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Jonathan Darby Director, SCORE

Engaging Institutions: Changing the OER Culture in your Institution. Jonathan Darby Director, SCORE. What’s so special about OER?.

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Jonathan Darby Director, SCORE

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  1. Engaging Institutions: Changing the OER Culture in your Institution Jonathan Darby Director, SCORE

  2. What’s so special about OER? Open Educational Resources are “… digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research. “ Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources, OECD 2007 “The most promising initiative in e-learning is the concept – and the developing reality, of open educational resources.” Sir John Daniel (OU, UNESCO, Commonwealth of Learning) “There is no point duplicating effort to create content that is already available and has been proven to work. Institutions can build on the existing open educational resources initiative to achieve economies of scale and efficiencies. In addition they can pull in the best content and openly available learning resources from around the world and adapt them for particular courses.” On-line Learning Task Force, 2011 Image by: mag3737, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1914076277/

  3. Open educational practices The Four Rs of OER and teaching and learning practices • Reuse – Use the work verbatim, just exactly as you found it • Rework – Alter or transform the work so that it better meets your needs • Remix – Combine the (verbatim or altered work) with other works to better meet your needs • Redistribute – Share the verbatim work, the reworked work, or the remixed work with others. David Wiley, 2007

  4. OER are what you make of them Spreading ‘wild’ seeds • OER can be: • Designed explicitly for educational use • Other content used for educational purposes • Used as an information source

  5. Use and reuse Spreading ‘wild’ seeds • Attribution: “White, D. Manton, M. JISC-funded OER Impact Study, University of Oxford, 2011”

  6. Use and reuse Spreading ‘wild’ seeds • Attribution: “White, D. Manton, M. JISC-funded OER Impact Study, University of Oxford, 2011”

  7. For learners the greater availability and accessibility of resources has been found to help them to: • Learn new things or enrich other studies; • Share and discuss topics asynchronously or synchronously with other learners; • Assess whether they wish to participate in (further) formal education; • Decide which institution they want to study at; • Improve their work performance; • Create or revise OER themselves • But … • They often need guidance

  8. For teachers, individually and collectively, OER make it possible for them to: • Create courses more efficiently and/or effectively, particularly using rich media resources that require advanced technical and media skills; • Investigate the ways in which others have taught their subject; • Create resources or courses in collaboration with others rather than doing it all themselves; • Join in communities of practice which help improve their teaching practices as they reflect on the community use of new open tools and technologies; • Customise and adapt resources by translating or localising them; But … • They must remember that technology only supports not supplants good teaching.

  9. For educational institutions OER offers up opportunities to: • Showcase their teaching and research programmes to wider audiences; • Widen the pool of applicants for their courses and programmes; • Lower the lifetime costs of developing educational resources; • Collaborate with public and commercial organisations, including educational publishers, in new ways; • Extend their outreach activities But … • Improved practices require supportive policies and strategies

  10. For governments and national agencies OER offer scope to: • Showcase their country’s educational systems; • Attract international students (to higher education at least); • Help drive changes in educational practices; • Develop educational resources in ‘minority’ subjects, eg languages where commercial publishers are reluctant; • Develop educational resources that reflect local cultures and priorities; • Cooperate internationally on common resources to meet common needs; But … • They need to provide seed funding and supportive policies.

  11. Practicalities • Licences • Creative Commons • BY – SA – NC – ND • Finding • Repositories • Open Learn • Jorum • LORO • Searching • Google • Flickr • Xpert

  12. Publishing OER • Do what you normally do • Ensure any third party content is licenced for your use • Make sure your content is accessible • Select and attach a CC licence • Upload to a website or repository • Wait for the accolades to come rolling in

  13. What is the culture of an institution?

  14. My values – select one • I’m looking to make as much money as possible for myself and my university • I believe strongly in the power of education to change people’s lives • I take pride in delivering a quality service to my paying customers (students) • I see education being more about common good than private gain • I love my subject and would like as many as possible to learn about it

  15. What is the culture of an institution? It is the sum of the values of those who make it up.

  16. What is an OER culture? • One in which: • OER is published as a matter of course – by students too • OER is used routinely by students and staff • learning outside the institution is encouraged • collaboration and partnership is supported through use of OER • Open Educational Practices are adopted and connections made with for example Open Data and Open Publishing • communities of all sorts are strengthened through OER

  17. Getting there from here • Just do it – nothing is stopping you (probably) • Eg Chris Follows: process.arts.ac.uk • Talk to your colleagues • Get students involved • Exploit the marketing potential of OER (with care) • Point to successes – Oxford, Nottingham, Leeds Met, Southampton, etc • Join with others (subject networks, etc) • Get project money from JISC/HEA • Build OER into other new projects

  18. Want more? • Sign the Statement of Commitment at OpenEd.ac.uk/make-commitment-open-education • Join OpenEducationOpenEG.org • Come to the SCORE Showcase Event OpenEd.ac.uk • Milton Keynes, 11th July 2012 • Subscribe to OER-Discuss@jiscmail.ac.uk • Contact me: j.darby@open.ac.uk

  19. Jonathan Darby j.darby@open.ac.uk Some slides by Andy Lane, www.slideshare.net/SCORE/making-education-moreopen-andy-lane Engaging Institutions: Changing the OER Culture in your Institution

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