practicalities of contributing to open educational resources (oer)

Open Educational Resources Workshop  

Practicalities of Contributing to UCT OpenContent

Developing Open Educational Practice

Shihaam Donnelly & Michael Paskevicius

16 April 2010

Difference between "online content" and "open content" (OER)• Much of the content we interact on a daily basis

is online, but that does not necessarily make it open.

• Truly OpenContent can be: – Reused – Revised – Remixed – Redistributed

(Wiley, 2009)

Identifying something to share

• The UCT OpenContent directory hosts openly licensed teaching and learning resources created by academics and students at UCT

o Instructional websiteso Handbooks & guideso Image Collectionso Open textbooks o Presentations o Vula sites o Podcasts 

What resources do you have that you could share?

A Creative Commons image by (ta)

Evaluating the media resources within your resource• Is it protected under copyright law?

• If resource falls under copyright protection, either:

o Recreate the resources using office or online tools

o Replace the resource with a similar resource by finding an open source alternative or by creating your own resource

o Obtain permission from the author, publisher, editor, organization who holds the copyright 

o Reconsider if the resource is really necessary?

Example: Copyrighted Resource

Recreated resource

Adapted from Kielhofner (2002) A Model of Human Occupation: Theory and Application . Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. (124)

CopyrightedResource

Recreated resource

Adapted from: Cole and Tufano (2008) Applied Theories in Occupational Therapy: A Practical Approach , SLACK Incorporated. (109)

Recreation of images

http://google.com/docshttp://www.gliffy.com/

Sourcing Alternatives • Finding an alternative image

o Search Creative Commons Flickr imageso Images on Wikipedia are either Creative Co

mmons or PDo Medical Images - Grays Anatomy 

o Re-creation of the image for your own purposes o GoogleDocs drawing /diagram tool o http://www.gliffy.com/o Powerpoint, Word, Excel, scanned hand-

drawn graphics

Compfight search for "computer laptop"

Wikimedia search for "leg"

Referencing open content

http://www.learnerstogether.net/how-to-use-and-cite-creative-commons-resources/312

• Mention License • Creators Name • Link to source if possible

Presentation Example

Original PowerPoint presentation

Converted PowerPoint presentation

Psychological Tools and Mediated LearningBy: Alex Kozulin

Article Review Michael Paskevicius

Vygotsky Theory and Issues in Modern Education

http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html

Mediated Learning • What kind of involvement by

the adult is effective in enhancing the child’s performance?

http://education.more4kids.info/page/5/

Zone of Proximal Development

• Transfer of function of awareness to actual development

1. In an interactive situation children can become involved in activities that are more complex than those they could master themselves

2. Joint activity results in the specific function becoming appropriated (internalized) by the child

(Kozulin, 2003)

Psychological Tools and Mediated LearningBy: Alex Kozulin

Article Review Michael Paskevicius

Vygotsky Theory and Issues in Modern Education

Adapted from Kozulin, A. (2003) Psychological tools and Mediated Learning. Cambridge University Press

Mediated Learning • What kind of involvement by

the adult is effective in enhancing the child’s performance?

Creative commons image by robertjosiah http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertjosiah/542734888/

Zone of Proximal Development

• Transfer of function of awareness to actual development

1. In an interactive situation children can become involved in activities that are more complex than those they could master themselves

2. Joint activity results in the specific function becoming appropriated (internalized) by the child

Kozulin, A. (2003). Psychological tools and mediated learning. In Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context. Kozulin, A., Gindis, B., Ageyev, V.V., Miller, S.M. Eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Discuss issues with resources

• What issues do you foresee with your potential OER resources?

Choosing a license

• Would you allow commercial uses of your work?

• Yes

• No

• Would you allow modifications or derivatives of your work?

• Yes

• No

Questions to ask

OpenContent Suggests

Get a license

• http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/Get-a-Creative-Commons-license

• Copy and paste license into resource

• Or http://creativecommons.org/choose/

Hosting

• Hopefully the resource is already online (Vula, Departmental server, etc.)

• Choose host most suitable to file type o Slideshare (Example)o HTML sites (Example) o Document on Vula (Example)o Flickr o Youtube

• No matter where it is hosted, you will be able to describe it and make it more discoverable using the OpenContent Directory!

Creating the link on OpenContent

• Log in using your UCT staff number • Click contribute  • Enter the necessary metadata • Submit!  • Your resource is moderated and

becomes part of UCT OpenContent  Demo  

Profiling

• Showcase profile of Jonny Myers and Jean-Paul Van Belle

References

Wiley, D. (2009) Defining “Open”. Blog post on iterating toward openness. Posted November 16, 2009. Retrieved online April 13, 2010. http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1123

UCT OER team contacts

General Help : http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/Help

Michael Paskevicius mike.vicious@gmail.com

Glenda Cox glenda.cox@uct.ac.za

Shihaam Donnelly shihaamdonnelly@gmail.com

Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams Cheryl.Hodgkinson-Williams@uct.ac.za

Centre for Educational Technology

Hlanganani Building,Upper Campus, UCTTel: 021 650 3841

Fax: 021 650 5045

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa License. To view a

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San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

Prepared by Cheryl Hodgkinson-WilliamsCheryl.Hodgkinson-Williams@uct.ac.za

& Michael Paskevicius mike.vicious@gmail.com

OpenContent Directory: http://opencontent.uct.ac.zaCompanion site on Vula: https://vula.uct.ac.za/portal/site/openuct

OER UCT project blog: http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct

Follow us: http://twitter.com/openuct

Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/mpaskevi