“Getting Switched ON!Open Nottingham, removing barriers for re-use and sharing”
Andy BegganHead of Learning TechnologyThe University of Nottingham
Steve Stapleton, Alison JohnsonBERLiN Project Team
ALT-C 8th Sept 2010
Outline of presentation About Nottingham About Open Nottingham Encouraging re-use
Removing barriers Digital Literacy programme New tools End-user feedback
Next steps
About Nottingham• Research led institution• Student numbers
• 40,000 students (postgrad and undergrad)• 6,000 international (130 countries)• Six campuses (inc. China and Malaysia)
• Learning Technology Support• Learning Engagement Team
• VLEs• E-assessment
• Learning Innovation Team• Video production• E-learning development (Xerte)
• Open Learning
What is Open Nottingham? U-Now – OCW/OER
Launched 2007 Member of OCWC
Visitors up 67% Q1 2009 HEA/JISC funded through BERLiN project 2009/10
Open Nottingham Open source tools Open learning support
U-Now iTunesU YouTube Edu
OER discovery & re-use
Encouraging re-use & sharingEncouraging re-use & sharing
In a recent staff survey the main benefits cited for publishing OER were:1. Enhancing University reputation (73%) 2. Sharing best practice (72%)3. Supporting students without formal access to HE (66%)
Whereas the main barriers were:1. Time constraints (65%)2. Fear over copyright infringement (58%)3. Ownership and legal barriers (43%)
In a recent staff survey the main benefits cited for publishing OER were:1. Enhancing University reputation (73%) 2. Sharing best practice (72%)3. Supporting students without formal access to HE (66%)
Whereas the main barriers were:1. Time constraints (65%)2. Fear over copyright infringement (58%)3. Ownership and legal barriers (43%)
1. Time constraints1. Time constraints
Connections•Internal•External•Partnerships
Connections•Internal•External•Partnerships
Open Nottingham Support
Open Learning Support Officer Promote new tools/services (e.g. XPERT) Provides support and advice Upload and cataloguing within OER repository Workflows to facilitate publication Resources can be:
Sent to team directly by email Submitted online via U-Now website School based initiatives
Digital Literacy Workshop
Aim: to inform and promote re-use of OER Discover or source Creative Commons educational resources
and images Use and attribute creative commons resources appropriately Explore the process and licences involved in creating and
publishing OERs as well as their own attitudes
Run 3 times so far… Optional module on
PGCHE from 2010-11 Open for Learning RLO
2. Copyright infringement 2. Copyright infringement 3. Ownership and legal barriers3. Ownership and legal barriers
XPERT Xerte Public E-learning ReposiTory
Over 60,000 resources Over 3,000 feeds
UK JISC funded under rapid innovation programme To progress the vision of a distributed architecture
of e-learning resources for sharing and re-use Based on Xerte Online Toolkits
www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/
Where next? Open for learning workshops
Publish RLO openly
Open Nottingham Seminar Update of U-Now
Promoting staff contributions
School based approaches Release of module handbooks Links to University website Links to prospectuses
Reward and recognition? OER Africa
Any Questions?
http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert
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