The document discusses the ROER4D project which researches the adoption and impact of open educational resources (OER) in the Global South. It provides an overview of key challenges facing education in developing countries and how OER can help address issues of access, cost, and relevance. The presentation describes ROER4D's research questions, clusters, sites in Africa, and objectives to build the evidence base around OER use and influence education policy.
Researching OER in the Open: developments and deliberations in the ROER4D pro...ROER4D
Researching OER in the Open: developments and deliberations in the ROER4D project.
Seminar for Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) Research Seminar series, University of Cape Town
9 March 2016
A/Prof Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
The Potential Contribution of Open Educational Resources to e-Learning and Di...ROER4D
The Potential Contribution of Open Educational Resources
to e-Learning and Distance Education.
A/Prof Patricia B. Arinto
3rd e-Learning and Distance Education Conference
Lahore, Pakistan, 14-15 March 2016
ROER4D Update March 2016 - Presentation to the Hewlett FoundationROER4D
Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) in the Global South:
Update March 2016
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams with the ROER4D team's presentation to the Hewlett Foundation, UCT, Cape Town
14 March 2016
Engaging with audiences early: the role of social media and networks in deve...ROER4D
Engaging with audiences early:
the role of social media and networks in developing a communications strategy for a global research project
Association of Business Communications (ABC) Regional Conference, Cape Town,
6-8 Jan 2016
Hewlett Foundation Presentation OER2011 public ccOER Commons
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's presentation at the Open Educational Resources Grantees Meeting, OER 2011: The Impact of Open on Teaching and Learning
Presenters: Barbara Chow, Vic Vuchic, Kathy Nicholson
Uncovering what enables and constrains 'open practices' in the Global South: ...ROER4D
Uncovering what enables and constrains 'open practices' in the Global South: Reflections from the ROER4D Project. Keynote for the AVU Conference 1-3 July 2015 by Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
Developing a communications strategy for ROER4D - insights for the South Afri...ROER4D
Developing a communications strategy for ROER4D - insights for the South African Institute for Distance Education
Seminar presented by Sukaina Walji, 22 May, 2017, Johannesburg
Understanding "Openness" in Research on Open Educational Resources: Deliberat...ROER4D
Understanding "Openness" in Research on Open Educational Resources: Deliberations of the ROER4D Project
Presentation for eLearning Africa, 10th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education & Training, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 20-22 May 2015
Researching OER in the Open: developments and deliberations in the ROER4D pro...ROER4D
Researching OER in the Open: developments and deliberations in the ROER4D project.
Seminar for Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) Research Seminar series, University of Cape Town
9 March 2016
A/Prof Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
The Potential Contribution of Open Educational Resources to e-Learning and Di...ROER4D
The Potential Contribution of Open Educational Resources
to e-Learning and Distance Education.
A/Prof Patricia B. Arinto
3rd e-Learning and Distance Education Conference
Lahore, Pakistan, 14-15 March 2016
ROER4D Update March 2016 - Presentation to the Hewlett FoundationROER4D
Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) in the Global South:
Update March 2016
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams with the ROER4D team's presentation to the Hewlett Foundation, UCT, Cape Town
14 March 2016
Engaging with audiences early: the role of social media and networks in deve...ROER4D
Engaging with audiences early:
the role of social media and networks in developing a communications strategy for a global research project
Association of Business Communications (ABC) Regional Conference, Cape Town,
6-8 Jan 2016
Hewlett Foundation Presentation OER2011 public ccOER Commons
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's presentation at the Open Educational Resources Grantees Meeting, OER 2011: The Impact of Open on Teaching and Learning
Presenters: Barbara Chow, Vic Vuchic, Kathy Nicholson
Uncovering what enables and constrains 'open practices' in the Global South: ...ROER4D
Uncovering what enables and constrains 'open practices' in the Global South: Reflections from the ROER4D Project. Keynote for the AVU Conference 1-3 July 2015 by Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
Developing a communications strategy for ROER4D - insights for the South Afri...ROER4D
Developing a communications strategy for ROER4D - insights for the South African Institute for Distance Education
Seminar presented by Sukaina Walji, 22 May, 2017, Johannesburg
Understanding "Openness" in Research on Open Educational Resources: Deliberat...ROER4D
Understanding "Openness" in Research on Open Educational Resources: Deliberations of the ROER4D Project
Presentation for eLearning Africa, 10th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education & Training, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 20-22 May 2015
Reflections on developing an evaluation and communications strategy for the ...ROER4D
Reflections on developing an evaluation and communications strategy for the ROER4D project
Sukaina Walji and Sarah Goodier
ROER4D Communications and Evaluation Advisors
Presentation for DECI-2 workshop
Cape Town, 4 May 2016
Researching Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) in the Global...ROER4D
Researching Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) in the Global South
2nd International Conference on Open and Distance e-Learning, Metro Manila, Philippines, 19 June 2014
Patricia Arinto, Deputy Principal Investigator
Dimensions of open research: critical reflections on openness in the ROER4D p...ROER4D
Dimensions of open research: critical reflections on openness in the ROER4D project
