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Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources. Building open content for the bioscience community. Outline. Open Educational Resources Background, current status and problems The OER programme How it is being executed and what it means to the centre workload Expected outcomes

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Open Educational Resources

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  1. Open Educational Resources Building open content for the bioscience community

  2. Outline • Open Educational Resources • Background, current status and problems • The OER programme • How it is being executed and what it means to the centre workload • Expected outcomes • Critical success factors for the pilot • Further information • Key links and tags to follow progress

  3. What is an OER? • Creating educational resources for sharing and further development • Easy to find (fully described) • Easy to use (context and guidance available) • Quality assured (authenticated?) • Re-purposable, and shared back again if possible • Key groups • OER Commons, OCW Consortium, CCLearn • “Reuse, Redistribute, Revise, and Remix”

  4. Problems OER has to tackle • OER culture slow to pick up in UK HE • Needs resource databases and COPs • Sharing is costly, but reinvention more-so • IPR clearance, tagging, branding, discovery • Worldwide profile for UK HE • Inter-institutional dependencies • Bonus: Added value and cost savings?

  5. The OER programme • Initiated by HEFCE/JISC and delivered by JISC/Academy • Pilot project for a £25m programme (2009-2012) • Pilot phase £5.7m (April 2009-April 2010) • <£3m for 12 Subject Centres to run projects • Not buying rights to old resources! • But re-purposing existing, valued content demonstrating various approaches • Cultural change and sustainable processes • Content is an indicator of processes in place – a metric • Sustained release – institutional IPR policies updated • Benefits for academic profile, institutional profile, discipline profile and their students

  6. What it means to the Centre • Large project - £250k • Significant project profile • New networks and COPs • Staffing and resources • Tight timescale!!

  7. Funded projects • Institutional, Subject and Individual strands • Coventry - Open Content Employability • Exeter - Open Exeter • Leeds Met - Unicycle • Leicester University - OTTER • Nottingham University - BERLiN • Oxford University - Open Spires • Staffordshire University - OpenStaffs • York, Westminster, Oxford Brookes, Falmouth, Anglia Ruskin, UCL, UCLAN, Lincoln and Bradford

  8. Funded projects Subject strand • SC LLAS (Southampton), ENG (Royal Holloway), PRS (Leeds), HCA (Durham) The HumBox Project • SC ICS (Ulster) Open Educational Repository in Support of Computer Science • SCEngineering (Loughborough) Open Educational Resources Pilot • SC UKCME (Liverpool)) CORE-Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment –for MaterialsSC Economics (Bristol) TRUE: Teaching Resources for Undergraduate Economics • SC Physical Sciences (Hull/Liverpool) Skills for Scientists • SC GEES (Plymouth) C-change in GEES: Open licensing of climate change and sustainabilityresources in the Geography, Earth and Environmental SciencesSC ADM (Brighton) Open Educational Resources in Art, Design and Media • SC MSOR (Nottingham Trent) FETLAR (Finding electronic teaching learning and assessment resources) • SC Bioscience (Leeds) ‘An Interactive Laboratory and Fieldwork Manual for the Biosciences’ • SC UKCLE (Warwick) Simulation Learning Resources • SC HSAP (KCL) Public Health Open Resources in the University Sector (PHORUS) • SC C-SAP (Southampton) Evaluating the practice of collective endeavour in opening up keyresources for learning and teaching in the social sciencesSC MEDEV (Newcastle) Organising Open Educational Resources (OOER)

  9. Our work • Ten project ‘consortia’ with Bioscience • Nottingham: Biodiversity components • Oxford: iCases – Influenza outbreak • DeMontfort: Virtual Analytical Laboratory • OU: Biochemistry virtual laboratories • Bath: Cancer Biology • UCL: Virtual museum zoology • Glasgow: Virtual Ecology • Gloucestershire: Java based Rocky Shore simulation • Leeds: Microbiology labs (10 tutorials and exercises) • Manchester: Genetic Analysis scenarios

  10. Our work • Contributing existing resources which need reworking for open release • Output into JorumOpen where possible • Resolving IPR using creative commons UK licences (e.g. BY-NC-SA) • Sharing IPR successes through network • Cataloguing issues – Jorum support • Managing the project - Sharepoint

  11. Key Issues and outcomes • IPR cleared content for re-use and redevelopment • Use of appropriate descriptive meta-data • Dissemination and distribution from key repositories and source providers • Sustainability – a 5 year minimum • Raised OER awareness • Final Report

  12. Follow developments • Tags: OER and UKOER (or #OER and #UKOER) in online updates • Academy OER newsfeed (soon) • Open Education News • Cetis: Educational Content • Terry’s OER blog and project partner blogs

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