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The Use of Open Educational Resources Professor Frank Rennie Lews Castle College UHI

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Slides to accompany a keynote address to a JISC conference in Edinburgh 20 May 2011

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Page 1: The use of open educational resources

The Use of Open Educational Resources

Professor Frank Rennie

Lews Castle College UHI

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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.

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Examples of OER

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Learning Communities

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OER Template

Learning Resources

OER

OER

OER OEROER

OER

Certification

Award

Assessment

TMA

Exam

Tutorials

email

LMS

Peer-to-peer

Dboard

skype

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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

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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

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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

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View this presentation again atwww.slideshare.net/frankrennie