Thomas King, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Michelle Willmers, Sukaina Walji
University of Cape Town
OE Global Conference 2016, 14-16 April, Krakow, Poland
Making MOOCs and changing open educational practicesROER4D
Making MOOCs and changing open educational practices
Laura Czerniewicz, Andrew Deacon, Sukaina Walji, Michael Glover
9 March 2017
Presentation at Open Education Global Conference 2017
Open Educational Resources (OER) challenge the current storylines that steer higher education and publishers’ business models by providing students with access to alternative learning resources other than the traditional textbook or lecturer-generated teaching materials. To what extent students take up the opportunity to search for and find OER that are sufficiently authoritative and current to be considered worthwhile and suitably relevant to their context to be considered useful, is yet to be established in the Global South. Likewise it is also not fully understood to what degree lecturers take the time to explore the Internet to locate existing teaching materials to compare these to their own materials, to legally reuse, revise, remix and redistribute educational resources, and/or to contribute their original materials for others to reuse in specified ways. In fact it is not yet known to what extent students and lecturers are even aware of OER and how they are different from any other materials available on the Internet, let alone how they may practically access these materials in geographically remote or connectivity poor environments in countries in the Global South. Least of all, we have insufficient evidence about the actual impact of OER in the Global South on informal and formal students’ satisfaction or performance or lecturers’ pedagogical practices even though these benefits are widely touted.
The iterative engagement between curation and evaluation in an open research ...SarahG_SS
Presentation at the African Virtual University (AVU) in Nairobi, Kenya in July 2015. This practice-based presentation outlines the iterative engagement between ROER4D’s curation strategy and evaluation of this project objective, and analyses how this facilitates development of the evaluation plan. Opportunities and challenges of developing and evaluating a curation strategy for such a large-scale open research project are also highlighted.
CCCOER Webinar: OER Research on Open Textbook adoption and LibrariansOER Hub
"OER Research on Open Textbook adoption and Librarians" was presented by Beck Pitt on 10 December 2014 as part of a CCCOER webinar with Nicole Allen (SPARC) and Una Daly.
These slides were created by reversioning two previous presentations: Librarians Perceptions of OER and Open Access Week 2014: Open Textbook Research Overview (also available on Slideshare).
The Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN): Engaging Doctoral Research with Open...Robert Farrow
This workshop was led by the Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) team (http://go-gn.net/). GO-GN is a network of PhD candidates around the world whose research projects include a focus on open education. These doctoral researchers are at the core of the network while around them, experts, supervisors, mentors and interested parties connect to form a community of practice. Considering the growth of open research and the commitment of research funders to follow this approach, there is a need to understand what open research practices imply. This involves understanding the benefits and challenges of making research more visible to increase impact and opportunities for collaboration with other researchers when doing a PhD and when pursuing a career in academia.
The workshop will focus on introducing the network possibilities for PhD students, including worldwide support to those researching in the different areas of open education. We will expose the values of the network promoting equity and inclusion in the field of open education research and introduce the different types of events we host such as an annual face-to-face workshop and online events. As well, we will discuss the support for alumni and members with a funded fellowship scheme and the acknowledgement of our members’ achievements through our annual awards. At the second part of the workshop, we will have a practical exercise with the audience to promote the co-authoring of research publications with our members. Two examples of those which will be disclosed are the research methods handbook, awarded with the 2020 Open Education Award for Excellence Winner, and the Research Review Summer 2020.
Ramirez-Montoya (2020) recently presented a review of literature pertaining OER and educational innovation, noting that although definitions of openness vary across sectoral spaces, the crossover between openness and innovation is an area of increasing interest. A core part of the story of open educational resources is that they can be used to create spaces for innovation in teaching and learning (Orr et al., 2015; Pitt & Smyth, 2017; Weller et al., 2015). As Coughlan et al. (2018) argue, there has been a lack of detailed analysis of the specific function of OER as a driver of innovation, and a single model has not yet captured the multi-faceted relationship between openness and innovation.
This presentation will present an overview of several major theories of innovation as they relate to contexts of open education, making clear connections to open educational practice and showing how innovation theories can apply to OER. The presentation is likely to be of interest to practitioners wishing to have a stronger theoretical and practical understanding of how OER can support innovative practice.
• Task-Artefact Cycle (Carroll, Kellog & Rosson, 1991)
• The diffusion of innovations theory (Rogers, 2010)
• SAMR framework (Puentedura, 2006; Orr et al., 2015)
• Cyclic Innovation Model (Berkhout, 2007)
• Forms of innovation in OER (Coughlan, Pitt & Farrow, 2018)
This work contributes to the European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education (ENCORE+). ENCORE+ is a pan-European Knowledge Alliance funded under the Erasmus+ programme. The project will run from 2021 to 2023 to support the modernisation of education in the European area through OER.
