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A framework for transforming teaching materials into OERs presented by Alejandro Armellini, 9 February 2011

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www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistancewww.le.ac.uk/mediazoo

ALT Learning Technologist of the year : Team award 2009

European foundation for quality in e-learning Unique Award winner

A framework for transforming teaching materials into OERs

Alejandro Armellini

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Open Educational Resources (OERs)

• Digitised materials offered freely and openly for

educators, students and self-learners to use and

reuse for teaching, learning and research.’

(OECD)

• Educational materials and resources offered

freely and openly for anyone to use and under

some licences to re-mix, improve and

redistribute.’ (Wikipedia)

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OTTER

Open, Transferable and Technology-enabled Educational Resources

www.le.ac.uk/otter

Phase 1, institutional OER project, 2009-10

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OER development around the worldLocation OER programme or project

UK

• University of Leicester – www.le.ac.uk/oer

• Open University - “Open Learn” http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

• University of Nottingham - BERLiN

http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/berlin.html

• University of Oxford - OpenSpires http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/

USA

• MIT Open Courseware project - http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

• Rice University - Connexions http://cnx.org/

• Utah State University - USU OCW http://ocw.usu.edu/

EUROPE• ParisTech OCW. - http://graduateschool.paristech.fr/?langue=EN

• MORIL. A Pan-European OERs initiative - http://moril.eadtu.nl/

ASIA• China Open Res. for Educ. Consortium - http://www.core.org.cn/en/

• Japanese OCW Consortium - http://www.jocw.jp/

OTHERS

• OER Africa - http://www.oerafrica.org/

• WikiEducator - http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

• AEShareNEt in Australia - http://www.aesharenet.com.au/

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OTTER academic partnersLeicester

International partnerAcademic

DepartmentsAcademic units

Archaeology and Ancient History

Criminology Education Genetics Institute of Lifelong

Learning Law Media and

Communications Politics and

International Relations

Psychology

Beyond Distance Research Alliance

Staff Development Centre

Student Support and Development Service

South African Institute of Distance Education (SAIDE)

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OTTER achievements

• 438 credits’ worth of OERs on OTTER’s repository and JorumOpen

• Leicester on the global OER map

• Research evidence on student use of OERs

• Raised institutional awareness of OERs

• Put-up and take-down policy

• OER toolkit

• The CORRE framework

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Formatting• Conversion•Standardisation•Metadata•Pedagogical wrap around

Upload to repository

Institutional (Plone)JorumOpenOthers

CONTENTCONTENT REUSE & REPURPOSEREUSE & REPURPOSE EVIDENCEEVIDENCEOPENNESSOPENNESS

Gathering

•Collect existing materials•Credit weighting

• Memorandum of understanding

Transformation

•Decoupling•Scaffolding•Meshing•Sequencing•Editing

Internal Validation

OER project team

Academic partners

Students

Tracking

Downloads

Adaptations

User feedback

Emerging user community

Screening

• Learning and teaching context

•Media and format•Structure & layout•Language•Learning design

Rights clearance

•Copyright

•IPR

•Licensing

External Validation

•Students

•Librarians

•Educators

‘Non-public’ teaching and learning material

Open teaching and learning material

Open Educational Resources (OERs)

A framework for transforming teaching materials into OERsCORRE:

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Taking our materials through CORRE

Stage in CORRE

Sample challenges

Content Are the materials usable out of context (e.g. without seminar input)?

Openness

Have I copyright cleared all 3rd party content (e.g. images) embedded in my materials?

Reuse & Repurpose

Are all authors happy with the CC licence assigned to the new version of the materials?

Evidence

Who is your OER primarily aimed at? Future Leicester students? Academics in other universities? Others?

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Pros

• Visibility

• Quality: if my stuff is open, I’ll think twice

• Esteem: others may use my material

• Value to courses, learners and self-learners

• Time: what I need may exist

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Cons

• Quality assurance

• Licensing and abuse

• Enforcement hardly possible

• Insecurity & trust, both ways

• The status quo, including publishers

• The family silver

• Pareto: the 80-20 principle

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Research findings (1): staff

• Supportive but sceptical about value and impact

• Willing to make use of and contribute, but not full force

• Reward and recognition, especially non-financial

• Lack of awareness of CC

• Team effort

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Research findings (2): students

• Supportive and enthusiastic

• Highly satisfied with OTTER OERs

• Concerned about trustworthiness of external OERs

• Preferred access via VLE as hub

• 1/3 unwilling to turn their own stuff (e.g. lecture notes) into OERs

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Research findings (3): librarians

• Concerns: 3rd party copyright, currency, quality, funding, management support, institutional policies and metadata requirements

• See themselves as managers of OER repositories, developers of generic OERs, indexers, cataloguers and promoters

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Key messages

• Institutional policy on who owns what

• CORRE as a robust framework

• Clearance of 3rd party materials

• Designing for openness & culture shift

• Put-up & take-down policy

• Supply vs demand-driven approaches

• Sustainability

• Visibility

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Embedded

in curriculum

Potentially

valuable

Just discovered

Used as is >>Tweaked>> Repurposed

OERs

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Embedded

in curriculum

Quick, low-cost, high-value

enhancement

Appropriated, long-term enhancement

Potentially

valuable

Just discovered

Opportunistic enhancement Timely enhancement

Used as is >>Tweaked>> Repurposed

OER design

Curriculum design

High

Low High

OER-enhanced curriculum

delivery

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OTTER lives on

• OSTRICH (www.le.ac.uk/ostrich) – a cascade project with Bath and Derby Universities

• TIGER – a ‘new release’ project with De Montfort and Northampton Universities

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