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Open Education Practices at the U of L

Open EducationInamorato dos Santos, A., Punje, Y., Castano-Munos, J. (2016). Opening up Education. A support Framework for Higher Education Institutions. JRS Science for Policy Report.

Retrieved from https://oerknowledgecloud.org/content/what-difference-between-oer-and-open-access-publishing

From TC 2016 Teaching Environment Survey: 170 respondents on Open Educational Resources use in their teaching practice

GOAL 1 : assist and support the interested instructors and faculty members

GOAL 2: gain buy in from senior management to provide support for adoption/ adaptation/ creation of Open Practices on Uleth campus

GOAL 3: communicate faculty/ instructor needs and student needs to publishing industry

GOAL 4: support ULSU in their constructive communication approaches

Definition: OER"OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge."

Definition by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Current State of Open Education(al Resources)

20022007 2012

Open Movement

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Use + acceptance

1 quality materials

2 high-profile projects/ programs

3 institutional focus

4 media coverage

5 technological advances

Current State of OER 2017

Research of impact of OER adoption

Open Textbooks

★ OPEN IN ORDER to ★ Increase access to knowledge and quality education (SGD4)

★ FACILITATE COLLABORATION AMONG CONTENT EXPERTS AND STUDENTS

★ Ensure academic freedom to modify or add content to your specifications

★ INCREASE YOUR RESEARCH AND TEACHING VISIBILITY

★ Provide more relevant and engaging materials to your students

★ INCREASE STUDENT RETENTION BY REDUCING COSTS

★ Grant students access before - during - after a course

★ INVITE STUDENTS TO BECOME CONTENT CREATORS - meaningful

assignments

Where to look for OER?

TASK 1 Browse Uleth PADLET

What are the 6 Steps to modifying an Open Textbook?

Licensing Basics

License types

How many CC licence types are there?

Let’s look a little closer for license types in action

TASK 2Understand open licensing

Let’s PRACTICE: OER Modification (and/ or CREATION)

H5P Pressbooks OER Commons

Contact (all of) us for

★ Information sessions and/ or workshops in your departments (open

licensing, repositories, adoption and modification, technical assistance

for Open Source/ OER software)

★ One-on-one consultations with instructors and faculty

★ OER research (ideas and implementation)

★ Teaching Centre Development Fund/ Teaching Fellowship/ Open

Access Learning Resource Fund on Projects relating to OER

★ Participation in upcoming Open Education events

★ Register your #OA, #OER course materials in central Bookstore

system

★ Connections with #OER Champions and Adopters on Campus

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