Institutional Policy of Open Educational Resources: Fact and Trivia

Barnali Roy Choudhury

Assistant Professor, Library & Information Science

Netaji Subhas Open University

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What we need?

Develop OER material

Provide access to

OER repository

Facilitate system and

infrastructure to support

OER

Continuous update of OER by

academics

Creative Commons Definition

Creative Commons defines OER policies as legislation,institutional policies, and/or funder mandates that lead tothe creation, increased use, and/or support for improvingOER.

2012 Paris OER Declaration

Foster awareness and use of OER

Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts

Encourage the open licensing of educational materials produced with public funds.

Facilitate enabling environments for use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)

Facilitate finding, retrieving and sharing of OER

Cape Town Open Education Declaration:

Unlocking the promise of open educational resources

Educators and learners to actively participate (creating, using, adapting and improving open educational resources) in the emerging open education movement.

Open educational resources: we call on educators, authors, publishers and institutions to release their resources openly. These open educational resources should be freely shared through open licences which facilitate use, revision, translation, improvement and sharing by anyone. Resources should be published in formats that facilitate both use and editing, and that accommodate a diversity of technical platforms. Whenever possible, they should also be available in formats that are accessible to people with disabilities and people who do not yet have access to the Internet.

Need of OER Policy

OER policies (at provincial, state and/or national levels) areneeded in order to advance mainstreaming and uptake ofOER practices (openness in education agenda)

(Mulder, 2013; Bossu et al., 2012)

Issues….

• Development/ adaptation of quality learning materials

• Flexible Copyright Policy

• ICT Supports for Staff & Students

• To store & Access

• Integration of OER

Development/ adaptation of quality learning materials

T:Teaching and learning processes

I: Information and material content

P: Presentation product and format

S: System technical and technology

Quality guidelines for OER using the TIPS framework

Flexible Copyright Policy

All rights reserved Some rights reserved Public Domain

ICT Supports for Staff & Students

ICT Infrastructure

Software

Connectivity to access Internet

To store & Access

• (Organisation & Searching )

Organisation in content level…

Organisation of OER

Descriptive metadata

Discovery

Identification

Selection

Collocation

Obtain

Evaluation

Linkages

Usability

Latest schema

http://www.lrmi.net/

• The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative is a project co-led by the Association of Educational Publishers and Creative Commons to build a common metadata vocabulary for educational resources. (https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/LRMI)

• LRMI vocabulary can help increase the discoverability and value of your educational resources.

• learners, publishers, schools, governments, and the general public.

Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI)

Schema.org

Schema.org is a collaboration among the largest search engines to curate a collection of vocabularies that can be used to add structured data to web pages and enhance web search results.

LRMI Specification Version 1.1

Table 1. LRMI Additions to Schema.org/CreativeWork

Property Expected Type

EducationalAlignment An alignment to an established educational framework.

EducationalUse The purpose of the work in the context of education.

Ex: “assignment” / “group work”

TimeRequired Approximate or typical time it takes to work with or through

this learning resource for the typical intended target audience.

TypicalAgeRange The typical range of ages the content’s intended end user.

InteractivityType The predominant mode of learning supported by the

learning resource. Acceptable values are active, expositive,

or mixed.

LearningResourceType The predominant type or kind characterizing the

learning resource. Ex: “presentation”/ “handout”

UseRightsUrl The URL where the owner specifies permissions for using the

resource. Ex: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

IsBasedOnUrl A resource that was used in the creation of this resource. This

term can be repeated for multiple sources.

Property Description

Name The title of the resource.

About The subject of the content.

Date created The date on which the resource was created.

Author The individual credited with the creation of the resource.

Publisher The organization credited with publishing the resource.

Inlanguage The primary language of the resource.

AccessibilityapiIndicates that the resource is compatible with the referenced accessibility API. (WebSchemas wiki

lists possible values).

AccessibilitycontrolIdentifies input methods that are sufficient to fully control the described resource. (WebSchemas wiki

lists possible values).

AccessibilityfeatureContent features of the resource, such as accessible media, alternatives and supported

enhancements for accessibility. (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values).

AccessibilityhazardA characteristic of the described resource that is physiologically dangerous to some users. Related

to WCAG 2.0 guideline 2.3. (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values).

License A license document that applies to this content, typically indicated by URL.

Other important characteristics of learning resources that are covered by Schema.org properties of CreativeWork

Property Description

AlignmentType

A category of alignment between the learning resource and the framework node.

Recommended values include: ‘assesses’, ‘teaches’, ‘requires’, ‘textComplexity’,

‘readingLevel’, ‘educationalSubject’, and ‘educationLevel’.

EducationalFramework The framework to which the resource being described is aligned.

TargetDescription The description of a node in an established educational framework.

TargetName The name of a node in an established educational framework.

TargetUrl The URL of a node in an established educational framework.

Alignment object is an intangible item that describes an alignment between a learning resource and a node in an educational framework.

Property Description

educationalRole The role that describes the target audience of the content.

Table 4. LRMI properties of EducationalAudience

http://www.lrmi.net/the-specification

Digital Library environment

Gather OER

Properties of Metadata

Collection Building

End-Users Interface…

Search Facility

Search Term…

Retrieval of Search query…

Text…

Image…

Integration of OER (FOSS platform)

Operating System: Linux (Ubuntu 12.04)

Web Server: Apache

Database Management Systems: MySQL (SQL YOG community)

Programming Language: PHP (5.X)

Education based software: Moodle (2.X)

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Steps Tasks

1. Design of course structure including its all units-sections-

subsections

Develop a topic based course on Information Technology

including four modules.

2. Identification of resources– related to target courses Text, Audio, Video, class lecture note, wikis, etc on IT

application

3. Parameters of selection for resource inclusion As per learners readability status;

Ease of accessibility and affordability;

CC-BY licensed materials

4. Selection of objects – audio, video and text CC-By licensed materials

5. Organization (tagging with existing curricula course-paper-

module-unit-section-subsection)

NSOU MLIS Study material structure Organization of Module

1: Library Automation; Module 2: Database Management;

Module 3: Operating System and Programming1 and Module

4: Operating System and Programming 2 consisting lessons,

files, folders, links etc.

6. Development of online learning portal Open Educational Resources

Integration of OER based learning environment

Moodle Home (http://localhost/moodle)

Available Courses

Topic based course

Enlisted tentative activities & Resources…

OER available in pdf format

Evaluation

Learners to be producers rather than consumers of content

OER Policy Registry

Cont…

OER Policy Template 1

OER Policy Template 2

Thanks for your Kind attention….