OER workshop

Using and Creating Open Educational Resources (OERs)
POCKET team: Dave O’Hare, Sarah Malone and Sarah Darley
www.derby.ac.uk/pocket
Sarah Darley, POCKET Learning Technologist [email_address]

Workshop objectives
This workshop aims to provide University staff with an understanding of:

What open educational resources are
How they can be used in courses and as study aids for students
Where they can be found online
How staff can create their own open educational resources

What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?
“ OER are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others”.
(The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation) http://www.hewlett.org/Programs/Education/OER
Covers several different types of resources:
learning content (courses, learning objects)
tools (software)
intellectual property licenses

http://creativecommons.org/

Ask the audience
How many people are familiar with OERs?
Does anyone use OERs?
Has anyone created an OER?

Why give materials away for free?

Why give materials away for free?
Sharing knowledge
Maximise taxpayers’ money
Reduced cost of content development by sharing and reusing
Attracts new students

Benefits to users
Increased access to educational resources
Counter the rising costs of higher education by reducing the investment required for the development of educational resources and content
Allows others to adapt educational materials to their needs

Benefits to creators
Increased status and visibility
Increased demand for their services and products
'What you give, you receive back improved.’ Richard Wyles, New Zealand OER Project case study (2007)
Sharing and reusing can cut the costs for content development, making better use of available resources.
Creation of more flexible materials

Examples of OERs: MIT http://ocw.mit.edu/

OpenLearn (The Open University) http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

The LabSpace http://labspace.open.ac.uk

OpenLearn: POCKET units

International Economic Law

Business and Sustainability

Creating Open Content for POCKET
Considerations
All units had to be independent and stand alone
Language needs to be suitable to the open learning environment
Activities should include some kind of feedback
Copyright considerations
Accessibility issues

Other resources: Images http://commons.wikimedia.org/ http://www.flickr.com/

iTunes U http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/landing.html

Activity
Think about how you might incorporate OERs into one of your modules
OR
Think about how you might develop an OER from your existing material
How might this enhance your material?
What support might you need to achieve this?

Thanks for listening!
See separate sheet for useful links
Evaluation form
POCKET website: www.derby.ac.uk/pocket
POCKET materials: http://labspace.open.ac.uk/tag/index.php?id=7791
Presentation slides available from: http://www.slideshare.net/sdarley

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