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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