Supporting teaching in higher education to improve student learning across the Biosciences

Open Educational Resources

Building open content for the bioscience community

Outline

Open Educational Resources Background, current status and problems

The OER programme How it is being executed and what it means to the

centre workload Expected outcomes

Critical success factors for the pilot Further information

Key links and tags to follow progress

About the Project A PILOT project to

discover the barriers and issues

A ‘significant amount’ of material for release

An opportunity for the Centre to provide resources to support practical work

What is an OER?

Creating educational resources for sharing and further development• Easy to find (fully described)• Easy to use (context and guidance available)• Quality assured (authentic)• Re-purposable, and shared for further development.

Key communitiesOER Commons, OCW Consortium, CCLearn

“Reuse, Redistribute, Revise, and Remix”

Problems OER has to tackle OER ‘culture’ slow to pick up in UK HE Is sharing resources financially viable? IPR clearance Discovery, tagging and branding, Individual Academic profile Inter-institutional

dependencies Worldwide profile for UK

HE

The OER programme• Initiated by HEFCE/JISC and delivered by

JISC/Academy• Pilot project for a £25m? programme (2009-2012)

• Pilot phase £5.7m (April 2009-April 2010)• <£3m for 12 Subject Centres to run projects

• Not buying rights to old resources!• But re-purposing existing, valued content demonstrating

various approaches• Cultural change and sustainable processes

• Content is an indicator of processes in place – a metric• Sustained release – institutional IPR policies updated• Benefits for academic profile, institutional profile, discipline

profile and their students

The current environment

Our communities are now distributed throughout a complex series of online networks

Funded projects Institutional, Subject and Individual strands

Coventry - Open Content Employability Exeter - Open Exeter Leeds Met - Unicycle Leicester University - OTTER Nottingham University - BERLiN Oxford University - Open Spires Staffordshire University - OpenStaffs

York, Westminster, Oxford Brookes, Falmouth, Anglia Ruskin, UCL, UCLAN, Lincoln and Bradford

Funded projects

SC LLAS (Southampton), ENG (Royal Holloway), PRS (Leeds), HCA (Durham) The HumBox Project SC ICS (Ulster) Open Educational Repository in Support of Computer Science SCEngineering (Loughborough) Open Educational Resources Pilot SC UKCME (Liverpool)) CORE-Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment –

for MaterialsSC Economics (Bristol) TRUE: Teaching Resources for Undergraduate Economics

SC Physical Sciences (Hull/Liverpool) Skills for Scientists SC GEES (Plymouth) C-change in GEES: Open licensing of climate change and sustainability

resources in the Geography, Earth and Environmental SciencesSC ADM (Brighton) Open Educational Resources in Art, Design and Media

SC MSOR (Nottingham Trent) FETLAR (Finding electronic teaching learning and assessment resources)

SC Bioscience (Leeds) ‘An Interactive Laboratory and Fieldwork Manual for the Biosciences’ SC UKCLE (Warwick) Simulation Learning Resources SC HSAP (KCL) Public Health Open Resources in the University Sector (PHORUS) SC C-SAP (Southampton) Evaluating the practice of collective endeavour in opening up key

resources for learning and teaching in the social sciencesSC MEDEV (Newcastle) Organising Open Educational Resources (OOER)

Subject strand

Our work• Ten project ‘consortia’ with Bioscience

• Nottingham: Biodiversity• Oxford: iCases – Influenza outbreak• DeMontfort: Virtual Analytical Laboratory• OU: Biochemistry virtual laboratories• Bath: Cancer Biology• UCL: Virtual museum for zoology• Glasgow: Virtual Ecology • Gloucestershire: Java-based Rocky Shore simulation• Leeds: Microbiology labs (10 tutorials and exercises)• Manchester: Genetic Analysis scenarios

Our work

• Contributing existing resources (reworking for open release)

• Output into JorumOpen• Resolving IPR using standard licences

(e.g. CC-BY-NC-SA)• Sharing IPR successes through network• Cataloguing issues – Jorum support• Managing the project - Sharepoint

Key Issues and outcomes IPR cleared content for re-use

and redevelopment Use of appropriate descriptive

meta-data Dissemination and distribution

from key repositories and source providers

Sustainability – a 5 year minimum expected

Raised OER awareness Final Report

Follow developments

Tags: OER and UKOER (or #OER and #UKOER) in online updates

Academy OER newsfeed (soon) Open Education News Cetis: Educational Content

Bioscience OER blog and project partner blogs

Press coverage in 2009/10

Guardian

Daily Telegraph,

Times Higher Education

Independent

Sunday Times Further project links Open Educational Resources programme