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OER and sustainabilitySCORE event,Leeds, 13 May 2010

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Welcome from OU Regional Director

Nick Berry

Making Open the easiest option:

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Programme


10:00 Welcome, coffee & refreshments, registration10:15 Introduction and welcome by OU Regional Director, Nick Berry Reuse and OER, the journey to sustainability Chris Pegler11.00 A sustainable model for an institutional OER – UNICYCLE (Leeds Met.)

Simon Thomson and Jakki Sheridan-Ross11.45 Break12.00 Sustainable policies, sustainable resources and predictions for

sustainable re-use: lessons from the OOER project: MEDEV, NewcastleMegan Quentin-Baxter and Suzanne Hardy

12.45 Sharing OER sustainability examples: Overview and activity intro13:00 Lunch and networking14.00 Discussion: What will it take to make OER sustainable?14.15 Drafting a ‘Leeds manifesto’ on OER sustainability.15.00 Tea and coffee

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Why reuse matters

• Reuse takes us beyond ‘good intentions’

• Otherwise what are we sharing for?

• Reuse of resources can feed into:– Sustainable e-learning – Making practice public– Keeping resources ‘alive’– A virtuous cycle of ‘openness’

• But it’s not something we’re used to doing

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OER and reuse

• OER = RLO + open license

• Investment in reuse potential ‘up front’

• BUT will people want to reuse?

• Reuse potential is reflection of:– Motivation of users– Quality of resource (measured variously)– Technology (low barriers)

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In the beginning ...

There was a quest for sustainability

ChrisPegler

#oerday Key point (raised across strands) is sustainability. And changes in behaviour (they hope). 3:07 AM Jan 26th, 2009 via web

Did they manage it?


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http://twitter.com/ChrisPegler/status/1148776239

Not just a ‘Panda Project’?

Pandas are not self-sustaining.

You can keep them going, but they are always require support.

"1600 pandas"Par WWF, Nantes, 4 avril 2009http://www.flickr.com/photos/st3f4n/3411490323/ by Stéfan


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So what is Sustainability?

Wikipedia – of course (11th May 2010)

‘Sustainability is the capacity to endure’.

It’s about survival beyond the short term.

The end point in an ecological system?

Reuse & Sustainability = signs of a healthy ecology?


Some ecology concepts

‘An information ecology is a complex system of parts and relationships. It exhibits diversity and experiences continual evolution. Different parts of an ecology coevolve ... [there is] a sense of locality.’

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Nardi and O’Day (1999) First Monday 4 (5)http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_5/nardi_chapter4.html

‘Monoculture - a fake, brittle ecology - gives sensational results for a short time, then completely fails.’

Robert Robertson, CETIS (OAI5, 2007)

http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=11&sessionId=10&resId=1&materialId=slides&confId=5710

Eutrophication ‘promotes excessive plant growth and decay ... disrupts normal functioning of the ecosystem’

Where in the ecosystem are you?

• Sustainability is viewed differently depending on who you are:– Funder– Practitioner– Institution– Community

• Sustainable supply or sustainable demand?


The funder’s story


By mtsofan http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtsofan/2450496004/

We’ve given you money to change your behaviour.

We need to see change continuing – not just while the money lasts.

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The practitioner

• Supply: What’s in it for me once the money/support runs out?Motivation . Quality . Technology (Pegler, OER10)

• Demand: Will it still be there once the project ends? Motivation . Quality . Technology (Pegler, OER10)


Institutional priorities


Is it a showcase?

Or a workspace?

Or both?

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Community view

• Existing community– Does it make sense as part of it’s ‘portfolio’?– Does the community want it?

Are they engaged?– How to resource this and new/other projects?

• Newly created community– Does this new community work?– How can it carry on past funding?



About SCORE

• Increasing sector capacity for effective OER creation/use.

• Moving from a supply-led approach to reflect institutional/student needs.

• How? 36 fellowship projects; 3600 hours of OER reflecting sector needs; 18 engagement events; enquiry-based support and advice service, ‘vibrant’ web 2.0-based virtual community, engagement with international OER community

• www.open.ac.uk/score

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Thank you and questions?

Chris Pegler [email protected]

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Education

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