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An Exploration of Real World OER Examples Symposium on the Benefits of e-Learning Technologies, Wednesday 13th April 2011, University of Manchester. Alex Fenlon, OER Project Officer Email: [email protected] What is OER? • OER has been defined as ‘digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and selflearners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research’ Flora and William Hewitt Foundation, 2006. • Effectively, this means anything that is an educational resource available openly, i.e. under an open licence. • Large global movement of institutions releasing OERs – MIT’s Open Course ware (OCW) – Open University’s Open Learn – JISC/ HEA managed Hefce funded projects 2009 – to date. Change of practice rather than revolution? Academics have always been sharing, now a legal manner? 2 Open Licences Most OERs are released under a licence. Attribution only Attribution share alike Attribution non-commercial Attribution non-commercial share alike Attribution no derivative Attribution non commercial no derivative. There are other open licences available such as the Open Government Licence & GNU. 3 Where can I find OER? Lots of universities supply/ produce/ release OERs: • Stanford, MIT, Michigan ….. • The Open University, • Sheffield, Oxford, Loughborough, Nottingham • Lots of the Subject Centres involved - Engineering, Bio Sciences, Physical Sciences, MSOR…… Mostly via third party sites: • JORUM • YouTube (via JISC projects) • Flickr • Slideshare • iTunesU • Merlot 4 Jorum Enter Search term. Link to resource. Click on resource. Look at licence type. www.slideshare.net/EngSC 6 Where can I find OER? www.engsc.ac.uk/oer www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/oer/ www.fetlar.bham.ac.uk/ www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/home/projects/skillsforscientists www.jorum.ac.uk www.openlearn.open.ac.uk/ www.ocwsearch.com/ ocw.mit.edu/index.htm www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page www.google.co.uk/advanced_search?hl=en www.flickr.com/search/advanced/ 7 Demo of OER – Engineering • • • • • YouTube: Two-dimensional Heat Conduction SlideShare: – Laplace Transforms – Flywheels- An Alternative Energy Storage Method JorumOpen: Distributed web systems : past exam questions : level 3 Vimeo: Particle Technology and Characterisation Flickr: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M Created by Prashant Maxsteel and available under a Creative Commons licence. Created by COREMaterials available under a Creative Commons licence. Demo of OER – Physical Sciences Skills for Scientists Project. • Using the Vernier Scale – http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1592 • ChemTube3D – http://www.chemtube3d.com/Cycloaddition1.html • First Year Inorganic Chemistry workbook – http://www.scribd.com/doc/28622308/First-Year-Undergraduate-InorganicChemistry-Workbook • Routes to success – https://edocs.hull.ac.uk/muradora/objectView.action?parentId=hull%3A2199 &type=1&start=30&pid=hull%3A2339 • Core Physics PBL – http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/3330 9 Demo of OER – MSOR FETLAR Project The FETLAR project addresses the challenge associated with students' mathematical skills and competencies on transition into higher education and the need to raise the retention rate of first-year students on science and engineering courses. • First Year Mathematics Transition Module based on Initial Assessment • Algorithms and their Efficiency • Exploring the Tidal Cycle Other resources….. • Algebraic methods- Calculus (Integration) • Linear equations with additive noise I 10 Demo of OER – Bio Sciences • • • • • Virtual Educational Resources for the Biosciences – Resources for teaching Elvolutionary History- Eutherian – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQo1jrNACdw Virtual Laboratories – http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/4479 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQo1jrNACdw iCase Influenza Outbreak – http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/5615 Virtual analytical Lab – http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2290 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC1FPH-q_9c Medical Microbiology – http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/oer/projectpartners_Med icalMicrobiology.aspx – http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1339 11 Questions? This presentation was produced by the Engineering Subject Centre as a part of the ‘Symposium on the Benefits of E-Learning’ 2011. Except where otherwise noted, this presentation is available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Share alike 2.0 UK licence. © Engineering Subject Centre, Loughborough University, 2011. Please note the logo of the Engineering Subject Centre is not included within this licence and should not be reproduced without the express permission of the Centre.