Open Educational Resources (OER)
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Julian PriorLearning Technologist
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Outline• Definitions• Licenses• Examples• Benefits• Barriers• Activity
Wikimedia Commons
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1. Definitions
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open courses (MOOCs)
open content
open badges
open data
open research
open source
open courseware (OCW)
open learners
open textbooks
open access
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Questions:
• What does the 'open' in OER mean?
• Is being 'open' a good thing?
• Can you think of an example of an OER?
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see: http://www.hackeducation.com/2012/09/18/define-open/
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What do we mean by 'open'?• free (monetary value)• freely available (online/digital) - knowledge as a
'public good'• transparency of activity (Cormier and Siemens,
2010) - open educational practices• freedom to re-use/revise/remix/re-distribute
(Wiley's 4 Rs - http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/opencontent/vss-2010-oer-101-theory-and-practice )
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"digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research."
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OECD, 2007
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“Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.”
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Atkins, Brown, & Hammond 2007
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2. Licenses
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Creative Commons Licenses
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CC BY - Attribution
CC BY SA - Attribution Share-Alike
CC BY ND - Attribution No Derivatives
CC BY NC - Attribution Non Commercial
CC BY NC SA - Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike
CC BY NC ND - Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives
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http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Metrics
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3. Examples
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Big Little
Institutional Individual
high reputation cheap
good teaching quality, web (2) native
little reversioning required
easily remixed and reused
expensive low production quality
often not web native reputation ‘buyer beware’
reuse limited distributed
Weller, 2009
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http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3636
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4. Benefits
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Scenario (10 mins)
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At the school/college/university you work at you have been asked to apply for external funding for a project to release existing teaching/learning materials as OER.
You have been invited to a senior managers/governors meeting to give a presentation on why the school/college/uni should support OER. They are very skeptical. How would you convince them that your project is worth supporting? List 5 benefits of using OER.
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Benefits:
• Enhances reputation (publicity/marketing)• Enhances quality of resources - peer review• Promotes social inclusion and widens participation• Taster courses can increase student recruitment• Encourages pedagogic innovation• Lower costs e.g free textbooks• Encourages collaboration with educators and learners
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5. Barriers
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Scenario (5 mins)
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Revisit the meeting with senior managers/governors at your school/college/university.
This time put yourself in the position of a senior manager or governor. Come up with 5 objections to the adoption of OER, or 5 barriers or hurdles that need to be overcome.
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Barriers/Issues:
• Lack of awareness of benefits (institution/staff/students)• Workloads/resourcing (creating OER ‘from scratch’)• Requires new skills and pedagogies?• Competition and marketisation of HE• Technical issues e.g metadata, tagging, searching• Perception of lower quality?• Legal issues and licensing
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6. Activity
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Activity
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Pick one of the following online sources/ways to search for OER:
• Google advanced search www.google.co.uk/advanced_search ;• Flickr Creative Commons www.flickr.com/creativecommons ;• JORUM www.jorum.ac.uk ;• OER Commons www.oercommons.org 1. Find a resource that you could make use of in your teaching;2. Alter/change/remix the resource to serve your purpose using appropriate licensing;3. Report back to the group on any issues you faced e.g how easy was it to find a relevant resource, was the resource easy to download/use/re-use/repurpose?
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References
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Atkins, D.E., Seely-Brown, J., and Hammond, A.L. (2007) ‘A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges and New Opportunities.’ http://www.hewlett.org/uploads/files/ReviewoftheOERMovement.pdf
Cormier, D. and Siemens, G. (2010) ‘Through the Open Door: Open Courses as Research, Learning and Engagement.’ Educause Review. Vol. 45, No. 4 (July/August 2010). pp. 30-39.
OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) (2007) ‘Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources.’ http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/38654317.pdf Watters, A. (2012) ‘What do we mean by “Open” ’? http://www.hackeducation.com/2012/09/18/define-open/
Weller, M. (2009) ‘Big OER and Little OER.’ http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2009/12/the-politics-of-oer.html
Wiley, D. (2010) ‘OER 101: Theory and Practice.’ http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/opencontent/vss-2010-oer-101-theory-and-practice
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