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Librarians’ Perceptions of OER OpenEd 2014 Beck Pitt The Open University (UK) Eleni Zazani Birkbeck College Nancy Graham University of Roehampton

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"Librarians' Perceptions of OER" was presented by Beck Pitt at OpenEd 2014, Washington DC, USA during November 2014. Research was carried out in collaboration with CoPILOT and this presentation was developed from Eleni, Nancy and Beck's presentation at OER13 in Newcastle, UK earlier in the year.

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Librarians’ Perceptions

of OER

OpenEd 2014

Beck Pitt

The Open University (UK)

Eleni Zazani

Birkbeck College

Nancy Graham

University of Roehampton

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Background

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• 2-year open research project funded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

• Aiming to build the most comprehensive picture of OER impact

• Open collaboration model across different educational sectors

• Global reach but with a USA focus

• Fellowship Scheme

• Researching openness in the open

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Keyword Hypothesis

Performance OER improve student performance/satisfaction

Openness People use OER differently from other online materials

Access OER widen participation in education

Retention OER can help at-risk learners to finish their studies

Reflection OER use leads educators to reflect on their practice

Finance OER adoption brings financial benefits for students/institutions

Indicators Informal learners use a variety of indicators when selecting OER

Support Informal learners develop their own forms of study support

Transition OER support informal learners in moving to formal study

Policy OER use encourages institutions to change their policies

Assessment Informal assessments motivate learners using OER

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OER Impact Map

http://oermap.org

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Project Co-PILOT

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Methodology

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Librarian Questionnaire

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Research Questions

OER Research Hub hypotheses:

OER improve student performance/satisfaction

People use OER differently from other online materials

OER use leads educators to reflect on their practice*

OER adoption brings financial benefits for students/institutions

OER use encourages institutions to change their policies*

Special areas of interest (CoPILOT):

Encourage creation and sharing of OER

Curating & sustaining OER

Closing training gaps

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Librarian Surveys

Two surveys launched during Open Access week (21-25 October 2013).

Both Surveys closed 2 January 2014.

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Librarian Sample

• 81.0% Female (n=175), 17.6% Male (n=38) and

1.4% Transgender (n=3)

• Nearly 90% of respondents have English as their

first spoken language (89.4%, n=193)

• Over 85% of respondents have a

Postgraduate/Graduate School University Degree

(87.4%, n=188)

• Over a quarter of respondents had worked as a

librarian for more than 20 years (25.3%, n=50)

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OER Behaviours & Perspectives

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Librarian Overview

In the last year…

• Over half of respondents have published a blog post (50.5%, n=110)

• Nearly 70% of respondents have shared an image online (68.8%,

n=150)

• Almost a third of respondents contributed to a Wiki (30.3%, n=66)

• Almost half of respondents contributed to an Internet Forum (49.1%,

n=107)

• 55.0% of respondents have downloaded a Podcast (n=120) but only

8.3% have recorded and uploaded a Podcast (n=18)

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Top three challenges faced when using OER:

Knowing where to find resources (60.6%, n=120)

Finding resources of a sufficiently high quality

(60.1%, n=119)

Finding suitable resources in my subject area

(56.1%, n=111)

Librarian Overview

• Nearly 40% of respondents have adapted OER to fit their needs

(39.4%, n=85)

• 31.9% of respondents have created OER for study or teaching

(n=69)

Over 85% of respondents said that

they would be more likely to select a

particular resource when searching for

OER if it had been created/uploaded

by a reputable/trusted institution or

person (87.4%, n=180)

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Use and Creation of OER

14.8% of respondents have created resources themselves and published them

on an open license (n=32)

78.1% of respondents who have created

resources and published them on an open

license say open licensing is “very

important” or “important” to them when

using resources in their teaching (n=25)

87.5% of respondents who have created

resources and published them on an open

license told us they have seen the CC

license and know what it means (n=28).

