Creating and adapting teaching
materials for sharing
Open Education WeekWorkshop
11 March 2013
Sarah GoodierOpenUCTPicture by
Sarah Goodier
Summary
• Open Education Week 2013• What is Open Education?• What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?• The importance of OERs• OERs: the Good & Concerns (&
misconceptions)• OERs at UCT!
Open Education Week
• “The purpose of Open Education Week is to raise awareness of the open education movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide.”
• http://www.openeducationweek.org/
What is Open Education?
Picture by Sarah Goodier
What is Open Education?
Video by Blinktower available at: http://vimeo.com/43401199 (licensed under CC-BY 3.0)
What is Open Education?
• “Open education is about expanding educational opportunities worldwide by facilitating the sharing and re-mixing of educational resources.”
(http://www.cyberlawcentre.org/unlocking-ip/2009/materials/Papers/2A_DBrowne.pdf)
What is Open Education?
• “Open education is about expanding educational opportunities worldwide by facilitating the sharing and re-mixing of educational resources.”
• Removing barriers to access to education
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Open + technology + (connected + sharing) + reuse
What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?
Picture by Sarah Goodier
What are OERs?
• OERs are “teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.” – 2012 Paris Declaration
2012 Paris Declaration available at http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/WPFD2009/English_Declaration.html
The importance of OERs
Still from video by Nadia Mireles available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_655666&feature=iv&src_vid=dTNnxPcY49Q&v=7NH7vLzt9jY (licensed under CC-BY 3.0)
The importance of OERs
Video by Nadia Mireles available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_655666&feature=iv&src_vid=dTNnxPcY49Q&v=7NH7vLzt9jY (licensed under CC-BY 3.0)
OERs: the Good
• Enables access• Decreases costs• Allows reuse &
adaptation
“WWW2010 How a big-deal conference does open content” by OpenSourceWay available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4581855658/in/photostream under a CC BY SA license
OERs: the Good
• Enables access• Decreases costs• Allows reuse &
adaptation
OERs: Concerns (& misconceptions)
• Quality issues• Lack of context of
materials• Incorrect use of
licensing
!
“WWW2010 How a big-deal conference does open content” by OpenSourceWay available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4581855658/in/photostream under a CC BY SA license
Still from video by Blinktower available at: http://vimeo.com/43401199 (licensed under CC-BY 3.0)
OERs at UCT!
UCT’s own OpenContent site: http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/
OERs at UCT!
Screenshot of online material available at: https://vula.uct.ac.za/access/content/group/9c29ba04-b1ee-49b9-8c85-9a468b556ce2/Framework_2/index.htm
Screenshot of blog post available at: http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct/2011/06/08/uct-open-materials-win-2011-award-for-opencourseware-excellence
OERs at UCT!
Slide modified from “Open scholarship and multilingualism through the University of Cape Town’s open content” ePoster by Laura Czerniewicz & Sarah Goodier; available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=46ILpdt8qRM under a CC BY SA license
OERs at UCT!
OERs at UCT!
UCT’s own OpenContent site: http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/
Why are you interested in creating and adapting
teaching materials for sharing?
?
Still from video by Blinktower available at: http://vimeo.com/43401199 (licensed under CC-BY 3.0)
Still from video by Blinktower available at: http://vimeo.com/43401199 (licensed under CC-BY 3.0)
Still from video by Nadia Mireles available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_655666&feature=iv&src_vid=dTNnxPcY49Q&v=7NH7vLzt9jY (licensed under CC-BY 3.0)
Still from video by Nadia Mireles available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_655666&feature=iv&src_vid=dTNnxPcY49Q&v=7NH7vLzt9jY (licensed under CC-BY 3.0)
Thank you!
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