This document discusses the University of Wollongong's (UOW) involvement with the OERu (Open Educational Resources university) as an anchor partner. As a blended university with both on-campus and online students, UOW is interested in using open educational practices to improve access and inclusion. The OERu allows UOW to build on its early work in distance education and disaggregate elements like content, support, assessment and accreditation. UOW sees opportunities through the OERu to open up delivery, support, design, evaluation and research using open educational resources and practices.

1. What does OERu mean for a
blended university?
Professor Sandra Wills
UOW Executive Director, Learning & Teaching

3. Wollongong
main campus one
hour drive from
Sydney airport
seven smaller
locations along the
coast

4. UOW Wollongong Campus
UOW Dubai
Campus
plus teaching
partnerships in
ten
international
locations

5. Not sandstone however 60 years old
research intensive & international
• 26,000 students - 30% international off-shore and on-shore
• Top 200 Times Higher Ed Rankings 2009, 2006 & 2007
• #1 for Student Satisfaction Sweeney Research Group 2009
• Top 500 - Shanghai Jiao Tong Index 2006
• decade of 5 stars in Good Universities Guide
• #1 for 3 years of National Teaching & Learning Performance Fund
• # 1 for 4 years of Citations for Outstanding Contribution to
Teaching & Learning
• inaugural Commonwealth University of the Year Award for
Community Engagement - The Times Higher Ed & Commonwealth
Association of Universities 2006
• University of Year for Research Partnerships 2000
• University of Year for Preparing Graduates for e-World 1999

6. Why call Wollongong a blended university?
Why call Wollongong a blended university?
• High satisfaction scores derive from
personal contact
• Not a distance education university
• However online is a given – 80% of subjects
use learning management system, lecture
capture, videoconference etc
• Because we are multi-location

7. What’s our experience with OERs?
1994 PAGE post grad distance ed via TV & print
2004 Shared Teaching Resources
2011 Content Beyond Borders &
Creative Commons
6 Learning Designs
2006 Project EnROLE

8. about 100 items so far…

10. What is the OERu?

11. What is the OERu?

12. Challenges for UOW in OERuni
What does a subject look like
as an OER
vs
composed of OERs?
Is it sustainable?
Is it cost-effective?

13. Maths ALIVE:
Access
Live
Interactive
Virtual
Environments
Dr Caz Sandison

14. Access Grid

15. Pathway to becoming a Uni student
OER ALIVE Watch recording in own time
Open ALIVE Participate, no credit
UOW ALIVE Enrol for credit

16. Why Mathematics?
Essential for a digital economy
Shortage of maths teachers
especially in rural & regional Australia
Teaching the teachers
Improve the education of our children
Two subjects for primary teachers to improve skills & confidence
Two subjects for secondary maths teachers
Parents too
Primary level subjects suit general audience

17. Why is UOW an OERu anchor partner?
OERu is a charitable trust
not a business venture
does not change UOW’s core business
OERu@UOW is a social inclusion strategy
a taste of university study

18. nce
e xperie UOW open practices
= UOW ster
ta
UOW Social inclusion
Open UOW
oSchool students
oPeople up skilling subjects resources Articulation to
oMature age people enrolment @ UOW
?
oRegional people activities supports
oPeople in developing
nations subject 
degree 
UOW quality open resources

19. Draft eLearning Strategic
Plan 2012
integrated/collaborative/engaged
Mission: maintain UOW’s position as
Australia’s
#1 university for teaching & learning
through creative & sustainable
eLearning practices

20. eLearning used to achieve excellent
learning outcomes
eLearning used to enhance public &
professional networking
open educational practices used
to transform university access
quality planning & review processes
used to support innovative teaching
DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT

21. Why is UOW an OERu anchor partner?
From our early work in distance education by
TV & print, interested in disaggregation of:
Content
Support
Assessment
Accreditation

22. Why OERu?
Now digital revolution & CC licensing enables
variety of open educational practices:
– Open delivery
– Open support
– Open design
– Open evaluation
– Open research

25. Learning Design has a
dual impact on OER:
• learning designs provide good
practice models for stitching
together OERs
• learning designs spell out how
an OER is an exemplar of good
practice
learning designs as OERs
themselves?