introduction to open educational resources
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Delivered at Vancouver Island University on August 28, 2012TRANSCRIPT
Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Michael PaskeviciusLearning Technologies Application Developer
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning Ex. 2029 Room 511, Building 305
August 28, 2012
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2009-2012 University of Cape Town OER@UCT Project
What do open educational resources (OER) mean to you?
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Open Educational Resources
Shared
Shared freely and openly to
be…
Used
Improved
Redistributed
… used by anyone to … … adapt / repurpose/
improve under some type of license in order
to …
… redistribute and share
again.
Open Content / Open educational resources (OER) / Open Courseware are educational materials which are discoverable online and openly licensed that can be:
Available to other faculties, students and institutions.
Other educators can now discover and reuse.
Learning activity or resource
Creates
Designated as OER on web
Adapted from Conole, G., McAndrew, P. & Dimitriadis, Y., 2010
Shares with studentsand other faculty
Traditional sharing of teaching materials
Sharing educational resources as OER
Additional considerations:• Clearing of copyright issues• Formatting for web and accessibility for reuse• Addition of descriptive metadata• Publishing in repository, referatory or on the web
Educator
…sharing beyond the classroom
• Alternative copyright Licensing
• A range of financial models
• Affordances of the Internet
• Change in philosophy
Social Technical
LegalFinancial
What has enabled OER?
The Open Movement
Change in philosophy towards an “Open Movement”Open Source Software
Open Access
Open Licences
Open Science
Open Society
Open Educational Resources
Open Data
Affordances of the Internet
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Alternative copyright Licensing
http://creativecommons.org/choose/
Choosing a Creative Commons License
A range of financial models
• Donor funding – e.g. Hewlett Foundation• Marketing budget – e.g. Open University• Commission – e.g. MIT and Amazon• Endowment – e.g. Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy• Membership – e.g. Sakai Consortium, OCWC• Government – e.g. UK £7.8 million grant, US
commitment to OER
Recap: What makes an OER?
• Educational curriculum, materials or mixed media
• Discoverable online as they are shared freely and openly
• Openly licensed (usually Creative Commons)• Can be legally used by anyone to repurpose/
improve and redistribute
OPEN VERSUS CLOSED WEB RESOURCES
YouTube recently launched a Creative Commons licensing option
WHERE TO FIND OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
SOME TOOLS OF THE TRADE
A Creative Commons image by (ta)
Attribution made “easier”
Add on available for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Wordpress and Drupalhttp://openattribute.com/
Demo
WHY GO OPEN?WHAT ARE THE POSSIBILITIES?
by ryancr
CHED Computer Literacy Guides• IEEE UCT chapter use the openly licensed CHED computer
literacy materials to support training in a computer lab donated to a high school
http://www.ebe.uct.ac.za/usr/ebe/staff/april2010.pdf
Creative Commons Licensing Screencast• Creative Commons licensing video is translated into
Czechoslovakian, French, Italian and Spanish on YouTube
Studying at University: A guide for first year students• Used by multiple universities across South
Africa • The guide has been accessed over 3800 times
on the web and over 600 physical printed guides have been sold
OpenContent becomes a Journal Article
• Materials published as OER selected for publishing in the Journal of Occupational Therapy of Galicia, an open access journal for occupational therapists in the Spanish speaking world
http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct/2010/12/06/sharing-knowledge-leads-to-opportunities
Measuring influence: Alternative metrics
Closing note:
"When you learn transparently (and openly) you become a teacher“
Siemens, 2010
Siemens, G. & Matheos, K. (2010). Open Social Learning in Higher Education: An African Context. VI International Seminar of the UNESCO chair in e-learning; open social learning. Available online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oexie4cwpf8
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Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius Learning Technologies Application DeveloperCentre for Innovation and Excellence in [email protected]
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