Understanding the nature of OEP for OER adoption in Global South contexts: Em...ROER4D
Understanding the nature of OEP for OER adoption in Global South contexts: Emerging lessons from the ROER4D project
Presentation at OER17 London 5-6 April 2017
Sukaina Walji & Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
Community College Consortium for OER Panel: Increasing Student Retention and ...Una Daly
Presentation at the Online Teaching Conference Jun 18, 2015 in San Diego, CA:
The cost of textbooks has been identified as a major barrier for students completing their education. Colleges seeking to increase student retention and success are promoting the use of open educational resources and open textbooks to reduce costs and improve pedagogy. A key strategy for college adoption campaigns has been participating in communities of practice. Members of the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) will share their best practices and other tactics for nurturing a national community of practice focused on open education.
Etienne Wenger defines communities of practice as “groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” With over 250 member colleges in 19 states and provinces, CCCOER encourages collaboration between members and invites OER project presentations at monthly online meetings. Experienced members advise those who are just getting started on OER and best practices are freely shared. Access to a community of college OER experts through our advisory listserve allows new members to quickly find and adopt the highest quality OER available. Meetups at regional and national conferences provide an opportunity to share and promote the OER adoption successes of our members with colleagues in higher education.
Hear from this panel of OER experts about how they promote open textbooks and OER adoption at their colleges:
Una Daly, Director of CCCOER and Curriculum Design at the Open Education Consortium. Panel facilitator.
Katie Datko: Interim Associate Dean of Distance Education and Instructional Designer, Pasadena City College.
James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean of Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons, President of CCCOER Advisory
Barbara Illowsky: Dean of Basic Skills & OER, CCC Online Ed Initiative and Mathematics professor at De Anza College.
Cherylee Kushida: Distance Education Coordinator and Computer Science professor at Santa Ana College.
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams' Keynote presentation slides for 2nd Regional Symposium on Open Educational Resources (OER). Presentation title: Degrees of ease: Adoption of OER, Open Textbooks and MOOCs in the Global South
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, (the Principal Investigator of the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project) and Andrew Deacon, from the Centre for Innovation for Learning and Teaching (CILT), presented a short seminar for the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Cape Town on OER and MOOCs.
‘Open, ready and agile’: Developing a communications strategy for the Researc...ROER4D
Open, ready and agile: developing a communications strategy for the ROER4D project. Presented by Sukaina Walji at Open Education Global Conference 2015, Banff, Alberta
23 April 2015.
Evaluation: a means to gain insights into and improve the ROER4D projectROER4D
A shortened version of a presentation ROER4D's Evaluation Advisor, Sarah Goodier, gave to the University of Cape Town's Research & Evaluation of Emerging Technologies PGDip course on the evaluation strategy for ROER4D.
Reflections on developing an evaluation and communications strategy for the ...ROER4D
Reflections on developing an evaluation and communications strategy for the ROER4D project
Sukaina Walji and Sarah Goodier
ROER4D Communications and Evaluation Advisors
Presentation for DECI-2 workshop
Cape Town, 4 May 2016
Researching Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) in the Global...ROER4D
Researching Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) in the Global South
2nd International Conference on Open and Distance e-Learning, Metro Manila, Philippines, 19 June 2014
Patricia Arinto, Deputy Principal Investigator
Dimensions of open research: critical reflections on openness in the ROER4D p...ROER4D
Dimensions of open research: critical reflections on openness in the ROER4D project
Thomas King, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Michelle Willmers, Sukaina Walji
University of Cape Town
OE Global Conference 2016, 14-16 April, Krakow, Poland
Making MOOCs and changing open educational practicesROER4D
Making MOOCs and changing open educational practices
Laura Czerniewicz, Andrew Deacon, Sukaina Walji, Michael Glover
9 March 2017
Presentation at Open Education Global Conference 2017
Open Educational Resources (OER) challenge the current storylines that steer higher education and publishers’ business models by providing students with access to alternative learning resources other than the traditional textbook or lecturer-generated teaching materials. To what extent students take up the opportunity to search for and find OER that are sufficiently authoritative and current to be considered worthwhile and suitably relevant to their context to be considered useful, is yet to be established in the Global South. Likewise it is also not fully understood to what degree lecturers take the time to explore the Internet to locate existing teaching materials to compare these to their own materials, to legally reuse, revise, remix and redistribute educational resources, and/or to contribute their original materials for others to reuse in specified ways. In fact it is not yet known to what extent students and lecturers are even aware of OER and how they are different from any other materials available on the Internet, let alone how they may practically access these materials in geographically remote or connectivity poor environments in countries in the Global South. Least of all, we have insufficient evidence about the actual impact of OER in the Global South on informal and formal students’ satisfaction or performance or lecturers’ pedagogical practices even though these benefits are widely touted.