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Librarian Overview

Main purposes for using OER in the context of Librarian role:

To help find available content for learning, teaching or training

(72.5%, n=124) and/or to get new ideas and inspiration (72.5%,

n=124)

As a result of using OER as a respondents strongly agreed or agreed that …

• Nearly 70% make use of a wider range of multimedia (13.1%, n=19 &

56.6%, n=82 respectively)

• Almost 60% have a more up-to-date knowledge of their subject area (16.8%,

n=24 & 42.7%, n=61)

• 47.3% have improved ICT skills (10.8%, n=16 & 36.5%, n=54)

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“We actually did a study recently that

showed a 30% reduction in textbook

costs after a big push to move to open

access textbooks.”

• Nearly 40% of respondents believe

their students have saved money by

using OER (37.7%, n=61)

• Over 50% of respondents think that

their institution benefits financially by

using OER (53.5%, n=85)

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• Over 40% of respondents don’t know

whether their institution benefits

financially by using OER (40.9%, n=65)

• Over half of respondents don’t know

whether their students have saved

money by using OER (51.2%, n=83)

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Creating OER and measuring its

impact

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Do you measure the impact of the open educational

resources you create?

Of the respondents who create OER for study or teaching

and/or create OER and publish them on an open license,

nearly 30% told us they measure the impact of the OER

they create (29.7%, n=22)

• 60.8% of respondents who create OER do not measure

the impact of the OER they create (n=45)

• Nearly 10% of respondents who create OER don’t know

if they measure the impact of the OER they create

(9.5%, n=7)

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Please tell us more about how you share the open educational

resources you create

“Upload to

YouTube”

“Via the NHS e-learning

repository and from our

organisational website.”

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Please tell us more about how you measure the impact of the

open educational resources you create

Respondents who told us

how they currently

measure impact:

60.9% look at

statistics/usage/analytics

(n=14)

13.0% Feedback (n=3)

26.1% Both analytics and

feedback (n=6)

“At a rather trivial level, I check

how many times resources are

accessed.”

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Institutional Policies and Openness

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Summary

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Lessons Learnt

Next Steps

Effective Collaboration

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Summary of Results

Librarians and Open Educational Resources

• What do we mean by “measuring impact”?

• How is quality currently understood? (Changing perceptions)

• Finding resources remains a pertinent issue across the board: visibility

• Librarians working in “silos”… educators too

• What do you think? Do these findings resonate with you?

• We need you! Looking for YOUR best examples of impact...

• Read our overall findings in our OER Evidence report 2013-2014

http://oerresearchhub.org/

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De Beer, T. (2012). SCORE library survey report. Available from: http://www.open.ac.uk/score/news/score-library-survey-report.

[Accessed 23 November 2013].

Graham, N., and Secker, J. (2012). Librarians, information literacy and open educational resources: report of a survey. Available

from: http://delilaopen.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/findingsharingoers_reportfinal1.pdf. [Accessed 23 November 2013].

Harris, S. (2012). Moving towards an open access future: the role of academic libraries. London. Available from:

http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/Library-OAReport.pdf. [Accessed 23 November 2013].

Taylor & Francis. (2013). Facilitating access to free online resources: challenges and opportunities for the library community.

Available from: http://www.tandf.co.uk/libsite/pdf/TF-whitepaper-free-resources.pdf. [Accessed 23 November 2013].

TBI Communications on behalf of InTech. (2012). Assessing the role of librarians in an Open Access world. Croatia. Available

from: http://www.intechopen.com/js/ckeditor/kcfinder/upload/files/Role of the Librarian_Survey_Findings_Jun12.pdf. [Accessed

23 November 2013].

Zazani, Eleni. The Emerging Information Professional: 21st Century attitudes, technologies and practices. Chandos publishing

(forthcoming)

Open Definition on Licensing (http://opendefinition.org/guide/)

Creative Commons logo: http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/cc.large.png

“Putting money into a piggybank” image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Putting_money_into_a_piggybank.jpg

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Thanks for listening!

oerresearchhub.org

http://oermap.org

Twitter: @OER_Hub @BeckPitt

@EleniZazani @msnancygraham

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