1. Alejandro Armellini, Samuel Nikoi, Richard Mobbs, Tania Rowlett (Members of the OTTER Project Team) Learning Futures Festival: 9 Jan, 12pm

2. What are OERs? A. I have a clear idea of what OERs are B. I sort of know what OERs are C. I don’t know what OERs are

3. Using OERs A. I have used OERs in the design of my teaching materials B. I have not used OERs in the design of my teaching materials C. I’m not sure

4. Contributing OERs A. I have contributed materials for public, free and open use B. I have not contributed materials for public, free and open use C. I’m not sure

5. OER players and drivers Established players (e.g. the MIT, the Open University) In the UK… The JISC and the HE Academy saw OERs as key, so projects were funded (institutional, subject, individual): http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/oer.aspx Drivers: Marketing Quality enhancement Leicester’s OTTER project (www.le.ac.uk/otter)www.le.ac.uk/otter

6. FAQs on OERs Over to Dr Samuel Nikoi from Leicester’s OTTER project!

7. FAQ 1. What is an Open Educational Resource? ‘Digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research.’ (OECD) ‘OERs are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.’ (Wikipedia)

8. FAQ 2. Which countries are involved in OERs across the world? USAEUROPEASIAOthers MIT Open Courseware project Rice Univ. Connexions project Utah State Uni. USU OCW Obama’s Give away course ( Found at: http://chronicle.com/article/Obamas- Great-Course-Giveaway/47530/) ParisTech OCW project with 11 member Uni. MORIL project A Pan-European OERs initiative including Russia and Turkey China Open Res. for Educ. consortium. 222 Uni. Members Japanese OCW Consortium from its 19 member universities OER Africa UNESCO virtual Uni. AEShareNEt in Australia

9. FAQ 3. Are there OER initiatives in the UK? UK government - £5.7m investment on OER production across England Open University – OpenLearn Oxford University - OpenSpires Nottingham University – BERLiN …and of course OTTER at the University of Leicester

10. FAQ 4. Why do we need OERs in HE? Pull arguments (Gains for sharing) Free sharing reinforces societal development and diminishes social inequalities Push arguments (Threats for not sharing) Traditional academic values of openness to knowledge will be marginalised by market forces such as Microsoft or Apple

11. FAQ 5. Who are the target audience of OERs? Current / potential university students Independent learners Work-based learners Educators Researchers Developing countries Global public

12. FAQ 6. What are the institutional benefits of having OERs? Institutional visibility for attracting new students Better use of resources which leads to cost cutting of content development Reach out to new groups without access to HE Improve the quality of learning and stimulate innovation To improve teaching practice For storage and preservation of resources As a living lab for research into teaching Reputation as socially responsible for socio-cultural change Community memory, history and intelligence

13. FAQ 7. What other issues are there regarding OERs? Keeping materials up-to-date in multiple repositories Interoperability issues Metadata standards Tracking and assessing the value of OERs Copyright Sustainability Reward and recognition

14. Questions?

15. OER Showcase Institution Merlot :http://www.merlot.org/ MIT OCW :http://ocw.mit.edu/

16. OER Showcase Institution Open University :http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ Portals OCW Consortium :http://www.ocwconsortium.org UNESCO OER Community http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/ JorumOpen19 th January, 2010

17. Tania Rowlett Copyright Administrator OTTER Project

18. Institutional IPR University senior management support the move to open education Enthusiastic and willing departmental contacts Licence - Creative Commons open licence ‘Partner Agreement’ CooperationCooperation by glsims99. Some rights reserved.glsims99Some rights reserved.

19. Creative Commons Licensing Q. How many people know what a Creative Commons licence is?

20. What is a Creative Commons Licence? http://creativecommons.org/ Range of options Attribution No Derivative Works Non-commercial Share Alike What have we used?

21. Copyright issues encountered Quotes Issues Video Who is in it? Who shot the footage? Screen Shots Images Departmental images Flickr, National Bodies Voice-overs Whose voice? Who wrote the script? YouTube Material

22. Overcoming these issues Quotes Solutions Video Who is in it? Who shot the footage? Screen Shots Images Departmental images Flickr, National Bodies Voice Whose voice? Who wrote the script? YouTube UoL staff or permission sought Limited amounts, properly referenced Ensure only use those with compatible open licence or sought permission Contacted Microsoft & Blackboard as use not covered by standard T&C’s UoL staff or permission sought Removed links to infringing material/located alternative source

23. Are there any general rules of thumb? Yes! DO use: Creative Commons resources with compatible licence Limited extracts from your own work & take own photos Sources where the licence terms explicitly permit use Items out of copyright Organisations providing advice and guidance: JISC - JISClegal, Web2Rights project, JISCdigitalmedia (http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/stillimages/advice/find ing-images-on-flickr/)http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/stillimages/advice/find ing-images-on-flickr/ Eduserv – Copyright Toolkit (in conjunction with Copy- Right Consultants Limited) Positive Action!!Positive Action!! by Palooza. Some rights reserved.PaloozaSome rights reserved

24. What should we avoid? DON’T use: YouTube resources which include infringing material Logos without permission Extensive extracts from your own published work WITHOUT checking your contract Items with unknown sources/where copyright cannot be ascertained DON’T assume if it’s on the web it’s fine to use – check the T&Cs/copyright notice

25. In Summary Copyright shouldn’t hold you back from making your resources open access Shiny Happy People Shiny Happy People by s.o.f.t. Some rights reserved. s.o.f.t. rights reserved.

26. Questions?

27. C ONTENT R EUSE/ R EPUR POSE E VIDENCE O PENNESS Gathering - Teaching materials - Credit weighting - License-in Transformation for usability - Media & formats - Structure - Language - Learning design Validation (Internal) - OTTER team - UoL partners - Students Tracking - Downloads - Adaptations - User profile - Ongoing validation - Release new version Screening - L&T context - Media & formats - Structure - Language - Learning design Rights clearance - Copyright - IPR - Licensing Validation (External) - Students - Educators - Funders UoL Teaching material Publicly usable teaching material OERs CORRE: A framework for transforming teaching materials into OERS

28. Purpose: To identify good and not-so-good OERs as they relate to participants’ contexts, and to justify those choices Task: 1.[approx 10 mins] Visit some of the OER repositories and aggregators (the ‘Resources’ section below may help). Select examples of OERs that you consider appropriate and potentially useful in your teaching context. Also select at least one example of a less suitable OER in your discipline. 2.[approx 15 mins] In this session’s discussion forum on Janison (http://atim.janison.com.au), post a message with (a) the links to the chosen OERs, (b) a brief justification for your choice (both the good and not-so-good ones) and (c) a note about how you may need to re-purpose the (good) OERs to meet your particular needs.http://atim.janison.com.au Respond: Read another colleague’s post. Take a critical look at the OERs they’ve chosen and their rationale, and respond – consider both the OERs they consider to be good and the less suitable ones. You may want to choose contributions from colleagues in disciplines that have areas in common with yours. Resources : www.le.ac.uk/oer www.oercommons.org ocw.mit.edu openlearn.open.ac.uk www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk cnx.org Your homework!

29. Questions?