Open Educational Resources:

What are they and why should I care?

Jean-Paul van Belle, Glenda Cox, Thomas King,

Sarah Goodier & Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams

Panel Session at the 4th Teaching and Learning Conference

University of Cape Town

20 October 2014

Open Educational Resources (OER): What are they?

http://bit.ly/1sFpRv4

Q#1: Have you even created or used OER?

(Show of hands)

Q#2: Why might creating your own or

using existing OER be a good idea – or not? (Ideas in Google Doc)

Introducing the panel

• Jean-Paul van Belle

Next research aim: build an OER/OSS portal to assist SMEs with their ICT decision-making

Tanya Percy & JP Van Belle: Exploring Barriers & Enablers to

the Use of Open Educational Resources by University

Academics in Africa

+ lots of OSS adoption research

Jean-Paul van Belle

Introducing the panel

• Jean-Paul van Belle• Glenda Cox

Transition to Library-Training AdvocacySupport

Management

Research PhDGlenda Cox

Introducing the panel

• Jean-Paul van Belle• Glenda Cox• Thomas King

Thomas KingThomas works as the research administrator alongside Cheryl and Glenda in the ROER4D project.

He also serves as one of the Open Educational Resources moderator on OpenUCT, and conducts workshops and individual sessions with lecturers interested in open sharing, specifically with regard to intellectual property.

He is also conducting Masters’ research into how postgraduate students can help lecturers interested in OER in sharing their work by providing logistical support and copyright-clearance work.

Introducing the panel

• Jean-Paul van Belle• Glenda Cox• Thomas King• Sarah Goodier

Sarah GoodierScholarly

Communication Officer

OpenUCT Initiative

http://open.uct.ac.za

Evaluation AdvisorROER4D

- Discoverability- Open access- Sharing open resources (OER

and other scholarly materials)- Evaluation

Introducing the panel

• Jean-Paul van Belle• Glenda Cox• Thomas King• Sarah Goodier• Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams

Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams• Lecturer in Educational Technology• Principal Investigator of the

Research on OER in for Development in the Global South Project (South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia)

• Prior Project Manager of the Opening Scholarship Project at UCT

General OER issues

• What are OER?• Examples of OER• Alternative intellectual rights

Early adopters internationallyMIT

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

Open Education Consortium

http://www.oeconsortium.org/members/ - 19 Oct 2014

UCT is a member

Example of OER development

Original diagram in a PhD thesis …

Improved and adapted for the Portuguese context …

Translated into Greek …

Adapted and translated to Spanish …

Adapted at the University of Cape Town

Alternative intellectual property rights

Previously copyright was binary: All rights retained or public domain

Copyright©

Public domain

Now alternative licensing options such as the GNU General Public License and Creative Commons provide a range of options where some rights are reservedCopyright©

Some rights reserved Public domain

Degrees of openness

Using legally• Attribution:

• All Creative Commons licenses require attribution of the author – the BY part of the license:

Motivation for creating or using OER• Benefits• Reducing production

time• Decreasing costs• Enhancing reputation• …

• Concerns• Increasing time to

create or edit• Harming reputation if

materials are poor• …

OER Creating, finding and using

Create

FindUse

Creating OER – some issues• Authority to create?• What about licencing?

Finding OER – some issues• Quality?• Relevance?• Provenance – whose resources??

Using OER – some issues• Copying as is?• Editing or modifying (e.g. translating)?• Combining with other materials?

Using legally

• You can use CC-licensed materials as long as you follow the license conditions

• E.g.:

What to include:- Title of work- Name of creator (person(s)/organisation) - URL (web address of the OER) - License (with link to CC page)

"Closed for Maintenance" image ohadby available from Flickr under a CC-BY-NC-ND license: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ohadby/105110087/in/photolist-

Remixing – compatible licenses

"CC License Compatibility Chart" by Kennisland - http://wiki.creativecommons.org/File:CC_License_Compatibility_Chart.png. Licensed under Creative Commons Zero

OpenUCT Repository

The OpenUCT repository provides

an open access platform

for UCT staff to share their research and

teaching & learning content

with the world.

http://open.uct.ac.za

Open accessAvailable anywhere

Research on OER for Development in the Global South (ROER4D)

http://roer4d.org/about-us

Hosted by UCT

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.