Transcript An OER approach - Higher Education Academy

Open Educational
Resources
Building open content for the
bioscience community
Supporting teaching in higher education to improve student learning across the Biosciences
Outline
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Open Educational Resources
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The OER programme
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How it is being executed and what it means to the
centre workload
Expected outcomes
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Background, current status and problems
Critical success factors for the pilot
Further information
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Key links and tags to follow progress
About the Project
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A PILOT project to
discover the barriers
and issues
A ‘significant
amount’ of material
for release
An opportunity for
the Centre to provide
resources to support
practical work
What is an OER?
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Creating educational resources for sharing
and further development
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Easy to find (fully described)
Easy to use (context and guidance available)
Quality assured (authentic)
Re-purposable, and shared for further
development.
Key communities
OER Commons, OCW Consortium, CCLearn
“Reuse, Redistribute, Revise, and Remix”
Problems OER has to tackle
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OER ‘culture’ slow to pick up in UK HE
Is sharing resources financially viable?
IPR clearance
Discovery, tagging and branding,
Individual Academic profile
Inter-institutional
dependencies
Worldwide profile for UK
HE
The OER programme
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Initiated by HEFCE/JISC and delivered by
JISC/Academy
Pilot project for a £25m? programme (2009-2012)
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Not buying rights to old resources!
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Pilot phase £5.7m (April 2009-April 2010)
<£3m for 12 Subject Centres to run projects
But re-purposing existing, valued content demonstrating
various approaches
Cultural change and sustainable processes
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Content is an indicator of processes in place – a metric
Sustained release – institutional IPR policies updated
Benefits for academic profile, institutional profile, discipline
profile and their students
The current
environment
Our communities are
now distributed
throughout a complex
series of online
networks
Funded projects
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Institutional, Subject and Individual strands
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Coventry - Open Content Employability
Exeter - Open Exeter
Leeds Met - Unicycle
Leicester University - OTTER
Nottingham University - BERLiN
Oxford University - Open Spires
Staffordshire University - OpenStaffs
York, Westminster, Oxford Brookes, Falmouth, Anglia Ruskin,
UCL, UCLAN, Lincoln and Bradford
Funded projects
Subject strand
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SC LLAS (Southampton), ENG (Royal Holloway), PRS (Leeds), HCA (Durham) The HumBox Project
SC ICS (Ulster) Open Educational Repository in Support of Computer Science
SCEngineering (Loughborough) Open Educational Resources Pilot
SC UKCME (Liverpool)) CORE-Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment –
for Materials
SC Economics (Bristol) TRUE: Teaching Resources for Undergraduate Economics
SC Physical Sciences (Hull/Liverpool) Skills for Scientists
SC GEES (Plymouth) C-change in GEES: Open licensing of climate change and sustainability
resources in the Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
SC ADM (Brighton) Open Educational Resources in Art, Design and Media
SC MSOR (Nottingham Trent) FETLAR (Finding electronic teaching learning and assessment
resources)
SC Bioscience (Leeds) ‘An Interactive Laboratory and Fieldwork Manual for the Biosciences’
SC UKCLE (Warwick) Simulation Learning Resources
SC HSAP (KCL) Public Health Open Resources in the University Sector (PHORUS)
SC C-SAP (Southampton) Evaluating the practice of collective endeavour in opening up key
resources for learning and teaching in the social sciences
SC MEDEV (Newcastle) Organising Open Educational Resources (OOER)
Our work
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Ten project ‘consortia’ with Bioscience
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Nottingham: Biodiversity
Oxford: iCases – Influenza outbreak
DeMontfort: Virtual Analytical Laboratory
OU: Biochemistry virtual laboratories
Bath: Cancer Biology
UCL: Virtual museum for zoology
Glasgow: Virtual Ecology
Gloucestershire: Java-based Rocky Shore simulation
Leeds: Microbiology labs (10 tutorials and exercises)
Manchester: Genetic Analysis scenarios
Our work
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Contributing existing resources (reworking for
open release)
Output into JorumOpen
Resolving IPR using standard licences
(e.g. CC-BY-NC-SA)
Sharing IPR successes through network
Cataloguing issues – Jorum support
Managing the project - Sharepoint
Key Issues and outcomes
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IPR cleared content for re-use
and redevelopment
Use of appropriate descriptive
meta-data
Dissemination and distribution
from key repositories and
source providers
Sustainability – a 5 year
minimum expected
Raised OER awareness
Final Report
Follow developments
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Tags: OER and UKOER (or #OER and
#UKOER) in online updates
Academy OER newsfeed (soon)
Open Education News
Cetis: Educational Content
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Bioscience OER blog and project partner blogs
Press coverage in 2009/10
Guardian
Daily Telegraph,
Times Higher Education
Independent
Sunday Times
 Further project links
 Open Educational Resources programme