Open Educational Resources

/ production workshop

/ february 2009< University of Michigan >< OER Africa >< Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology >< University of Ghana >

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the deliverable: develop a recommended plan for allocating resources to materials production as OER

• explore the concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) and its potential contribution to the University of Ghana College of Health Sciences

• review the Health OER project

• assess the teaching and learning needs at the University of Ghana to be addressed through the OER project

• understand the potential of eLearning resources and get a glimpse of how openly licensed eLearning resources are produced

• sort through copyright and open licensing issues

Workshop objectives. together.

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Begin at the end.

toward a culture of “OPEN-ness”:

•a culture using creative materials for a variety of

purposes: art, music, education, etc.

•holistic view--how we get there is important

•defining the 21st century education landscape

Where does this all lead?

• faculty using and creating openly licensed educational media

• institutions supporting open access journals and textbooks

• developers building openly licensed software tools on open source platforms

• all parties participating in innovative teaching and learning exercises

How do we get there?

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What are the main features of OER?

“...educational materials and resources offered

freely and openly for anyone to use and under

some license to re-mix, improve and redistribute.”

•the content (courses & learning assets)

•the delivery (electronic & print media)

•the use and reuse (copyright licensing)

What are the institutional goals for OER?

• share and make teaching and learning resources easier to reuse for your community and for people everywhere

• increase collaboration across institutions and disciplines through sharing educational content, courses, and curricula

• utilize innovative software tools and explore research opportunities

• support the mission of the university

• your students

• your faculty

• your alumni

• partner universities

• outside universities

• self-learners

• public knowledge centers

OER can benefit all these groups simultaneously

Who benefits from OER production?

• recognition :: faculty showcase work and connect with other researchers

• participatory learning :: students participate in helping with publishing, content creation

• curriculum development :: faculty and institutions increase curriculum collaboration with outside universities by opening and sharing resources

• transparency :: staff have a more transparent view of university efforts and materials, which allows them to participate in the education process and better assist faculty research and instruction

A few specific benefits.

The difference between OCW and OER.

OCW: Open CourseWare

OER: Open Educational Resources

•OCW focuses on sharing open content that is developed specifically to instruct a course (locally taught)

•OER includes any educational content that is shared under an open license, whether or not it is a part of a course

•OCW is a subset of OER

OCW // OER - overlap

OER

OCWsyllabi, lecture notes, presentation slides, assignments, lecture videos - all related to a course

OCW, single images, general

campus lectures, image collections,

singular learning modules, paper or

article

OER and eLearning: a relationship.

OER

•may exist in electronic or paper form

•may not contain enough context to be “instructional”

•are always licensed for reuse, redistribution, and re-mixing

eLearning resources

•exist only in electronic form

•are generally designed to be instructional

•may not always be licensed for open use

eLearning // OER - overlap

OER

eLearning

intersection represents open, electronic, instructional resources

• content = education

• good content will overcome institutional

capacity constraints

• OER will make education cheaper in the

short-term

• openness automatically equates with

quality

Dispelling OER myths.

Source: Adapted from OER Africa

What do we mean by open?

“...educational materials and resources offered freely

and openly for anyone to use and under some

license to re-mix, improve and redistribute.”

•free, as in no fees, does not mean open

•public access does not mean openly licensed

http://creativecommons.org/license/

Open licensing: Creative Commons

http://creativecommons.org/license/

Creative Commons: license conditions

BY :: Attribution

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.

http://creativecommons.org/license/

Creative Commons: license conditions

SA :: Share Alike

You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

http://creativecommons.org/license/

Creative Commons: license conditions

NC :: Noncommercial

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only.

http://creativecommons.org/license/

Creative Commons: license conditions

ND :: No derivatives

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

http://creativecommons.org/license/

Creative Commons: licenses

http://creativecommons.org/license/

Public Domain

All Rights Reserved

Some rights reserved: a spectrum.

least restrictive most restrictive

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http://ocw.mit.edu/

source: The New York Times

source: MIT

Recent Developments

source: OCW Consortium

http://ocwconsortium.org/

http://open.umich.edu/

http://creativecommons.org/

http://sciencecommons.org/

http://learn.creativecommons.org/

http://www.oerafrica.org/

http://www.tessafrica.net/

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The OER life cycle.

Authoring

Clearing

Editing

Archiving

Publishing

The OER life cycle.

Authoring

creating resources

designing learning experiences

granting permission - licensing

The OER life cycle.

Clearing

dealing with policy issues

tracking content use

attaching metadata

The OER life cycle.

Editing

editing and formatting the resource

converting the resource to various distribution media

The OER life cycle.

distributing the resource

adding value to the resource (creative uses of metadata, search, online communities, etc.)

Publishing

The OER life cycle.

Archiving

refreshing/retiring resources

preserving past resources

maintaining access to past resources

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challenges

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• cost• access to faculty• scale• refresh rate

How it’s being done, elsewhere.

Traditional OCW/OER publication model

• Staff Centric• Retroactive

Challenges

OER production challenges:

•cost

•scale

•access to faculty

•refresh rate

•content delivery

•metadata

•active vs. retroactive publishing

•defining OER as a service

What we have experienced.

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How can you start your own OER process?

Agenda

Day One: Fundamentals

• OER introduction

• Authoring and publishing

Day Two: Action Plan

• Clearing: two scenarios for OER production

• Dividing up the work

• Local and remote support resources

• Developing an action plan

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