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DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNING
Developing a Subject collection for Sesame
Marion Manton Summer 2012
What are the subject collections?
Aim
To provide students and tutors of weekly classes who cannot access University of Oxford online library resources with an easy way to discover useful, freely available electronic resources to support their learning and teaching.
Output
A set of links to online learning resources for your subject area, with brief descriptions to help a student or tutor understand why they are useful, tagged with keywords to allow for sorting into meaningful categories.
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What is the Sesame project?
Aims to create and provide Open Educational Resources (OER) for teachers and learners globally through the work of the weekly class programme Page 3
Specifically the project aims to:
Help tutors find out how using and creating OER can benefit you and your students Enable students to find and use appropriate, validated online resources in their work Improve tutors skills and confidence in identifying, using and creating OER Embed open ways of working in the development and delivery of weekly classes Widen access to Oxford's teaching to new audiences globally Page 4
Objectives
The project will: Create and release new open content Develop subject collections for students and tutors Develop tools and processes that facilitate open practices Provide training to support part-time tutors to identify, use and create OER Develop infrastructure to enhance discovery of OER generated by the weekly class programme Page 5
Project overview
One year, October 2011-2012, divided into three phases Hilary term (January – March): Initial pilot to develop exemplar course websites Trinity term (April – June): Training workshop and development of further course websites Summer (July – September): Training workshop and development of subject websites Michaelmas term (October - December): Embed OER in work of weekly class programme Page 6
Subject collections v Creating OER
Much of Sesame is asking tutors to produce OER from their teaching materials This can include links to useful resources The subject collections are ONLY links to useful resources and existing OER However if you want to produce OER from your own materials you can do this as part of the subject collections OR connected to a course Page 7
OER?
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OER definitions
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.
(OER Commons)
“…teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property licence that permits their free use or re purposing by others.”
(Atkins, Brown and Hammond, 2007)
“ Anything that I can identify, that I can scavenge from somewhere else, that might make my teaching a little bit easier.”
(OER Impact Study, 2011)
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What is open licensing?
Licenses to make it easier to use others’ work in your teaching and learning (or for them to use your work) Best known is creative commons (cc) There are various cc licenses: Oxford uses BY NC SA Page 10
What are the conditions?
Attribution
Author must be acknowledged on all copies and adaptations of the work, including a link to the original version of the work
Non-commercial
The work can only be used for non-commercial purposes
Sharealike
The work can be modified and adapted, but the entire resulting work (including new material added by the adaptor) must be distributed under the same sharealike licence Page 11
How can I tell if a resource I find is OER
It is openly licensed Clearly displays a cc logo e.g. http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Had other clear statement of open licensing e.g. http://www.gutenberg.org/ Page 12
Open attribute tool
http://openattribute.com/ Page 13
Finding resources: OER
UK universities JORUM: http://www.jorum.ac.uk/ Oxford: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/open Open University: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ US universities MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu
Yale: http://oyc.yale.edu/ Portals http://www.oercommons.org
Digitisation Project Guttenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org
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Finding resources that are not OER but are still valuable
Sites you use Digitisation Primary sources – letters, documents Cultural institutions Museums Libraries Newspapers BBC Media Audio - iTunesU Video – Youtube.edu Page 15
The sesame portal
http:open.conted.ox.ac.uk
Overview How to register (openly licensing your materials) How to add a link Describing resources Subject Keywords Page 16
Describing resources
Although students will be the primary audience the description should also be relevant to tutors or other user of the resource.
Caligula: http://open.conted.ox.ac.uk/resources/link/biography-gaius %E2%80%98caligula%E2%80%99 Intute: http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=118112 Conted: http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/facilities/library/libraryresources/ww wind.php
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Subject collection process
Half a day undertaking initial research Submit details by email of: the resources you discover (including descriptions and keywords for each resource) an indication of how many additional resources you think you can identify for the subject collection with between one and four additional days’ work. We will provide feedback on your initial selection of resources and agree with you the number of days of further work to be undertaken to identifying additional resources and upload them to http://open.conted.ox.ac.uk/ .
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Timing
We will agree individual deadlines for the initial research with you We are aiming to have all resources uploaded to http://open.conted.ox.ac.uk/ by the 31 August 2012.
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Number of outputs
This will be dependent on the number of day allocated to your subject but, as a guideline, we would hope for at least 20 resources to be added to the collection for each day assigned, with ideally 50% of these being licensed OER.
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Further information
Project manager Marion Manton Email: [email protected]
Phone: 01865 280986 Location: Ewert House Website: http://www.tall.ox.ac.uk/research/current/sesame.php
JISC OER Programme: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer/ Page 21
References
Content JISC OER infoKit: https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com
OpenSpires project: http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ Images Genie in an oil lamp. ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonzhang/3217242929/ ) / shannonzhang ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonzhang/ ) / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ ) Screenshots: http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ This work by the Sesame Project is licensed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence .
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