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Practical Re-use

• Dr Richard Field (School of Geography – Nottingham)

• Handout for SPSS

• 200 students

• Had limited time to put it together

• Open Nottingham team advised – try OER

www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert

Context:

Preference:

Accessibility:

Saved time:

Student handout:

Changed some of the instructions Changed some of the English

Changed font

From 1 day (without screen shoots) to 30 minutes

To provide support on the use of spss

What did he do with it?

Was it useful?

Surveyed 51 students who were given the handout:

• Quality/Usefulness

• OER specific – briefed on OER but not validated

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where

what

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Free Text Analysis

The clear and concise nature of the textComments in this area (27 positive and 1 negative)

The use of screenshotsComments in this area (8 positive and 0 negative) included

Demonstrates:

Benefits to the building block approach

Further Study

• Focus Groups with the 51 students

• University wide student survey on use of web-based resources/OER

The original handout created by Dr Trevor Bryant (University of Southampton) and found using the Xpert repository is available at http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/5135/

The adapted handout re-purposed by Dr Richard Field (University of Nottingham) is available at http://resources.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/11915

……………..with a request for others to add to the case

Key Points

Practical re-use (anyone can do this)

OER’s can save time without compromising quality and students are using them

Economies of scale

Understanding how students use web based educational resources will help inform OER

www.nottingham.ac.uk/open

steven.stapleton@nottingham.ac.uk