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Presentation by Andy Beggan (BERLiN Project, University of Nottingham) on OER activity for SCORE event, Birmingham, 10 March 2010
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Enhancing and expanding Nottingham’s existing Open Educational Repository to progress the vision of sustainable OERs
10th March 2010
Andy BegganE-Learning Team LeaderThe University of Nottingham
Outline of presentation
Background to OER at Nottingham Strategic drivers
How we’re meeting them?
Discoverability, reuse & repurposing
Current activities BERLiN project Examples of OER
Next steps
Background: OER @ Nottingham U-Now launched 2007 under the e-learning strategy
Led by Prof Chris Ennew, PVC for Internationalisation
A member of the Open Courseware Consortium
17,836 visitors 2009 1713 Jan 2010 2000 Feb 2010
Over 1900 downloads for ‘Anatomists cookbook’
University Strategic Drivers
University Strategic Drivers
1.Social responsibility2.Promotional opportunities3.Cost efficiencies
Mutually supportive with multiple cross over
OER Africa feedback on U-Now Address multiple audiences at the same time Display
Intended level of use and target audience Brief description Licence File size Technical information and publisher Downloading instructions
Different approaches to navigation (browse, filter, search) Encourage editing and repurpose
UKOER~OER Africa / UNESCO partnerships OER ‘Shopping list’ to support African HEIs
1. Social Responsibility
XPERT Traditional producer-centric models Xerte Public E-learning ReposiTory JISC funded under rapid innovation programme To progress the vision of a distributed
architecture of e-learning resources for sharing and re-use
Based on Xerte Online Toolkits www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/
XPERT
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/
WebCT & Equella
Joined OCWC in 2007/8 Membership $500 p.a.
Mathematical institute, Oxford Peoples-uni.org The Open University The University of Nottingham
RSS submission Doubled visitors to U-Now
Jan-Feb 2010 3713 visitors 1494 via OCWC
Open Courseware Consortium
‘Google-ability’ Google Search – all items can be found
Content Links (Reciprocal) Code
Future developments Tag clouds Media types Pedagogic types JACS Biographical data
BERLiN Project BERLiN: Building Exchanges for Research &
Learning in Nottingham HEA/JISC funded 12 month project under OER
Programme, end April 2010 To support a step change in releasing open learning
resources across all faculties at Nottingham Expansion of the University’s OER (u-Now) to cover
content across all five faculties (360 credits) 325 credits published so far…
BERLiN submissions
High-level support encouraging participation Capturing examples from across all campuses Issues assigning credits? Led to ‘module frameworks’
Introduction to microeconomics
Rich learning objects add further depth No limitations of what can be made available
Podcasts, videos, interactive learning content, PDFs, etc
Copyright ‘hurdles’ main barrier
Next steps Social responsibility
UKOER~OER Africa framework
Promotion U-Now website review School based and subject based RSS feeds
Support growth of local communities Link to prospectuses / school webpages
Cost efficiencies ‘21st Century Information Skills’ Appropriate reuse and repurpose of OER Workshops, seminars, PGCHE New tools and technologies
Any Questions?
http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/
