This document discusses open educational resources (OERs) and their role in the digital classics community. It defines OERs as teaching, learning, or research materials that are freely available for use, adaptation, and distribution. The document promotes creating OERs for digital humanities and classics that are available as full modules or individual learning objects. However, it notes challenges around ensuring OERs are discoverable, have appropriate metadata and licensing, and are sustainable. Overall, the document advocates for a community approach to developing open resources for classics through collaborative development and peer review.

1. Open Educational Resources and the Digital
Classicist Community.
Simon Mahony (University College London)
s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk
@simon_mahony
#DigiClass
All original content is licenced under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

4. United Nations EDUCATIONAL
Scientific and Cultural Organization
"Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning
or research materials that are in the public domain
or released with an intellectual property license
that allows for free use, adaptation, and
distribution."
(www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-
educational-resources/browse)

8. DHOER: Digital Humanities OER
• Creating OERs
• Range of teaching materials
• Relevant to Digital Humanities and beyond
• Each available as full module or individual objects
• Granular approach

9. Packaging teaching resources
Levels of granularity
• Full module
• Individual lecture
• Seminar with discussion topics and readings
• Learning objects
• Practical exercises
• Worksheets and handouts

10. Widening the reach of OERs
Making OERs free online does NOT make
them available to all.
‘It is not technologies with inherent pedagogical qualities that
triumph in distance education but technologies which are
generally available to citizens’
(Keegan, How Successful Is Mobile Learning? 2008 )

11. Further issues
• Context of a single OER?
• Adequate and relevant metadata
• Discoverability
• Ownership / relationship
• Sustainability

12. Growth of knowledge
• Teaching materials are improved
• Becomes and iterative cycle
• Peer review of materials
• Returned with improvements and acknowledgement
• Digital Humanities methodology
• Equal partnerships in research and teaching
• Arts, Humanities and Technology

13. OER and Open Resources for Classics
The two main UK repositories:
Jorum
Jisc funded repository
HumBox
Jisc/HE Academy OER Pilot Programme

22. Community approach
Digital Classicist
Jiscmail-hosted email list
Classics more generally
Classics (Liverpool) Jiscmail
OER-DISCUSS Jiscmail
Social media
Classics International (Facebook)
Twitter

28. Other platforms
Udacity: 'Advance your career …' (build portfolio)
Mainly programming and Computer Science
edX: 'great online courses […] world's best universities'
Founded Harvard & MITx (now includes Berkeley)

29. OER Search engines?
Xpert: http://xpert.nottingham.ac.uk/
Search: Classics
Retrieves Oxford podcasts
But
Search: DHOER returns no results (so not universal)

31. Oxford University
Podcasts
What is Tragedy?
Beazley Archive
Faculty Classics
Most from Jisc/HE OER Strand 1
and hence CC licenced

34. Discoverability and more
Consistent and appropriate metadata
Appropriate open licence
Repurposable
Open format

35. Coda: objects to think about
Reflection on our teaching practice
Digital Humanities Pedagogy
Pedagogy of Digital Classics?
What skills do our students need?
What is the best way for them to attain them?

36. Slideshare: simon_mahony
http://www.slideshare.net/simon_mahony