The document discusses the creation of open educational resources (OERs) with limited technical skills and funding. It describes the author's experience developing three plagiarism awareness programs for students - the initial program reused existing resources which was quick but had limitations, subsequent programs required adapting existing materials or creating new content to better fit institutional needs. The author discusses technical challenges encountered with different software programs and formats. Overall, the document provides guidance on developing OERs with constraints, emphasizing reuse and adaptation of existing materials before creating new content from scratch.

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Creating OERs with no technical skills
and no money
A tale of plagiarism, OERs and bewildered
librarians
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2. Good academic practice courses
• Plagiarism Awareness programme (2008)
– Disciplinary
– Face-to-face
• Plagiarism Avoidance for New Students (2011)
– Online
– Compulsory
– Students’ own time
• Good Academic Practice for Final Year Projects (2014)
– Online
– Voluntary
– Students’ own time
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3. Constraints
• Time
• Money
• Technical support (or lack thereof)
• Blackboard
– Needed to keep record of results
– Needed to go where students were
– Multiple possibilities don’t work with Blackboard
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4. Things to consider before you start
• Content
– What do you want to say?
• Accessibility
– Disability
– Different devices
– Many packages still produce Flash (won’t work on Macs or with screen-readers)
– Can use alternatives eg text transcripts but not ideal
• Audience
– Do you know who they are?
– Level
– Engagement
– Within your institution?
– In person or remote
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5. Things to consider before you start
• Features
– What do you want it to do?
– Quizzing?
– Voiceover?
• Reuse, Adapt, Create?
– Lots of fantastic material out there
– May not entirely match your own needs
– Consider first two options before diving in!
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6. Reuse: The Plagiarism Avoidance
Programme
• Disciplinary for students found in breach of plagiarism
regulations
• Delivered face-to-face
• Running since 2008
• Set up in 2 weeks
• Bizarrely popular!
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7. The Plagiarism Avoidance Programme
• Disciplinary for students found in breach of plagiarism
regulations
• Delivered face-to-face
• Running since 2008
• Set up in 2 weeks
• Bizarrely popular!
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8. Plagiarism Awareness Programme: First
incarnation
• Used existing resources
– Quick
– Cheap
– No skills required
• London Metropolitan CETL plagiarism prevention resources
– Student voices
– Referencing learning objects
– Online quiz
• Leicester “Don’t cheat yourself”
• Paper referencing exercise
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9. Problems with re-use
• Harder for Information Literacy than for “academic” subjects!
• Institutional context
– Regulations
– Advice
– Vocabulary!
• Referencing styles
– Slight but noticeable differences
• Subjects covered
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10. Plagiarism Awareness Programme: second
incarnation
• Contacted author
• Learned to use Glomaker
– Produces Flash
• Adapted to institutional guidelines
• Added voiceover
• Added institutional branding
• Created own quiz and referencing exercise
• Online through Blackboard
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11. Problems with adaptation
• Immovable objects!
– Flash objects not editable (with my skills!)
– Keep as is or remove
• Framework
– Follows same basic pattern
• Coverage
– Needed book chapter object
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12. Plagiarism Avoidance for New Students
• Running since 2011
• Induction for all new students
• Delivered online (some sessions)
• Mandate from Senate
• Compulsory
• Set up in 2 months
• Positive tone, little about referencing
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13. Plagiarism Avoidance for New Students:
requirements
• Must exactly match institutional guidelines
– Created own material
• Marks must be recorded
– Blackboard
• Must work on any device, anywhere
– But we only have PCs to test it!
• 3000 students at all levels
• Basic lessons with links to further information
• Accessible, engaging, attractive?
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14. Plagiarism Avoidance for New Students:
technical issues
• Powerpoint shows
– Blackboard shows as editable files in IE
• Glomaker
– Cannot reliably migrate between Blackboard areas
• Adobe Presenter (free trial)
– Doesn’t work on Macbooks (why??)
