knust oer demonstration, september 2011

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KNUST - OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES KNUST - OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER)(OER)

WELCOME TO OER…

THE NEW PARADIGM FOR EDUCATION AT

ALL LEVELS.

WHAT IS OER? WHAT IS OER?

Open Educational Resources (OER) can be defined as

teaching, learning and research resources available for free

access and use with no or limited restrictions.

Free Use

Adapt

Build upon

Re-use

Modify

Re-Purpose

Open Educational Resources Open Educational Resources (OER)(OER)

OERs include: full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software e.t.c


Also refers to learning materials such as:◦Learning objects (quizzes, crossword

puzzles, Flashcards, animations, etc.)◦Audio lectures◦Audio-Video lectures◦Images◦Sounds and music◦Entire course content and open courseware◦Collections of journal articles and

institutional repositories


Images

quizzes

animations

Audio-visuals

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How you can How you can useuse OEROER

There are possible ways of using OER:

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How you can use OERHow you can use OER

Enhance your existing coursematerials by adding OER


Improve your existing course

materials by replacing itwith OER


Replace parts of your teaching materials with OER


Use OERs to make teaching

of complex processes andpractical demonstration easier


Providing OER to students

prior to lectures


Directing students to existing

OER online repositories

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Developing OERDeveloping OERThe OER Life Cycle is based on various approaches to instructional design of materials. The process can be described in an Instructional Design Model known as the:

ResearchAnalysisDesignDevelopmentImplementation

Evaluation

Developing OERDeveloping OER

Instructional Design Model: RADDIE

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How can you How can you create create new new OER?OER?

Learn how you can create OER:

How you can create new OERHow you can create new OER

Gather the course content

Decide which course material to be converted to OER


Get support from OER Media

Team to review content


Liaise with OER Media Team

to develop a structure


Develop content into OER


Select appropriate license andsubject your material to review


Publish your material


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How can you How can you adapt adapt OER?OER?

Learn how you can adapt OER:

Search for relevant open contentfrom available online repositories

How you can adapt OERHow you can adapt OER

Build upon or re-purposematerial to suit your teaching

purpose


Select appropriate license andsubject your material to review


Publish your material


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Get Support…Get Support…Technical Assistance from OER Media Team.

Support from Student Volunteers (dScribe).

Assistance in organizing Peer Reviews of OERs at all Levels.

OERs generally improve teaching and learning

BENEFITS OF OERBENEFITS OF OER

Increased access to differenteducational resources for free


OERs make the teachingand learning of complexprocesses and practicaldemonstration easier


Improves teaching of large

classes.


Improves the quality ofcontact time betweenteachers and learners


Facilitates self-learning by

students


Exposure for author,department and theUniversity when OER iscreated and published


Reduces cost of accessingeducational materials


Allows lecturers to reach alarger audience outsidethe classroom and lecturetheatres


Broadens use of alternatives

aside textbooks whilemaintaining instructionalquality.


Stimulates the activeengagement of teachingstaff and students increating learning resources.


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Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright.

They work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs.

©

Licensing OER: Licensing OER: Creative Creative CommonsCommons

Open Licenses give EVERYONEEVERYONE from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright copyright permissions to their creative work.

Licensing OER: Licensing OER: Creative Creative CommonsCommons

The LicensesThe LicensesCC licenses are based on 4 specific conditions:

The LicensesThe Licenses

Attribution

All CC licenses require that others who use your work in any way must give you credit the way you request, but not in a way that suggests you endorse them or their use. If they want to use your work without giving you credit or for endorsement purposes, they must get your permission first.


ShareAlike

You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and modify your work, as long as they distribute any modified work on the same terms. If they want to distribute modified works under other terms, they must get your permission first.


NonCommercial

You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and (unless you have chosen NoDerivatives) modify and use your work for any purpose other than commercially unless they get your permission first.


NoDerivatives

You let others copy, distribute, display and perform only original copies of your work. If they want to modify your work, they must get your permission first.

These These 44 licenses can however to be licenses can however to be combined to suit the purpose of the combined to suit the purpose of the published material. published material.

In In Summary:Summary:

Attribution CC BY

◦Distribute, Remix, Tweak, and Build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.

Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA

◦Remix, Tweak, and Build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND

◦Allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.

Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC

◦Remix, Tweak, and Build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND

This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

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Share & Distribute…Share & Distribute…

Publish OERs on KNUST website


Publish OERs on other online repositories:

◦OER Africa - www.oerafrica.orgwww.oerafrica.org◦Open.Michigan - open.umich.eduopen.umich.edu


Distribution of works could also be on CDs, DVDs, Flash drives and any other supported storage device.


Course Materials can be also downloaded for offline viewing.

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Find OER…Find OER…

Discover openly-licensed to suit your purpose.◦Images◦clip art◦Video◦learning modules◦Textbooks◦Music◦e.t.c

Open Educational Resources (OER)• http://open.umich.edu/education/• http://www.oercommons.org/oer• http://www.merlot.org/• http://ocw.tufts.edu/• http://ocw.mit.edu/

Find materials from the available online repositories

Health Sciences Content http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

List_of_images_and_subjects_in_Gray’s_Anatomy http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/

Category:Patrick_Lynch http://www.healcentral.org/healapp/browse http://ocw.tufts.edu/Schools/1 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ http://phil.cdc.gov/ http://www.nih.gov/about/nihphotos.htm http://medphoto.wellcome.ac.uk/ http://pubmed.gov/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez http://lane.stanford.edu/biomed-resources/bassett/

index.html


Imageshttp://wiki.creativecommons.org/Image http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

(finds CC licensed images)• http://www.flickr.com/commons/ (finds public

domain images)• http://compfight.com/ (searches Flickr, but

provides a different interface)•

http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search


Mixed Contenthttp://wiki.creativecommons.org/

Content_Directories http://search.creativecommons.org/http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/

Main_Pagehttp://spinxpress.com/getmedia http://www.archive.org/


Audio/Videohttp://ccmixter.org/ ttp://jamendo.com/http://wiki.creativecommons.org/

Audiohttp://www.freesound.org/http://freemusicarchive.org/http://www.musopen.com/


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Contact UsContact Us

website: oer.knust.edu.gh

email: [email protected]

telephone: 03220 64979

CreditsCreditshttp://www.oerafrica.orghttps://open.umich.edu/http://col-oer.weebly.com/http://www.creativecommons.orgopen.umich.edu/wiki/Open_Content_Search http://www.oercommons.orghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Open_educational_resourcesOER Introduction by Judy Baker http://cnx.org/

(Connexions module: m14466)http://www.col-oer.weebly.comhttp://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Find-Open-

Educational-Resources-on-the-Internet&id=6019873

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