open educational resources and sharing your teaching materials

Open educational resources:sharing your teaching materials

Jane Secker and Natalia Madjarevic

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Session overview

• Introduction to open educational resources (OERs)

• Creating and reusing OERs in your teaching• Finding and identifying OERs• Sharing and depositing OERs

What is open practice?

• Why share? • Why not share? • What do you currently share?

Activity 1: Open practice vs. Closed practice

Working in groups, place the examples on a continuum from ‘closed’ to ‘open’ practice

Closed Open

What are OERs?

• Open Educational Resources (OERs) 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.

UNESCO

The value of OERs

• Breaking down barriers to learning• Not reinventing the wheel• Sharing good practice• Capacity building• Networking between teaching practitioners• Cross fertilisation of ideas between disciplines

Benefits and pitfalls of sharing

• Altruism• Enhancing your own reputation and your

intuition's / Online visibility • Networking and collaboration

• Piracy / plagiarism• Loss of income• Negative feedback• Time

Discuss in pairs:

What are the benefits and risks associated with sharing your own

material as OER?

OER initiatives

• MIT’s Open Courseware – ocw.mit.edu • OpenLearn – openlearn.open.ac.uk • Jorum – jorum.ac.uk• OER Commons – oercommons.org/oer • OER Africa – oerafrica.org • LSE Learning Resources Online –

learningresources.lse.ac.uk

• OERs and MOOCs – what is the difference?

• Use existing OERs for teaching inspiration• Ensure you follow the license conditions• Remixing OERs – fundamental principle• Reuse, recycle!

Reusing OERs in your own teaching

Activity 2: Finding OERs in Jorum and elsewhere

• Visit the Jorum (jorum.ac.uk) and search for an OER related to your subject area

• Consider how you might use this resource in your teaching and evaluate its quality

• If time explore one other OER collection listed on earlier slide (and linked in Moodle)

Creating OERs: what do you need to consider?

• Using copyright cleared images:– Flickr– Google Image CC search

• Intellectual Property Rights• Creative Commons Licenses • Screenshots and placeholders• Keeping materials up to date

Converting an existing resource

• Inserting placeholders• Replacing with relevant alternatives

Image Placeholder

Image: Historic painting of a clash between soldiers while surrounding buildings are on fire.

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Edited: No

This image was removed due to copyright being held by another party.

Creative Commons: A Shared Culture

Activity 3: Choosing a CC license and finding CC images

• http://creativecommons.org/choose/• Flickr and Google Creative Commons image

search

How to share and deposit OERs?

• Share your learning resources in Jorum• LSE Learning Resources Online• Email: learningresourcesonline@lse.ac.uk• Copyright and licensing advice

Open discussion: Sharing OERs

• What are the key barriers and challenges of:–Reusing OERs from others?–Creating OERs yourself?

• When do OERs succeed? –What would motivate you to reuse an OER?–What would motivate you for release your

own teaching materials?

Questions?Jane Seckerj.secker@lse.ac.ukNatalia Madjarevic n.f.madjarevic@lse.ac.ukFurther readingGuidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education, COL/UNESCO: http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=364

Image and Video Credits• OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/global-oer-logo/)

• School by Forezt on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/forezt/532033594/• Sharing by BenGrey on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_grey/4582294721/ • Sharing Music – Roman Style by Ed Yourdon on Flickr: http

://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/3088582622/ • A Shared Culture by Jesse Dylan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-

Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) license. (http://creativecommons.org/videos/a-shared-culture)

• With thanks to Lindsay Jordan at the University of Arts, London for sharing her open practice activity with us