The BERLiN Experience:Exploring institutional attitudes to open learning

4th Dec 2009

Andy BegganE-Learning Team LeaderThe University of Nottingham

About Nottingham• Research led institution• Student numbers

• 36,000 students (postgrad and undergrad)• Six campuses (inc. China and Malaysia)

• E-Learning Team• Multimedia e-learning support & production unit• Shortlisted for ALT awards (2007) THE

award (2008) WISE awards (2009)

• Winner ALT Team award 2009

Why OER @ Nottingham?

1.Social responsibility2.Promotional opportunities3.Cost efficiencies

What is Nottingham doing? U-Now Launched 2007 One of the first OERS in

the UK Member of the OCWC >1900 visitors per

month Nationally funded

through BERLiN project

Open Learning Focus groups Over summer 2009 20 academic staff across 5 groups Cross faculty representation All levels of academic staff Feedback grouped under

Areas +ve, -ve, neutral Themes

Overview of feedback

1. Social responsibility

“I have got this feeling that there’s people out there who don’t have access to education and that they’ve got access to the internet. Maybe they could use these courses or sessions or the odd video or whatever to just top up what they cannot manage to get from their own poor education system.”

1. Social responsibility

1. Social responsibility Open Learning Conference (Nov 2009)

OER Africa~UK partnership

OER Africa feedback Address multiple audiences at the same time Display

Intended level of use and target audience Brief description Licence File size Technical information and publisher Downloading instructions

Different approaches to navigation (browse, filter, search) Encourage editing and repurpose

2. Promotion

“I don’t think it would make any difference to our reputation as teachers. The whole culture is research. All the promotions and everything are through research.”

“I fought quite hard for the materials to be made more widely available than just within the University for a number of reasons. It adds to the reputation of the Centre, it attracts good tutors; it’s got lots of knock on effects that are very positive.”

2. Promotion

2. Promotion

3. Cost efficiencies “ I’ve used other people’s materials and some stuff

you see is terrible and other things you think oh that’s a good idea I’ll do it like that. You pick and choose, mix it up with your own stuff and I find that an incredibly positive process.”

“There would be issues over copyright, principally images, graphs, figures, data from papers and textbooks used willy-nilly in lectures because you don’t have that fear… you are breaching copyright.”

3. Cost efficiencies

3. Cost efficiencies

Xerte Online Toolkits & XPERT Traditional producer-centric models Xerte Public E-learning ReposiTory JISC funded under rapid innovation programme To progress the vision of a distributed

architecture of e-learning resources for sharing and re-use

Based on Xerte Online Toolkits www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert

XPERT

High level endorsement

U-Now of YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9MBkJr3ba8