The document discusses open educational resources (OER) practices from a UK perspective. It notes that significant government funding has been available internationally to support OER development. Reasons to engage in OER development include improving access to learning materials, marketing and brand extension, and achieving economies of scale. The University of Bath's experience includes small-scale OER projects funded by JISC and the HEA. Engaging in OER development is seen as a highly cultural and balancing experience that can provide educational benefits through overcoming challenges in current practice. Key challenges for institutions include intellectual property, sustainability of initiatives, and discoverability of resources.

1. Reflections on OER Practices: UK
perspective
Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou, Head of e-Learning
University of Bath

2. Incentives for OER development
• Significant government funding available internationally
• USA: $2 billion to create OER resources in
community colleges (2011)
(http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26100)
• UK: recommended investment of £5 million per year
for 5 years (2011)
(http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2011/201101/)
• Funding body requirements
• JISC, HEA and others
• SCORE: support and capacity building (2009-12)

3. Reasons to engage in OER development
• Improving access to learning materials and
opportunities
• Marketing, brand extension and improving public
relations
• Improving effectiveness and achieving economies of
scale

4. The University of Bath’s experience
• We create lots of content (lecture capture, Moodle
courses, etc,) only small percentage is OER
• OSTRICH ( JISC funded) – collaborative, 1 year project
• Universities of Leicester, Bath and Derby
• Workflow model and processes
• http://ostrich.bath.ac.uk/
• Disciplinary Thinking (HEA and JISC funded)
• Departmental based projects

6. CORRE model

7. DORRE model

8. Reflections
Engaging in OER development is…
…a highly cultural experience
• Identity and pedagogy (content and learning design of
resources).
• Language and semantics
• Organisational structures and relationships (home of
resources, assumptions, parent-child relationship)

9. Reflections
Engaging in OER development is…
…a balancing act
• Open Vs commercial educational offerings (what/how
you release, who)
• Centralised Vs decentralised models for development
• Core business Vs additional work (workload, incentives)
• Top-down Vs bottom-up engagement
• Funding Vs Timing/readiness

10. Reflections
Engaging in OER development is…
…an educational experience
• Highlighted issues with current
practice, misconceptions, gaps
• IPR and copyright issues
• Collaborative learning experience
• Capacity building = sustainability

11. Reflections on Impact
• Initiated processes, built capacity internally, overcome
learning curves
• Increase in support resources (copyright, lecture
capture, etc) and ‘contracts’
• Development of expertise (i.e. Drupal, copyright
licenses)
• Awareness raising – potential marketing tool/’taster
sessions’ for module choices

12. Challenges for institutions
• Intellectual property and copyright
• Sustainability of OER initiatives
• New business models emerging
• ‘Conversion’ model
• ‘Segmentation’ model
• ‘Contributor-pay’ model and others
• Discoverability and quality of resources

13. Please feel free to ask your questions.
K.Anagnostopoulou@bath.ac.uk