Institutional Open Education and OER Policies - a view from POERUPPaul Bacsich
This webinar will provide two perspectives on OER policies and seek to answer some of the key questions related to Open Education and OER policies. The questions below will drive the session delivered by the presenters and form the basis of the discussion which follows.
Why have a policy?
What are the problems in developing a policy?
How do you get your teaching staff on board?
Did it require extra staff (as with MOOCs in some cases)?
What are the main elements of your policy? For example, is there was a minimum/maximum amount of OER that could be used e.g. only 50% could be made up from OER.
Have you had feedback from students about the policy?
Has there been feedback (good/bad) from students as a result?
What have been the key benefits of developing and having a policy?
The first presenter is Paul Bacsich from POERUP.
Transnational education: conversations for success - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
Transnational education (TNE), or the provision of education qualifications from institutions in one country to students in another, plays an essential role in the delivery of international strategy in UK educational institutions.
Recent reports from BIS, HEFCE and Jisc highlight the exciting opportunities and expected growth of TNE. Dr Esther Wilkinson explains why technology is so important, what our research shows and what we are doing to support the TNE agenda.
Institutional Open Education and OER Policies - a view from POERUPPaul Bacsich
This webinar will provide two perspectives on OER policies and seek to answer some of the key questions related to Open Education and OER policies. The questions below will drive the session delivered by the presenters and form the basis of the discussion which follows.
Why have a policy?
What are the problems in developing a policy?
How do you get your teaching staff on board?
Did it require extra staff (as with MOOCs in some cases)?
What are the main elements of your policy? For example, is there was a minimum/maximum amount of OER that could be used e.g. only 50% could be made up from OER.
Have you had feedback from students about the policy?
Has there been feedback (good/bad) from students as a result?
What have been the key benefits of developing and having a policy?
The first presenter is Paul Bacsich from POERUP.
Transnational education: conversations for success - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
Transnational education (TNE), or the provision of education qualifications from institutions in one country to students in another, plays an essential role in the delivery of international strategy in UK educational institutions.
Recent reports from BIS, HEFCE and Jisc highlight the exciting opportunities and expected growth of TNE. Dr Esther Wilkinson explains why technology is so important, what our research shows and what we are doing to support the TNE agenda.
Ocwc2014 policies-bacsich final and refsPaul Bacsich
This presentation responds to the challenge of developing policies for OER uptake in the higher education sector of a given country, with particular reference to the smaller countries of the European Union (countries with no more than around 10 million people). It takes a case study approach, reviewing how the POERUP project (Policies for OER Uptake, part-funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the EU) is developing policies for three smaller countries: Ireland (an EU member state) and Wales and Scotland (two semi-autonomous regions of the United Kingdom, fully autonomous in educational terms). The inclusion of Wales and Scotland also throws light on the challenge of developing policies for federal countries where higher education is developed to the province/state level.
Factors that seem to be of particular relevance to smaller states include:
1. less money for extensive research and policy analysis
2. more influence of regional and isolated areas
3. easier decision-making, at least in theory
4. issues of lack of economies of scale, in particular if the national language is state-specific
5. greater interest in collaboration with some nearby states on educational issues
6. a smaller set of institutions, causing issues with generating or maintaining institutional diversity of mission unless the process is managed
7. potentially greater danger of dominance by private sector interests
8. potentially large edge effects of student flows from nearby states, potentially made worse if funding and regulatory regimes are attractive to incomers.
The analysis includes studying the interplay between the recommendations produced by international policy work relating to OER and the national policy context (which in some cases makes no mention of OER, in others makes considerable mention but not always correlated with or aware of international issues).
The starting point within POERUP is the document "Policy advice for universities" of which release 1 is currently available, but which is being updated in the light of comments and incoming data. This reviews recent international policy (e.g. COL, UNESCO); EU policies (including Bologna, Europe 2020, Recognition and validation of non-formal and informal learning, European higher education in the world, and most recently, Opening Up Education), relevant to OER and consolidated evidence from a variety of national contexts, to make a set of (currently) 18 recommendations designed not only to foster OER but also the changes in higher education that OER is foreseen as helping to foster - such as more flexible accreditation, encouragement of a wider community to take part in higher education, and a vision of higher education focussed more on competences and skills gained and less on duration of study. See Policies at EU-level for OER uptake in universities - http://www.scribd.com/doc/169430544/Policies-at-EU-level-for-OER-uptake-in-universities
Mobile learning in practice - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
Want to optimise your students' learning experience through mobile technology? This workshop stimulated thinking and discussion around integration of mobile apps into teaching practice by showcasing further and higher education case studies and providing practical guidance and hands-on activities.
How you can enhance your efficiency and effectiveness for teaching and learni...Jisc
Led by Sue Attewell, head of change - further education and skills, Jisc.
With contributions from:
David Mason, tutor and assessor at North Liverpool Community College
Nick Almond, director of learning and teaching development, Liverpool Hope University
Connect more in Liverpool, 21 June 2016.
Open Access Initiatives and Challenges in Kenya: UniversitiesCIARD Movement
by Ms. Jacinta Were (Consultant - Information Management & Capacity Building, Kenya) at the Forum on Open Data and Open Science in Agriculture on 15th June 2015
Making the most of digital resources - Hazel White and Alicia WallaceJisc
Led by Hazel White, account manager, Jisc.
With contribution from Alicia Wallace, digital learning manager, Gloucestershire College.
In this session you’ll hear from local colleagues, explaining how they are making the most of some of the digital resources available through Jisc.
Jisc Connect more in Northern Ireland, 23 June 2016
Bringing together digital practices, learning resources and librariesJisc
If your college or university is looking to create a more digitally-enabled organisation, your library or learning resources service should be a key asset.
If you work in a library or learning resources service, you’ll know that your digital capability – whether it’s delivering online content, engaging users or facilitating digital literacy - is essential for helping students and academics succeed. But how can we maximize the potential of the library or learning resources service in digital practice? We will look at questions such as:
What technologies for learning and teaching do libraries need to have their eye on?
How might the shape and role of the library/learning resources service evolve amid rapid digital change?
How can staff collaborate across different roles in the digitally-enabled organisation?
Finding, managing, delivering and using the right MediaHub content - Jisc Dig...Jisc
Using Jisc Digital Media advice guides, this session used content from the Jisc MediaHub resource to demonstrate effective processes for finding, managing and using copyright cleared multimedia materials to support teaching and learning.
Closing plenary: Connect more with the future - part one - Andy McGregorJisc
The final session of the day will incorporate three keynote speakers.
The first is Andy McGregor, Jisc’s deputy chief innovation officer.
Andy will focus on Jisc’s visions for the future of its work across the education and research sectors.
Connect more in London, 28 June 2016
This presentation describes the approach taken by an externally-funded series of analytic projects in OER, first POERUP and then the successor studies on SharedOER and Adult Education & OER, to “solve” the requirement, first posed by UNESCO in 2012 (D’Antoni, 2013), but later taken up by the Hewlett Foundation (2013), of geographic mapping of OER initiatives, policies and other related entities. There are of course several such “solutions”, all with their strengths and weaknesses, but the POERUP database is larger than most so far, more multi-sector (HE,VET and K-12) and more global in coverage – in part because it could leverage on a series of well-funded EU projects over several years, each unusually (for EU projects) taking a global viewpoint.
The presentation will consider the decisions taken by POERUP and its successor studies on technology, databases, mapping and user interface, looking both at the distribution and the collection aspects.
Open access: changes in the global research market - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
All outputs of research funded under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 and the European Research Council will be made open access. As more UK researchers collaborate in EU-funded projects, it’s crucial that they stay informed.
This session aimed to demonstrate Jisc’s leadership in the area of EU open access developments and help delegates ensure compliance with EU policies.
Presented at the IIPC Web Archiving Conference, 6-7th June 2019, Zagreb, Croatia.
http://netpreserve.org/ga2019/programme/wac/
This paper presents the results of a study to examine, determine and propose the optimal approach to develop impact assessment indicators for the UK Web Archive (UKWA). In the United Kingdom, legal deposit libraries collaboratively operate a nationwide web archiving project, the UKWA, which has collected over 500 TB of data and is growing by approximately 60–70 TB a year. At the same time, UK publicly funded organisations face reduced funding and the challenge of convincing funders to finance their archival function by undergoing evaluations of their services’ values.
Under such circumstances, a proper assessment of the values and impacts of web archiving is a point of discussion for cultural heritage organisations. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there has not yet been a comprehensive assessment or evaluation of the UKWA conducted. Thus, this paper seeks to answer the research question: “What would the indicators of impact assessment for the UKWA be?” As a result, we propose a set of impact assessment indicators for the UKWA (and web archiving in general) with broad strategic perspectives including social, cultural, educational and economic impact.
