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Open Educational Resources‘Digitised materials offered freely

and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse

for teaching, learning and research.’ (OECD)

What are your Dreams and Nightmares?

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ObjectivesBy the end of this session you should have:

• An introductory understanding of Open Educational Resources and the OSTRICH OER project at the University of Bath

• Practice in discovering and evaluating open resources for use in learning and teaching

• Experience of working with, remixing or creating openly available content

• An awareness of the benefits, challenges and realities of working with Open Educational Resources

OER: Opening up the World of Learning

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How did we get here?A brief background to OER…

• The roots of OER

• International OER projects

• OER in the UK

• OER at [your institution]

For more information see: go.bath.ac.uk/kmxk

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What’s out there?Finding and evaluating OERs…

• How do you usually create your learning and teaching resources?

• Where do you usually source your materials?

• Where do your students go to find supplementary learning materials?

For you, what makes a quality or usable resource?

OER: Opening up the World of Learning

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• OpenLearn http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

• OU Labspace http://labspace.open.ac.uk

• JorumOpen http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui

• MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

• OER Africa http://www.oerafrica.org/

• Merlot http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

• OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/oer

• Humbox http://www.humbox.ac.uk/

• Xpert http://xpert.nottingham.ac.uk/

OER Dynamic Search Engine go.bath.ac.uk/q24b

What’s out there?Finding and evaluating OERs…

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What’s out there?Finding and evaluating OERs…

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What makes an OER?When is an OER open, usable and useful?

From the last activity, what were the features of the quality OERs?

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What makes an OER?The CORRE process of releasing learning materials as an OER…

Diagram from the OTTER project at the BDRA, University of Leicester: go.bath.ac.uk/rsyz

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What makes an OER legal?Who do your materials belong to?

• What is your University IP policy? • Who do your learning and teaching materials belong to?• What if they’re published?• Are you externally funded?

• Do you know your copyright?• Who does the content you use belong to?• Do you have permission to use it? Can you get permission?• If you’re using materials in your teaching, can you use them for OERs?

• What about other Intellectual Property rights?

Who do your materials belong to?

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What makes an OER legal?Working with openly licensed content…

• Finding Open content for your learning materials go.bath.ac.uk/vmwt

• Creative Commons go.bath.ac.uk/0uet and other licence types

• Including open content in your work• Adding a licence go.bath.ac.uk/olo8• Compatible licences • Attributing content go.bath.ac.uk/ryqs

For more information see the OER IPR Support Project: go.bath.ac.uk/opcy

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Working with OER materialsCreating materials with OER or converting materials for OER…

Source existing OERs and open content to include in a learning resource for your own subject area

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Take an existing learning resource of your own and convert to OER

or

Using our example learning materials [link to a resource from your own

institution that still needs to be converted to OER], decide what needs altering to make it ready for release as an OER

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Working with OER materialsConverting [add resource name] for release as an OER…

Visit the original learning object here: [add link to pre-OER resource]

See the OER version here: [add link to converted OER resource]

Image of resource here

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OER Benefits and Challenges

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Why will you engage with OERS and what is holding you back?

Benefits Challenges

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OERs : Getting Started guide available at: go.bath.ac.uk/OERintro

JISC Phase 2 OER Programme

OER Infokit (from Pilot Phase of the JISC/HEA OER Project)

Synthesis and Evaluation Report (from Pilot Phase of the JISC/HEA OER Project)

OER Impact Study by JISC

Further information…