ostrich oer presentation for ukoln
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Presentation given by members of the OSTRICH project team for UKOLN at the University of Bath, 14 April 2011.TRANSCRIPT
‘Digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research.’
(OECD)
Open Educational Resources
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Why OER?
• for the individual?• for the institution?
• from a national or international perspective?
• from a learning and teaching perspective?
• The roots of OER • International OER projects
• OER in the UK
The background...
OERs at the University of Bath
• JISC OER Programmeso UK Centre for Biosciences OER Project
Pilot Phase Subject Strand: Cancer Biology learning materials
o OSTRICH project Phase 2 Aiii Cascade Strand: The support of existing teams who are already
releasing OER in embedding their practice in other environments o delOREs
Phase 2 Aiii Cascade Strand: Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design
o OeRBITAL Phase 2 Ci Collections Strand: UK Centre for Biosciences collection: Open
Educational Resources for Biologists Involved in Teaching And Learning
• "Little OERs"1
PROJECT AIMS • Transfer and cascade key outcomes of OTTER project • Adapt CORRE framework to the University of Bath context and evaluate its
sustainability • Promote creation, release and reuse of Open Educational Resources
PROJECT OUTPUTs• OER release
o Staff development and student support resourceso Units of study from across the institutiono Panopto lecture capture materials
• Draft policy documents and guidelines • OER repository
OSTRICH project
ostrich.bath.ac.uk
Current Internal Drupal CCK Data Model
Describing OERs
IEEE LOM as the resource descriptor
OAI-ORE as the aggregation descriptor
Proposed Internal Drupal CCK Data Model
Themes and Challenges
• Intellectual Property and Ownership• Copyright and Third Party Content• Creative Commons Licences
• What constitutes a usable/reusable OER?• Understanding of Audience/End User• Use and Reuse cycle
• Sustainability of OER release processes • Models for conversion/creation of OER materials
Further information…
OERs : Getting Started guide available at: go.bath.ac.uk/OERintro
OSTRICH project details available at: blogs.bath.ac.uk/oer
OSTRICH OER Repository available at: ostrich.bath.ac.uk
JISC Phase 2 OER Programme
OER Infokit (from Pilot Phase of the JISC/HEA OER Project)
Synthesis and Evaluation Report (from Pilot Phase of the JISC/HEA OER Project)
OER Impact Study by JISC
1 Martin Weller, Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University (http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2009/12/the-politics-of-oer.html)
Presentation available at: go.bath.ac.uk/ukoln-ostrich
Vic Jenkins, Learning Technologist([email protected])
Alex Lydiate, Educational Software and Systems Developer([email protected])
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