Regional Consultation Workshop on Quality Guidelines for Open Educational Resources on 13-15 March 2013 at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad

1. Open Education Network
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Creating Open Educational Resources :
Guidelines for Quality Assurance
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Paul Kawachi FRSA
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O E R
open educational resources
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

2. Open Education Network
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Creating Open Educational Resources :
Guidelines for Quality Assurance
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Paul Kawachi FRSA
kawachi @ open-ed.net
http://www.open-ed.net / library / oer-quality ppt .

3. overview Open Education Network
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what exactly is quality assurance QA
and how can we build QA into our design of OER
what are the criteria of quality
that we use as guidelines in designing OER

4. overview Open Education Network
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as an example for discussion :
will tutor training improve the quality of tutoring ?

5. overview Open Education Network
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as an example for discussion :
will tutor training improve the quality of tutoring ?
are we simply interested in tutor quality, or
are we interested rather in achieved learning ?

6. overview Open Education Network
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as an example for discussion :
do you think increasing tutor training is good ? or
should we just increase the number of tutors ?
answers differ according to the perspectives
of different stakeholders … students, parents, admin, etc

7. overview Open Education Network
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as an example for discussion :
for OER quality …
we mean, those characteristics / attributes of OER
that induce better quality of achieved learning
in some cases OER for teachers need
the attributes of easy discoverability …
so we might need different sets of quality criteria

8. overview Open Education Network
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i definition of ‘quality assurance’
ii stakeholders concerned about quality
iii different perspectives
iv summary

9. methods Open Education Network
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i definition of ‘open’
ii definition of ‘OER’

10. methods Open Education Network
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ii definition of ‘open’

11. methods Open Education Network
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ii definition of ‘open’
redrawn from Hodgkinson-Williams & Gray, 2008, with graphics from http://creativecommons.org/licenses

12. methods Open Education Network
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the Creative Commons licences :
graphics from http://creativecommons.org/licenses

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the Creative Commons licences :
By-Attribution and Non-Commercial and No-Derivatives :
allows any use provided the original author is accredited, no commercial use, and no derivative
By-Attribution and Non-Commercial and Share-Alike :
allows any use with attribution to the original author, no commercial use,
plus any derivative must carry same licence
By-Attribution and Non-Commercial :
allows any use provided the original author is accredited, and no commercial use
By-Attribution and No-Derivatives :
allows any use with attribution to the original author, and no derivative
any use =
By-Attribution and Share-Alike : free-of-cost to reuse
below plus any derivative must carry same licence to share with others,
and to remix
By-Attribution :
allows any use with attribution to the original author
graphics from http://creativecommons.org/licenses

14. definition Open Education Network
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i definition of ‘quality assurance’

15. definition Open Education Network
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i definition of ‘localisation’

16. internationalisation
increased
simplicity reusable can export / import
adapted adapted
customised customised customised
more localisation
complexity

17. definition Open Education Network
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i definition of ‘quality assurance’
discoverability can be facilitated through
(a) metadata tagging, and
(b) social tagging
however … social tagging needs moderating

18. definition Open Education Network
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(b) social tagging
European OER repository OpenScienceResources
has five social tags in its third top-rated content
OER on Foucault’s Pendulum
each / all promoting shoes, clothes and sunglasses
http://www.osrportal.eu/en/node/94374
clearly … social tagging needs moderating

19. definition Open Education Network
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concerning language :
European OER repository OpenScienceResources
has top-rated content
in only a single language (as follows in order)
French, English, Greek, Greek, Greek, Greek, French, Portuguese, German, English, Portuguese,
Greek, Portuguese, Greek, German, Portuguese, German, Portuguese, English, and so on
Perhaps initially OER should be created in one of
a few key global languages such as
English, French, and Chinese ?

20. stakeholders Open Education Network
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ii stakeholders concerned about quality :
1) current and future students
2) parents, families, and friends
3) current and future employers
4) funding agents eg governments
5) community and wider society
6) teachers
7) administration and assistant staff
8) other universities

21. perspectives Open Education Network
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iii different perspectives

22. summary Open Education Network
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OO E R
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

23. summary Open Education Network
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iv summary :
1) quality assurance is best defined
according to the students' perspective
as achieving improved quality of learning
notably the higher-order critical thinking skills
for mobility, employability, and lifelong learning

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You can download these slides freely from the website
http://www.open-ed.net / library / oer-quality ppt.
or by email to me at
kawachi @ open-ed.net