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Is OER mainstreamed and sustainable?
Peter Reed: Lecturer & eLearning Coordinator, MMUALT-C, Manchester, 2012
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Background
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ReProduce ProgrammeResearch: Awareness, Attitudes & Participation towards Open Ed.
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Horizon Report
Open Content
Time to Mainstream Adoption: 1 year or less
Q. How many people think it’s mainstreamed?
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Current Practices
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Question: how many people have shared content with colleagues? Question: how many people have applied CC? Question: how many people have uploaded to JORUM?
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Current Practices
Education has/is influenced by it’s society
Research demonstrates local informal sharing (Rolfe, 2012, Reed, 2012)
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Mainstream
Without doubt, this needs to change if the movement is to scale and have a significant impact, and for me, one of
the major challenges to the Open Content Movement is in embedding 'open practice' as 'standard practice'
amongst academic staff, if it is to continue beyond funding activity.
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Success
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Subjective
MIT/OCW/OU
Little is known about how much reuse is actually happening
Perhaps mainstream?
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Mainstream
“Mainstream is, generally, the common current thought of
the majority” (Wikipedia)
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Defining
“Digitised materials offered freely and openly … to use and re-use” (Hylén, 2006)
Open Licensing | Open Access | Open Format | Open Software
(Schaffert & Geser, 2008)
“Openness is not like a light switch that is either ‘on’ or ‘off’. Rather, it is like a dimmer switch, with varying degrees of openness”
(Hilton III, Wiley, Stein, & Johnson, 2010).
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Sustainability
Question:
Would you share your everyday teaching materials within JORUM
ORDo you invest more time/effort before
sharing?
If yes, will the masses engage?
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Sustainability
Sustainability reliant upon overcoming key challenges / barriers;
• Reward mechanisms• Time• Skills/Literacies• Processes – Licensing,
uploading, etc
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Sustainability
Until HEIs strategically focus on OER for OER-sake,
which will come at a cost, it can't reach mainstream, after all, would the breadth of institutions currently engaging with OER be the same if JISC/HEA funding
wasn't so plentiful?
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Sustainability
Any Questions?