Open Educational Resources and Repositories: Discussion Breakout Session

Open Educational Resources
Discussion Session
Intrallect Conference
Open Educational Repositories
Share | Improve | Reuse
Session Chairs
Sarah Currier & Lou McGill
With a some slides from Charles Duncan (Intrallect) and Amber Thomas (JISC)
Intrallect Conference: Open Educational Repositories, March 25-26 2009, Edinburgh, Scotland

Session Plan
11:30 – 11:45 Introductions, what do we want from session?
11:45 – 12:05 Introduction to Open Educational Resources Business Models (with handout from ‘Good Intentions’)
12:05 – 12:25 Look live at some OER repositories & services
12:25 – 13:00 Open discussion

OERs Report (JISC CETIS)
“ digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research”
“’ resources’ are not limited to content- comprise three areas, these are (OECD, 2007):
Learning content: Full courses, courseware, content modules, learning objects, collections and journals.
Tools: Software to support the development, use, reuse and delivery of learning content, including searching and organisation of content, content and learning management systems, content development tools, and online learning communities.
Implementation resources: Intellectual property licenses to promote open publishing of materials, design principles of best practice and localise content”
from “ Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources” OECD, 2007, http://tinyurl.com/62hjx6 Quoted on p4 http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education, Li Yuan; Sheila MacNeill; Wilbert Kraan, JISC CETIS

Facets of Open-ness
Open Access
The Open Access research literature is composed of free , online copies of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers as well as technical reports, theses and working papers. In most cases there are no licensing restrictions on their use by readers . They can therefore be used freely for research, teaching and other purposes. But not repurposed – so tension / difference with OERs
Open Source
Licenses that grant of the right to freely redistribute the software, access to the source code , and the permission to modify that source code and distribute the modified version of the software.
Open Licensing
Access, Redistribution, Source, Reuse, Absence of technological restrictions, Attribution, Integrity, No discrimination, Distribution of licence, Independence, No restriction on other works ( This list is based on definitions of “open knowledge” and “open source software”).
Open Standards
Support sharing, reuse and repurposing by enabling tools to be developed that can interoperate.

Spectrum of Open-ness Open courseware Videos/ Podcasts Images Slides / Worksheets Learning Objects Large hosted collections Distributed

‘ Good Intentions’ Case Studies
OpenLearn, UK, Open University
Jorum, UK, National Repository
NDLR, Ireland, National Repository
COLEG, Scotland, FE National Repository
IRISS Learning Exchange, Scotland, Social Work
IVIMEDS, International, Medicine
SURF WBL, UK, Cross-institutional
CELLS, Scotland, Cross-institutional, Life Sciences
EdShare, Southampton, UK, single institution

‘ Good Intentions’ Case Studies (open)
OpenLearn, UK, Open University
Jorum, UK, National Repository
NDLR, Ireland, National Repository
COLEG, Scotland, FE National Repository
IRISS Learning Exchange, Scotland, Social Work
IVIMEDS, International, Medicine
SURF WBL, UK, Cross-institutional
CELLS, Scotland, Cross-institutional, Life Sciences
EdShare, Southampton, UK, single institution

Open Sharing Models Studied by ‘Good Intentions’
OpenLearn, UK
JorumOpen, UK
MIT OCW, US
NZ OER, New Zealand
Merlot, International
OER Commons, International
Connexions, Rice University US
Knowledge Hub, Mexico
BC Campus, Canada

OpenLearn, OU, UK
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
Self-learning materials available to learners and educators globally
See it as large-scale action research
CoP basis: topics and topic discussion forums
Media-rich resources, complex learning objects / tutorials / study units made available via interactive VLE

EdShare
http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/
Open Web sharing and institution-only sharing
According to academics’ wishes: bottom-up and not top-down
Assets (PowerPoint, Word/PDF documents)
“ Light-weight” approach- no IMS CP / LOM
Intent to share practice and learning designs – but want to get engagement first.

BC Campus
http://solr.bccampus.ca/
Key intent: reuse and re-purposing across Canada FE/HE of BC Campus resources
Open Web sharing (CC licences) and Canada-only sharing (BC Commons licence)
90% of academics chose BC Commons
For academics and students: but most use ended up being from students

IRISS Learning Exchange
http://www.iriss.ac.uk/openlx/
Started out with closed sharing within social work education CoP
Licensing and cultural barriers
Now 90% completely open licenses
Web-based open; lots of standards-based tools to disseminate widely
Share freely with other services, e.g. NHS
Assets, web links, some complex learning objects.

MIT Open Courseware
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
Primary intent: to publish all courses at MIT on Web
Courseware: not individual re-purposable learning objects or assets
Levels of granularity and quality variable: warts and all!
Evaluation study:
47% reused MIT materials or plan to in future
Over 97% of educators expressed satisfaction with materials

References
Free MIT web book mentioned in session:
Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge / Edited by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11309&mode=toc
JISC-funded report on learning resource sharing business models, including OERs:
Good Intentions: Improving the Evidence Base in Support of Sharing Learning Materials / Authors: Lou McGill, Sarah Currier, Peter Douglas, Charles Duncan
http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/265/
JISC CETIS report on OERs:
Open Educational Resources : Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education / Authors: Li Yuan; Sheila MacNeill; Wilbert Kraan, JISC CETIS
http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf

Credits and Contacts
Slides by Sarah Currier and Lou McGill
[email_address] http://www.sarahcurrier.com/
[email_address] http://www.loumcgill.co.uk/
Many slides re-purposed from Charles Duncan (Intrallect) and Amber Thomas (JISC)
http://www.intrallect.com http://www,jisc.ac.uk/
; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/scotland/

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