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What are OERs?Simon Allan | Lecturer in Academic Development |
CDEPP
Open source goes to high school, by Libby Levi and Mike Esser for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4967939593/in/set-72157623343017387/
Education without limits, by Christina Hardison for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5393579026/in/set-72157625612605617/
Open access overview: Focusing on open access to peer-review research articles and their preprints, by Colleen Simon for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5188228228/in/set-72157623343017387/
Improving the speed and quality of research via shared algorithm implementations, by Meredith Atwater for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5752191166/
Open Source Bach, by Christina Hardison for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5755171802/in/photostream
What are OERs?
Benefits of OER to the University
• Increased visibility• Showcase for attracting students• Decrease duplication• Increase collegiality• Enhance institutional expertise• Develop reputation as socially responsible
Benefits to HE Practitioners
Ernest Boyer (1997)
• Extended reach and visibility• Individual publicity and reputation• External collaboration• Stimulates innovation• Potential for commercialisation• Contribution to scholarship
Teaching
Discovery
Integration
Application
SCHOLARSHIP
Benefits to Learners
• Greater control and ownership of learning• Selectivity over institutions and learning resources• Wider pool of knowledge to tap into
Key debates
The course-to-co-op lifecycle, by Libby Levi for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4426824995/in/set-72157623343017387/
Teacher / Learner, by Libby Levi for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5538035618/
Copyright grafitti, by Libby Levi for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5537457973/sizes/z/in/photostream/
IntellectualPropertyRights(IPR)
More restrictive
More flexible
BYAttribution
BY-SASharealike
BY-NDNo Derivatives
BY-NCNon-commercial
BY-NC-SANon-commercial
Sharealike
BY-NC-NDNon-commercial No Derivatives
Venn Smiles, by ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5755219051/sizes/z/in/photostream/
Share
Exchange
Chocolate tools, by Janne Moren ‘JanneM’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/jannem/3312946500/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Where to find OERs
Reusing other content
Sharing your content• Choose a neutral repository or your own HEI to publish
• Investigate standardised metadata to improve visibility
• Use an institutional tag: universityofcumbria; cumbria; cumbriauni
• Include your name as well as the course and HEI
• Provide a context statement where possible
• Check back to track the number of views/downloads
• Respect your responsibility to share and share alike
• Take responsibility for QA (largely devolved in OER)
• Treat reuse of student work ethically
• Make sure you have IPR clearance
Quality Assuranc
e
Peer Review
Self AssessmentInternal QA
ICT
(reposito
ry
support)
CDEPP
(pedagogy
support)
LISS(IPR support)
AQS(existing QA processes)
OER at the University of Cumbria?
Q&A orange, by Libby Levi for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5556249000/sizes/l/in/photostream/
JISC OER Infokithttps://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24836860/What-are-Open-Educational-Resources
JORUMhttp://www.jorum.ac.uk/
Open University’s OpenLearnhttp://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
Open Cumbriahttp://open.cumbria.ac.uk
Creative Commonshttp://creativecommons.org
OER IPR Toolkithttp://www.web2rights.com/OERIPRSupport/index.html