This study examines and proposes the optimal approach to develop impact assessment indicators for the UKWA. The research began by analysing the literature of impact assessment frameworks for digital resources and the types of impact in related fields. Primarily drawing from Simon Tanner’s Balanced Value Impact Model (BVI Model), this research then proposes impact indicators for the UKWA and develops an impact assessment plan consisting of three stages: context setting, indicator development, and indicator evaluation.
This paper will present the method and results of the study. Firstly, it identified the UKWA’s foundational context, the mission, the principal values and the key stakeholder groups. The research project prioritised focal areas for the archive that seem most advantageous for stakeholders and aligned with Tanner’s Value Lenses. Secondly, we proposed the UKWA impact assessment indicators; scrutinising existing indicators and various evidence collection methods. In the third stage, the developed indicators’ functionality was checked against set quality criteria and then tested through semi-structured interviews and survey submissions with 8 UKWA staff members.
Finally, the paper presents the thirteen potential indicators for the UKWA. Based on the lessons learned, presenters will also make recommendations for organisations which recognise the necessity of undertaking impact assessments of their web archives.
Enabling mobile learning - Jisc Digital Festival 2014Jisc
Mobile learning is the “exploitation of ubiquitous handheld hardware, wireless networking and mobile telephony to facilitate, support, enhance and extend the reach of teaching and learning” (MoLeNET, quoted in Jisc infoNet’s Mobile Learning infoKit). This meta-workshop brings together Jisc’s advisory services to deliver a wide-ranging guide to best practice and pitfall avoidance to allow learners to work with the gadgets and platforms most suitable and accessible for their context.
Whether the context is learners using their own devices (that smartphone attached to their hand, that birthday present tablet), or, in some cases, institution-provided devices, there are technical, pedagogic and organisational challenges to providing the learners with a high-quality, seamless experience. This workshop will introduce the wide range of practical, relevant Jisc resources, services and tools enabling the delivery of versatile, expectation-meeting, fit for purpose mobile learning.
This session will introduce the relevant resources, distil the key issues, and outline best practice in respect to mobile learning. Jisc’s expertise has already considered issues in relation to strategy and relationship to institutional mission, pedagogy, curriculum design and delivery, learning resource issues, technical implementation, legal issues, accessibility and inclusion, and training needs.
Staff-student partnership working to effect institutional change - Jisc Digit...Jisc
Implementing effective institutional change can be a real challenge. This workshop introduced the change agents’ network and how it supports student-staff partnership working to implement technology-enhanced learning.
Ocwc2014 policies-bacsich final and refsPaul Bacsich
This presentation responds to the challenge of developing policies for OER uptake in the higher education sector of a given country, with particular reference to the smaller countries of the European Union (countries with no more than around 10 million people). It takes a case study approach, reviewing how the POERUP project (Policies for OER Uptake, part-funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the EU) is developing policies for three smaller countries: Ireland (an EU member state) and Wales and Scotland (two semi-autonomous regions of the United Kingdom, fully autonomous in educational terms). The inclusion of Wales and Scotland also throws light on the challenge of developing policies for federal countries where higher education is developed to the province/state level.
Factors that seem to be of particular relevance to smaller states include:
1. less money for extensive research and policy analysis
2. more influence of regional and isolated areas
3. easier decision-making, at least in theory
4. issues of lack of economies of scale, in particular if the national language is state-specific
5. greater interest in collaboration with some nearby states on educational issues
6. a smaller set of institutions, causing issues with generating or maintaining institutional diversity of mission unless the process is managed
7. potentially greater danger of dominance by private sector interests
8. potentially large edge effects of student flows from nearby states, potentially made worse if funding and regulatory regimes are attractive to incomers.
The analysis includes studying the interplay between the recommendations produced by international policy work relating to OER and the national policy context (which in some cases makes no mention of OER, in others makes considerable mention but not always correlated with or aware of international issues).
