CoPILOT: supporting librarians in sharing their teaching material internationally.

Nancy Graham (University of Birmingham)Dr Jane Secker (London School of Economics)

LILAC 2013: University of Manchester

Outline of the symposium

• Background - projects, surveys, committee

• Questions for pairs/small groups

• Questions for the panel

• Actions for CoPILOT

Why share Information Literacy resources?

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Project team• Dr Jane Secker j.secker@lse.ac.uk

▫ Copyright & Digital Literacy Advisor at London School of Economics and Political Science

▫ Previous IL OER projects include JISC funded DELILA

• Nancy Graham N.graham.1@bham.ac.uk ▫ Subject Librarian at University of

Birmingham▫ Previous IL RLO projects include

BRUM, CaRILLO and DELILA

• Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg▫ Programme specialist

(Communication and Information Sector) at UNESCO

Background: DELILA

•Developing Educators Learning and Information Literacies for Accreditation

•Cross institutional project to adapt digital and IL resources to OER

• Improved institutional repositories hosted material•Encouraged academics to share•Highlighted a range of challenges when sharing IL

resources as OER•Project website: http://delilaopen.wordpress.com/

Background: April 2012 survey

•To gather information about librarians’ sharing of IL teaching material

•April 2012 for one month•101 responses from UK, Europe, US and beyond•Findings indicate closed sharing•Willingness to share openly but don’t know where to

start•Available at

http://delilaopen.wordpress.com/il-oer-survey/

Survey findings

JISC/HEA Project CoPILOT: aims

•Develop a strategy to promote international sharing•Part of JISC/HEA UKOER Phase 3 Programme•2 month timescale•Exploited the UNESCO WSIS KC platform•Posted links to IL material•Discussions on OER and Creative Commons

Project CoPILOT: outcomes

•35 members from 14 countries worldwide•19 links posted to English, Spanish, German and

French IL resources•53 discussion posts on 8 different topics•Report, case study and post-project survey•Strategy for sharing IL OERS now available

CoPILOT Committee

•One day event at Birmingham•Several attendees formed committee•Kick off meeting November 2012•Aim: to support UK librarians in sharing openly

•Mailing list IL-OERS@jiscmail.ac.uk•Wiki: http://iloer.pbworks.com•Twitter: @copilot2013

Where and how to share?

• Is it feasible to share resources by uploading them to repositories such as Jorum, Merlot?

•Should resources by organised by subject or by institution or by country?

• Links or deposit?

How can we make this happen?• In pairs

•Brainstorm on post-it notes

Questions for the panel

•What are OERs and are there any specific issues associated with using CC licences?

•What type of IL resources are most useful? Slides, lesson plans, worksheets, reading lists?

•How should IL resources be catalogued and organised?

•How can LILAC, IFLA and UNESCO support sharing?

•Please ask us more…..

Get involved!• Join IL-OERS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

• Join the WSIS Knowledge Communities Information Literacy Community: http://www.wsis-community.org/pg/groups/585111/information-literacy/

• Join us at Twitter: @copilot2013

• Join our wiki: http://iloer.pbworks.com

Further reading

Appleyard, S. (2012) A Survey of sharing and reuse of Information Literacy resources across Higher Education Libraries in the United Kingdom. Aberdeen; Robert Gordon University.

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

Boon, S., Bueno de la Fuente, G. & Robertson, J. (2012) The roles of librarians and information professionals in Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives. Bolton; CETIS. Available at: http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/OER-Libraries-Survey-Report.pdf