The iterative engagement between curation and evaluation in an open research ...SarahG_SS
Presentation at the African Virtual University (AVU) in Nairobi, Kenya in July 2015. This practice-based presentation outlines the iterative engagement between ROER4D’s curation strategy and evaluation of this project objective, and analyses how this facilitates development of the evaluation plan. Opportunities and challenges of developing and evaluating a curation strategy for such a large-scale open research project are also highlighted.
CCCOER Webinar: OER Research on Open Textbook adoption and LibrariansOER Hub
"OER Research on Open Textbook adoption and Librarians" was presented by Beck Pitt on 10 December 2014 as part of a CCCOER webinar with Nicole Allen (SPARC) and Una Daly.
These slides were created by reversioning two previous presentations: Librarians Perceptions of OER and Open Access Week 2014: Open Textbook Research Overview (also available on Slideshare).
The Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN): Engaging Doctoral Research with Open...Robert Farrow
This workshop was led by the Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) team (http://go-gn.net/). GO-GN is a network of PhD candidates around the world whose research projects include a focus on open education. These doctoral researchers are at the core of the network while around them, experts, supervisors, mentors and interested parties connect to form a community of practice. Considering the growth of open research and the commitment of research funders to follow this approach, there is a need to understand what open research practices imply. This involves understanding the benefits and challenges of making research more visible to increase impact and opportunities for collaboration with other researchers when doing a PhD and when pursuing a career in academia.
The workshop will focus on introducing the network possibilities for PhD students, including worldwide support to those researching in the different areas of open education. We will expose the values of the network promoting equity and inclusion in the field of open education research and introduce the different types of events we host such as an annual face-to-face workshop and online events. As well, we will discuss the support for alumni and members with a funded fellowship scheme and the acknowledgement of our members’ achievements through our annual awards. At the second part of the workshop, we will have a practical exercise with the audience to promote the co-authoring of research publications with our members. Two examples of those which will be disclosed are the research methods handbook, awarded with the 2020 Open Education Award for Excellence Winner, and the Research Review Summer 2020.
Ramirez-Montoya (2020) recently presented a review of literature pertaining OER and educational innovation, noting that although definitions of openness vary across sectoral spaces, the crossover between openness and innovation is an area of increasing interest. A core part of the story of open educational resources is that they can be used to create spaces for innovation in teaching and learning (Orr et al., 2015; Pitt & Smyth, 2017; Weller et al., 2015). As Coughlan et al. (2018) argue, there has been a lack of detailed analysis of the specific function of OER as a driver of innovation, and a single model has not yet captured the multi-faceted relationship between openness and innovation.
This presentation will present an overview of several major theories of innovation as they relate to contexts of open education, making clear connections to open educational practice and showing how innovation theories can apply to OER. The presentation is likely to be of interest to practitioners wishing to have a stronger theoretical and practical understanding of how OER can support innovative practice.
• Task-Artefact Cycle (Carroll, Kellog & Rosson, 1991)
• The diffusion of innovations theory (Rogers, 2010)
• SAMR framework (Puentedura, 2006; Orr et al., 2015)
• Cyclic Innovation Model (Berkhout, 2007)
• Forms of innovation in OER (Coughlan, Pitt & Farrow, 2018)
This work contributes to the European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education (ENCORE+). ENCORE+ is a pan-European Knowledge Alliance funded under the Erasmus+ programme. The project will run from 2021 to 2023 to support the modernisation of education in the European area through OER.
Understanding the nature of OEP for OER adoption in Global South contexts: Em...ROER4D
Understanding the nature of OEP for OER adoption in Global South contexts: Emerging lessons from the ROER4D project
Presentation at OER17 London 5-6 April 2017
Sukaina Walji & Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
Community College Consortium for OER Panel: Increasing Student Retention and ...Una Daly
Presentation at the Online Teaching Conference Jun 18, 2015 in San Diego, CA:
The cost of textbooks has been identified as a major barrier for students completing their education. Colleges seeking to increase student retention and success are promoting the use of open educational resources and open textbooks to reduce costs and improve pedagogy. A key strategy for college adoption campaigns has been participating in communities of practice. Members of the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) will share their best practices and other tactics for nurturing a national community of practice focused on open education.
Etienne Wenger defines communities of practice as “groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” With over 250 member colleges in 19 states and provinces, CCCOER encourages collaboration between members and invites OER project presentations at monthly online meetings. Experienced members advise those who are just getting started on OER and best practices are freely shared. Access to a community of college OER experts through our advisory listserve allows new members to quickly find and adopt the highest quality OER available. Meetups at regional and national conferences provide an opportunity to share and promote the OER adoption successes of our members with colleagues in higher education.
Hear from this panel of OER experts about how they promote open textbooks and OER adoption at their colleges:
Una Daly, Director of CCCOER and Curriculum Design at the Open Education Consortium. Panel facilitator.
Katie Datko: Interim Associate Dean of Distance Education and Instructional Designer, Pasadena City College.
James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean of Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons, President of CCCOER Advisory
Barbara Illowsky: Dean of Basic Skills & OER, CCC Online Ed Initiative and Mathematics professor at De Anza College.
