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Cancer Biology Open Educational Resources – Momna Hejmadi

Cancer Biology Open Educational Resources – Momna Hejmadi. http://www.bath.ac.uk/bio-sci/oer/index/view/id/4. (Hejmadi 2007). Repurposing materials for OER What were the issues?. Time - longer than anticipated Technology – material was repurposed for OER from the UoB VLE (Moodle)

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Cancer Biology Open Educational Resources – Momna Hejmadi

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  1. Cancer Biology Open Educational Resources – Momna Hejmadi http://www.bath.ac.uk/bio-sci/oer/index/view/id/4 (Hejmadi 2007)

  2. Repurposing materials for OER What were the issues? Time - longer than anticipated Technology – material was repurposed for OER from the UoB VLE (Moodle) OER interoperability – contracted to a professional web developer mainly to ensure interoperability (Website developed in HTML) Accessibility

  3. Repurposing materials for OER What were the issues? IPR - IPR on teaching materials belongs to academic at the UoB Sustainability – Institutional OER weblink to Jorum Open and MERLOT Staffing Quality assurance / enhancement

  4. Resource MERLOT – Repository in the US has chosen it for review Direct email inquiries from the USA, Canada, Australia, India University of Bath Invited to disseminate OER by Pro VC Learning & Teaching Collaborator on Phase 2 OSTRICH project (Leicester) Faculty of Engg Phase 2 project Follow up – Phase 1

  5. Junior staff would consider using OER in their own practice More keen on the principle of OER More optimistic about benefits but identified lack of incentives as a major barrier Senior staff preferred to share their teaching materials More wary on usefulness (‘lazy option by user’, ‘quality assurance issues’) Not many incentives to share Evaluating OER Academic views ‘OER? Never heard of it’

  6. Benefits Globalisation of education (although limited) Showcasing innovative practices Help recruitment Barriers TIME IPR clearance Lack of incentives Funding Evaluating OER Academic views

  7. Benefits Globalisation of education (although limited) Help in programme and university choices Barriers / Issues Quality assurance Lack of trust Dilution of a degree Evaluating OER Student views

  8. Thanks to…

  9. I feel that… …if teaching resources on my course were open access (freely available), it would discourage me from attending lectures 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...I would be more likely to seek open access teaching resources produced by eminent scientists / institutions ... I would not mind a lecturer delivering adapted teaching content produced by another academic ...I would be happy for students from other institutions to use teaching material created by Bath academics …making resources from my course freely available to others will make my degree less valuable ...the information I need to gain additional understanding on taught content is readily available ...having access to additional open learning resources (not assessed) will help me do well in my course ...I learn best when I can access teaching resources in my own time, instead of lectures alone … that taught content in my course is too exam focussed ...my course could benefit from more opportunity for informal discussion of ideas and concepts Percentage of responses Figure 6: Student attitudes towards OER and their learning experience. Responses of 25 students from The University of Bath Biology and Biochemistry Department. Questions 1-8 focus on development and use of OER; questions 9 and 10 focus on students’ attitudes towards their learning experience.

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