• iSpringFree
– Doesn’t work on Macs (Flash)
• Flat PDFs
– BOOOORING
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15. Plagiarism Avoidance for New Students:
current solution
• Reduce number of Blackboard modules
– Creates own problems!
• Powerpoints run through Camtasia (subscription but free
trial)
– MP4 output
– Voiceover
– Accessible
– Reasonably robust...
– Quizzing
– Still not very interactive!
• Don’t work very well on our website
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– Quizzing

16. Good Academic Practice for Final Year
Projects
• First year plagiarism cases plummet
• Highlighted problem with Final Year plagiarism cases
– Consequences more severe!
• More details about referencing
• More punitive tone!
• Voluntary (at the moment)
• Bid for ARLG innovation award
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17. Good Academic Practice for Final Year
Projects
• Visual
• Interactive
• Accessible
• Xerte
– Quizzing (lots of different types)
– Media
– Voiceover
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18. Xerte: Problems
• Setup
– Need friendly IT department
• All looks the same!
– Next release may change this
• Beware the Desktop of Doom!
– Xerte Online Toolkit: easy to use, intuitive
– Xerte Desktop version: utterly bizarre
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19. HTML5: The Future!
• Accessible on all devices
• Works with screen-readers
• Many packages that formerly produced Flash now use
HTML5
– Xerte
– iSpringFree (Powerpoint plug-in)
• Online powerpoint to HTML5 converters
– Slidego
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20. A cheating way of making pretend quizzes
1. Create a Powerpoint with your questions and answers on separate slides
2. Add shapes with your options (Yes/No, Multiple choice, click on a picture)
• Doesn’t have to be a shape, can highlight text and right click or use action buttons (bottom of
shapes menu). I like the shapes as it gives flexibility in the look and a big target to click
3. Click on a shape. Click Action (under the Insert tab) to add hyperlinks between
your slides
4. Add voiceover using Slideshow—Record Narration option
5. Upload to Slidego https://www.slidego.com
• In some situations it will work without this stage as a Powerpoint slide show but it’s more robust
and flexible to upload to Slidego and convert to HTML5
6. Point students to the link or embed into VLE
 An example at http://www.slidego.com/go/17192.
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21. Making your own: You need
• Time
• Willingness to experiment
• Willingness to make mistakes!
• Imperfectionism 
• Persistence
– Google is your friend (be specific)
– Alternativeto finds free versions of subscription software
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22. References: Learning objects
University of Bradford:
• Plagiarism Avoidance for New Students (induction) http://www.bradford.ac.uk/library/plagiarism (Download
from Jorum at http://find.jorum.ac.uk/resources/10949/19203 )
• Good Academic Practice for Final Year Projects: Download from Jorum at
http://find.jorum.ac.uk/resources/10949/19338 or individual lessons:
– Introduction to good academic practice http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/sandpit/play.php?template_id=4599
– Paraphrasing http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/sandpit/play.php?template_id=4607
– Citation http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/sandpit/play.php?template_id=4269
– Book reference http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/sandpit/play.php?template_id=4159
– Journal article reference http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/sandpit/play.php?template_id=4614
– Referencing other sources http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/sandpit/play.php?template_id=4161
– Turnitin http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/sandpit/play.php?template_id=4521
• Plagiarism Awareness Programme (Disciplinary). Enquiries to lib-plagiarism@lists.bradford.ac.uk
Others:
• London Metropolitan CETL:
http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/learnhigher/Plagiarism/referencing/ref/refBook.html
• Leicester “Don’t cheat yourself” http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ld/resources/study/plagiarism-tutorial
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23. References: Learning technologies
Name URL Cost What does it do? Notes
Alternativeto http://alternativeto.net/ Free Software search Finds free alternatives to named software
Audacity http://sourceforge.net/projects
/audacity/
Free Records audio
Camtasia https://www.techsmith.com/ca
mtasia.html
Free
trial
Screen capture and
adding voiceover
and interaction to
Powerpoints
Clunky and difficult to use but produces MP4 and HTML5. Has
quizzing feature but no voiceover or interaction
Canva https://www.canva.com/ Free Poster design
Educanon http://www.educanon.com/ Free Annotating videos Add questions to pre-existing videos.
