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Go to View > Header & Footer to edit April 11, 2023 | slide 1RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning
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 – [email protected] Steve Saffhill – [email protected]
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