Presentation by Gabi Witthaus, Alejandro Armellini, Julian Prior and Sam O'Neil at OER11 Conference in Manchester, May 2011: Developing workflow models for the creation of sustainable Open Educational Resources

1. Developing workflow models
for the creation of sustainable
Open Educational Resources:
OER11 presentation
Gabi Witthaus, University of Leicester, Julian Prior, University
of Bath, Sam O’Neill, University of Derby, Alejandro
Armellini, University of Leicester

2. Presentation overview
1. Early OER workflow models (Gabi)
2. Brief intro to CORRE/ OTTER (Ale)
3. CORRE model for converting existing
materials into OERs - Derby (Sam)
4. CORRE model – developing OERs from
scratch (Julian)
5. Next steps (Ale)

3. MIT Open CourseWare

4. MIT OCW workflow
Carchidi, D. &
Weeramuni, L.
2008. MIT
OpenCourseWare:
Copyright in an
Open Courseware
http://net.educause.
edu/ir/library/pdf/NC
P08067.pdf

5. OpenLearn, OU, UK
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk

6. • Integrity model: OER is very
Open University similar to the original material
OER • Essence model: Material is
Transformation transformed by cutting back to
Models essential features and new
activities added for interactivity.
Lane, A., (2006). From
Pillar to Post: exploring the
issues involved in
• Remix model: Material is used
repurposing distance
learning materials for use as a starting point but the unit
as Open Educational
Resources. Found at:
http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/d
is redesigned for ideal web
ocument.cfm?docid=9724 based delivery.

7. Open, Transferable and Technology-enabled
Educational Resources: the OTTER project
• Funded by JISC and the HE Academy
• May 2009 to April 2010 as pilot institutional OER project
• Enabled evaluation of systems and processes to support the
release of high-quality OERs at Leicester
• Made use of JorumOpen and the Plone CMS.

8. OTTER achievements
• 360+ credits’ worth of OERs
• Promoted Leicester and the UK HE sector globally
• Research evidence on satisfaction and attitudes to OERs
• Put-up take-down guidelines for OERs
• Leicester OER toolkit
• The CORRE framework for turning teaching materials into OERs
• Much increased awareness of OERs at Leicester and elsewhere

10. CORRE roles and responsibilities at Leicester
Key
Academic
OER project manager
Copyright administrator/ librarian
Learning Technologist
OER evaluator, editorial board or HoD

11. When is CORRE used? Examples from Derby and Bath:
Institution Area New/ CORRE or Adapted
existing CORRE?
Learning & Teaching Existing CORRE
Enhancement Office
Bath Division for Lifelong New Adapted CORRE
Learning
Law Existing CORRE
Derby
Hairdressing New Adapted CORRE

12. Derby - background
• University owns the materials.
• Centralised team – CORRE very suitable.
• A range of subject areas from quarrying to education...
• Mainly transformed existing materials.

13. Derby case study – CORRE for Law
Key (Derby)
Academic
OER project manager
Copyright administrator/ librarian
Learning Technologist
Developer

14. Bath - background
• Learning & Teaching Enhancement Office, Engineering,
Division for Lifelong Learning, Education (100 credits total)
• No central OER team at University of Bath
• Development of a framework for creating OER ‘from scratch’

15. Bath – IP Policy
IPR at Bath is complex:
- University owns IP of all
work undertaken by staff;
- Academics own materials
produced for campus-
based teaching. BUT …
- … the University owns
materials produced for
distance education.

17. This leads to DORRE…

18. http://wikieducator.org/OER_university/About

19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/
Gabi.Witthaus@le.ac.uk
Alejandro.Armellini@le.ac.uk
S.ONeill@derby.ac.uk
J.Prior2@bath.ac.uk

20. Acknowledgements
• Banner derived from Flickr image ‘ostriches closeup’ by matstornberg
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 2.0
generic license.
• Slide 14 contains an image of the University of Bath library which is
copyright IDPS University of Bath.
• Slide 15 contains the image ‘Come Friendly Patents’ by psd (Paul Downey)
on Flickr, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 generic
license.
• Slide 19 (“Thank you”): http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks