Presentation at OER14 conference Newcastle upon Tyne April 2014. It draws on evidence from the Community Learning Innovation Fund (CLIF) managed by NIACE.
How adult educators can recognize the full potential of the Open Education movement to enrich learning
1. Alastair Clark
Do adult educators recognise the full
potential the Open Education
movement to enrich learning?
2. Alastair Clark
• Adult Learning Manager
• Senior Programme
Director NIACE
• Senior Research Fellow
NIACE
• Teacher of Navigation /
Maths / French.
• Observer - WEA
3. 6 bolts from the blue!
• Who are these educators?
• What are they doing?
• CLIF
• Projects in a box
• Over the CLIF
• Questions for us all?
4.
5. Community Learning Innovation Fund
• £4m Fund May 2012
• Launched by the Skills Funding Agency -
England
• The purpose of the Fund was to support new
and creative learning opportunities,
particularly for disadvantaged people……
9. Target
Older people and people
with long term and chronic
health conditions
Aim
new skills,
gain confidence
take …part in their community
through volunteering.
13. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
I had not heard of Open Educational
Resources before CLIF and still don't really
understand what they are.
I had never heard of Open Educational
Resources but after participating in CLIF, I
understand the principle.
I was well aware of the Open Educational
Resources before joining CLIF
14. • When asked to make the products of your CLIF
project open for others to use which of these
best described your reaction?
15. 0.00 2.00 4.00 6.00 8.00 10.00 12.00 14.00
We are a small oragnisation with limited
assets we prefer to keep this material for
ourselves and possibly sell it later.
We are happy to share in principle but our
material was made for local use and a wider
audience may be critical of what we have
made.
We are very happy to share our materials
with others.
16. As a Community Educator are you aware of how
to find OERs that you can use?
Yes 9
No 10
17. • As a Community Educator are you aware of how
to license any materials you make in future for
others to use as OERs?
Yes 6
No 13
18. In the CLIF programme it was a requirement of
the funding that you marked your materials:
Copyright vested in the Crown and available to
use under an Open Government licence.
19. Which of these statements best describes
your view of this requirement?
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
I was not aware if this requirement
I was aware of this and was content to give copyright to
the Crown
I was aware of this requirement and would have
preferred to keep the copyright for our organisation and
not shared the content.
I was aware of this requirement and would have
preferred to keep the copyright for our organisation but
would have been happy to make the material available…
I do not consider licensing to be important enough to
spend any time on.
20. As a Community Educator are you aware of
how to adapt OERs to meet your specific
learners’ needs?
Yes 8
No 9
21. They want to do the right thing
but not sure what the right
thing is.
22. • Was this a bold move which was effective in sharing resources
created?
• Did the requirement for content sharing raise commitment of
participants to Open Education?
• Was an Open Government Licence an appropriate tool with
which to ensure sharing?
23. What can you take from this experience?
What strategies can be adopted to advance
open educational practice?
Does it really matter anyway?