Developing a Subject collection for Sesame

1. Developing a Subject collection for Sesame Marion Manton

2. What are the subject collections? Aim • To provide students and tutors of weekly classes who cannot access University of Oxford online library resources with an easy way to discover useful, freely available electronic resources to support their learning and teaching. Output • A set of links to online learning resources for your subject area, with brief descriptions to help a student or tutor understand why they are useful, tagged with keywords to allow for sorting into meaningful categories.

3. Aims to create and provide Open Educational Resources (OER) for teachers and learners globally through the work of the weekly class programme What is the Sesame project?

4. Specifically the project aims to: • Help tutors find out how using and creating OER can benefit you and your students • Enable students to find and use appropriate, validated online resources in their work • Improve tutors skills and confidence in identifying, using and creating OER • Embed open ways of working in the development and delivery of weekly classes • Widen access to Oxford's teaching to new audiences globally

5. Objectives • The project will: • Create and release new open content • Develop subject collections for students and tutors • Develop tools and processes that facilitate open practices • Provide training to support part-time tutors to identify, use and create OER • Develop infrastructure to enhance discovery of OER generated by the weekly class programme

6. Project overview • One year, October 2011-2012, divided into three phases • Hilary term (January – March): Initial pilot to develop exemplar course websites • Trinity term (April – June): Training workshop and development of further course websites • Summer (July – September): Training workshop and development of subject websites • Michaelmas term (October - December): Embed OER in work of weekly class programme

7. Subject collections v Creating OER • Much of Sesame is asking tutors to produce OER from their teaching materials • This can include links to useful resources • The subject collections are ONLY links to useful resources and existing OER • However if you want to produce OER from your own materials you can do this as part of the subject collections OR connected to a course

8. OER?

9. OER definitions • Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world. (OER Commons) • “…teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property licence that permits their free use or re-purposing by others.” (Atkins, Brown and Hammond, 2007) • “Anything that I can identify, that I can scavenge from somewhere else, that might make my teaching a little bit easier.” (OER Impact Study, 2011)

10. What is open licensing? Licenses to make it easier to use others’ work in your teaching and learning (or for them to use your work) Best known is creative commons (cc) There are various cc licenses: Oxford uses BY NC SA Page 10

11. What are the conditions? Attribution Author must be acknowledged on all copies and adaptations of the work, including a link to the original version of the work Non-commercial The work can only be used for non-commercial purposes Sharealike The work can be modified and adapted, but the entire resulting work (including new material added by the adaptor) must be distributed under the same sharealike licence Page 11

12. How can I tell if a resource I find is OER • It is openly licensed • Clearly displays a cc logo e.g. • http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ • http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ • http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm • Had other clear statement of open licensing e.g. • http://www.gutenberg.org/

13. Open attribute tool • http://openattribute.com/

14. Finding resources: OER • UK universities • JORUM: http://www.jorum.ac.uk/ • Oxford: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/open • Open University: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ • US universities • MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu • Yale: http://oyc.yale.edu/ • Portals • http://www.oercommons.org • Digitisation • Project Guttenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org

15. Finding resources that are not OER but are still valuable • Sites you use • Digitisation • Primary sources – letters, documents • Cultural institutions • Museums • Libraries • Newspapers • BBC • Media • Audio - iTunesU • Video – Youtube.edu

16. The sesame portal • http:open.conted.ox.ac.uk • Overview • How to register (openly licensing your materials) • How to add a link • Describing resources • Subject • Keywords

17. Describing resources • Although students will be the primary audience the description should also be relevant to tutors or other user of the resource. • Caligula: • http://open.conted.ox.ac.uk/resources/link/biography-gaius-%E2%80%98caligula%E2%80%99 • Intute: http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=118112 • Conted: http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/facilities/library/libraryresources/wwwind.php

18. Subject collection process • Half a day undertaking initial research • Submit details by email of: • the resources you discover (including descriptions and keywords for each resource) • an indication of how many additional resources you think you can identify for the subject collection with between one and four additional days’ work. • We will provide feedback on your initial selection of resources and agree with you the number of days of further work to be undertaken to identifying additional resources and upload them to http://open.conted.ox.ac.uk/.

19. Timing • We will agree individual deadlines for the initial research with you • We are aiming to have all resources uploaded to http://open.conted.ox.ac.uk/by the 31 August 2012.

20. Number of outputs • This will be dependent on the number of day allocated to your subject but, as a guideline, we would hope for at least 20 resources to be added to the collection for each day assigned, with ideally 50% of these being licensed OER.

21. Further information • Project manager • Marion Manton • Email: marion.manton@conted.ox.ac.uk • Phone: 01865 280986 • Location: Ewert House • Website: http://www.tall.ox.ac.uk/research/current/sesame.php • JISC OER Programme: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer/

22. References • Content • JISC OER infoKit: https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com • OpenSpires project: http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ • Images • Genie in an oil lamp. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonzhang/3217242929/) / shannonzhang (http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonzhang/) / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/) • Screenshots: http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ This work by the Sesame Project is licensed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.