UCT Workshop: Designing a road map for OER implementation Dr Andreia Inamorato dos Santos Fluminense Federal University - OportUnidad Project and Mackenzie University (Brazil) ainamorato@gmail.com September 10th 2012 – University of Cape Town

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What are OER? OER are teaching, learning and research materials in any format or media that are in the public domain or open licensed allowing their use and adaptation by third parties. (UNESCO, 2002 e COL, 2011)

Who uses OER?

The 4 Rs of OER Reuse Revise Remix Redistribute

Creative Commons licenses

Open format for OER .doc .docx are proprietary formats and depend upon commercial software (Microsoft Office and Mac packages) .odt is an open format and is downloadable for free over the Internet: Open Office

OER business models Adapted from Downes’ categories (2007) Donation: funding body or foundation provides funding for the production and provision of OER (ex. OpenLearn – first 2 years, Khan Academy) Subscription: institutions pay to become members of a consortium which manages the repository (ex. Connexions)

OER business models Contribution: the author of the OER is responsible for the costs of the production and promotion of the resources (ex. lecturers, students, teachers etc) Sponsorship: the cost of OER production and promotion is covered by a sponsor in exchange for visibility and publicity (ex. FGV – Brazil)

OER business models Institutional: the educational institution covers the cost for OER production and promotion Governmental: resources are created with governmental targets in mind, normally fully financed by the State Commercial : the user pays ( a symbolic amount) for parts of the contet, tutoring or certification (ex. OUNL, UnisulVirtual)

cnx.org Epub, PDF, remix

openlearn.ac.uk

labspace.open.ac.uk

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