Open Educational Resources and the Digital

Classicist Community.

Simon Mahony (University College London)

s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk

@simon_mahony

#DigiClass

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http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dhoer

United Nations EDUCATIONAL

Scientific and Cultural Organization

"Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning

or research materials that are in the public domain

or released with an intellectual property license

that allows for free use, adaptation, and

distribution."

(www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-

educational-resources/browse)

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/oer/projects

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/alternative-languages/OER/

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/calt/support/cpd4he

DHOER: Digital Humanities OER

• Creating OERs

• Range of teaching materials

• Relevant to Digital Humanities and beyond

• Each available as full module or individual objects

• Granular approach

Packaging teaching resources

Levels of granularity

• Full module

• Individual lecture

• Seminar with discussion topics and readings

• Learning objects

• Practical exercises

• Worksheets and handouts

Widening the reach of OERs

Making OERs free online does NOT make

them available to all.

‘It is not technologies with inherent pedagogical qualities that

triumph in distance education but technologies which are

generally available to citizens’

(Keegan, How Successful Is Mobile Learning? 2008 )

Further issues

• Context of a single OER?

• Adequate and relevant metadata

• Discoverability

• Ownership / relationship

• Sustainability

Growth of knowledge

• Teaching materials are improved

• Becomes and iterative cycle

• Peer review of materials

• Returned with improvements and acknowledgement

• Digital Humanities methodology

• Equal partnerships in research and teaching

• Arts, Humanities and Technology

OER and Open Resources for Classics

The two main UK repositories:

Jorum

Jisc funded repository

HumBox

Jisc/HE Academy OER Pilot Programme

http://find.jorum.ac.uk/find?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=classics&button=

http://humbox.ac.uk/

http://humbox.ac.uk/cgi/search/simple?q=classics&_action_search=Search&_order=bytitle&basic_srchtype=ALL&_satisfyall=ALL&_default_action=search

http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Educational_Resources

Community approach

Digital Classicist

Jiscmail-hosted email list

Classics more generally

Classics (Liverpool) Jiscmail

OER-DISCUSS Jiscmail

Social media

Classics International (Facebook)

Twitter

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/classical-studies

http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/classical-studies/tasters.shtml

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/classical-studies/getting-started-on-classical-latin/content-section-0

Other platforms

Udacity: 'Advance your career …' (build portfolio)

Mainly programming and Computer Science

edX: 'great online courses […] world's best universities'

Founded Harvard & MITx (now includes Berkeley)

OER Search engines?

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

Search: Classics

Retrieves Oxford podcasts

But

Search: DHOER returns no results (so not universal)

http://xpert.nottingham.ac.uk/scoreresults.php?keywords=classics&search_all.x=0&search_all.y=0

Oxford University

Podcasts

What is Tragedy?

Beazley Archive

Faculty Classics

Most from Jisc/HE OER Strand 1

and hence CC licenced

Discoverability and more

Consistent and appropriate metadata

Appropriate open licence

Repurposable

Open format

Coda: objects to think about

Reflection on our teaching practice

Digital Humanities Pedagogy

Pedagogy of Digital Classics?

What skills do our students need?

What is the best way for them to attain them?

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