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Fostering Open Educational
Practices
Institutional Showcase
Australian National Symposium on OER
4th - 5th Nov 2014 | Hobart, Tasmania
Underpinning the UTAS approach
There is a diverse range of opinion on the specific requirements of what
constitutes an open educational resource.
When writing about Openness, David Wiley indicates that the word "open" can
have different meanings in different contexts and in practice it is a continuous
(not binary) construct.1
In nurturing the development of a sustainable open
education ecosystem, there is growing consensus that a
definition of OER ideally needs to incorporate three
interrelated dimensions:
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Educational values: OER should be free;
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Pedagogical utility: OER should embed the
permissions of 4Rs (reuse, revise, remix and
redistribute); and
•
Technology enablers: Technology and media
choices should not restrict the permissions of the 4R
framework.2
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Open Educational Practices
Three important dimensions3
– An engagement with all of the stakeholders in the OER process
(authors, users, managers and policy makers).
– Ensuring that there is support to guide creation and use of OER, and
technologies to assist storage and dissemination.
– An understanding of the context in which OER are used
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UTAS Institutional Strategies
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― Promote the UTAS reputation and brand in areas of
specialisation and research expertise;
― Grow enrolments in UTAS delivered courses;
― Contribute to areas of social and community need;
and
― Enhance curriculum offerings.
http://www.teaching-learning.utas.edu.au/news/news/telt-white-paper-draft
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UTAS Institutional Strategies
UTAS has developed and implemented a number of supporting strategies and policies to support
the development of Open Educational Practices by UTAS staff.
– The development of Open Educational Practices is part of Divisional planning.
Ensuring that UTAS staff are well supported to take up Open Educational Practice is part of
the S&E Division's five year plan.4
– Embracing Open Educational Practices is a UTAS curriculum principle.
The use of Opening Educational Practices to "enhance and extend curriculum offerings
through being a member of a vibrant community of practice sharing high quality resources"
is provided as the University's tenth curriculum principle.5
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UTAS Institutional Strategies
– Using Open Educational Practices
counts towards teaching performance
expectations.
Teaching staff are also encouraged to use
and develop a range of learning
technologies and online resources such
as MOOCs and Open Educational
Resources and this is formally recognised
within the University's Teaching
Performance Expectations.6
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– Breadth Units’ Guidelines.
A breadth unit may be defined as a unit
that:
Can be readily adaptable to Open
Educational Practice to build on UTAS’
ambition to be recognised as a premier
university for Open Educational
Resources (OER)
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Sharing Learning Resources Project (SLRP)
Funded under the UTAS Projects of Institutional Significance Funding Scheme
This project aims to establish a staff culture of sharing learning resources
through the use of a UTAS Learning Object repository (LOR). The project
will run for 18 months starting September 2014.
― Develop a culture of sharing to foster efficient learning resource
production and use, quality improvement and the opportunity for
communities of teaching practice to develop
― Develop the capacity for our academics to enhance curriculum offerings
and meet Teaching Performance Expectations
― Realise the benefits of sharing our teaching practices with the world
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Curriculum Design for Open Education
http://wikiresearcher.org/Open_Curriculum_Design_Project
This project aims to design, develop and test a free, open and online professional
development course focussed on supporting curriculum design in Higher Education
courses. The course will have a specific aim to develop the capacity of academics in
Australia to adopt and incorporate Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open
Educational Practices (OEP) into curriculum development for more effective and
efficient learning and teaching across the Australian higher education sector.
The Project aims to Deliver:
– The development of a micro-course that will enhance the capacity of
academics to adopt and incorporate OEP into curriculum design and renewal;
– The evaluation of participant experiences in the micro-course and incorporate
their suggestions for further improvements to the format; and
– Free provision of a downloadable resource to support the incorporation of OEP
in curriculum design to use and repurpose according to local needs.
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Effective open licensing policy and practice for
Australian universities.
― This project addresses a critical need identified in previous Office for Learning and
Teaching projects; to review the copyright and legal issues effecting OEP.
― It will survey current OEP in Australian universities and use the data collected to
develop an Open Education Licensing Toolkit.
― The Toolkit will be a practical online resource for university teaching and learning
and business planning professionals. The project aims to improve Australia's
competitive strength in the international market for open education services by
providing confidence for educational institutions around the development and
production of open online resources.
http://www.olt.gov.au/project-effective-open-licensing-policy-and-practice-australianuniversities-making-online-education
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Thankyou for Listening
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Associate Professor Natalie Brown
Head
Tasmanian Institute of Learning and Teaching
University of Tasmania
T: +61 3 6226 1756
E: [email protected]
Dr Carina Bossu
Lecturer, Learning and Teaching (OEP)
Tasmanian Institute of Learning and Teaching
University of Tasmania
T: +61 3 6226 1906
E: [email protected]
Luke Padgett
OER Project Leader
(Copyright & Engagement)
Tasmanian Institute of Learning and Teaching
University of Tasmania
T:+613 62261843
E:[email protected]
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References
1. Wiley, D. (2009). Defining open. Retrieved from
http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1123
2. Defining OER. Retrieved 3 November, 2014, from
http://wikieducator.org/Educators_care/Defining_OER
3. Conole, G. (2010). Defining Open Educational Practices. Retrieved from
http://e4innovation.com/?p=373
4. University of Tasmania. (2014). Divisional Plan: Students and Education.
Retrieved 3 November, 2014, from https://secure.utas.edu.au/dvc-studentseducation-staff-only/documents/DVC-SE-Plan-2015-Final-12-June-2014.pdf
5. University of Tasmania. (2014). Curriculum Principles for the University of
Tasmania. Retrieved 3 November, 2014, from
http://www.utas.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/567744/7825_A3_Curric
ulum-Principles1.pdf
6. University of Tasmania. (2014). Teaching Performance Expectations (TPE)
Framework. Retrieved 30 May, 2014, from
http://www.utas.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/447443/7815A-RevisedTeaching-Performance.pdf
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