Creating and adapting teaching

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Open Education WeekWorkshop

11 March 2013

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Summary

• Open Education Week 2013• What is Open Education?• What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?• The importance of OERs• OERs: the Good & Concerns (&

misconceptions)• OERs at UCT!

Open Education Week

• “The purpose of Open Education Week is to raise awareness of the open education movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide.”

• http://www.openeducationweek.org/

What is Open Education?

Picture by Sarah Goodier

What is Open Education?

Video by Blinktower available at: http://vimeo.com/43401199 (licensed under CC-BY 3.0)

What is Open Education?

• “Open education is about expanding educational opportunities worldwide by facilitating the sharing and re-mixing of educational resources.”

(http://www.cyberlawcentre.org/unlocking-ip/2009/materials/Papers/2A_DBrowne.pdf)

What is Open Education?

• “Open education is about expanding educational opportunities worldwide by facilitating the sharing and re-mixing of educational resources.”

• Removing barriers to access to education

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Open + technology + (connected + sharing) + reuse

What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?

Picture by Sarah Goodier

What are OERs?

• OERs are “teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.” – 2012 Paris Declaration

2012 Paris Declaration available at http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/WPFD2009/English_Declaration.html

The importance of OERs

Still from video by Nadia Mireles available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_655666&feature=iv&src_vid=dTNnxPcY49Q&v=7NH7vLzt9jY (licensed under CC-BY 3.0)

The importance of OERs

Video by Nadia Mireles available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_655666&feature=iv&src_vid=dTNnxPcY49Q&v=7NH7vLzt9jY (licensed under CC-BY 3.0)

OERs: the Good

• Enables access• Decreases costs• Allows reuse &

adaptation

“WWW2010 How a big-deal conference does open content” by OpenSourceWay available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4581855658/in/photostream under a CC BY SA license

OERs: the Good

• Enables access• Decreases costs• Allows reuse &

adaptation

OERs: Concerns (& misconceptions)

• Quality issues• Lack of context of

materials• Incorrect use of

licensing

!

“WWW2010 How a big-deal conference does open content” by OpenSourceWay available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4581855658/in/photostream under a CC BY SA license

Still from video by Blinktower available at: http://vimeo.com/43401199 (licensed under CC-BY 3.0)

OERs at UCT!

UCT’s own OpenContent site: http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/

OERs at UCT!

Screenshot of online material available at: https://vula.uct.ac.za/access/content/group/9c29ba04-b1ee-49b9-8c85-9a468b556ce2/Framework_2/index.htm

Screenshot of blog post available at: http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct/2011/06/08/uct-open-materials-win-2011-award-for-opencourseware-excellence

OERs at UCT!

Slide modified from “Open scholarship and multilingualism through the University of Cape Town’s open content” ePoster by Laura Czerniewicz & Sarah Goodier; available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=46ILpdt8qRM under a CC BY SA license

OERs at UCT!

OERs at UCT!

UCT’s own OpenContent site: http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/

Why are you interested in creating and adapting

teaching materials for sharing?

?

Still from video by Blinktower available at: http://vimeo.com/43401199 (licensed under CC-BY 3.0)

Still from video by Blinktower available at: http://vimeo.com/43401199 (licensed under CC-BY 3.0)

Still from video by Nadia Mireles available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_655666&feature=iv&src_vid=dTNnxPcY49Q&v=7NH7vLzt9jY (licensed under CC-BY 3.0)

Still from video by Nadia Mireles available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_655666&feature=iv&src_vid=dTNnxPcY49Q&v=7NH7vLzt9jY (licensed under CC-BY 3.0)

Thank you!

Contact: sarah.goodier@uct.ac.zaTwitter: @OpenExpl

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