Cherylee Kushida: Distance Education Coordinator and Computer Science professor at Santa Ana College.
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams' Keynote presentation slides for 2nd Regional Symposium on Open Educational Resources (OER). Presentation title: Degrees of ease: Adoption of OER, Open Textbooks and MOOCs in the Global South
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, (the Principal Investigator of the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project) and Andrew Deacon, from the Centre for Innovation for Learning and Teaching (CILT), presented a short seminar for the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Cape Town on OER and MOOCs.
‘Open, ready and agile’: Developing a communications strategy for the Researc...ROER4D
Open, ready and agile: developing a communications strategy for the ROER4D project. Presented by Sukaina Walji at Open Education Global Conference 2015, Banff, Alberta
23 April 2015.
Evaluation: a means to gain insights into and improve the ROER4D projectROER4D
A shortened version of a presentation ROER4D's Evaluation Advisor, Sarah Goodier, gave to the University of Cape Town's Research & Evaluation of Emerging Technologies PGDip course on the evaluation strategy for ROER4D.
Promising aspects of online education in Africa: OER, Open Textbooks & MOOCsROER4D
Promising aspects of online educationin Africa: OER, Open Textbooks & MOOCs? A presentation by Associate Professor Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams for the World Development Report 2016: Internet for Development Regional Consultation Conference, Nairobi, 26-27 January 2015, Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town
Does it matter how much open? Impact in learning and degrees of opennessROER4D
Does it matter how much open? Impact in learning and degrees of openness. Presentation by Werner Westermann at the 13th Open Education Conference, Richmond, Virginia 2016
Working a conference: a presentation from ROER4DROER4D
Working a conference. A presentation from the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) in the Global South project. Author: Sukaina Walji, ROER4D Communications Advisor.
UCT, Fort Hare or UNISA: Which university is OER ready?ROER4D
UCT, Fort Hare or UNISA: Which university is OER ready? Presentation at UCT Teaching and Learning Conference 2015/16
Glenda Cox & Henry Trotter
30 March 2016
Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) in the Globa...ROER4D
Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) in the Global South:
An overview for Dutch HBO-I Academic Visit to the University of Cape Town on March 2015
OER in and as MOOCs: impact on Educators’ practices in African-developed high...ROER4D
Presentation for OER15, Cardiff, 14 April 2014. OER in and as MOOCs: impact on Educators’ practices in African-developed higher education courses.
This is a ROER4D Impact Study (sub-project 10.3). The impact studies are researching In what ways, and under what circumstances can OER adoption impact upon the increasing demand for accessible, relevant, high-quality, and affordable education in the Global South?
Open Education for a Multicultural World:
A report from the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project
in the Global South
ROER4D Cape Town Workshop Overview 9 Dec 2013ROER4D
Overview of 1st ROER4D Workshop by Professor Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams held 9 December 2013. ROER4D is a Research project on Open Educational Resources for Development in the Global South, focussing on post-secondary education. The project is funded by the IDRC, Canada and hosted at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa.
Copyright & Creative Commons: with regards to Open Educational Resources (OER) ROER4D
Presentation: Copyright & Creative Commons: with regards to Open Educational Resources (OER). By: Glenda Cox
Delivered at the University of South Africa (UNISA) on 18 March 2015
The iterative engagement between curation and evaluation in an open research ...ROER4D
The iterative engagement between curation and evaluation in an open research project: A utilization-focused approach Presentation for the AVU Conference 1-3 July 2015 by Sarah Goodier
Openness in Education: Teacher perspectives through Concept MappingROER4D
Openness in Education: Teacher perspectives through Concept Mapping
Presentation at the 29th AAOU Conference-2015 -30 November - 03 December, 2015, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
S. P. Karunanayaka, S. Naidu, S. Kugamoorthy, A. Ariyaratne,L.R. Gonsalkorala, T.D.T.L. Dhanapala
Open educational practices and resources in the Global South: Recommendations...ROER4D
Open educational practices and resources in the Global South: Recommendations for government from the ROER4D project
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
Africa Regional Consultation on OER, 2-3 Mar 2017, Mauritius
Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) Project in th...ROER4D
Research on Open Educational Resources
for Development (ROER4D) Project in the
Global South. Judith Pete & Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
E-Learning Africa, Kampala, UgandaMay 28-30 2014
As part of National Careers Week 2021, the NCSEHE hosted a virtual event on 21 May, showcasing major NCSEHE-commissioned research on key influencers and careers advice for equity students.
More info: https://www.ncsehe.edu.au/careers-week-webinar-careers-student-equity/
Launched in 2005, Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) is a national initiative that champions the importance of a twenty-first-century liberal education—for individual students and for a nation dependent on economic creativity and democratic vitality.
