This document outlines the steps to convert a course into open educational resources (OER). It discusses these steps in the context of converting Course HEM705 on human behavior in sickness. The steps include determining what content to publish openly, choosing an open license, reworking materials, clearing copyrights, adding metadata, and publishing. General questions are raised about publishing the entire course or parts, pedagogy, citations, images, and student interaction. Specific copyright and assessment questions are also posed about the example course.

1. Course2OER
Robert Schuwer
Open Universiteit (Netherlands)

2. Agenda
• Roadmap
• Example: course HEM705
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Roadmap
CC-BY Hester Jelgerhuis

4. Activities
1. Determine which learning materials are to be
published open
2. Determine which open license to use
3. Rework the learning materials
4. Clear copyrights
5. Add metadata to make learning materials
retrievable
6. Publish the learning materials
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5. 1. What to publish open
• Considerations
– Policy
– Context
– Expected effort
– Expected cooperation from stakeholders
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6. 2. What open license
• Creative Commons
• Share-Alike or not?
• Commercial or Non-Commercial use
allowed?
– If so: what does commercial mean?
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7. 3. Rework
• Selfcontained unit
• Instructions for use
• Inventory of copyright issues
• Testing
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8. 4. Clearing copyrights
• Acquire permission from owner
• If not possible / not acquired for a
component
– Replace by open version or create one
yourself
– Determine value of component within the
context: can it be done without the
component?
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9. 5. Add metadata
• Title
• Description
• Language
• Keywords
• Role librarian!
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10. 6. Publish OER
• Website institution
• Platform maintained by community
– MERLOT, OERCommons, Curriki
• ITunesU
• Youtube
• Provide adequate marketing
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11. CC-BY Hester Jelgerhuis
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Example:
HEM705

12. Approach for this workshop
• Questions (general and specific)
• Inspired by the roadmap, but not strictly followed
all steps
• Goal: give you an idea of how to proceed in
these situations
• Goal: do-it-yourself and gain some experience
• Goal: provide input for plan “how to proceed
after this workshop?”
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13. Course HEM705
• Human Behaviour in Sickness
• Six modules, five units per module
• PDF-file, no images
• Structure unit: introduction, goals, content,
conclusion, summary, Tutor Marked
Assignment, References/Further Readings
• Each unit 7-9 pages of text
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14. General - 1
• Publish it as a whole or in parts?
– Effect on the Table of Content
– If in parts: add information about the rest of
the course to each part
– Should the modules be studied in the order
shown or can a learner choose its own
learning path?
• If in parts: should each part be
selfcontained?
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15. General - 2
• Pedagogy: self-directed learning.
• Change this? Why (not)?
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16. General - 3
• Are there citations from others in the text? If so,
how large?
• Images are not present? Add them? Why (not)?
• Ideas to add more multimedia or other learning
objects (like you would also do with traditional
textbooks)?
• Are there powerpoint sheets available from the
current course? Add these? Why (not)?
– Be aware: when added, these sheets should undergo
the same process!
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17. General - 4
• Do you allow for learners to contact the
author directly? Do you provide an
alternative for students to ask questions?
• Is registration mandatory for a learner?
• How to proceed when the course is
finished?
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18. Specific - 1
• Page iii: all rights reserved?
• Page iii: First printed 2006. How actual is
the text? Should it be actualized?
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19. Specific - 2
• Page 5: Self Assessment. The answers
are provided directly after the questions.
Maybe better at the end of the unit?
• Page 5: explanation about the self
assessment. This is generic for the whole
course. Maybe better to add a study guide
in the beginning of each part where the
learner is told how to proceed?
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20. Specific - 3
• Page 8: Tutor marked assignment. How to
proceed with this in the open context?
(Where are the answers? Which feedback
will you provide?)
• Page 8: References. Maybe also add
some open sources.
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21. Specific - 4
• Page 40. At the end of the module: maybe
add a self assessment for the whole
module (especially adding assignments
that cross the borders of each unit)?
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