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Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources. Building open content for the bioscience community Terry McAndrew and Chris Taylor. Outline. Open Educational Resources Background, current status and problems The OER programme What we did in phase 1 What we intend in phase 2

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Open Educational Resources

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  1. Open Educational Resources Building open content for the bioscience community Terry McAndrew and Chris Taylor

  2. Outline • Open Educational Resources • Background, current status and problems • The OER programme • What we did in phase 1 • What we intend in phase 2 • Workshop demonstrations and ‘hands-on’ • We want your reflections and comment

  3. About Phase 1 Project • A PILOT project to discover the barriers and issues • A ‘significant amount’ of material for release • An opportunity for the Centre to provide resources to support practical work

  4. OERs are... • Educational resources for sharing and further development • Discoverable (fully described) • Useable (context and guidance available) • Quality assured (authentic) • Re-usable and re-purposable, and licensed for further development. • Key communities worldwide “Reuse, Redistribute, Revise, and Remix”

  5. Problems OER still has to tackle • OER ‘culture’ slow to pick up in UK HE • Is sharing resources financially viable? • New ‘competitive’ climate? • IPR clearance • Discovery, tagging and ‘branding’ • Individual Academic profile cf. Institutional profile • Inter-institutional dependencies • Worldwide profile for UK HE

  6. The current environment Our communities are now distributed throughout a complex series of online networks

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

  8. Key issues and outputs/outcomes • IPR cleared content for re-use and redevelopment • Sustainability – a 5 year minimum expected • Raised OER awareness • OER Evaluation and Synthesis wiki • STEM OER guidance wiki

  9. Phase 2: the OeRBITAL project • Collections strand – a bioscience approach OERs from BioscientistsInvolved in Teaching and Learning • Recruitment of expert discipline consultants initially as “hunter-gatherers” • Linkage with learning technologists (tool experts) • Helping to promote and establish a learning and teaching “agricultural base” • Web 2.0 outputs • Probability of changing academic culture ?

  10. Follow developments • Tags: OER and UKOER (or #OER and #UKOER) in online updates • BIOUKOER tag on resources • www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/oer • biooer.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ (Project blog) • www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/teachingandlearning/oer • http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer • Cetis: Educational Content

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