iinstitutional policy of open educational resources: fact and trivia
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Institutional Policy of Open Educational Resources: Fact and Trivia
Barnali Roy Choudhury
Assistant Professor, Library & Information Science
Netaji Subhas Open University
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What we need?
Develop OER material
Provide access to
OER repository
Facilitate system and
infrastructure to support
OER
Continuous update of OER by
academics
Creative Commons Definition
Creative Commons defines OER policies as legislation,institutional policies, and/or funder mandates that lead tothe creation, increased use, and/or support for improvingOER.
2012 Paris OER Declaration
Foster awareness and use of OER
Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts
Encourage the open licensing of educational materials produced with public funds.
Facilitate enabling environments for use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)
Facilitate finding, retrieving and sharing of OER
Cape Town Open Education Declaration:
Unlocking the promise of open educational resources
Educators and learners to actively participate (creating, using, adapting and improving open educational resources) in the emerging open education movement.
Open educational resources: we call on educators, authors, publishers and institutions to release their resources openly. These open educational resources should be freely shared through open licences which facilitate use, revision, translation, improvement and sharing by anyone. Resources should be published in formats that facilitate both use and editing, and that accommodate a diversity of technical platforms. Whenever possible, they should also be available in formats that are accessible to people with disabilities and people who do not yet have access to the Internet.
Need of OER Policy
OER policies (at provincial, state and/or national levels) areneeded in order to advance mainstreaming and uptake ofOER practices (openness in education agenda)
(Mulder, 2013; Bossu et al., 2012)
Issues….
• Development/ adaptation of quality learning materials
• Flexible Copyright Policy
• ICT Supports for Staff & Students
• To store & Access
• Integration of OER
Development/ adaptation of quality learning materials
T:Teaching and learning processes
I: Information and material content
P: Presentation product and format
S: System technical and technology
Quality guidelines for OER using the TIPS framework
Flexible Copyright Policy
All rights reserved Some rights reserved Public Domain
ICT Supports for Staff & Students
ICT Infrastructure
Software
Connectivity to access Internet
To store & Access
• (Organisation & Searching )
Organisation in content level…
Organisation of OER
Descriptive metadata
Discovery
Identification
Selection
Collocation
Obtain
Evaluation
Linkages
Usability
Latest schema
http://www.lrmi.net/
• The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative is a project co-led by the Association of Educational Publishers and Creative Commons to build a common metadata vocabulary for educational resources. (https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/LRMI)
• LRMI vocabulary can help increase the discoverability and value of your educational resources.
• learners, publishers, schools, governments, and the general public.
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI)
Schema.org
Schema.org is a collaboration among the largest search engines to curate a collection of vocabularies that can be used to add structured data to web pages and enhance web search results.
LRMI Specification Version 1.1
Table 1. LRMI Additions to Schema.org/CreativeWork
Property Expected Type
EducationalAlignment An alignment to an established educational framework.
EducationalUse The purpose of the work in the context of education.
Ex: “assignment” / “group work”
TimeRequired Approximate or typical time it takes to work with or through
this learning resource for the typical intended target audience.
TypicalAgeRange The typical range of ages the content’s intended end user.
InteractivityType The predominant mode of learning supported by the
learning resource. Acceptable values are active, expositive,
or mixed.
LearningResourceType The predominant type or kind characterizing the
learning resource. Ex: “presentation”/ “handout”
UseRightsUrl The URL where the owner specifies permissions for using the
resource. Ex: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
IsBasedOnUrl A resource that was used in the creation of this resource. This
term can be repeated for multiple sources.
Property Description
Name The title of the resource.
About The subject of the content.
Date created The date on which the resource was created.
Author The individual credited with the creation of the resource.
Publisher The organization credited with publishing the resource.
Inlanguage The primary language of the resource.
AccessibilityapiIndicates that the resource is compatible with the referenced accessibility API. (WebSchemas wiki
lists possible values).
AccessibilitycontrolIdentifies input methods that are sufficient to fully control the described resource. (WebSchemas wiki
lists possible values).
AccessibilityfeatureContent features of the resource, such as accessible media, alternatives and supported
enhancements for accessibility. (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values).
AccessibilityhazardA characteristic of the described resource that is physiologically dangerous to some users. Related
to WCAG 2.0 guideline 2.3. (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values).
License A license document that applies to this content, typically indicated by URL.
Other important characteristics of learning resources that are covered by Schema.org properties of CreativeWork
Property Description
AlignmentType
A category of alignment between the learning resource and the framework node.
Recommended values include: ‘assesses’, ‘teaches’, ‘requires’, ‘textComplexity’,
‘readingLevel’, ‘educationalSubject’, and ‘educationLevel’.
EducationalFramework The framework to which the resource being described is aligned.
TargetDescription The description of a node in an established educational framework.
TargetName The name of a node in an established educational framework.
TargetUrl The URL of a node in an established educational framework.
Alignment object is an intangible item that describes an alignment between a learning resource and a node in an educational framework.
Property Description
educationalRole The role that describes the target audience of the content.
Table 4. LRMI properties of EducationalAudience
http://www.lrmi.net/the-specification
Digital Library environment
Gather OER
Properties of Metadata
Collection Building
End-Users Interface…
Search Facility
Search Term…
Retrieval of Search query…
Text…
Image…
Integration of OER (FOSS platform)
Operating System: Linux (Ubuntu 12.04)
Web Server: Apache
Database Management Systems: MySQL (SQL YOG community)
Programming Language: PHP (5.X)
Education based software: Moodle (2.X)
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Steps Tasks
1. Design of course structure including its all units-sections-
subsections
Develop a topic based course on Information Technology
including four modules.
2. Identification of resources– related to target courses Text, Audio, Video, class lecture note, wikis, etc on IT
application
3. Parameters of selection for resource inclusion As per learners readability status;
Ease of accessibility and affordability;
CC-BY licensed materials
4. Selection of objects – audio, video and text CC-By licensed materials
5. Organization (tagging with existing curricula course-paper-
module-unit-section-subsection)
NSOU MLIS Study material structure Organization of Module
1: Library Automation; Module 2: Database Management;
Module 3: Operating System and Programming1 and Module
4: Operating System and Programming 2 consisting lessons,
files, folders, links etc.
6. Development of online learning portal Open Educational Resources
Integration of OER based learning environment
Moodle Home (http://localhost/moodle)
Available Courses
Topic based course
Enlisted tentative activities & Resources…
OER available in pdf format
Evaluation
Learners to be producers rather than consumers of content
OER Policy Registry
Cont…
OER Policy Template 1
OER Policy Template 2
Thanks for your Kind attention….