introduction to open educational resources (oer)
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This presentation is delivered regularly with faculty at our institution to discuss the possibilities of open education and open educational resources. I keep this presentation up to date, so please feel free to use it to share open practices and open pedagogy! Last updated May 2014TRANSCRIPT
Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Michael PaskeviciusLearning Technologies Application Developer
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning
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What does the term 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
Title : File:Internet map 1024.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSource : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_map_1024.jpglicense : Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
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
What happens when you create and share something on the internet?
Your work is automatically protected under copyright!
Online DOES NOT EQUAL openly licensed!
Pixel | Flickr - Photo Sharing! : taken from - http://www.flickr.com/photos/37408217@N08/5025870260/ Author: filin ilia - aliyo.hu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en
© Cancels the PossibilitiesOf digital media and the internet
InternetEnables
What to do?
CopyrightForbids
Wiley, D. (2012) Openness and the Future. ETS Future of Assessment Conference. Presentation available: http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/openness-and-the-future-of-assessment
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Minimum Total Creative Commons Licensed Works
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Metrics
http://creativecommons.org/choose/
Choosing a Creative Commons License
Which Creative Commons licence is right for me? poster | Creative Commons Australia : taken from - http://creativecommons.org.au/learn-more/fact-sheets/which-creative-commons-licence-is-right-for-me-poster http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/
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
Internet Enables - Copyright Forbids
http://torrentfreak.com/police-raid-school-teacher-for-uploading-history-book-for-students-130520
• Use openly licensed content whenever possible when creating your own digital teaching resources (if planning to share openly online)
• Link back and cite open sources within your content
http://www.roniloren.com/blog/2012/7/20/bloggers-beware-you-can-get-sued-for-using-pics-on-your-blog.html
WHERE TO FIND OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
University of Minnesota: Open academics textbook catalog
Free and open source software
More here: http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2010/03/20-most-popular-open-source-software-ever-2.htmlhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fh7z6Oz4tBK5yvhjdf3UIRjmhJZrO5SJFFIUngLRaF4/edit
Alternative to: Dreamweaver or hand coded web design
Alternative to: Adobe Audition or Wavelab Alternative to: MS Word,
Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio
Alternative to: MS Notepad or Dreamweaver
Alternative to: MS Windows, Apple OS Alternative to: MS
MediaPlayer
Alternative to: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Open access research: DOAJ
List of Journals Licensed under a Creative Commons License
B.C. Open Textbook Project
Brigham Young University faculty survey seeks to advance open education through academic libraries | Flickr - Photo Sharing! : taken from - http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/6555466069/ Author: opensourceway http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
“B.C. is leveraging 21st century-technologies and licensing to ensure its citizens have affordable access to
high-quality post-secondary textbooks. Open licensing on publicly funded content ensures the greatest
impact for the public dollar.“
Dr. Cable
Green (Creative Commons) http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2009-2013/2012AEIT0010-001581.htmCal for reviews: http://open.bccampus.ca/call-for-reviewers/
SOME TOOLS OF THE TRADE
A Creative Commons image by (ta)
https://wordpress.viu.ca/openeducationalresources/
Compfight image search and attribution tool
• Searches Creative Commons Flickr images
• Provides license and attribution for image
Attribution made “easier”• Browser plugin lets you
know when you are on a webpage which uses Creative Commons
• Click icon to access attribution text
• Add on available for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Wordpress and Drupal
http://openattribute.com/Demo
Xpert Image Attribution Tool • Searches Creative
Commons Flickr images
• Embeds license and attribution on image for download and use
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/attribution/
Attributing Creative Commons
https://twitter.com/Mattclare/status/331429150143430659/photo/1
Author, Title, Source, URL to source, URL to license
MIT OpenCourseWare
Nuclear Systems Design Project | Nuclear Science and Engineering | MIT OpenCourseWare : taken from - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/nuclear-engineering/22-033-nuclear-systems-design-project-fall-2011/ Author: Dr. Michael Short http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/deed.en_US
Wikipedia
Vancouver Island University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : taken from - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Island_University http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
MITx: MIT’s latest open education projectUdacity
Coursera
2012 - Year of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
• Are they really open?• Content free, pay for
accreditation?• You pay with your data?
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
• Now used at VIU!
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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