The starting point within POERUP is the document "Policy advice for universities" of which release 1 is currently available, but which is being updated in the light of comments and incoming data. This reviews recent international policy (e.g. COL, UNESCO); EU policies (including Bologna, Europe 2020, Recognition and validation of non-formal and informal learning, European higher education in the world, and most recently, Opening Up Education), relevant to OER and consolidated evidence from a variety of national contexts, to make a set of (currently) 18 recommendations designed not only to foster OER but also the changes in higher education that OER is foreseen as helping to foster - such as more flexible accreditation, encouragement of a wider community to take part in higher education, and a vision of higher education focussed more on competences and skills gained and less on duration of study. See Policies at EU-level for OER uptake in universities - http://www.scribd.com/doc/169430544/Policies-at-EU-level-for-OER-uptake-in-universities
Mobile learning in practice - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
Want to optimise your students' learning experience through mobile technology? This workshop stimulated thinking and discussion around integration of mobile apps into teaching practice by showcasing further and higher education case studies and providing practical guidance and hands-on activities.
How you can enhance your efficiency and effectiveness for teaching and learni...Jisc
Led by Sue Attewell, head of change - further education and skills, Jisc.
With contributions from:
David Mason, tutor and assessor at North Liverpool Community College
Nick Almond, director of learning and teaching development, Liverpool Hope University
Connect more in Liverpool, 21 June 2016.
Open Access Initiatives and Challenges in Kenya: UniversitiesCIARD Movement
by Ms. Jacinta Were (Consultant - Information Management & Capacity Building, Kenya) at the Forum on Open Data and Open Science in Agriculture on 15th June 2015
Making the most of digital resources - Hazel White and Alicia WallaceJisc
Led by Hazel White, account manager, Jisc.
With contribution from Alicia Wallace, digital learning manager, Gloucestershire College.
In this session you’ll hear from local colleagues, explaining how they are making the most of some of the digital resources available through Jisc.
Jisc Connect more in Northern Ireland, 23 June 2016
Bringing together digital practices, learning resources and librariesJisc
If your college or university is looking to create a more digitally-enabled organisation, your library or learning resources service should be a key asset.
If you work in a library or learning resources service, you’ll know that your digital capability – whether it’s delivering online content, engaging users or facilitating digital literacy - is essential for helping students and academics succeed. But how can we maximize the potential of the library or learning resources service in digital practice? We will look at questions such as:
What technologies for learning and teaching do libraries need to have their eye on?
How might the shape and role of the library/learning resources service evolve amid rapid digital change?
How can staff collaborate across different roles in the digitally-enabled organisation?
Finding, managing, delivering and using the right MediaHub content - Jisc Dig...Jisc
Using Jisc Digital Media advice guides, this session used content from the Jisc MediaHub resource to demonstrate effective processes for finding, managing and using copyright cleared multimedia materials to support teaching and learning.
Closing plenary: Connect more with the future - part one - Andy McGregorJisc
The final session of the day will incorporate three keynote speakers.
The first is Andy McGregor, Jisc’s deputy chief innovation officer.
Andy will focus on Jisc’s visions for the future of its work across the education and research sectors.
Connect more in London, 28 June 2016
This presentation describes the approach taken by an externally-funded series of analytic projects in OER, first POERUP and then the successor studies on SharedOER and Adult Education & OER, to “solve” the requirement, first posed by UNESCO in 2012 (D’Antoni, 2013), but later taken up by the Hewlett Foundation (2013), of geographic mapping of OER initiatives, policies and other related entities. There are of course several such “solutions”, all with their strengths and weaknesses, but the POERUP database is larger than most so far, more multi-sector (HE,VET and K-12) and more global in coverage – in part because it could leverage on a series of well-funded EU projects over several years, each unusually (for EU projects) taking a global viewpoint.
The presentation will consider the decisions taken by POERUP and its successor studies on technology, databases, mapping and user interface, looking both at the distribution and the collection aspects.
Open access: changes in the global research market - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
All outputs of research funded under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 and the European Research Council will be made open access. As more UK researchers collaborate in EU-funded projects, it’s crucial that they stay informed.
This session aimed to demonstrate Jisc’s leadership in the area of EU open access developments and help delegates ensure compliance with EU policies.
Presented at the IIPC Web Archiving Conference, 6-7th June 2019, Zagreb, Croatia.
http://netpreserve.org/ga2019/programme/wac/
This paper presents the results of a study to examine, determine and propose the optimal approach to develop impact assessment indicators for the UK Web Archive (UKWA). In the United Kingdom, legal deposit libraries collaboratively operate a nationwide web archiving project, the UKWA, which has collected over 500 TB of data and is growing by approximately 60–70 TB a year. At the same time, UK publicly funded organisations face reduced funding and the challenge of convincing funders to finance their archival function by undergoing evaluations of their services’ values.
