Out in the Open: Beyond Distance & Open

Educational ResourcesAlejandro Armellini, Samuel Nikoi, Richard

Mobbs, Tania Rowlett (Members of the OTTER Project Team)

Learning Futures Festival: 9 Jan, 12pm

What are OERs?

A. I have a clear idea of what OERs areB. I sort of know what OERs areC. I don’t know what OERs are

Using OERs

A. I have used OERs in the design of my teaching materials

B. I have not used OERs in the design of my teaching materials

C. I’m not sure

Contributing OERs

A. I have contributed materials for public, free and open use

B. I have not contributed materials for public, free and open use

C. I’m not sure

OER players and driversEstablished players (e.g. the MIT, the Open

University)

In the UK…The JISC and the HE Academy saw OERs as key, so

projects were funded (institutional, subject, individual):

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/oer.aspx

Drivers:MarketingQuality enhancement

Leicester’s OTTER project (www.le.ac.uk/otter)

FAQs on OERs

Over to Dr Samuel Nikoi from Leicester’s OTTER project!

FAQ 1. What is an Open Educational Resource? ‘Digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research.’ (OECD)

‘OERs are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.’ (Wikipedia)

FAQ 2. Which countries are involved in OERs across the world?

USA EUROPE ASIA Others

•MIT Open Courseware project

•Rice Univ. Connexions project

•Utah State Uni.USU OCW

•Obama’s Give away course (Found at: http://chronicle.com/article/Obamas-Great-Course-Giveaway/47530/)

ParisTech OCW

project with 11 member Uni.

MORIL project A Pan-European OERs initiative including Russia and Turkey

•China Open Res. for Educ. consortium. 222 Uni. Members

•Japanese OCW Consortium from its 19 member universities

•OER Africa

•UNESCO virtual Uni.

•AEShareNEt in Australia

FAQ 3. Are there OER initiatives in the UK?

• UK government - £5.7m investment on OER production across England

• Open University – OpenLearn

• Oxford University - OpenSpires

• Nottingham University – BERLiN

…and of course

• OTTER at the University of Leicester

FAQ 4. Why do we need OERs in HE?

Pull arguments (Gains for sharing)

• Free sharing reinforces societal development and diminishes social inequalities

Push arguments (Threats for not sharing)

• Traditional academic values of openness to knowledge will be marginalised by market forces such as Microsoft or Apple

FAQ 5. Who are the target audience of OERs?

• Current / potential university students

• Independent learners

• Work-based learners

• Educators

• Researchers

• Developing countries

• Global public

FAQ 6. What are the institutional benefits of having OERs?• Institutional visibility for attracting new students

• Better use of resources which leads to cost cutting of content development

• Reach out to new groups without access to HE

• Improve the quality of learning and stimulate innovation

• To improve teaching practice

• For storage and preservation of resources

• As a living lab for research into teaching

• Reputation as socially responsible for socio-cultural change

• Community memory, history and intelligence

FAQ 7. What other issues are there regarding OERs?

• Keeping materials up-to-date in multiple repositories

• Interoperability issues

• Metadata standards

• Tracking and assessing the value of OERs

• Copyright

• Sustainability

• Reward and recognition

Questions?

OER Showcase

Institution

Merlot : http://www.merlot.org/

MIT OCW : http://ocw.mit.edu/

OER Showcase

Institution

Open University :

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

Portals

OCW Consortium :

http://www.ocwconsortium.org

UNESCO OER Community

http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/

JorumOpen 19th January, 2010

IPR and Copyright Brief

Tania RowlettCopyright Administrator

OTTER Project

Institutional IPRUniversity senior

management support the move to open education

Enthusiastic and willing departmental contacts

Licence - Creative Commons open licence

‘Partner Agreement’

Cooperation by glsims99. Some rights reserved.

Creative Commons Licensing

Q. How many people know what a Creative Commons licence is?

What is a Creative Commons Licence?

http://creativecommons.org/ Range of options

Attribution No Derivative Works

Non-commercial Share Alike

What have we used?

Copyright issues encountered

Quotes

Issues

VideoWho is in it? Who shot the

footage?

Screen

Shots

Images Departmental

imagesFlickr,

National Bodies

Voice-overs Whose voice? Who

wrote the script?

YouTubeMaterial

Overcoming these issues

Quotes

Solutions

VideoWho is in it? Who shot the

footage?

Screen

Shots

Images Departmental

imagesFlickr,

National Bodies

Voice Whose voice? Who

wrote the script?

YouTube

UoL staff or permission

sought

Limited amounts, properly referenced

Ensure only use those with compatible open

licence or sought permission

Contacted Microsoft & Blackboard as use not covered by standard

T&C’sUoL staff or

permission sought

Removed links to infringing

material/located alternative source

Are there any general rules of thumb?

Yes! DO use:Creative Commons resources with compatible licenceLimited extracts from your own work & take own

photosSources where the licence terms explicitly permit useItems out of copyrightOrganisations providing advice and guidance:

JISC - JISClegal, Web2Rights project, JISCdigitalmedia (http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/stillimages/advice/finding-images-on-flickr/)

Eduserv – Copyright Toolkit (in conjunction with Copy-Right Consultants Limited)

Positive Action!! by Palooza. Some rights reserved.

What should we avoid?DON’T use:YouTube resources which include infringing

material Logos without permissionExtensive extracts from your own published

work WITHOUT checking your contractItems with unknown sources/where copyright

cannot be ascertainedDON’T assume if it’s on the web it’s fine to use

– check the T&Cs/copyright notice

In Summary

Copyright shouldn’t hold you back from making your resources open

access

Shiny Happy People by s.o.f.t. Some rights reserved.

Questions?

CONTENTCONTENT REUSE/

REPURPOSE

REUSE/

REPURPOSE

EVIDENCEEVIDENCEOPENNESSOPENNESS

Gathering

- Teaching materials

- Credit weighting

- License-in

Transformation for usability

- Media & formats

- Structure

- Language

- Learning design

Validation (Internal)

- OTTER team

- UoL partners

- Students

Tracking

- Downloads

- Adaptations

- User profile

- Ongoing validation

- Release new version

Screening

- L&T context

- Media & formats

- Structure

- Language

- Learning design

Rights clearance

- Copyright

- IPR

- Licensing

Validation (External)

- Students

- Educators

- Funders

UoL Teaching material

Publicly usable teaching material

OERs

CORRE: A framework for transforming teaching materials into OERS

Purpose:

To identify good and not-so-good OERs as they relate to participants’ contexts, and to justify those choices

Task:

1. [approx 10 mins] Visit some of the OER repositories and aggregators (the ‘Resources’ section below may help). Select examples of OERs that you consider appropriate and potentially useful in your teaching context. Also select at least one example of a less suitable OER in your discipline.

2. [approx 15 mins] In this session’s discussion forum on Janison (http://atim.janison.com.au), post a message with (a) the links to the chosen OERs, (b) a brief justification for your choice (both the good and not-so-good ones) and (c) a note about how you may need to re-purpose the (good) OERs to meet your particular needs.

Respond:

Read another colleague’s post. Take a critical look at the OERs they’ve chosen and their rationale, and respond – consider both the OERs they consider to be good and the less suitable ones. You may want to choose contributions from colleagues in disciplines that have areas in common with yours.

Resources:

www.le.ac.uk/oerwww.oercommons.org ocw.mit.edu

openlearn.open.ac.ukwww.rlo-cetl.ac.uk cnx.org

Your homework!

Questions?