Open Educational Resources Panel Session at the University of Cape Town's 4th Teaching and Learning Conference 20 Oct 2014

1. Open Educational
Resources:
What are they and why should I care?
Jean-Paul van Belle, Glenda Cox, Thomas King,
Sarah Goodier & Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
Panel Session at the 4th Teaching and Learning Conference
University of Cape Town
20 October 2014

2. Open Educational Resources (OER):
What are they?
http://bit.ly/1sFpRv4

3. Q#1: Have you even created or
used OER?
(Show of hands)

4. Q#2: Why might creating your
own or using existing OER be a
good idea – or not?
(Ideas in Google Doc)

5. Introducing the panel
• Jean-Paul van Belle

6. Tanya Percy & JP Van Belle: Exploring Barriers
& Enablers to the Use of Open Educational
Resources by University Academics in Africa
+ lots of OSS adoption research Jean-Paul van Belle
Next research aim: build an OER/OSS portal to
assist SMEs with their ICT decision-making

7. Introducing the panel
• Jean-Paul van Belle
• Glenda Cox

8. Management
Transition to Library-Training
Advocacy
Support
Research PhD
Glenda Cox

9. Introducing the panel
• Jean-Paul van Belle
• Glenda Cox
• Thomas King

10. Thomas King
Thomas works as the research
administrator alongside Cheryl and
Glenda in the ROER4D project.
He also serves as one of the Open
Educational Resources moderator on
OpenUCT, and conducts workshops
and individual sessions with lecturers
interested in open sharing,
specifically with regard to intellectual
property.
He is also conducting Masters’ research
into how postgraduate students can help
lecturers interested in OER in sharing
their work by providing logistical support
and copyright-clearance work.

11. Introducing the panel
• Jean-Paul van Belle
• Glenda Cox
• Thomas King
• Sarah Goodier

12. Sarah Goodier
Scholarly
Communication
Officer
OpenUCT Initiative
Evaluation Advisor
ROER4D
http://open.uct.ac.za
- Discoverability
- Open access
- Sharing open resources (OER
and other scholarly materials)
- Evaluation

13. Introducing the panel
• Jean-Paul van Belle
• Glenda Cox
• Thomas King
• Sarah Goodier
• Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams

14. Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
• Lecturer in Educational Technology
• Principal Investigator of the
Research on OER in for
Development in the Global South
Project (South America, Sub-
Saharan Africa and South East
Asia)
• Prior Project Manager of the
Opening Scholarship Project at UCT

15. General OER issues
• What are OER?
• Examples of OER
• Alternative intellectual rights

16. Early adopters internationally
MIT
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

17. Open Education Consortium
UCT is a
member
http://www.oeconsortium.org/members/ - 19 Oct 2014

18. Example of OER development
Original
diagram in a
PhD thesis …
Improved and
adapted for
the Portuguese
context …
Translated
into Greek …
Adapted and
translated to
Spanish …
Adapted at the
University of
Cape Town

19. Alternative intellectual property
rights
Previously copyright was binary: All rights retained
or public domain
Copyright
©
Public domain
Now alternative licensing options such as the GNU
General Public License and Creative Commons
provide a range of options where some rights are
reserved
Copyright
©
Some rights reserved Public domain

20. Degrees of openness

21. Using legally
• Attribution:
• All Creative Commons licenses
require attribution of the author –
the BY part of the license:

22. Motivation for creating or using
OER
• Benefits
• Reducing production
time
• Decreasing costs
• Enhancing reputation
• …
• Concerns
• Increasing time to
create or edit
• Harming reputation if
materials are poor
• …

23. OER Creating, finding and using
Create
Use Find

24. Creating OER – some issues
• Authority to create?
• What about licencing?

25. Finding OER – some issues
• Quality?
• Relevance?
• Provenance – whose resources??

26. Using OER – some issues
• Copying as is?
• Editing or modifying (e.g. translating)?
• Combining with other materials?

27. Using legally
• You can use CC-licensed materials as long as you
follow the license conditions
• E.g.:
What to include:
- Title of work
- Name of creator (person(s)/organisation)
- URL (web address of the OER)
- License (with link to CC page)
"Closed for Maintenance" image ohadby
available from Flickr under a CC-BY-NC-ND
license:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ohadby/
105110087/in/photolist-

28. Remixing – compatible licenses
"CC License Compatibility Chart" by Kennisland - http://wiki.creativecommons.org/File:CC_License_Compatibility_Chart.png. Licensed under Creative Commons Zero

29. OpenUCT Repository
The OpenUCT repository
provides
an open access platform
for UCT staff to
share their research and
teaching & learning
content
with the world.
http://open.uct.ac.za
Open access
Available anywhere

30. Research on OER for Development in
the Global South (ROER4D)
http://roer4d.org/about-us
Hosted
by UCT

31. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License.