Under such circumstances, a proper assessment of the values and impacts of web archiving is a point of discussion for cultural heritage organisations. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there has not yet been a comprehensive assessment or evaluation of the UKWA conducted. Thus, this paper seeks to answer the research question: “What would the indicators of impact assessment for the UKWA be?” As a result, we propose a set of impact assessment indicators for the UKWA (and web archiving in general) with broad strategic perspectives including social, cultural, educational and economic impact.
This study examines and proposes the optimal approach to develop impact assessment indicators for the UKWA. The research began by analysing the literature of impact assessment frameworks for digital resources and the types of impact in related fields. Primarily drawing from Simon Tanner’s Balanced Value Impact Model (BVI Model), this research then proposes impact indicators for the UKWA and develops an impact assessment plan consisting of three stages: context setting, indicator development, and indicator evaluation.
This paper will present the method and results of the study. Firstly, it identified the UKWA’s foundational context, the mission, the principal values and the key stakeholder groups. The research project prioritised focal areas for the archive that seem most advantageous for stakeholders and aligned with Tanner’s Value Lenses. Secondly, we proposed the UKWA impact assessment indicators; scrutinising existing indicators and various evidence collection methods. In the third stage, the developed indicators’ functionality was checked against set quality criteria and then tested through semi-structured interviews and survey submissions with 8 UKWA staff members.
Finally, the paper presents the thirteen potential indicators for the UKWA. Based on the lessons learned, presenters will also make recommendations for organisations which recognise the necessity of undertaking impact assessments of their web archives.
Enabling mobile learning - Jisc Digital Festival 2014Jisc
Mobile learning is the “exploitation of ubiquitous handheld hardware, wireless networking and mobile telephony to facilitate, support, enhance and extend the reach of teaching and learning” (MoLeNET, quoted in Jisc infoNet’s Mobile Learning infoKit). This meta-workshop brings together Jisc’s advisory services to deliver a wide-ranging guide to best practice and pitfall avoidance to allow learners to work with the gadgets and platforms most suitable and accessible for their context.
Whether the context is learners using their own devices (that smartphone attached to their hand, that birthday present tablet), or, in some cases, institution-provided devices, there are technical, pedagogic and organisational challenges to providing the learners with a high-quality, seamless experience. This workshop will introduce the wide range of practical, relevant Jisc resources, services and tools enabling the delivery of versatile, expectation-meeting, fit for purpose mobile learning.
This session will introduce the relevant resources, distil the key issues, and outline best practice in respect to mobile learning. Jisc’s expertise has already considered issues in relation to strategy and relationship to institutional mission, pedagogy, curriculum design and delivery, learning resource issues, technical implementation, legal issues, accessibility and inclusion, and training needs.
Staff-student partnership working to effect institutional change - Jisc Digit...Jisc
Implementing effective institutional change can be a real challenge. This workshop introduced the change agents’ network and how it supports student-staff partnership working to implement technology-enhanced learning.
This is an introduction to the reusable technology solutions developed by the rapid innovation projects of the UK OER Programme during 2012. Bidders were asked to address problems identified through the Programme, and 15 UK university-based projects were awarded between £13,000 and £25,000 each over 6 months. They have developed a range of solutions to enhance the digital infrastructure to support open content in an educational context. Projects worked in an open innovation way, blogging as they went, working with peers and users, and the outputs are all open source, documented and reusable. Links are provided to each project output.
Slides created by JISC: Programme Manager Amber Thomas, Programme Office Alicja Shah, Technical Advisory JISC Cetis particularly Martin Hawksey. Dandelion Clock sourced through flickr and attributed on the front slide.
Maximised discovery of institutions digital collections - Jisc Digital Festiv...Jisc
This workshop discussed a number of services and tools that Jisc is developing to support institutions boost the discoverability of their digital collections.
Showcasing uk teaching resources: Jorum - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
This session will provide an overview of the UK's largest open educational resources repository Jorum and its new website. A demonstration will highlight new features, collections and content as well as an insight into upcoming developments.
