E health presentation 28th june 2011

WikiVet – a new model for sharing Open Educational Resources Nick Short , E-media Unit, Royal Veterinary College, University of London Gillian Brown , Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry & Veterinary Medicine, Newcastle University eLearning in health conference, Birmingham, 28 th June 2011

Outline
What’s the problem?
What is OER?
Projects, policies, risk, tools to help you
Creative Commons licences
WikiVet Project
Opening Veterinary Access to Literature
How can we make OERs more accessible?

What’s the problem?
Creation of learning materials/resources for VLE
Students downloading resources to their devices
Students uploading to…
“… but they were intended for my own university only!”

What is OER?
Open educational resources
resources created with an ‘open’ licence to reuse and repurpose in accordance with the licence.
Best practice
created using openly licenced material already available on the internet – you just need to know where to look
Guidelines
creating materials within the law and your own institutional policies and practice

What is OER?
Open Educational Resources Programme
Managed by the:
Higher Education Academy www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/teachingandlearning/oer/
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) www.jisc.ac.uk/oer
£5.7+£4=£9.7M
OER3 (due soon) = approx. £4M over 1 year

Benefits of OER
Use of public funds/money, cost savings, collaboration
Transparency and accountability
Legally defensible
Advantages for student recruitment, learning, satisfaction and retention
Equality of access, helping the developing world
Students are using OER and it does save time: blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/learningtechnology/2011/02/08/it-turns-out-that-oer-does-save-time-and-students-do-use-them/

Institutional policies and disclaimers
Does your institution have policies in place for staff creating openly licenced material?
Where can you find out?
Do you want to ask the question?

Understanding and managing risk
Intellectual property rights
Patents protect what makes things work (e.g. engine parts, chemical formulas)
Trade marks are signs (like words and logos) that distinguish goods and services in the marketplace
Designs protect the appearance of a product/logo, from the shape of an aeroplane to a fashion item
Copyright is an automatic right which applies when the work is expressed (fixed, written or recorded)
Copyright, Design and Patents Act, 1988
Copyright arises automatically when an original idea (author uses some judgment or skill) is expressed/created
www.ipo.gov.uk

OER and MEDEV projects
OOER – produced best practice risk assessment toolkit
PORSCHE
ACTOR
www.medev.ac.uk/ourwork/oer
OVAL in collaboration with WIKIVET

Toolkit http://www.medev.ac.uk/ourwork/oer/toolkits/

Creative Commons
“ Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and post to the Web.”
Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/about

Creative Commons
A licence is simply a legal statement saying what you can and cannot do with the copyright work
Creative Commons provides some well-recognised licencing schemes to suit you and your work:
Attribute
Share alike
No derivatives
Non-commercial

Found in | Journal of an Open Source Original comic by | Nerdson (Under CC-BY License)

WikiVet and Veterinary OERs
Recent history
Collaboration
Target audiences
Creation and publishing
International relevance
Web 2.0 integration
Commercial partnerships

History
CLIVE
WIKIVET
Started in 1993
UK veterinary schools
CD ROM based
Government funding
Static content
Enthusiast driven
Started 2007 –
International Vet Schools
Wiki Based
Mixed Funding
Web content
Student and graduate authored

Collaboration

Target Audiences
Veterinary students
Veterinary graduates
Veterinary nurses
General public

Creation and Publishing
Student and new graduate driven
All content is OER compliant
Integration of learning objects
Use of categories and search
Mixed media
Language and international relevance

International Relevance
Over 200 veterinary schools involved
Sharing content with international partners
Working through student organisations
Initiatives in the developing world
Translation and contextual adaption

Web 2.0 Tools
Integration with You Tube
Regular Twitter updates
Integration with Wikipedia
Links to YouTube videos
Elgg discussion boards

Commercial Partnerships
Multiple donor sources
Big pharma involvement
Working with publishing houses
Advertising revenue
Business model for sustainability
International competitors

References/links
Creative Commons (2011) Creative Commons, creativecommons.org
Facebook (2011) Welcome to Facebook , www.facebook.com
MySpace (2003-11) MySpace UK, www.myspace.com
YouTube (2011) You Tube – Broadcast Yourself , www.youtube.com

Attribution and disclaimer
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