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Andy Lane

Senior Fellow (SCORE)

Open Nottingham 7 April 2011

OER is in the air ...

Spreading ‘wild’ seeds

Eric Herot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eherot/4084533928/

Learning in an Open World, MK 22-23 June 2010

‘Leading role’ in OER

• The OU was set up to be ‘open’ - open to people, place, methods, ideas

• A long history of publishing

• Rights and production expertise

• Distance learning expertise translating to online learning

• SCORE draws on this experience, reflects the OU mission, builds on OpenLearn …


Builds on OpenLearn

• 6000 hrs published into LearningSpace

• 9000 hrs published into LabSpace

• 15.6 million unique visitors

• International recognition, awards, funding

• Changes in practice at the OU

• Focal point for research – e.g. OLnet

• Started in 2006, ‘mainstreaming’ in 2011


Public funding for OER

• £3.0m from Hefce for SCORE as part of Shared Solutions at the OU (full initiative worth £7.8m).

• HEA/JISC’ £5.6m UKOER Phase 1 programme completed with £4.0m Phase 2 now in progress.

• The Online Learning Task Force report included recommendation 6: £25m over 5 years ‘Investment is needed for the development and exploitation of OER to enhance efficiency and quality' and suggested that this should be the responsibility of the JISC, HEA and the OU.


SCORE’s objectives

• Increase sector capacity for effective OER creation/use.

• Moving from a supply-led approach to reflect institutional/student needs.

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How to do that?

SCORE targets support through:• ~36 long fellowship projects• ~3600 hours of OER reflecting sector needs• ~18 engagement/dissemination events including

short fellowship study weeks• An enquiry-based support and advice service

• Encouraging a ‘vibrant’ web 2.0-based virtual community

• Fostering OER engagement internationally


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Amber Thomas, JISC, 2009

Example 1:Identifying issues

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e.g. Leeds manifesto on OER sustainability – see www.slideshare.net/score




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Example 2: Funding fellowships

• 3 completed, 8 in progress and 11 just starting

• 16 people at first Short fellow study week in December 2010, 10 people starting in April, followed by more weeks in July and December

• Interested? Look out for details on SCORE website or distributed through OER-Discuss jiscmail list.

Fellowships

Gabe Reedy:The SCORE fellowship has given me a chance to engage with teachers doing real, meaningful work with OERs—and to advance scholarship in the field as I do so.

Tony CoughlanMy Fellowship with SCORE has given me access to a really supportive team who have been pivotal to my development of CharityWise - a model for integrating UK voluntary sector training around OERs.

Quotes from current SCORE fellowsOpen Nottingham 7 April 2011

Fellowships

Terese Bird:SPIDER: Sharing Practice with iTunes U Digital Educational Resources – researching best practice, implementation models, and learning impact of iTunes U

Melissa Highton:My SCORE fellowship has given me the time and space to reflect on my practice and to ensure that our OER projects at University of Oxford are shaping strategy and policy within the institution.

Quotes from current SCORE fellowsOpen Nottingham 7 April 2011

Short Term Fellowships



“There were many areas of expertise covered in the programme and that was impressive.”

“Overall, this was a highly intensive and interesting course which I enjoyed. The diversity of OER applications amongst delegates was quite astounding.”

Quotes from delegates at the Dec 2011 Short Term Fellowship Residential course



Example 3: Creating OER content

• Continuing to publish OER and expand/develop the collection

• Sourcing from within and outside the OU, some coming from UKOER2 projects and some from Fellows

• Targeting sector needs – informed by fellowships

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New look LabSpace

LabSpace: Familiar space with new face and features

LabSpace

The resources available via LabSpace can be placed and used there by individuals (IndieSpace), projects (ProjectSpace), or institutions (SectorSpace).

LabSpace tools encourage engagement, remixing and the evolution of new versions, including translations. Advice and help with putting content onto LabSpace for all UK OER projects.

www.open.ac.uk/labspace


LabSpace


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Example 4: Events Sharing stories

Perhaps we need a ‘consent commons’?Quentin-Baxter and Hardy, OOER project

Embedding OERactivity in theperformance reviewSimon Thomson, Unicycle Project,Leeds MetGetting staff on board

Andy Beggan, Nottingham

Events:Introduction to OER

Finding and evaluating Open Educational Resources

Introduction to OER 25th January 2011

Creator:Non ScantleburyThe Open University Library Services

Licensed for reuse under:Creative Commons Share Alike

Making Education More Open with OER

Professor Andy Lane, Senior Fellow, SCORE

Presentations given at the Introduction to OER event – 25th January 2011


Events: Learning from International OER

Events: Institutional Strategies for OER

“It was excellent to hear from 5 different institutions – I could see common issues and got great ideas of strategies to try at my own university.”

“There were some very useful pointers that can be applied within our institution.”

Quotes from delegates at the Institutional Strategies for OER event – 11th March 2011


Further Events in 2011

Date Event10-15 April Short-term Fellowship3 May Introduction to OERs11-13 May OER 11 – Annual Conference15 June SCORE fellowship showcase10-15 July Short-term Fellowship16 September OER and Creative Commons18 October Learning from OER research projects17 November Sustaining OER activity4-9 December Short-term Fellowship

13 December Practical tools for finding OER


International events

Stop Press

OER12 will be held jointly with the OCWC Global meeting, 16-18

April 2012 in Cambridge


International events


Find out more:SCORE online

http://www8.open.ac.uk/score/


Any questions?

Vernharthttp://www.flickr.com/photos/vernhart/1574355646/

http://www.hefce.ac.uk/