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Some lessons learned developing OERs over a decade Olivier Bonaventure, UCL Nov 9 th , 2017

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Page 1: Some lessons learned developing OERs over a decade

Some lessons learned developingOERs over a decade

Olivier Bonaventure, UCL

Nov 9th, 2017

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Background

• While still a student– Managed bulletin board systems, Fidonet

– promoted Internet/open-source RTFM

• 1992 : Engineer in Computer Science (ULg)– Specialisation : Internet and computer networks

• 1998 : CS Professor at UNamur– Cours en ligne initiative

• 2002 : CS Professor at UCL– Managed to develop OERs for 3 Bachelor courses

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First experience in Namur

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Cours en ligne

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Technology behind cours-en-ligne

See goo.gl/QmXkzV

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Results

See goo.gl/b7hXB8

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Midlife crisis

• Like many professors, I used (too many) slides when teaching to students

• Cours-en-ligne encouraged me to provide more and more details on the slides, but

– Students where changing

– I was getting more and more frustrated in explaining the same stuff with detailed slides

• Applied for a sabbatical in … Louvain-la-Neuve

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An open-source networking ebook

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The various meanings of open

• Anyone can access the content– Available online in HTML and pdf formats

• Anyone can modify the content– Creative Commons License

– All source code hosted on github.com

– https://github.com/obonaventure/cnp3

– Uses restructured text and open-source software to rebuild the entire ebook

• Received various contributions

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Top contributors

• Eduardo Grosclaude– Started a Spanish translation

• Graphics and figures– Pierre Reinbold, Nipaul Long

• Students– Matthieu Baerts, Matthieu Jadin, Benoit Legat, Joris

Vanherck, Alexis Nootens, …

• Teaching Assistants– Laurent Vanbever, Olivier Tilmans, Juan Cordero,

Virginie Van den Schrieck, Damien Saucez, MickaelHoerdt, ...

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Be prepared for the unexpected

goo.gl/M3GNMq

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Third opportunity

• Bachelor 2, reorganise the systems course– Unix, programming with C language

• Start by writing the course ebook with two teaching assistants– Gregory Detal, Christoph Paasch

– https://github.com/obonaventure/SystemesInformatiques

• Slides are created just-in-time from the ebook

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Systems course

https://sites.uclouvain.be/SystInfo/index.html

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Encouraging student contributions

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Contributors

• Students

– Quentin Deconinck, Adrien Scheuer, David Sarkozi, Simon Hardy, Benoît Legat, Nicolas Houtain,Maxime Demol, Kilian Verhetsel, …

• Teaching Assistants

– Gregory Detal, Christoph Paasch, Fabien Duchene, Antoine Caillau, David Lebrun, …

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CS1 : last attempt

• First Computer Science course for students in

– Engineering

– Computer Science

– Mathematics

– …

• 650+ students this year

• How to help them learn better ?

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INGINIOUS

• Started as a student project, trying to build spinoff company

http://www.inginious.org

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Creating content on INGINIOUSprototype for CS1

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Creating content on INGINIOUSopen exercises

https://github.com/UCL-INGI/CS1-Java

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Empowering studentsopenweek.info.ucl.ac.be

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Next generation of OER producers

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Summary

• Benefits of Open Education Resources– Resource is easy to reuse, first by yourself– Encourage others to contribute

• Don't forget that students can contribute as well

– Puts a framework to organise the resource

• Advice to create OER content – Put yourself in a situation where you have to create it

• Tell others that you will be developing this content

– Becomes your top priority for some period of time

• Caveat– Don't expect that everybody will find your OER because it

is open and online.– You might need to spend time to promote it…