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Researching OER in the open:
Developments in the ROER4D project
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and Thomas King
Open Ed 2015, Vancouver, 18-20 Nov 2015
http://www.slideshare.net/ROER4D/
Challenges to which OER is a possible response
● Need for accessible, affordable &
relevant higher education
● OER as part of a response to lower
costs of and to localise teaching
and learning materials
● Most research on OER adoption &
impact in the Global North
● Need for research on OER
adoption & impact in the Global
South
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kartaba/22409701965
#Feesmustfall
protests in
Nov 2015 in
South Africa
ROER4D Research: OER Adoption & Impact
86 Researchers
26 Countries
16 TimeZones
7 Research
clusters
18 Sub-Projects
Defining ‘Open Research’
ROER4D operational definition:
Open research is the process of conducting and sharing research in which a
selection of research proposals, work-process documents, literature reviews,
methodologies, research instruments, analytical frameworks, findings and/or data
are intentionally shared on publicly accessible platforms in order for others to
freely access, use, modify, and share them subject to measures that preserve
ethical practice and legal provenance.
Benefits & challenges of open research in the
ROER4D project
Four dimensions to ‘open research’ identified in the ROER4D Project:
1. Ideological
2. Legal
3. Technical
4. Practical
Defining ‘Ideological openness’
ROER4D operational definition of ‘ideological openness’:
Ideological openness is the belief that openness in research can add value to
the research process. This belief may be held for a range of reasons, including
that open research can enhance the research process by making the research
processes more rigorous, transparent, accountable and verifiable to a wide
scholarly and/or public audience through persistent, barrier- and charge-free
access to the research outputs in the long term.
Ideological openness: Examples
ROER4D Actual and Aspirational Ideological Openness
More modest aspirations for
openness
ROER4D Ideological Openness - Recommendations
Key recommendations to encourage ideological openness in ‘open research’
projects include:
● Making the concept of openness in research part of the grant proposal
process.
● Deliberating critically what ‘openness’ means to researchers in differing
global research contexts and how they might enact it in their research
activities.
● Agreeing to a set of key ‘open’ principles about research processes and
documentation.
Defining ‘Legal openness’
ROER4D operational definition of ‘legal openness’:
Legal openness refers to the use of appropriate alternative licensing
mechanisms such as Creative Commons, as well as the knowledge and
resources required to apply and/or negotiate open licensing, copyright clearance,
and the related intellectual property considerations that accompany the decision to
make outputs and data legally open and reusable.
Legal openness: Example 1 - ROER4D Contract
1. CREATIVE COMMONS LICENCE
1.1. The Parties agree that clause 13.2 is deleted and replaced with the
following new clause:
“In addition to clause 13.1 [of the Main Agreement], the Parties acknowledge
that the sharing of data and the dissemination of the research results to advance
the state of knowledge in the field is in the common interest of both Parties.
Accordingly, the Parties agree to share data and co-operate with each other and
to publish jointly when appropriate. Authorship will be based on commonly
accepted academic standards. Where possible to publish in Open Access
journals and/or to make reports available under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International as the default licence (see https:
//creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode for the detailed licence).”
Legal openness: Example 2 - ROER4D Data
Publications Guidelines
ROER4D Actual and Aspirational Legal Openness
Quite close to our aspiration
ROER4D Legal Openness - Recommendations
Key recommendations for upholding legal openness in ‘open research’ projects
include:
● Consulting with a legal authority conversant with open licensing mechanisms
such as Creative Commons to craft the wording of research contracts.
● Ensuring that at least one member of the research team has a working
knowledge of copyright and Creative Commons licensing and is able to
advise researchers.
● Identifying and working with a professional open data publishing partner or
service provider to ensure that appropriately de-identified data and described
using globally-endorsed metadata protocols to provide optimal discoverability.
● Adopting the OER practice of using openly licensed third-party resources,
especially images, in project documentation.
Defining ‘Technical openness’
ROER4D operational definition of ‘technical openness’:
Technical openness refers to the use of open file formats and open software
development standards to ensure equitable access; publication platforms
that support open licensing and provide secure, long-term access to
resources with adequate metadata to ensure discoverability; and openly
published datasets that allow for the data (and thus the analysis and
conclusions) to be interrogated and elaborated upon.
Technical openness: Example 1 - Google
Document for Collaboration
Technical openness: Example 2 - SlideShare, the
‘Quiet Giant’ of Open Research
ROER4D Actual and Aspirational Technical Openness
The ROER4D aspirations need to be
responsive to accessibility issues in the
Global South
ROER4D Technical Openness - Recommendations
Key recommendations to ensure technical openness in ‘open research’ projects
include:
● Use of collaborative software to provide opportunities for ongoing group
writing, editing and commenting
● Host outputs on stable and secure platforms with suitable metadata that
can generate usage data and facilitate advanced search functionality.
