In brief oer

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In Brief – Open Educational ResourcesPhil Hardcastle

Steve Saffhill

www.rsc-em.ac.uk

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OER Definitions

‘Digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research’.– OECD

A good OER is

Findable Clearly described

Clearly licensed Trusted

source

Easy to

modify

Free standing

No copyright

Imperfect

Guide to OER

Toolkit from Jisc

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2013/Openeducationalresources.aspx

Finding of Jisc Research “open educational resources were more likely to be reused if made available in smaller modules as opposed to large units.”

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Different Approaches

Open Courseware – e.g. MIT Re-Usable Learning Objects Massively Open Online Courses (MOOC)

All types– Use for own learning– Re-use to teach others– Re-purpose to create new teaching resources

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Open University: OpenLearn Course in OER

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/open-education/content-section-0

YouTube EDU

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Perception Poll

OER Materials

1. Used a lot

2. Used a little

3. Not used

4. Shared materials

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Perception Poll

OER Materials are

1. Difficult to find

2. Low quality

3. A poor fit with the curriculum

4. Time consuming to adapt

5. Not contextualised

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Perceptions Poll

OER materials

Save tutors time in preparation Give access to materials not otherwise available Are well designed Are easily contextualised

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Where to go?

• JorumOpen http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui

OER Dynamic Search Engine go.bath.ac.uk/q24b

Jorum Powered– Jorum sub site – fully hosted repository– Jorum window – customisable web interface– Jorum API – an opportunity to build your own…

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Where to go

Google search – Creative Commons Flickr search – Creative Commons iTunes U Xpert – Xerte Public E-Learning Repository –

biggest collection of OER

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Wide range of materials available

60 second economics How big is a…? Periodic Table of Videos Politics in Spires VAL

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Lists of resources

• OpenLearn http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

• OU Labspace http://labspace.open.ac.uk

• JorumOpen http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui

• MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

• OER Africa http://www.oerafrica.org/

• Merlot http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

• OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/oer

• Humbox http://www.humbox.ac.uk/

• Xpert http://xpert.nottingham.ac.uk/

• OER Dynamic Search Engine go.bath.ac.uk/q24b

Why create OERs

Organisational advantages:– Building the institution's reputation – Marketing the institution or individual courses – Efficiency, particularly when creating a resource which can be used

across a number of courses

Strategy– Develop a clear rationale along with credible business and benefit

cases, perhaps using examples from elsewhere in your institution – OER may be of interest to almost anyone in your organisation from

library staff to learners through to academics or marketing professionals

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Creating OERs

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Production Flow Diagram

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Preparation

STEM OER Guidance Wiki– Accessibility

• Reasonable adjustments have been made to allow access – see Jisc Techdis site

– Context• Place the materials in context

– Metadata• Information about the resource allowing it to be searched for.

– File Type• Possible offer in more than one file type pdf and doc

– File Size• Keep file size down or split into manageable chunks

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How to implement

Staff Development

– Perceptions– Skills– Implementation– Contextualisation

Staff Development Days– How to find and use free materials

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Contact

Phil Hardcastle – phil.hardcastle@rsc-em.ac.uk Steve Saffhill – steve.saffhill@rsc-em.ac.uk

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