value features emerging from the project to both existing and new users

Look to support communities of practice, and partner institutions, in their OER release strategies