oer policy, practices and disciplines: launching the sustainable texts project dr jane hughes and dr...
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Sharing resources, opening courses Informal sharing of teaching materials –In departments and faculties –VLE/LMS facilitates Institutional repositories –e.g. OpenLearn, MITOpenCourseWare, Nottingham Disciplinary or national repositories –JORUM, MERLOT, Language Box, HUMBOX Moves towards offering courses –Accreditation? –MITx; the OER University –Case study: Coventry photography Photo by JacquiTnature Creative Commons 2.0 CC-BY-NCTRANSCRIPT
OER policy, practices and disciplines:Launching the Sustainable Texts project
Dr Jane Hughes and Dr Colleen McKenna
Authors: Jane Hughes and Colleen McKenna
What are institutions doing?
From JISC OER Evaluation & Synthesis blog: http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ author: Helen Beetham
Sharing resources, opening courses• Informal sharing of teaching materials
– In departments and faculties– VLE/LMS facilitates
• Institutional repositories– e.g. OpenLearn,
MITOpenCourseWare, Nottingham• Disciplinary or national repositories
– JORUM, MERLOT, Language Box, HUMBOX
• Moves towards offering courses– Accreditation?– MITx; the OER University– Case study: Coventry photography
Photo by JacquiTnature Creative Commons 2.0 CC-BY-NC
Re-using teaching materials• Common in departments
and course teams• Repositories used by
those who have encountered OER
• Non-text resources particularly useful
• Concerns: time, copyright, quality
• Disciplinary differences?
What about the students?What opportunities do students get to share their work, and with whom?
Do students mind if learning materials come from other institutions?
Should students have open access to all of their university’s online course materials?
Should open practices be learning objectives?
Photo by anselm23: CC-BY-NC-ND
Questions• What, apart from teaching materials, can usefully be shared? Teaching
methods and approaches, or experiences? • Do we/should we routinely design teaching materials for open
release? – e.g. copyright cleared, including creative commons licenses?
• How can open educational practices support interdisciplinary teaching and learning?
• How do disciplinary differences or educational values impact on engagement with open educational practices?
• Open education and research-teaching relationships?• How far can open educational practices be embedded in university
processes – e.g. new course approval, APL?But also• What are the risks?
Links and references
Coughlan, Tony and Perryman, Leigh-Anne (2011). Something for everyone? The different approaches of academic disciplines to Open Educational Resources and the effect on widening participation. Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 15(2), pp. 11–27.
OER Impact Study: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/oer2/oerimpact.aspx
Coventry University Photography Case Study: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/topics/opentechnologies/openeducation/coventry-university-summary.aspx
OER Synthesis and Evaluation blog: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/topics/opentechnologies/openeducation/coventry-university-summary.aspx
Amber Thomas blog: http://amberthomas.typepad.com/fragments/2012/03/openedspace.html
Sustainable Texts and Disciplinary Conversations: OER in practice and policy
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Project partners
UCL - Dr Ulrich Tiedau
HEDERA –
Dr Jane Hughes and
Dr Colleen McKenna
Sustainable Texts- background
Context
JISC/HEA OER phase 3: ‘Institutional OER Embedding’
Building on CPD4HE (OER project, UCL 10-11, led by Dr Jane Hughes)
• Developed M-level resources in CPD in academic practice in HE
• Early career academics
Photo: Andrei Ceru
Key Areas of Work
OER resource in academic practice
• Disciplinary focus
Emphasis on policy
• Broadening conversations about OER creation, use and practices
Intended outputs: e-book and related materials
E-book: texts about teaching and learning by academics and researchers who teach in HE
Related resources: podcasts of interviews with e-book authors, writing prompts, workshop plans, presentations
Guidance on using the materials, including advice on incorporating writing into professional education courses
A toolkit to support institutional OER possibilities and policy
Photo: Paul Slick
Contribute to OER and policy conversations
Bring people interested in Open Education together
Stimulate and extend OER thinking and practices
Support policy surrounding OER
Photo: Andrei Ceru
Get in touch
Website: http://sustainabletexts.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @SustextsOER
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Photo: Andrei Ceru