This was the introductory talk given at the first CoPILOT event at the University of Surrey.

1. CoPILOT: supporting librarians in
sharing their teaching material
internationally.
Nancy Graham (University of Birmingham)
University of Surrey, 30th
May 2013

2. Today’s talk
• Why OER?
• Background - projects, surveys, committee
• Conference feedback
• Librarian role in OER
• Actions for CoPILOT
• Get involved!

3. Why share Information Literacy
resources via a CoP?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_grey/4582294721/

5. Background: DELILA
• Developing Educators Learning and Information
Literacies for Accreditation
• Cross institutional project to adapt digital and IL
resources to OER
• Improved institutional repositories hosted material
• Librarian OER advocacy role
• Highlighted a range of challenges when sharing IL
resources as OER
• Project website: http://delilaopen.wordpress.com/

6. Background: April 2012 survey
• To gather information about librarians’ sharing of IL
teaching material
• April 2012 for one month
• 101 responses from UK, Europe, US and beyond
• Findings indicate closed sharing
• Willingness to share openly but don’t know where to
start
• Available at
http://delilaopen.wordpress.com/il-oer-survey/

7. Survey findings

8. CoPILOT Committee
• One day event at Birmingham
• Several attendees formed committee
• Kick off meeting November 2012
• Aim: to support UK librarians in sharing openly
• Event at Uni of Surrey 30th
May
• Mailing list IL-OERS@jiscmail.ac.uk
• Wiki: http://iloer.pbworks.com
• Twitter: @CoPILOT2013

9. JISC/HEA Project CoPILOT: aims
• Develop a strategy to promote international sharing
• Part of JISC/HEA UKOER Phase 3 Programme
• 2 month timescale
• Exploited the UNESCO WSIS KC platform
• Posted links to IL material
• Discussions on OER and Creative Commons

11. Project CoPILOT: outcomes
• 35 members from 14 countries worldwide
• 19 links posted to English, Spanish, German and
French IL resources
• 53 discussion posts on 8 different topics
• Report, case study and post-project survey
• Strategy for sharing IL OERS now available

12. Where and how to share?
• Is it feasible to share resources by uploading them to
repositories such as Jorum, Merlot?
• Should resources by organised by subject or by
institution or by country?
• Links or deposit?

13. Conference feedback
• Well organised content
• Information about original creation of content
• Most prefer links rather than hosting content
• Reviews/comments
• Wanted list of required OER
• Links to profile of creator/user on Facebook/LinkedIn
• Resource of the month
• Face to face events

14. How can we make this happen?
• What are pros/cons of using online communities?
• Think about this throughout the day…
▫ Building librarian OER advocacy role?
▫ Online activities to encourage participation/contribution
▫ Comms channels?
▫ Other CoP functions
▫ Face to face events?
▫ Support from international organisations?

15. Librarians as OER advocates
• Leading by example
• Gaining new expertise by adapting and sharing our
own materials
• Builds on core librarian skills: licensing, copyright,
finding quality resources (information literacy)
• Highly established profession with strong networks

16. Where next?
• New project with UNESCO and IFLA to upgrade
InfoLit Global
• More events like this
• Work on the online CoP/wiki
• ECIL in October

17. Get involved!
• Join IL-OERS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
• Join the WSIS Knowledge Communities Information
Literacy Community: http://www.wsis-
community.org/pg/groups/585111/information-literacy/
• Join us at Twitter: @CoPILOT2013
• Join our wiki: http://iloer.pbworks.com

18. Further reading
Appleyard, S. (2012) A Survey of sharing and reuse of Information Literacy resources across
Higher Education Libraries in the United Kingdom. Aberdeen; Robert Gordon University.
Graham, N. & Secker, J. (2012) Librarians, information literacy and open educational resources:
report of a survey. Available at:
http://delilaopen.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/findingsharingoers_reportfinal1.pdf
Boon, S., Bueno de la Fuente, G. & Robertson, J. (2012) The roles of librarians and information
professionals in Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives. Bolton; CETIS. Available at:
http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/OER-Libraries-Survey-Report.pdf
UNESCO Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education, available for
free download here: http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=364

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