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Joint Information Systems Committee

Open educational resources and repositoriesOpen educational repositories: share, improve, reuse

Amber Thomas

Programme Manager, JISC

This presentation is available from: http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/298/


Route Plan

Introduction

How different is open?

Academy/JISC OER Programme

Thoughts about the road ahead for OER


About JISC

JISC's activities support education and research by promoting innovation in new technologies and by the central support of ICT services. JISC provides:

A world-class network - JANET

Access to electronic resources

New environments for learning, teaching and research

Guidance on institutional change

Advisory and consultancy services

Regional support for FE colleges - RSCs


About JISC

JISC delivers its mission through:

innovative and sustainable ICT infrastructure, services and practice that support institutions in meeting their mission

promoting the development, uptake and effective use of ICT to support learning and teaching

promoting the development, uptake and effective use of ICT to support research

promoting the development, uptake and effective use of ICT within institutions and in support of their management

developing and implementing a programme to support institutions' engagement with the wider community

continuing to improve its own working practices


Services

… and there’s more!


JISC’s support for repositories

To improve long term availability and access to digital content,

through a network of repositories that provide capability for teachers,

learners and researchers to use and share content


Route Plan

Introduction





1 View from the Mountain Blauen Napoli Centrale http://www.flickr.com/photos/28329597@N06/3003554075/

2 View from the Top Emilymc http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilycmccall/1393978027/

Cue overused metaphor


Route Plan

Introduction





Learning objects, c.2003

http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/page.aspx?o=135264


Major Steps Forward

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So where are we now?

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Open educational resources c.2007

“digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research”

““resources” are not limited to content but comprise three areas, these are (OECD, 2007):

– Learning content: Full courses, courseware, content modules, learning objects, collections and journals.

– Tools: Software to support the development, use, reuse and delivery of learning content, including searching and organisation of content, content and learning management systems, content development tools, and online learning communities.

– Implementation resources: Intellectual property licenses to promote open publishing of materials, design principles of best practice and localise content”

from “Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources” OECD, 2007, http://tinyurl.com/62hjx6 Quoted on p4 http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education, Li Yuan; Sheila MacNeill; Wilbert Kraan, JISC CETIS


What does “open” mean?

Open Licensing

Access

Redistribution

Source

Reuse

Absence of technological restrictions

Attribution

Integrity

No discrimination

Distribution of licence

Independence

No restriction on other works

This list is based on definitions of “open knowledge” and “open source software”. See JISC Guidance on Open Licences

Open Source

Licenses that grant of the right to freely redistribute the software, access to the source code, and the permission to modify that source code and distribute the modified version of the software

See JISC OSSWatch http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/beginners.xml

Open Access

The Open Access research literature is composed of free, online copies of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers as well as technical reports, theses and working papers. In most cases there are no licensing restrictions on their use by readers. They can therefore be used freely for research, teaching and other purposes.

See JISC OA Briefing Paper http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/pub_openaccess_v2.aspx


How important is “editable” to “open”?

Open Licensing

Access

Redistribution

Source

Reuse

Absence of technological restrictions

Attribution

Integrity

No discrimination

Distribution of licence

Independence

No restriction on other works

This list is based on definitions of “open knowledge” and “open source software”. See JISC Guidance on Open Licences

Open Source

Licenses that grant of the right to freely redistribute the software, access to the source code, and the permission to modify that source code and distribute the modified version of the software

See JISC OSSWatch http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/beginners.xml

Open Access

The Open Access research literature is composed of free, online copies of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers as well as technical reports, theses and working papers. In most cases there are no licensing restrictions on their use by readers. They can therefore be used freely for research, teaching and other purposes.

See JISC OA Briefing Paper http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/pub_openaccess_v2.aspx


Use and Reuse


Share

exchange

swap publish

put onlinechannels

playlists

With thanks to David Millard, Southampton

From RSP Softwares Day 19/03/09

“ Sharing becomes a byproduct of putting it online. This isn’t about altruism”


Spectrum of OER Content

Open courseware

Videos/

Podcasts

ImagesSlides / Worksheets

Learning Objects

Large hosted collections

Distributed


Route Plan

Introduction





Overview of OER Programme

Where does sharing happen? How can it be supported?