The adoption and impact of OEP and OER in the Global South: Theoretical, conc...ROER4D
The adoption and impact of OEP and OER in the Global South: Theoretical, conceptual & methodological framework for the ROER4D project meta-synthesis
Presentation at Open Education Global 2017
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
2nd Regional Symposium on Open Educational Resources:
Beyond Advocacy, Research and Policy
24 – 27 June 2014
Sub-theme 1: Collaboration
Keynote: A Transforming Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Collaboration in Education Development and Open Educational Resources
Mr. Jouko Sarvi
Presentation at OGP Regional Meeting 2016, May 5/6, Cape Town South Africa: Open Education and opportunities for sustainable education in Africa, advocating of and for the inclusion of Open Education and OER in African regional National Action Plans (NAPs) which are being developed within member nations, geared to meet global Sustainable Development Goals.
What educational policy needs OER for, and what policy support does OER need?Dominic Orr
Presentation at: OER15 - 6th International Conference on Open Education – “'Mainstreaming Open Education”
Cardiff, 15 April 2015
Although Open Educational Resources (OER) have been one of the mainstays of discussion on open education over the past decade, we are now noticing a renewed attention of policy makers in the topic. Whilst many really cool initiatives are to be found around the world (for instance in Germany http://ow.ly/EdLOX ), OER can really only realize its potential in the mainstream, if it tackles mainstream problems. That means that it is important to re-start the discussion on OER so that there is a focus on OER as a means to an end, i.e. OER contributing to improving various aspects of education (see blog from TJ Bliss from the Hewlett Foundation: http://tjbliss.org/musings-on-oer-policy/ ). The Open University’s OER Research Hub, for instance, poses hypotheses about the benefits of OER (http://oerresearchhub.org/collaborative-research/hypotheses/). The most recent CERI/OECD report on OER (http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/open-educational-resources-oer.htm ), looks instead for typical problems in education systems first and searches for solutions which involve OER production and use. In a second step it looks to see whether the expected potential of OER is being realised. In this way, it can also formulate an assessment of the status quo and encourage a discussion on what policy interventions can do to help OER realise this potential. The report, which will be published late spring 2015, identifies six typical problems in education, which can benefit from OER production and use.
2014 12 15 for Chris Berry, Head of Education, DFIDTom Power
A brief presentation to Chris Berry, Head of Education, DFID. Outlines some key weaknesses in the evidence base on teacher education and international development. Overviews two main approaches to teacher development: 'boutique' and 'cascade' training, and contrasts these to school-based, peer-supported, m-learning.
This presentation draws from the experiences of the Research in Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project in discussing how open textbooks can address the demands for curriculum transformation and decolonialisation in South African higher education.
This presentation explores the meta-synthesis process undertaken in the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project through Archer's (2003) social realist theoretical perspective.
This presentation at OE Global 2018 discusses open educational resource and open eductional practice activities and projects in the Global South under Gidden's (2010) social inclusivity lens, with an eye to answering the question "Whether, why, and how do OEP and OER contribute to the social inclusion of underserved communities in the Global South?" It explores the idea that although OER and OEP may widen access to materials, they may also have an unintended consequence of reinforcing epistemic dependency on Global North pedagogies and theories.
The role of OER and OEP in promoting social inclusion in the Global SouthROER4D
This presentation explores whether or not Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practices can be said to promote social inclusion in the Global South.
Factors enabling and constraining OER adoption and Open Education Practices: ...ROER4D
Factors enabling and constraining OER adoption and Open Education Practices: lessons from the ROER4D project
Sukaina Walji & Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
Centre for Innovation in Learning & Teaching, University of Cape Town
Presentation at World Conference for Online Learning,
Toronto, Canada, 15-19 October 2017
National, Provincial and Institutional Policy Influence on the Adoption of OE...ROER4D
National, Provincial and Institutional Policy Influence on the Adoption of OER in the Global South
Henry Trotter & Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
ICDE2017 / 17 October 2017 / Toronto, Canada
Degrees of social inclusion: Emerging insights from the ROER4D projectROER4D
Degrees of social inclusion: Emerging insights from the ROER4D project
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1. Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
University of Cape Town
MEd EdTech Seminar
26 Feb 2016
Researching Open Educational Resources and Open
Pedagogical Practices: The ROER4D Project
3. Key challenges facing education in South Africa
#Feesmustfall protests in
Nov 2015 & Feb 2016 in
South Africa
• Cost
• Relevance
4. Key challenges facing education in Africa
Unemployed youth in
Nigeria
*
http://africajournalismtheworld.com/2014/06/19/nigeria-unemployed-youths-feel-government-programmes-favour-those-with-political-links/
5. Rising numbers of students in
the education sector and limited
places in HE
Education institutions under
political & financial pressure
Expensive, limited in number,
often outdated textbooks are
not entirely relevant to the
context
Employability of graduates
Reduction of educational
funding by governments
Key challenges facing education in developing countries
http://www.unesco.org/iiep/virtualuniversity/forumsfiche.php?queryforumspages_id=23 x
6. OER as a response to some educational challenges
facing education in developing countries
http://www.elearning-africa.com/eLA_Newsportal/finding-the-sweet-spot-open-educational-resources-in-the-developing-world/
7. Open educational resources
(OER) are teaching, learning,
and research resources that
reside in the public domain or
have been released under an
intellectual property license
that permits their free use and
re-purposing by others (e.g.
