Discussing OER reuse

Anna Comas-Quinn & Tita BeavenDepartment of Languages, The Open University

Eurocall CMC and Teacher Education WorkshopBologna, 29-30 March 2012

http://www.briansolis.com/2008/08/introducing-conversation-prism/

The Open Educational Resources Movement

• Inspired by the Open Source software movement

• 2001-2 MIT starts its OpenCourseWare initiative

• 2002 Term OER coined by UNESCO• 2006 OpenLearn - The Open University• and many others

“…the world’s knowledge is a public good…”Smith & Casserly, 2006

Definitions• Open Educational Resources (OER) are “materials used to support education that may be freely accessed, reused, modified and shared by anyone” (Downes, 2011).

• Open Educational Practices (OEP) “support the production, use and reuse of high quality OER through institutional policies, which promote innovative pedagogical models, and respect and empower learners as co-producers on their lifelong learning path.” (ICDE, 2011).

What are OER?• Digital Resources (big and little OER)

• Openly available for reuse and repurposing

• Creator indicates that they are for public use and reuse through a Creative Commons license or similar

• To get over the copyright problem• Enable the 4Rs:

Reuse – make exact copies

Revise – make adaptations

Redistribute – share copies

Remix – combinations / mashups

(see full information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/)

When you want to reuse resources…

What is important in terms of– Quality– Technology– Motivation to reuse

A couple of ideas for each…

Sorting game from Chris Pegler, National Teaching Fellow, The Open Universityhttp://www.slideshare.net/orioleproject/chris-pegler-reusable-card-game

Card game instructions

• BLUE cards = Motivation (what makes you reuse or prevents you from)

• GREY cards = Technology (how it may affect (re)use)

• PINK cards = Quality (how it affects (re)use decisions)

And when you create for sharing…

…do you take these key things into account?

…how?