the use of open educational resources
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Slides to accompany a keynote address to a JISC conference in Edinburgh 20 May 2011TRANSCRIPT
The Use of Open Educational Resources
Professor Frank Rennie
Lews Castle College UHI
The essence of OER• 1) Open access• 2) Freely available• 3) Shareable• 4) Relatively discrete ‘chunks’• 5)Saves needing to ‘re-invent the wheel’• 6) Needs to be contextualised• 7) You can add to the OER pool.
Examples of OER
Learning Communities
OER Template
Learning Resources
OER
OER
OER OEROER
OER
Certification
Award
Assessment
TMA
Exam
Tutorials
LMS
Peer-to-peer
Dboard
skype
1. Identify the main generic headings for course content (key topics for discussion and
learning)
2. Search for relevant
resources that can be re-
used for these headings
3. Write ‘wrap-around’ materials that
contextualise and support the learning resources
4. Add your new materials
to the common pool (if required)
5. Select the format for
sharing (wiki etc)
Using OER in Course Design
Creative Commons Licence
How OER are usedOpen
• Ad hoc (on the fly)• Bottom-up• Low cost (or free)• Not always peer reviewed• Free to all users• Weak marketing brand• Inexpensive to maintain• Reliant upon individuals• May need contextualisation• Wide variation in level
Membership• More structured• Tend to be top-down• Can be expensive• Usually peer reviewed• Free to membership• Strong marketing brand• Expensive to maintain• Reliant upon organisations• Probably contextualised• Greater consistency in level
Good resources to read• Gurell S. and Wiley, D. (2010) Open Educational Resources
Handbook 1.0 for educators. Available from http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator_version_one
• Commonwealth of Learning (2005) Creating learning materials for open and distance learning: A Handbook for Authors and Instructional Designers. Available from http://www.col.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/odlinstdesignHB2.pdf
• OECD (2007) Giving knowledge for free: The emergence of Open Educational Resources. ISBN 978-92-64-03174-6 Available at: www.sourceoecd.org/education/9789264031746
Useful Links• sideCAP wiki (with resources)http://sidecap.wetpaint.com
• The course on OpenLearnhttp://openlearn.open.ac.uk
• The sideCAP reporthttp://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1267854
View this presentation again atwww.slideshare.net/frankrennie