Open Access & Open Educational Resources

mirjam schaap, September 2013 Course Professional use of internet and social media for university faculty staff University of Fort Hare and University of Limpopo, South Africa

Day 3

Open Access Open Educational Resources (OER) Open Course Ware (OCW) Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS)

Use internet & social media for learning activities in class

Open Access

Open Access

Digital, online, free of charge & copyright free publications: ● don’t charge the reader ● charge the authors to publish (or use other funds)

Open Access Journals: making peer-reviewed papers available without subscription fees

Predatory open access publishing

Dishonest publishers trying to make money without furthering scholarship:

● Accepting articles quickly with little or no peer review ● Notifying of article fees only after paper acceptance ● Aggressively campaigning to submit articles ● Listing members editorial boards without permission ● Mimicking name - web style of established journals

Source: wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_open_access_publishing

Beall's List of Predatory Publishers

http://www.academia.edu/1151857/Bealls_List_of_Predatory_Open-Access_Publishers

Do not publish or serve on editorial board of journals on this list!

Open Access Journals

BioMed Central (BMC) journals http://www.biomedcentral.com/journals

Springer Open http://www.springeropen.com/journals

PLoS One http://www.plosone.org/home.action

Nature Scientific Reports http://www.nature.com/srep/index.html

BMJ Open http://bmjopen.bmj.com/

SAGE Open http://sgo.sagepub.com/

AIP Advances http://aipadvances.aip.org/

Wiley Open Access http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/view/index.html

Open Biology http://rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/

Lists with Open Access Journals

These lists include journals previous slide:

Wikipedia list Open Access Journals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_access_journals

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): http://www.doaj.org/

Africa Open Access Journals: http://www.ajol.info/

AOSIS Open Journals http://www.openjournals.net/

The Scientific Electronic Library Online SA http://www.scielo.org.za/

SUN journals http://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/List_of_Journals

Open Educational Resources (OER)

&

Open Courseware (OCW)

Open Educational Resources (OER)

“Open Educational Resources are materials used to support education that may be freely accessed, reused, modified and shared by anyone.”

- Stephen Downes

Difference between OCW and OER?

Source: Embracing OER & MOOCs to TRANSFORM EDUCATION...? Zaid Ali Alsagoff http://www.slideshare.net/zaid/embracing-oer-moocs-to-transform-education slide 34

OER Development Life cycle

Source: Embracing OER & MOOCs to TRANSFORM EDUCATION...? Zaid Ali Alsagoff http://www.slideshare.net/zaid/embracing-oer-moocs-to-transform-education slide 92

Aims and objectives -> select sources

Source (Page 178): http://www.col.org/PublicationDocuments/pub_PS_OER_web.pdf

In: Embracing OER & MOOCs to TRANSFORM EDUCATION...? Zaid Ali Alsagoff

OER search engines

http://www.opentapestry.com/ocwfinder

http://doer.col.org/

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

http://free.ed.gov/

http://xpert.nottingham.ac.uk/

http://www.temoa.info/

Institutions offering OERs

http://www.oercommons.org/

http://www.oerafrica.org/

http://open.umich.edu/

http://www.merlot.org/

http://cnx.org/

http://en.wikiversity.org/

http://wikieducator.org/OER_university

Institutions offfering OCWs

MIT OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu/

Open Yale Courses: http://oyc.yale.edu/

The Open University: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

Open Learning Initiative : http://oli.cmu.edu/

University of the People: http://www.uopeople.org/

Open Courseware Consortium: http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

Massive Open Online Courses

(MOOCs)

MOOCs – professional development for free

Massive - enrollment

Open – anyone can join

Online - fully online

Course – begin-start

Upcoming / less known MOOC platforms

https://www.khanacademy.org/

https://www.futurelearn.com/

https://p2pu.org/en/

https://www.canvas.net/

Biggest MOOC platforms

https://www.coursera.org/

https://www.edx.org/

https://www.udacity.com/

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