1. MJM22 Digital Practice and Pedagogy Week 4 What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?

2. This session will cover: An explanation of OERs. –Definition. –Benefits, challenges & barriers. –Finding free and open resources. –Evaluating OERs –Introduction to Creative Commons. –Examples. Discuss your ideas for an OER. –Generate and share ideas. –Thinking about assessment one.

3. What do we mean by… Open. –Does being online make it open? Educational. –What makes something educational? Resources. –What might a resource be? Discuss what you think each of these means?

4. Character of openness Technical characteristics. Social characteristics. Nature of the resource. Giving Knowledge for Free, the emergence of open educational resources’, OECD, 2007. http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/38654317.pdfhttp://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/38654317.pdf

5. Background OpenCourseWare. –Pioneered by MIT in 2001. –OCW Consortium. –Over 100 members worldwide. Open Content. Public funding.

6. OER Initiatives William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. UNESCO. OECD. OER Africa. HEA and JISC UKOER programme.

7. What are OERs ? Freely available educational materials. Re-useable, adaptable, re-distributable under an open license. Digitised materials. Do not provide qualification or access to teaching.

8. What are OERs ? Granularity. –Whole courses (OpenCourseware). –Module, topic, unit. –Article. –Item (image, diagram, video, book, file.) Assets. Any medium or format. Learning objects. Image: Sand dune ripples, Shiraz Chakera http://www.flickr.com/photos/shirazc/3387882509/http://www.flickr.com/photos/shirazc/3387882509/

9. OERs and e-learning “OER is not synonymous with online learning or e-learning… … A lot of e-learning courses may harness OER, but this does not mean that OER are necessarily e-learning.” Commonwealth of Learning, UNESCO (2011)

10. “The web of the future isn’t about visiting sites, it’s about connecting resources.” Stephen Downes (2009). Image: Neuron connection pattern, Patrick Hoesly http://www.flickr.com/photos/zooboing/4743616313/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/zooboing/4743616313/

11. Benefits Share freely. Increased access. Prevent duplication. Promote efficiency & affordability. Quality. Richer experiences. Avoid restrictive copyright legislation. Reassurance you can use them. Build reputation. Altruism.

12. Barriers & Challenges Time intensive / cost. Copyright. Longevity. Updating. Standardisation. Reflect on your reputation. Used for different purposes. Discoverable. Digital divide. Cultural difference. Sustainability

13. Finding OERs Repositories. Search Engines. Platforms.

14. Institutional courseware http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

15. Institutional courses http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

16. Institutional resources http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/

17. Subject focused http://process.arts.ac.uk/

18. General Repositories http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

19. Web2.0 platforms YouTube Vimeo Slideshare Prezi Scribd Soundcloud Flickr iTunesU http://www.youtube.com/education http://www.slideshare.net/

20. Periodic table videos http://www.periodicvideos.com/

21. Search Engines http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/

23. Open access journals http://www.doaj.org/

24. Time for a Break Back in 5 minutes

25. Evaluating OERs Reputable. Accurate. Suitable for purpose. Usable & accessible. Licenced. Re-usable.

26. The Internet (copyright) Making content accessible on the Internet. What permissions does it imply?

27. Watch the video…

28. Creative Commons Creative Commons website http://creativecommons.org/exampleshttp://creativecommons.org/examples

29. Assessment One An OER Portfolio (60%). Produce the OER. –Educate others about a specific digital tool or practice. Supporting information. Creative and interactive. Demonstrate you critically understand. Publish as blog post for assessment.

30. OER learning outcomes Quality and appropriateness of the following: A critical understanding of the principles, practices, techniques and characteristics involved in OER production has been applied to the OER that has been produced. (LO2) The decisions made on the use of media, platforms and software to produce e-learning content in the OER are effective. (LO4) Communication and collaborative technologies have been used in context and applied effectively to help plan and produce the OER. (LO5)

31. Your ideas for an OER Break out into pairs. Tell each other your ideas. Discuss and ask questions. Each person then has to describe the other persons ideas to the group.

32. Digital & learning technologies VLE – Blackboard, Moodle Social Networks – Facebook, Google+ Blogging – WordPress Micro blogging - Twitter Wikis – Wet Paint Web conferencing – Skype Virtual Classrooms – Blackboard Collaborate E-portfolio – Pebblepad, Mahara File sharing – Dropbox Content creation– Google Drive Presentation – Prezi, Slideshare Virtual reality – Second Life Polling, tests and quizzes – Polleverywhere, socrative E-submission & e-marking - Turnitin Podcasts & video – SoundCloud, Youtube, Vimeo Social Bookmarking – Delicious, Reddit, StumbleUpon Social Referencing – Mendeley, Zotero, CiteUlike Mind mapping - Freemind

33. Practices we’ve covered Digital Literacy. Online identity / Digital Footprint. Social Media. E-learning. Learning theory. New approaches (e.g. MOOCs) OERs.

34. This week’s activities Defining OERs. –Consider how they can be used. Find and evaluate OERs. –Search for and evaluate an OER you find useful. Ideas for your OER. –Write a short statement on your idea.

35. Closing and Questions