● Use formats that allow users to make changes, extract text or images, or
otherwise alter the content of the output without needing proprietary software.
● Source specialist expertise and make provision for the time required to find
suitable platforms and prepare data.
Defining ‘practical openness’
ROER4D operational definition of ‘practical openness’:
Practical or operational openness is enacting these ideological, legal and technical
principles while conducting research activity, by being open in one’s research
practices.
These can take many forms from early and frequent communication about the
aims, goals and methodologies of the project, to the sharing bibliographies,
literature reviews, conceptual frameworks, interim or preliminary findings under
open licenses, to actively developing networks of interested readers, colleagues or
even potential collaborators long before the final publication of research outputs
through open webinars and social media.
Practical openness: Example - ROER4D Outputs
ROER4D Actual and Aspirational Practical Openness
Not everyone in the broader ROER4D
research group is as comfortable with
“working in the open” and some work does
need to be reviewed and checked before
being released openly
ROER4D Practical Openness - Recommendations
Key recommendations to ensure practical openness in ‘open research’ projects
include:
● Deliberating what documents and activities, if shared, would be of most
benefit to the immediate researcher community and then to a broader
audience.
● Identifying the processes and platforms that would best support the intended
open practices.
● Estimating the time and effort that it would take to maintain these open
practices in order to make a plausible cost-benefit analysis.
● Always bearing in mind the question: ‘To whom, how and when might this add
value and is it legal and ethical?’ and using this as a guiding operational
principle
ROER4D ‘Open research’ axis
Critical openness - When should research be
closed?
● Conducting open research takes time and tenacity and even if a research
team is ideologically technically, legally and practically open in its activities,
the cost of sustained implementation might be too high for open research to
be fully realised.
● Working on a multi-cultural and multi-linguistic project has illustrated some of
the affordances, difficulties and unexpected consequences of conducting
open research, and has led to more modest aspirations towards open
research and the necessity to be more deliberate or critical about what
and when research should be open.
● It has prompted ROER4D to ask: When and under what circumstances
should research be closed?
Walking our open talk ...
This presentation is available for reuse at:
http://www.slideshare.net/ROER4D/
The draft paper informing this presentation is available for commenting at:
http://tinyurl.com/Researching-OER
Citation and attribution
Hodgkinson-Williams, C.A. & King, T. (2015). Researching OER in the open:
Developments in the ROER4D project. Presentation at OpenEd 2015, Vancouver,
18-20 November 2015. Retrieved from: http://www.slideshare.net/ROER4D/

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Researching OER in the open

  • 1. Researching OER in the open: Developments in the ROER4D project Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and Thomas King Open Ed 2015, Vancouver, 18-20 Nov 2015 http://www.slideshare.net/ROER4D/
  • 2. Challenges to which OER is a possible response ● Need for accessible, affordable & relevant higher education ● OER as part of a response to lower costs of and to localise teaching and learning materials ● Most research on OER adoption & impact in the Global North ● Need for research on OER adoption & impact in the Global South https://www.flickr.com/photos/kartaba/22409701965 #Feesmustfall protests in Nov 2015 in South Africa
  • 3. ROER4D Research: OER Adoption & Impact 86 Researchers 26 Countries 16 TimeZones 7 Research clusters 18 Sub-Projects
  • 4. Defining ‘Open Research’ ROER4D operational definition: Open research is the process of conducting and sharing research in which a selection of research proposals, work-process documents, literature reviews, methodologies, research instruments, analytical frameworks, findings and/or data are intentionally shared on publicly accessible platforms in order for others to freely access, use, modify, and share them subject to measures that preserve ethical practice and legal provenance.
  • 5. Benefits & challenges of open research in the ROER4D project Four dimensions to ‘open research’ identified in the ROER4D Project: 1. Ideological 2. Legal 3. Technical 4. Practical
  • 6. Defining ‘Ideological openness’ ROER4D operational definition of ‘ideological openness’: Ideological openness is the belief that openness in research can add value to the research process. This belief may be held for a range of reasons, including that open research can enhance the research process by making the research processes more rigorous, transparent, accountable and verifiable to a wide scholarly and/or public audience through persistent, barrier- and charge-free access to the research outputs in the long term.
  • 8. ROER4D Actual and Aspirational Ideological Openness More modest aspirations for openness
  • 9. ROER4D Ideological Openness - Recommendations Key recommendations to encourage ideological openness in ‘open research’ projects include: ● Making the concept of openness in research part of the grant proposal process. ● Deliberating critically what ‘openness’ means to researchers in differing global research contexts and how they might enact it in their research activities. ● Agreeing to a set of key ‘open’ principles about research processes and documentation.
  • 10. Defining ‘Legal openness’ ROER4D operational definition of ‘legal openness’: Legal openness refers to the use of appropriate alternative licensing mechanisms such as Creative Commons, as well as the knowledge and resources required to apply and/or negotiate open licensing, copyright clearance, and the related intellectual property considerations that accompany the decision to make outputs and data legally open and reusable.
