Tina Wilson, The Open University, UK EdReNe 4 th strategic seminar Barcelona, Spain 24-26th March 2010 Engaging users and producers whilst gathering evidence of design, use, reuse and redesign of Open Educational Content

 Open Educational Resource (OER) context  the OLnet project  Building up partnerships and global networks  Sharing evidence back to the community  One strand of OLnet - The professional educator role. Outline Tina Wilson

Open Educational Resource context  Plenty of OER repositories available  Not much evidence of reuse of OER  The potential importance of design of the OER in terms of reuse Tina Wilson

OLnet: Open Learning network Network Research Fellowships From producing open resources to use of open resources Build capacity Find evidence Refine the issues

 Sharing and discussing ideas and designs for OER,  Facilitating worldwide use and reuse of OER for teaching and learning - using all available OER repositories  Researching, evaluating and sharing global evidence of: - the impact of use and reuse of OER - transformative educational practices Tina Wilson

OpenLearn  Equalise access to high quality education  Support social justice agenda  Repository containing 13,500 study hours  Units between 3-50 study hours each  Funded initially by the William and Flora Hewlett foundation. Tina Wilson

Wilson, T. (2007). Transformation for an open education repository: Issues associated with IT and Computing distance learning course materials. In proceedings of the International conference, Information Technologies: Theory, Practice, Innovations, pp , 6th and 7th Dec 2007, Alytus College, Alytus, Lithuania. ISBN and ISBN Tina Wilson

Universiteit  Extend opportunities for lifelong learning  Aimed at lowering existing thresholds to achieve higher participation in higher education  Repository with 24 courses  Most courses 25 study hours Robert Schuwer

One strand of OLnet - The professional educator role  the role of educators and learners in the process of OER creation, use and reuse.  how OER are being reused for teaching and learning (HE, FE and schools)  key stakeholder opinions on the impact of OER to their educational institution and changes to working practices Tina Wilson

One strand of OLnet - The professional educator role  barriers that have an impact on reuse (technical, support and design)  communication tools associated with OER content and a sense of community Tina Wilson

Projects associated with the professional educator role  Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa – Hewlett funded  Open Software Engineering - EU funding  Using Open Educational Resources and Web 2.0 Tools to support Ethical Reasoning in ICS Project-Based Learning – HEA funded  POCKET (Project on Open Content for Knowledge Exposition and Teaching) – JISC funded Tina Wilson

Projects associated with the professional educator role  CAPITAL (Curriculum And Pedagogy In Technology Assisted Learning) - BECTA funded  OpenLearn/SCORE Hewlett, HEFCE and OU funded  OpenER - EU funding Tina Wilson

 In depth analysis of the different approaches to creating OER  Comparing approaches to the development of new OER courses (not based on legacy content)  Investigating: - whether the original design of the OER has helped or hindered the reuse of OER - ease or difficulty in reusing OER - how the OER was reused in terms of context and format. Future work Tina Wilson, Robert Schuwer and Patrick McAndrew