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Staff attitudes towards open educational resources, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland Presentation at the Online Educa conference in Berlin, 2010 (extended slides, extra explanations, comments)TRANSCRIPT
Staff and Students Attitudes to Open Educational Resources
Jan MarkovićKarolina Grodecka
Centre of e-Learning AGH - University of Science and Technology
Online Educa Berlin, 03.12.2010
Centre of e-Learning
AGH - University of Science and TechnologyKrakow, Poland
Open AGH
First university OER repository in Poland
opened: January 8th, 2010
Set on:
Default licenceCC: By – NC – SA
(Creative Commons: Attribution – Non-Commercial – Share Alike)
Language:
Resources in polish language, plans for more
Started with:65 courses(~1500 hours of work through all)
Some reaources created by students as part of the „Notes on the Internet” competition
Help and support from:
• University authorities: green light• NGOs: Coalition for Open Education (KOED),
Open Courseware Consortium (OCWC)• Government: very little
• Creating an OER repository a bottom-up approach
But...
Question:
What about the regular people?
(regular people = potential authors)
SURVEY
Goal:
Do you know about OERs?
Goal:
How do you feel about OERs?
Goal:
Please, learn about OERs!
Or...
Specifically:
What do you know about... open licences?
Specifically:
What do you know about... open educational resources?
Specifically:
What do you know about... Open AGH?
Even more specifically:
How comfortable are you using Internet?Do you use Internet for teaching? How?How much do you know about copyright law?
About open and free licences? About Open Educational Resources?
How can OERs help you?Have you ever used Open AGH?Do you intend to use OERs?
Results
460 started the survey360 completed the survey
62% teach less than 6 years (no found interactions
between experience and other measured factors)
85% of respondents come from 6 (out of 16) departments of the AGH University (those we aaproached „personally” instead of just giving a message about
survey – bottom-up approach again)
Using Internet for teaching:68% regularly, 31% sometimes
How they use it:look for resources & communication with students
31% upload their resources to webpage, blog
Knowledge about copyright: moderate (self-assessment)
Open and free licences:46% heard of any
OERs: 71% never heard of or heard of but did not use
Open AGH: 65% never heard of or heard of but did not use
List of potential advantages of using OERs.
Question: Do you agree?
40-53% of „I can’t tell” answers
(next slide =>)
31% upload their resources to webpage, blog
Of these: 60% use open licences, 40% copyright
Future plans:• 50% will not use OERs,• 19% will use OERs created by others,• 19% will use & create OERs,• 11% will use, create and encourage others to
create OERs.within next academic year.
Conclusions / Action plan
1. Create repository
2. Educate (potential authors)
3. Promote (among potential users)
4. Find „champions” a.k.a. authors who will lead the way
4b. Find benefits for teachers (rather than for students or
institutions)
After conclusions / Open AGH now
Working on educatingWorking on promotingWorking on technologyWorking on new ideasWorking on getting new OERs...
...closing on 100 courses