  • 11. Legal openness: Example 1 - ROER4D Contract 1. CREATIVE COMMONS LICENCE 1.1. The Parties agree that clause 13.2 is deleted and replaced with the following new clause: “In addition to clause 13.1 [of the Main Agreement], the Parties acknowledge that the sharing of data and the dissemination of the research results to advance the state of knowledge in the field is in the common interest of both Parties. Accordingly, the Parties agree to share data and co-operate with each other and to publish jointly when appropriate. Authorship will be based on commonly accepted academic standards. Where possible to publish in Open Access journals and/or to make reports available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International as the default licence (see https: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode for the detailed licence).”
  • 12. Legal openness: Example 2 - ROER4D Data Publications Guidelines
  • 13. ROER4D Actual and Aspirational Legal Openness Quite close to our aspiration
  • 14. ROER4D Legal Openness - Recommendations Key recommendations for upholding legal openness in ‘open research’ projects include: ● Consulting with a legal authority conversant with open licensing mechanisms such as Creative Commons to craft the wording of research contracts. ● Ensuring that at least one member of the research team has a working knowledge of copyright and Creative Commons licensing and is able to advise researchers. ● Identifying and working with a professional open data publishing partner or service provider to ensure that appropriately de-identified data and described using globally-endorsed metadata protocols to provide optimal discoverability. ● Adopting the OER practice of using openly licensed third-party resources, especially images, in project documentation.
  • 15. Defining ‘Technical openness’ ROER4D operational definition of ‘technical openness’: Technical openness refers to the use of open file formats and open software development standards to ensure equitable access; publication platforms that support open licensing and provide secure, long-term access to resources with adequate metadata to ensure discoverability; and openly published datasets that allow for the data (and thus the analysis and conclusions) to be interrogated and elaborated upon.
  • 16. Technical openness: Example 1 - Google Document for Collaboration
  • 17. Technical openness: Example 2 - SlideShare, the ‘Quiet Giant’ of Open Research
  • 18. ROER4D Actual and Aspirational Technical Openness The ROER4D aspirations need to be responsive to accessibility issues in the Global South
  • 19. ROER4D Technical Openness - Recommendations Key recommendations to ensure technical openness in ‘open research’ projects include: ● Use of collaborative software to provide opportunities for ongoing group writing, editing and commenting ● Host outputs on stable and secure platforms with suitable metadata that can generate usage data and facilitate advanced search functionality. ● Use formats that allow users to make changes, extract text or images, or otherwise alter the content of the output without needing proprietary software. ● Source specialist expertise and make provision for the time required to find suitable platforms and prepare data.
  • 20. Defining ‘practical openness’ ROER4D operational definition of ‘practical openness’: Practical or operational openness is enacting these ideological, legal and technical principles while conducting research activity, by being open in one’s research practices. These can take many forms from early and frequent communication about the aims, goals and methodologies of the project, to the sharing bibliographies, literature reviews, conceptual frameworks, interim or preliminary findings under open licenses, to actively developing networks of interested readers, colleagues or even potential collaborators long before the final publication of research outputs through open webinars and social media.
  • 21. Practical openness: Example - ROER4D Outputs
  • 22. ROER4D Actual and Aspirational Practical Openness Not everyone in the broader ROER4D research group is as comfortable with “working in the open” and some work does need to be reviewed and checked before being released openly
  • 23. ROER4D Practical Openness - Recommendations Key recommendations to ensure practical openness in ‘open research’ projects include: ● Deliberating what documents and activities, if shared, would be of most benefit to the immediate researcher community and then to a broader audience. ● Identifying the processes and platforms that would best support the intended open practices. ● Estimating the time and effort that it would take to maintain these open practices in order to make a plausible cost-benefit analysis. ● Always bearing in mind the question: ‘To whom, how and when might this add value and is it legal and ethical?’ and using this as a guiding operational principle
  • 25. Critical openness - When should research be closed? ● Conducting open research takes time and tenacity and even if a research team is ideologically technically, legally and practically open in its activities, the cost of sustained implementation might be too high for open research to be fully realised. ● Working on a multi-cultural and multi-linguistic project has illustrated some of the affordances, difficulties and unexpected consequences of conducting open research, and has led to more modest aspirations towards open research and the necessity to be more deliberate or critical about what and when research should be open. ● It has prompted ROER4D to ask: When and under what circumstances should research be closed?
  • 26. Walking our open talk ... This presentation is available for reuse at: http://www.slideshare.net/ROER4D/ The draft paper informing this presentation is available for commenting at: http://tinyurl.com/Researching-OER
  • 27. Citation and attribution Hodgkinson-Williams, C.A. & King, T. (2015). Researching OER in the open: Developments in the ROER4D project. Presentation at OpenEd 2015, Vancouver, 18-20 November 2015. Retrieved from: http://www.slideshare.net/ROER4D/