Institutional £1.50m (up to £250k per project)

Individual £200k (up to £20k per project)

Subject £3m (up to £250k per project)

HEFCE-funded via JISC and Academy, so England/Wales only

Outline

Bids currently being evaluated

Successful projects to start in April for one year

Support will be available for everyone within and outside the programme


OER Programme: what we want

Get £££ for your learning resources

Cultural Change

Sustainable processes


Technical Requirements for Projects

All content should be stored in Institutional Repositories

All content should be IMS Content Packaged

All content should be released under a custom JISC licence

All content should be tagged with full UK Lom metadata


Requirements overview

The OER Programme will not mandate:

– the use of one single platform to disseminate resources

– a single metadata application profile to describe content

But … we do need you to ensure that content can be:

– Found

– Used

– Analysed

– Aggregated

– Tracked


Requirements: 1

All content should be stored in Institutional Repositories

Content can be anywhere (and in JorumOpen)

BUT consider:

how easily discoverable is the content? [public VLEs? slideshare?]

how stable are the URLs?

how easily can you update and manage it?

how can you track usage? [google analytics? social bookmarking?]


Requirements: 2

All content should be IMS Content Packaged

Content can be in any format

BUT consider:

how accessible is the content?

how easy is it to edit the content? [youtube? slideshare? flash player?]

how long/how well will the format be supported? [msoffice versions?]


Requirements: 3

All content should be released under a custom JISC licence

Content can be released under a creative commons licence

(or similar)

BUT consider:

how will authors know whether they own the content they create?

how will third party content use be identified, checked and permitted?

how will the appropriate licences be chosen and communicated?

how will service providers handle the rights issues? [service T&Cs]

how will other legal issues be addressed? [performance rights? consent for filming lectures?]


Requirements: 4

All content should be tagged with full UK Lom metadata

Content can be minimally tagged

BUT consider:

how will you ensure attribution if you don’t include the author name and licence terms?

how will you describe the content to a learner and/or a teacher?

how will you tag the content by subject/topic? [controlled vocabularies? user-generated tags?]


Requirements 4: “Metadata”

What does “metadata” make you think of?

–Complex standards

–Application profiles

–Formal structured records

–Cataloging rules

–Subject classifications

–Controlled vocabularies

–Web forms

But metadata can be any type of information about a resource.

Metadata can be

• Tags added to resources in flickr, YouTube, etc.

• Time & date information automatically added by services such as slideshare, etc.

• Your name, affiliation & other details added from your account profile when you upload a resource.


Requirements 4: Mandated “metadata”

Added by projects

– Programme tag – “ukoer”

– Title

Generated by most systems

– Author / owner / contributor (from user profile)

– Date

– URL

– Technical info – file format, name & size

Projects should use platforms that can generate or accommodate this information


Requirements 4: Optional “metadata”

Language – default is English but other languages encouraged!

Subject classification – if used, projects should select an appropriate vocabulary

Keywords

Tags

Comments

Descriptions

Think about the kind of information that people will need to find and use your content.


Requirements: Other standards

Projects must use platforms that are capable of generating RSS/Atom feeds, particularly for collections of resources e.g. YouTube channels

Projects should use appropriate standards for sharing complex objects:

– e.g. IMS Content Packaging, IMS Common Cartridge, OAI ORE

– e.g. IMS QTI for assessment items


Requirements: 5

Deposit of objects/links to JorumOpen

BECAUSE

JorumOpen will showcase current practices in the UK

We need to ensure that all content produced under this programme is surfaced to the open web, with no excuses

HEFCE investment needs visible results

There’s potential for building rich services on top of an aggregation, so we need to find out what the aggregation looks like

It’s better to start with a central model and have the option tomove to distributed rather than start with distributed and hope to aggregate it later


OER Movement: Developing issues

We want release to be SUSTAINABLE, hence the minimum technical requirements

We hope to learn more about …

– Improving institutional and individual workflows for managing content

– Limitations and benefits of different file formats for OERs

– Limitations and benefits of different platforms for OER sharing

– Search engine optimisation and resource discovery mechanisms such as bookmarking and tagging

– Persistent identities and version-handling for OERs

– How to track usage and impact of OERs


Route Plan

Introduction





OER: a new use case for learning materials

WORKHOME

C2C

CREATION TO CURATION WORKFLOWS

DISCOVERY TO DELIVERY WORKFLOWS

JORUMOPEN

IR

‘SLIDETUBE’

D2D

THE CONTENT CLOUD

IT’S ALL IMPORTANT


Mindmap from the National Symposium of Learning Resources Repositories 2008showingMeasures of success


Looking at the Cloud

View from the Mountain Blauen Napoli Centralehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/28329597@N06/3003554075/


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Closing Remarks

OER Call now closed but expect to hear lots more over the coming months

If you’re interested in developing technical solutions for OER, please do consider bidding to the Information Environment Rapid Innovation Call http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/03/309ricall.aspx and see: http://wiki.writetoreply.org/wiki/Jiscri_Seeking_Collaborators

Follow the CETIS educational content focus http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/domain/educational-content


Open educational resources and repositoriesOpen educational repositories: share, improve, reuse

Amber Thomas

Programme Manager, JISC

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