Creative Commons) (adapted
from Smith & Casserly 2006:
8).
Free videos
Any learner or
teacher
What are OER? Free lecture
notes
8. Open textbooks as a type of OER
http://www.educationdive.com/news/open-textbooks-become-popular-source-of-affordable-content/414274/
9. Hodgkinson-Williams & Gray (2009:110) & Hodgkinson-Williams (2014)
Copy
Customise (e.g. translate, add local content)
Combine (e.g. select and mix content)
Contribute (e.g. share locally & with the world)
OER: Degrees of openness
15. Located 276 articles about OER in the Global South so far in our ROER4D Bibliography
Busy comparing this to OER Bibliography (978 entries) provided to us by John Hilton III
15
http://tinyurl.com/ROER4D-Bibliography
Most OER research taking place in Global North
17. ROER4D Funding
International Development Research
Centre (IDRC)
Open Society Foundations (OSF)
UK Department for International
Development (DFID)
3 year project (27 Aug 2013 - 27 Aug
2016 with an extension to Feb 2017)
Grant 1 - IDRC CAD 2 million & OSF
Grant 2 - DFID CAD 500,000
3 Regions
South America
Sub-Saharan Africa
Central, South & South-East Asia
18 research projects in 7 clusters
86 researchers & associates
26 countries
16 time zones
IDRC
OSF DFID
18. In what ways, and under what circumstances, can the adoption of
OER impact upon the increasing demand for accessible, relevant,
high-quality, and affordable education in the Global South?
Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D)
19. In what ways, and under what circumstances, can the adoption of
OER impact upon the increasing demand for accessible, relevant,
high-quality, and affordable education in the Global South?
Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D)
ADOPTION STUDIES
1. In what ways, and under what
circumstances are OER being
adopted in the Global South?
20. In what ways, and under what circumstances, can the adoption of
OER impact upon the increasing demand for accessible, relevant,
high-quality, and affordable education in the Global South?
Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D)
IMPACT STUDIES
2. In what ways, and under what
circumstances can OER adoption impact
upon the increasing demand for accessible,
relevant, high-quality, and affordable
education in the Global South?
ADOPTION STUDIES
1. In what ways, and under what
circumstances are OER being
adopted in the Global South?
21. ROER4D
Network hub
OER Desktop
overview (1) Survey of OER
adoption by
academics & students
(1)
Academics’
adoption of OER
(2)
Teacher educators’
adoption of OER (3)
OER adoption in
one country (1)
OER impact
studies (7+1)
Baseline educational
expenditure (2)
Overview of ROER4D’s 7 Project Clusters
23. ROER4D 7 projects, 14 countries in Africa
1. Ethiopia
2. Ghana
3. Kenya
4. Madagascar
5. Mauritius
6. Mozambique
7. Rwanda
8. Senegal
9. Somalia
10.South Africa
11.Tanzania
12.Uganda
13.Zambia
14.Zimbabwe
24. ROER4D Research sites and participants in Africa
SP1
• Desktop Review – Ghana, Kenya, South Africa
SP2
• Cross regional survey of student and educator OER
adoption– 12 institutions HE in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa
SP4
• Case study or academics’ adoption of OER – South Africa
SP10.1
• Impact study of educators’ practices in TESSA project
SP10.3
• Impact study on MOOC development on academics’
pedagogical practices – South Africa
SP11
• Baseline study of government spending on educational
resources – South Africa, Kenya
25. 25
Original specific objectives:
Build an empirical knowledge base
on the use and impact of OER
focusing on post-secondary
education
Develop the capacity of OER
researchers
Build a network of OER scholars
Communicate research to inform
education policy and practice
Adapted specific objectives:
Build an empirical knowledge base on
the use and impact of OER in
education
Develop the research capacity of OER
researchers
Build a network of OER scholars
Communicate research to inform
education policy and practice
Develop a strategic approach
towards the curation and
dissemination of research
documents and data collected in the
project
Implicit objective: Undertake research on OER as ‘openly’ as possible
ROER4D Specific Objectives
26. Original main research question
In what ways, and under what
circumstances can the adoption of
OER address the increasing demand
for accessible, relevant, high-quality
and affordable post-secondary
education in the Global South?
Adapted main research question
In what ways, and under what
circumstances, can the adoption of
OER impact upon the increasing
demand for accessible, relevant,
high-quality, and affordable education
in the Global South?
26
INFLUENCING FACTORS: structural, cultural, agential
OER PRACTICES: OER awareness, access, creation, 5 Rs (reuse,
revision, remixing, redistribution, retention), non-use
IMPACT INDICATORS: accessible materials, affordable & high-quality
materials, learner performance, teacher practice
ROER4D Main research question
27. INFLUENCING FACTORS
(See Archer)
Structural:
Infrastructure
Policy
Repositories
...
