CoPILOT: how can we help you? Supporting librarians create, share and re-use information literacy resources openly

Nancy Graham (Chair – CoPILOT)Leeds, June 2015

Running order…•Definitions and principles of OER• Librarian role in OER•Questions for you!•Case studies of OER for information literacy•CoPILOT• Jorum•Questions for me!•Further reading/resources

Some definitionsOpen 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.

UNESCO 2012

Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.Etienne Wenger

Why share Information Literacy resources via a CoP?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_grey/4582294721/

Librarians as OER advocates• Leading by example

•Gaining new expertise by adapting and sharing our own materials

•Builds on core librarian skills: licensing, copyright, finding quality resources (information literacy)

•Highly established profession with strong networks

OER Research Hub Survey•Run in November/December 2013 by Dr Beck Pitt

from the OER Research Hub

•Over 300 librarian respondents

•Headline statistics…

http://oerresearchhub.org/2014/02/07/survey-results-librarians-and-oer-part-i/

Top three challenges for using OER•Knowing where to find resources •Finding resources of sufficiently high quality•Finding suitable resources in my subject area

Other considerations:• Not having enough time to look• Technology problems• Finding up to date resources

Top three reasons for selecting one particular OER over another• The resource being created or uploaded by a

reputable/trusted institution or person• The resource being relevant to my particular interests/needs• The resource having a Creative Commons license

Other considerations:• Evidence of popularity

The being recently createdHaving previously used this resource successfullyLots of detail of how to use the resource, learning objectives etc.Easy to download

Top three purposes for using OER in context of Librarian role•To help find available content for learning, teaching

or training•To get new ideas and inspiration •To enhance respondent's professional development

Other consideration:• To stay up to date in a topic area• Broaden resources available to my users/supplement existing

resources• To broaden my teaching methods

Group discussion

•What are the barriers to sharing?

•What support do you need?

•What would motivate you to share?

What are the barriers to sharing?• Ipr/copyright•How to properly licence•Org culture – who owns ipr•Confidence•Concerns about relevancy•Tech needs•Time to look for OER•Time to create sharable resources

Support for sharing•Autonomy•Endorsement/encouragement of manager•Tech training•Blocking out time for training•Advice from experienced OERers•Formal review of good tech products to use•Objective reviews

Case Study 1: University of Northampton•Skills Hub: information, digital, academic

literacies•Winner of Credo Online Information

Literacy Award 2014•Bite sized resources – many videos •All OERs and licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA•Aimed at their own staff to encourage

them to embed IL into the curriculum (online and f2f)

•Can be used by others

OERs elsewhere: LILAC delegates told us…..• In Finland: seminar in sharing best practices -

doubts about collecting material in one place as don't keep up to date. Sharing ideas is useful

•New Zealand - online hub for IL. Academics want a collection of IL resources to pick and choose. But should it be open access or just one institution?

•Czech Republic - IL group share resources and tips using website. Need to update materials regularly - time consuming

Case Study 2: University of Leeds•Skills @ Leeds provides support for

students in information, digital and academic literacies

•Range of resources: PDFs, online tutorials etc.

•Also resources aimed at Uni of Leeds staff to embed IL in teaching online

•Staff resources licenced under CC-BY-NC and student resources are CC-BY-NC ND

•Won Credo Online IL Award in 2013

Case Study 3: Glasgow Caledonian University•SMIRK•A second generation OER - re-purpose of SMILE

project•http://www.gcu.ac.uk/library/SMIRK/Start.htmlTeac

hing

•Teaching IL/DL to all students and staff•Covers creation of OER• Licenced with CC-BY 4.0 (the most permissive

licence)

• Sub-group of and funded by CILIP IL Group• Set up in November 2012• Aim: to support UK librarians in sharing openly• Three training events (so far!) at University of Surrey, Glasgow Caledonian

University and Cardiff University

Get involved!• Mailing list IL-OERS@jiscmail.ac.uk• Twitter: @CoPILOT2013• Website:

http://www.cilip.org.uk/information-literacy-group/about/copilot

Where next?

•More training events for 2015/2016

•Work on the online site on the Information Literacy website

•Contribute to global OER movement

CoPILOT webpages

•Hosted on www.informationliteracy.org •Split into sections:▫Where to find IL OER▫How to re-use/re-purpose content▫How to create resources for sharing▫How to upload your resources▫Using Creative Commons

LILAC Credo Award•Annual award from LILAC•Sponsored by Credo Reference•Awarded to outstanding IL resources• Judges look for innovation but also openness•Further information:

http://www.lilacconference.com/WP/awards/credo-digital-award

•Past winners include… Open University, University of Northampton, Regent's University, University of Leeds…could you be next?

Jorum’s Information and Digital Literacy Skills collection

Improving discoverability and description:

Contact details• Nancy Graham▫ N.graham1@lse.ac.uk▫ @msnancygraham

• Twitter▫ @CoPILOT2013

• Mailing list▫ IL-OERS@jiscmail.ac.uk

• More information:▫ http://www.cilip.org.uk/information-literacy-group/about/copilot

Takeaways from today•Find something on Jorum and RE-USE it!•Go on the IL-OERS@jiscmail.ac.uk and ask for

resources/advice•Go on the mailing list and show off your own

resources• If you've created a resource submit it to the Credo

Award in 2016• Join us at our next event!

Further reading…• CILIP Information Literacy Group (2014) Available at:

http://www.cilip.org.uk/about/special-interest-groups/information-literacy-group • LSE (2012) Project CoPILOT. Available at: http://delilaopen.wordpress.com/project-co-pilot/ • Pitt, Beck (2014) Survey Results: Librarians and OER (Part I) Available at:

http://methylatedorange.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/survey-results-librarians-and-oer-part-i/ • Russell, P. et al. 2013. Creating, sharing and reusing learning objects to enhance information literacy.

Journal of Information Literacy, 7(2), pp. 60-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.11645/7.2.1744• UNESCO (2012) Open Educational Resources. Available at:

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/

• Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of practice: learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

• Graham & Secker (2012) Librarians, information literacy and open educational resources: report of a survey. https://delilaopen.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/findingsharingoers_reportfinal1.pdf

• John Robertson, Gema Bueno de la Fuente and Stuart Boon: The roles of librarians and information professionals in Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives (http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2012/492)

Key resources:• Jorum – www.jorum.ac.uk• OER Commons – www.oercommons.org • Creative Commons – www.creativecommons.org • MERLOT – http://merlot.org • UNESCO OER Knowledge Community –

http://www.wsis-community.org/pg/groups/14358/open-educational-resources-oer/

• Open Education SIG - https://www.alt.ac.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/oer-sig

• Credo Reference IL Award: http://www.lilacconference.com/WP/awards/credo-digital-award