Format
factory
http://format-
factory.en.softonic.com/
Free Format converter Bulk conversion of audio, video and pictures to other formats.
Can also stitch files together
Glomaker http://www.glomaker.org/ Free Creates learning
objects
Includes quizzing, multimedia, voiceover. Flash output.
Google Forms https://www.google.co.uk/for
ms
Free Online quizzes Not what it’s for but it seems to work!
Haiku Deck https://www.haikudeck.com Free Presentations Export as powerpoint or PDF. Also has creative commons
image serch

24. References: Learning technologies
Name URL Cost What does it do? Notes
iSpringFree/
Quizmaker
https://www.ispringsolutions.c
om/ispring-free
Free
option
Powerpoint to Flash
converter (and
HTML5) and
quizzing feature
Works as plug-in to Powerpoint. Feedback on quizzes cannot
be customised to each question
Jing
https://www.techsmith.com/jin
g.html
Free
option
Screen capture
Very easy to use. Stills (can annotate screenshots) and videos
with voiceover. No editing (can use Camtasia). Small fee for
premium access (longer videos and editing)
Kahoot https://getkahoot.com/ Free Games and quizzes
Nearpod
https://www.nearpod.com/ho
me.php
Free
option
Interactive mobile
presentations
Students follow your presentation on their own device, can
interact with it.
Office mix http://mix.office.com Free
Interactive
powerpoint
Needs Powerpoint 2013
Ofslides http://ofslides.com/ Free
Converts
powerpoint slides to
video, automatically
adds voiceover
Good if you don’t want to do your own voiceover, though the
computer voice is a bit comic!
Open badges http://openbadges.org/ Free Badge creator Crediting extracurricular activities eg workshops
Padlet https://padlet.com/ Free Online feedback Students post questions and comments. Real-time feedback
Participoll https://www.participoll.com/ Free Polling
Instant feedback using any internet-enabled device. Uses
Powerpoint plug-in (doesn’t work on 2007)
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25. References: Learning technologies
Name URL Cost What does it do? Notes
Piktochart http://piktochart.com/ Free
Infographics,
reports, flow-charts
Powtoon http://www.powtoon.com/
Free
option
Animated
presentations
Free version has Powtoon branding on. Prepare for acres of
spam using the non-word “awesomeness”
Screencast-o-
matic
http://screencast-o-matic.com/ Free Screencasts
Exports to MP4, maximum length of 15 minutes. Highlights
cursor
Slidego https://www.slidego.com Free
Powerpoint to
HTML5 converter
Can also create presentations without need for Powerpoint:
fiddly!
Socrative http://www.socrative.com/ Free Quizzing Gives real-time feedback on how your students are doing
SPLOT
Truwriter
http://splot.ca/writer/write Free
Blogging / reflective
writing
Allows students to write for web publishing with no log-in or
technical skills
Vidra
http://tentouchapps.com/vidra
/
Free Videos
Create online videos with your own or stock pictures and
voiceover
Wink
http://www.debugmode.com/
wink
Free Screen capture
Allows editing but produces enormous files! Default is Flash
but can produce HTML5
Xerte http://www.xerte.org.uk/ Free*
Creates learning
objects: quizzing,
multimedia etc.
*But need a friendly IT department (or see
http://tinyurl.com/xerte-option). HTML5 output. Designed
with accessibility in mind
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26. Sources of images to use in OERs
Google image search https://images.google.com/ Advanced search—image
rights. Change to “free to use or share”
Xpert automatic attribution tool http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/attribution
Creative commons images with attribution added
Flickr advanced search https://www.flickr.com/search/advanced. Filter by
licence.
Tin eye https://www.tineye.com/ Reverse image search. Upload image and
it will search for original source
Solvonauts http://solvonauts.org/ Open search engine
Further resources listed at http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/help/copyright-and-
licensing/copyright-and-images and
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nmp/sonet/resources/image_repositories.html
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