BERLiN OER Nottingham_University_10_03_2010_day v1

Enhancing and expanding Nottingham’s existing Open Educational Repository to progress the vision of sustainable OERs10th March 2010
Andy Beggan
E-Learning Team Leader
The University of Nottingham

Outline of presentation
Background to OER at Nottingham
Strategic drivers
How we’re meeting them?
Discoverability, reuse & repurposing
Current activities
BERLiN project
Examples of OER
Next steps

Background: OER @ Nottingham
U-Now launched 2007 under the e-learning strategy
Led by Prof Chris Ennew, PVC for Internationalisation
A member of the Open Courseware Consortium
17,836 visitors 2009
1713 Jan 2010
2000 Feb 2010
Over 1900 downloads for ‘Anatomists cookbook’

University Strategic Drivers

University Strategic Drivers
Social responsibility
Promotional opportunities
Cost efficiencies
Mutually supportive with multiple cross over

OER Africa feedback on U-Now
Address multiple audiences at the same time
Display
Intended level of use and target audience
Brief description
Licence
File size
Technical information and publisher
Downloading instructions
Different approaches to navigation (browse, filter, search)
Encourage editing and repurpose
UKOER~OER Africa / UNESCO partnerships
OER ‘Shopping list’ to support African HEIs
1. Social Responsibility

2. Promotional Opportunities

3. Cost Efficiencies

XPERT
Traditional producer-centric models
Xerte Public E-learning ReposiTory
JISC funded under rapid innovation programme
To progress the vision of a distributed architecture of e-learning resources for sharing and re-use
Based on Xerte Online Toolkits
www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte
www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/

WebCT & Equella

Joined OCWC in 2007/8
Membership $500 p.a.
Mathematical institute, Oxford
Peoples-uni.org
The Open University
The University of Nottingham
RSS submission
Doubled visitors to U-Now
Jan-Feb 2010 3713 visitors
1494 via OCWC
Open Courseware Consortium

‘Google-ability’
Google Search – all items can be found
Content
Links (Reciprocal)
Code
Future developments
Tag clouds
Media types
Pedagogic types
JACS
Biographical data

BERLiN Project
BERLiN: Building Exchanges for Research & Learning in Nottingham
HEA/JISC funded 12 month project under OER Programme, end April 2010
To support a step change in releasing open learning resources across all faculties at Nottingham
Expansion of the University’s OER (u-Now) to cover content across all five faculties (360 credits)
325 credits published so far…

BERLiN submissions
High-level support encouraging participation
Capturing examples from across all campuses
Issues assigning credits? Led to ‘module frameworks’
Introduction to microeconomics
Rich learning objects add further depth
No limitations of what can be made available
Podcasts, videos, interactive learning content, PDFs, etc
Copyright ‘hurdles’ main barrier

Next steps
Social responsibility
UKOER~OER Africa framework
Promotion
U-Now website review
School based and subject based RSS feeds
Support growth of local communities
Link to prospectuses / school webpages
Cost efficiencies
‘21st Century Information Skills’
Appropriate reuse and repurpose of OER
Workshops, seminars, PGCHE
New tools and technologies

Any Questions?
http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/

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