introduction to open educational resources
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Delivered at Vancouver Island University on August 28, 2012TRANSCRIPT
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Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Michael PaskeviciusLearning Technologies Application Developer
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning Ex. 2029 Room 511, Building 305
August 28, 2012
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2009-2012 University of Cape Town OER@UCT Project
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What do open educational resources (OER) mean to you?
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Open Educational Resources
Shared
Shared freely and openly to
be…
Used
Improved
Redistributed
… used by anyone to … … adapt / repurpose/
improve under some type of license in order
to …
… redistribute and share
again.
Open Content / Open educational resources (OER) / Open Courseware are educational materials which are discoverable online and openly licensed that can be:
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Available to other faculties, students and institutions.
Other educators can now discover and reuse.
Learning activity or resource
Creates
Designated as OER on web
Adapted from Conole, G., McAndrew, P. & Dimitriadis, Y., 2010
Shares with studentsand other faculty
Traditional sharing of teaching materials
Sharing educational resources as OER
Additional considerations:• Clearing of copyright issues• Formatting for web and accessibility for reuse• Addition of descriptive metadata• Publishing in repository, referatory or on the web
Educator
…sharing beyond the classroom
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• Alternative copyright Licensing
• A range of financial models
• Affordances of the Internet
• Change in philosophy
Social Technical
LegalFinancial
What has enabled OER?
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The Open Movement
Change in philosophy towards an “Open Movement”Open Source Software
Open Access
Open Licences
Open Science
Open Society
Open Educational Resources
Open Data
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Affordances of the Internet
Title : File:Internet map 1024.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSource : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_map_1024.jpglicense : Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
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Alternative copyright Licensing
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http://creativecommons.org/choose/
Choosing a Creative Commons License
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A range of financial models
• Donor funding – e.g. Hewlett Foundation• Marketing budget – e.g. Open University• Commission – e.g. MIT and Amazon• Endowment – e.g. Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy• Membership – e.g. Sakai Consortium, OCWC• Government – e.g. UK £7.8 million grant, US
commitment to OER
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Recap: What makes an OER?
• Educational curriculum, materials or mixed media
• Discoverable online as they are shared freely and openly
• Openly licensed (usually Creative Commons)• Can be legally used by anyone to repurpose/
improve and redistribute
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OPEN VERSUS CLOSED WEB RESOURCES
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YouTube recently launched a Creative Commons licensing option
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WHERE TO FIND OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
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SOME TOOLS OF THE TRADE
A Creative Commons image by (ta)
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Attribution made “easier”
Add on available for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Wordpress and Drupalhttp://openattribute.com/
Demo
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WHY GO OPEN?WHAT ARE THE POSSIBILITIES?
by ryancr
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CHED Computer Literacy Guides• IEEE UCT chapter use the openly licensed CHED computer
literacy materials to support training in a computer lab donated to a high school
http://www.ebe.uct.ac.za/usr/ebe/staff/april2010.pdf
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Creative Commons Licensing Screencast• Creative Commons licensing video is translated into
Czechoslovakian, French, Italian and Spanish on YouTube
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Studying at University: A guide for first year students• Used by multiple universities across South
Africa • The guide has been accessed over 3800 times
on the web and over 600 physical printed guides have been sold
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OpenContent becomes a Journal Article
• Materials published as OER selected for publishing in the Journal of Occupational Therapy of Galicia, an open access journal for occupational therapists in the Spanish speaking world
http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct/2010/12/06/sharing-knowledge-leads-to-opportunities
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Measuring influence: Alternative metrics
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Closing note:
"When you learn transparently (and openly) you become a teacher“
Siemens, 2010
Siemens, G. & Matheos, K. (2010). Open Social Learning in Higher Education: An African Context. VI International Seminar of the UNESCO chair in e-learning; open social learning. Available online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oexie4cwpf8
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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada License. To view a copy of this license, visit
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