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Copyright © 2009 The Regents of the University of Michigan Workshop objectives. together. • explore the concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) and its potential contribution to the University of Ghana College of Health Sciences • review the Health OER project • assess the teaching and learning needs at the University of Ghana to be addressed through the OER project • understand the potential of eLearning resources and get a glimpse of how openly licensed eLearning resources are produced • sort through copyright and open licensing issues the deliverable: develop a recommended plan for allocating resources to materials production as OER the end current landscape life cycle challenges the beginning Begin at the end. Mark Shandro - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mshandro/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en Where does this all lead? toward a culture of “OPEN-ness”: •a culture using creative materials for a variety of purposes: art, music, education, etc. •holistic view--how we get there is important •defining the 21st century education landscape How do we get there? • faculty using and creating openly licensed educational media • institutions supporting open access journals and textbooks • developers building openly licensed software tools on open source platforms • all parties participating in innovative teaching and learning exercises Public Domain: Michael Reschke http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OERlogo.svg What are the main features of OER? “...educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some license to re-mix, improve and redistribute.” •the content (courses & learning assets) •the delivery (electronic & print media) •the use and reuse (copyright licensing) What are the institutional goals for OER? • share and make teaching and learning resources easier to reuse for your community and for people everywhere • increase collaboration across institutions and disciplines through sharing educational content, courses, and curricula • utilize innovative software tools and explore research opportunities • support the mission of the university Who benefits from OER production? • your students • your faculty • your alumni • partner universities • outside universities • self-learners • public knowledge centers OER can benefit all these groups simultaneously A few specific benefits. • recognition :: faculty showcase work and connect with other researchers • participatory learning :: students participate in helping with publishing, content creation • curriculum development :: faculty and institutions increase curriculum collaboration with outside universities by opening and sharing resources • transparency :: staff have a more transparent view of university efforts and materials, which allows them to participate in the education process and better assist faculty research and instruction The difference between OCW and OER. OCW: Open CourseWare OER: Open Educational Resources •OCW focuses on sharing open content that is developed specifically to instruct a course (locally taught) •OER includes any educational content that is shared under an open license, whether or not it is a part of a course •OCW is a subset of OER OCW // OER - overlap OER OCW, single images, general campus lectures, image collections, singular learning modules, paper or article OCW syllabi, lecture notes, presentation slides, assignments, lecture videos - all related to a course OER and eLearning: a relationship. OER •may exist in electronic or paper form •may not contain enough context to be “instructional” •are always licensed for reuse, redistribution, and re-mixing eLearning resources •exist only in electronic form •are generally designed to be instructional •may not always be licensed for open use eLearning // OER - overlap OER eLearning intersection represents open, electronic, instructional resources Dispelling OER myths. • content = education • good content will overcome institutional capacity constraints • OER will make education cheaper in the short-term • openness automatically equates with quality Source: Adapted from OER Africa What do we mean by open? “...educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some license to re-mix, improve and redistribute.” •free, as in no fees, does not mean open •public access does not mean openly licensed Open licensing: Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/license/ Creative Commons: license conditions BY :: Attribution You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request. http://creativecommons.org/license/ Creative Commons: license conditions SA :: Share Alike You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work. http://creativecommons.org/license/ Creative Commons: license conditions NC :: Noncommercial You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only. http://creativecommons.org/license/ Creative Commons: license conditions ND :: No derivatives You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it. http://creativecommons.org/license/ Creative Commons: licenses http://creativecommons.org/license/ Some rights reserved: a spectrum. Public Domain All Rights Reserved least restrictive most restrictive http://creativecommons.org/license/ the end current landscape life cycle challenges the beginning http://ocw.mit.edu/ source: The New York Times source: MIT Recent Developments source: OCW Consortium http://ocwconsortium.org/ http://open.umich.edu/ http://creativecommons.org/ http://sciencecommons.org/ http://learn.creativecommons.org/ http://www.oerafrica.org/ http://www.tessafrica.net/ the end current landscape life cycle challenges the beginning The OER life cycle. Authoring Clearing Editing Publishing Archiving The OER life cycle. Authoring creating resources designing learning experiences granting permission - licensing The OER life cycle. Clearing The OER life cycle. Editing The OER life cycle. Publishing distributing the resource adding value to the resource (creative uses of metadata, search, online communities, etc.) The OER life cycle. Archiving the end current landscape life cycle challenges the beginning How it’s being done, elsewhere. Traditional OCW/OER publication model • Staff Centric • Retroactive Challenges • cost • access to faculty • scale • refresh rate What we have experienced. OER production challenges: •cost •scale •access to faculty •refresh rate •content delivery •metadata •active vs. retroactive publishing •defining OER as a service the end current landscape life cycle challenges the beginning How can you start your own OER process? Agenda Day One: Fundamentals • OER introduction • Authoring and publishing Day Two: Action Plan • Clearing: two scenarios for OER production • Dividing up the work • Local and remote support resources • Developing an action plan Colin Rhinesmith - http://www.flickr.com/photos/colinrhinesmith/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en