Cultural
Compliance
culture
Management
styles
...
Agential
Awareness
Will / volition
…
27
OER & OER PRACTICES
(Innovation) (See Wiley,
Beetham, Hodgkinson-
Williams)
OER as the
object/product
Cost
OER as a
practice/process by
EDUCATORS &
STUDENTS
Location
Creation
Reuse (as is)
Revision
Remixing
Retaining
Redistribution
IMPACT INDICATORS
(of aspect of educational
problems/
development
imperatives) (See
Mulder)
Learner
Performance
Satisfaction
...
Teacher
Learning materials
Cost
Learning
processes
Educational
system
Societal context
ROER4D Relationships being investigated
CHALLENGES – Access to HE, Cost of materials & Quality of materials and teaching
28. What
challenges are
prompting …
Whom … to
adopt OER (or
not)
In what ways
...
Under what
circumstance
s ...
Is this having
an impact
upon …
• Inequality of
access
• Cost of
materials
• Contextual
relevance of
teaching and
learning
materials
• Variable
quality of
teaching
Teachers/
educators/ tutors/
lecturers /
academics with
varying:
• Age
• Gender
• Qualifications
• Experience
• Type of
education
• Personal
knowledge &
skills
• Personal
motivation
Adopting OER by:
• Locating
• Creating
• Reusing
• Revising
• Remixing
• Retaining
• Redistributing
• Relevance of
content
• Policy
influence
• Infrastructural
issues
• Institutional
support
• Facility
provisioning
• Legal issues
• Quality
assurance
issues
• Socio-cultural
norms
• Learning
materials
themselves
• Affordability
• Quality of
content -
Localised
• Learner
performance
• Engagemen
t
• Marks
• Satisfaction
• Teacher
practice
• Flexibility
Teasing out relationships between …
29. Understanding OER terms
Open Educational Resources
Open
Content
Learning
Objects
Open
Courseware
Open
source
content
Etc.
Recursos
Educacionais Abertos
Ressources
éducatives
libres
31. Identifying pedagogical practices in OER adoption
Awareness of OER as a concept as well as finding OER
Deliberately creating OER to share with others
Merely reusing OER as is (i.e. copying)
Revising OER (e.g. customising by translating, adding
examples, resequencing materials)
Remixing OER (i.e. combining materials from more than one
source)
Retaining OER (i.e. keeping legal copies of materials)
Redistributing OER (i.e. sharing with others openly)
32. Uncovering slower OER adoption than expected
Relevance of OER for various contexts
Policy influence - national, institutional and departmental
Infrastructural issues - hardware, software,
connectivity Institutional support - incentives, recognition,
rewards, technical support
Facility provisioning - uninterrupted power supply
Familiarity with intellectual property mechanisms including
Creative Commons
Quality assurance issues – accuracy, currency
Socio-cultural norms - creation of own materials,
unwillingness to use others’ materials
33. Establishing who is adopting OER or not
Age
Gender
Qualifications
Experience
Type of educational environment - campus-based
university, distance university
Personal knowledge and skills
Personal motivation - time, priorities
Etc.
36. ROER4D Open Magna Carta
Make open …
… if it adds value
… if it is ethical
… if it is legal
… by default
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta#mediaviewer/File:Magna_Carta_(1297_version_with_seal,_owned_by_David_M_Rubenstein).png
On public display in
the West Rotunda
Gallery of the National
Archives Building in
Washington, D.C
38. References
Hodgkinson-Williams, C. & Gray, E. (2009). Degrees of openness: The emergence of open educational
resources at the University of Cape Town. International Journal of Education and Development using
Information and Communication Technology, 5(5), 101-116. Available online:
https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/8860 [Last Accessed 23 January 2015].
Hodgkinson-Williams, C. A. (2014). Degrees of Ease: Adoption of OER, OpenTextbooks and MOOCs in the
Global South. Keynote address at the OER Asia Symposium 2014. Available online:
https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/1188 [Last accessed 3 March 2015]
Smith M. & Casserly C. (2006) The Promise of Open Educational Resources. Available online:
http://learn.creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/changearticle.pdf [Last accessed 4 March
2014]
40. Acknowledgments & Attribution
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution
4.0 International License.
Written by Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams,
Henry Trotter, Tess Cartmill, Sukaina Walji,
Sarah Goodier & Thomas King
Contact:
cheryl.hodgkinson-williams@uct.ac.za
Graphics by Rondine Carstens
rondine.carstens@uct.ac.za, Cheryl
Hodgkinson-Williams & Henry Trotter
henry.trotter@uct.ac.za
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Here we demonstrate how the licenses an be combined for example non commercial AND no derivatives
Note that as you apply more restrictive clauses the material becomes more difficult for others to use.
Also note that certain media formats are easier to adapt, such as wiki and xml formats which are easily edited (built upon) and translated between applications