Open Educational Resources

Discussion Session

Intrallect Conference

Open Educational Repositories

Share | Improve | Reuse

Session Chairs

Sarah Currier & Lou McGillWith a some slides from Charles Duncan (Intrallect) and Amber

Thomas (JISC)

Intrallect Conference: Open Educational Repositories, March 25-26 2009, Edinburgh, Scotland

Session Plan

11:30 – 11:45 Introductions, what do we want from session?

11:45 – 12:05 Introduction to Open Educational Resources Business Models (with handout from ‘Good Intentions’)

12:05 – 12:25 Look live at some OER repositories & services

12:25 – 13:00 Open discussion

OERs Report (JISC CETIS)

“digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research”

“’resources’ are not limited to content- comprise three areas, these are (OECD, 2007):

Learning content: Full courses, courseware, content modules, learning objects, collections and journals.

Tools: Software to support the development, use, reuse and delivery of learning content, including searching and organisation of content, content and learning management systems, content development tools, and online learning communities.

Implementation resources: Intellectual property licenses to promote open publishing of materials, design principles of best practice and localise content”

from “Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources” OECD, 2007, http://tinyurl.com/62hjx6 Quoted on p4 http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education, Li Yuan; Sheila MacNeill; Wilbert Kraan, JISC CETIS

Facets of Open-ness

Open Access The Open Access research literature is composed of free, online copies of peer-

reviewed journal articles and conference papers as well as technical reports, theses and working papers. In most cases there are no licensing restrictions on their use by readers. They can therefore be used freely for research, teaching and other purposes. But not repurposed – so tension / difference with OERs

Open Source Licenses that grant of the right to freely redistribute the software, access to the

source code, and the permission to modify that source code and distribute the modified version of the software.

Open Licensing Access, Redistribution, Source, Reuse, Absence of technological restrictions,

Attribution, Integrity, No discrimination, Distribution of licence, Independence, No restriction on other works (This list is based on definitions of “open knowledge” and “open source software”).

Open Standards Support sharing, reuse and repurposing by enabling tools to be developed that

can interoperate.

Spectrum of Open-ness

Open courseware

Videos/

Podcasts

ImagesSlides / Worksheets

Learning Objects

Large hosted collections

Distributed

‘Good Intentions’ Case Studies

OpenLearn, UK, Open University Jorum, UK, National Repository NDLR, Ireland, National Repository COLEG, Scotland, FE National Repository IRISS Learning Exchange, Scotland, Social

Work IVIMEDS, International, Medicine SURF WBL, UK, Cross-institutional CELLS, Scotland, Cross-institutional, Life

Sciences EdShare, Southampton, UK, single

institution

‘Good Intentions’ Case Studies (open) OpenLearn, UK, Open University Jorum, UK, National Repository NDLR, Ireland, National Repository COLEG, Scotland, FE National Repository IRISS Learning Exchange, Scotland, Social

Work IVIMEDS, International, Medicine SURF WBL, UK, Cross-institutional CELLS, Scotland, Cross-institutional, Life

Sciences EdShare, Southampton, UK, single

institution

Open Sharing Models Studied by ‘Good Intentions’

OpenLearn, UK JorumOpen, UK MIT OCW, US NZ OER, New Zealand Merlot, International OER Commons, International Connexions, Rice University US Knowledge Hub, Mexico BC Campus, Canada

OpenLearn, OU, UK

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/• Self-learning materials available to

learners and educators globally

• See it as large-scale action research

• CoP basis: topics and topic discussion forums

• Media-rich resources, complex learning objects / tutorials / study units made available via interactive VLE

EdShare

http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/• Open Web sharing and institution-only

sharing

• According to academics’ wishes: bottom-up and not top-down

• Assets (PowerPoint, Word/PDF documents)• “Light-weight” approach- no IMS CP / LOM

• Intent to share practice and learning designs – but want to get engagement first.

BC Campus

http://solr.bccampus.ca/• Key intent: reuse and re-purposing across

Canada FE/HE of BC Campus resources

• Open Web sharing (CC licences) and Canada-only sharing (BC Commons licence)

• 90% of academics chose BC Commons

• For academics and students: but most use ended up being from students

IRISS Learning Exchange

http://www.iriss.ac.uk/openlx/• Started out with closed sharing within social work

education CoP

• Licensing and cultural barriers

• Now 90% completely open licenses

• Web-based open; lots of standards-based tools to disseminate widely

• Share freely with other services, e.g. NHS

• Assets, web links, some complex learning objects.

MIT Open Courseware

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

• Primary intent: to publish all courses at MIT on Web

• Courseware: not individual re-purposable learning objects or assets

• Levels of granularity and quality variable: warts and all!

• Evaluation study:• 47% reused MIT materials or plan to in future

• Over 97% of educators expressed satisfaction with materials

References

Free MIT web book mentioned in session:

Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge / Edited by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11309&mode=toc

JISC-funded report on learning resource sharing business models, including OERs:

Good Intentions: Improving the Evidence Base in Support of Sharing Learning Materials / Authors: Lou McGill, Sarah Currier, Peter Douglas, Charles Duncan

http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/265/

JISC CETIS report on OERs:

Open Educational Resources : Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education / Authors: Li Yuan; Sheila MacNeill; Wilbert Kraan, JISC CETIS

http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf

Credits and Contacts

Slides by Sarah Currier and Lou McGill

sarah.currier@gmail.com http://www.sarahcurrier.com/

lou.mgill@gmail.com http://www.loumcgill.co.uk/

Many slides re-purposed from Charles Duncan (Intrallect) and Amber Thomas (JISC)

http://www.intrallect.com http://www,jisc.ac.uk/

; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/scotland/