transforming practice through research
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The UK
Cabinet 2060?
Monopolising knowledge
• OER 2011 included Towards the Triumph of the Commons that equated HE with the process of enclosure that devastated English common land in the late eighteenth century.
• Edupreneurs?
• Uncertain boundaries make the Creative Commons licensing system much more than ‘a peasant’s revolt’.
What are OERs?Open Educational Resources are digital resources that can be used openly and freely by anyone interested in that field.
Creative Commons licences encourage their re-use, re-purposing, re-mixing and re-distribution.
IPR? Fair use? YouTube?
OER University OpenLearnPeer to Peer University JorumiTunesU OCW
MITx
“Going to Harvard from
your own bedroom” (BBC
News, 2011)
OCW 2011: 100 million
OCW 2021: 1 billion?
OpenLearn 2011: 40 million
MITx 2012
http://www.isingilizcem.com/en/lounge/
idioms/
June 2012: Hilary Clinton
announces $2billion
government investment in
OERs over the next decade.
N0032220 Sasha Andrews, Wellcome Images. Jimma Town Ethiopia 2006
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078/
So we need bigger mouths.
“Delicious is like a virtual fieldtrip through a library built by the recommendations of others.”
– Chris Sessums
Social tagging
http://1.bp.blogspot.com
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Digital literacy:
digital maturity
or digital
bravery?
‘Students as producers’
prolearn-academy.org
Community Challenge 2012-13
Additional Learning Lecture and Seminar Series at UCBC : Community As Curriculum
Write a 2,500 word essay on the above
• How do I find stuff?• How do I know it’s accurate?• How do I share content?• How do I filter content?• How do I keep up with all the news?• How do I file content?• How do I categorise content?
scavenging.files.wordpress.com
Initiative
Employment?
Tutorial: Using a search engineLearning Outcome: A clear understanding of the
role of the critical factors in the systemSummary: through preparing their own account
of using a search engine, to demonstrate the role of the critical factors, using the Library guidelines; presenting it to their group; defending it against questions and comments; and revising their account in the light of the tutor’s summary of the discussion
Tutorial: On a system or processLearning Outcome: A clear understanding of the
role of the critical factors in the systemSummary: through preparing their own account
of the system/process, to demonstrate the role of the critical factors, using the resources provided; presenting it to their group; defending it against questions and comments; and revising their animation in the light of the tutor’s summary of the discussion
Tutorial: The water cycleLearning Outcome: A clear understanding of the
role of the critical factors in the systemSummary: through preparing their own
animation of the water cycle, to demonstrate the role of the critical factors, using the OER cycle; presenting it to their group; defending it against questions and comments; and revising their animation in the light of the tutor’s summary of the discussion
Tutorial: The water cycleLearning Outcome: A clear understanding of the
role of the critical factors in the systemSummary: through preparing their own
animation of the water cycle, to demonstrate the role of the critical factors, using the OER cycle; presenting it to their group; defending it against questions and comments; and revising their animation in the light of the tutor’s summary of the discussion
Benefits from OEP (open educational practices)
OER repository
Community Challenge
• Food• Exclusion• Cohesion• Advertising• Health
• Effects of the internet• Diversity• Collaboration• Copyright/copyleft• Problem solving
Anarchogogy in action: 15 tools and counting
AnyModule.com
• Could these themes or others apply to your course?
• Interested in the receipt of a ‘readymade’ alternative assignment?
• Flexible interpretations of regulations can be achieved.
“The resources that their home institution owns or subscribes to no longer have to be the primary source of information for staff or students” (White and Manton, 2011: 4).
100%
UCBC OERs (tag OERC4E)
Showcased at HEA 2012
National Conference
Student
References
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
(Thanks to Steve Wheeler, Plymouth University for many of these slides and Simon Thomson, Leeds Metropolitan University for the ‘jet pack ascent of man’)
White, D. and Manton, M. (2011) JISC-funded OER Impact Study. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearning/oer/OERTheValueOfReuseInHigherEducation.pdf (accessed 24 October 2011).