Electronic management of assessment - Jisc Digital Media 2015Jisc
This session provided an opportunity to hear the findings from a landscape review, engage with the challenges, and engage actively in the shaping of solutions.
Student expectations of entering higher education - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
What do your incoming students’ expect from your institution’s digital environment? This panel discussion explored the tensions between institutional and personal learning practices of students as they transition from school to college or university.
Slides for online briefing on the OER Rapid Innovation Call released in November 2011: http://bit.ly/rNQsW3
Bid deadline 27th January 2012. Amber Thomas, JISC.
Developing patterns in technical approaches for Open Educational Resources. R. John Robertson and Lorna Campbell, & Phil Barker
JISC CETIS. Presentation at OER 11, Manchester, May 11th 2011
The Open to Open Access (O2OA) project, Miggie Pickton, University of Northam...Repository Fringe
The Open to Open Access (O2OA) project, Miggie Pickton, University of Northampton. Presented as part of Repository Fringe 2014, 30-31st July 2014, in Edinburgh.
A presentation by Paul Maharg from April 2010 UKCLE York OER event. The presentation covers OERs and why they're important, case studies, examples and the UKCLE's OER platform: Simshare.
ICDE Policy Forum in partnership with UNESCO: Directions and challenges for g...icdeslides
The annual ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents (SCOP) meeting included the ICDE Policy Forum, co-organized with UNESCO. On the theme of "Directions and challenges for government and institutions when post-secondary education moves into the MOOC territory: public policies and institutional strategies in the digital learning age", the Policy Forum included organizations and key stakeholders including UNESCO, OECD, the European Commission, Open Courseware Consortium and International Association of Universities.
Mol, S.T. (2014, November). Learning Analytics: The good, the bad, the ugly. Presentation delivered as part of the UvA Faculty of Economics and Business Educational Innovation Seminar Series. University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
The European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education (ENCORE+) project (2021-2023) is an Erasmus+ funded initiative which aims to raise awareness of open education, co-ordinate stakeholder and support new strategies for the proliferation of OER (https://encoreproject.eu/). The UNESCO OER Recommendation (https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies/oer/recommendation) sets out five areas for action:
Building the capacity of stakeholders to create, access, re-use, adapt and redistribute OER;
Developing supportive policy for OER;
Encouraging inclusive and equitable quality OER;
Nurturing the creation of sustainability models for OER; and
Promoting and reinforcing international cooperation in OER.
Although the Coronavirus pandemic and the resulting online ‘pivot’ increased opportunities for integrating OER into education and training, general awareness of open alternatives remains low. Many educators and learners have been in crisis mode, using whatever resources they can to fulfil their needs. While this can include OER, the demands put upon practitioners makes it hard to strategise and move systematically towards meeting the five action areas of the UNESCO OER resolution.
ENCORE+ proposes that we understand the strategizing of OER at the level of the ‘ecosystem’, emphasizing that while there are viable, established strategies for OER there is no integrated European OER university-business ecosystem able to identify, catalyse and share best practices. How can collaboration be encouraged? How can confidence in operational models which use OER be encouraged beyond the usual advocacy networks in higher education?
Following a short general introduction, this workshop is organised around the following 4 x 10 minute discussion areas, each of which reflects an activity area of ENCORE+.
Focus area 1: Bleeding edge technologies for OER integration
Focus area 2: New paradigms for OER quality
Focus area 3: Strategies and policies for OER uptake and integration
Focus area 4: Innovation, Business Models & Sustainability
In each focus area relevant results from the ENCORE+ project were briefly presented to support an inclusive plenary discussion.
Dialogue was facilitated and moderated by relevant experts from ENCORE+. Feedback and reflection was gathered through a 'World Cafe' approach designed around stakeholder interactions and perspective sharing.
1. Image source: 1, Timmy @ flickr CC-Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0
Text and diagrams: CC-BY-SA 3.0
UKOER10: Opening Remarks
Sarah Porter, Head of Innovation, JISC
2. Today’s event
• Keynote speakers:
• Mary Lou Forward, Chair – OCWC
• Brian Lamb, Emerging Technologies and Digital
Content, University of British Columbia
• Lunchtime:
• Presentation of the UKOER infokit by Doug Belshaw
of InfoNet (1pm)
3. The roots of UKOER
• Longstanding UK interest in academics using
each others materials, but confusion about the
issues involved.
• An interest in the OER approach amongst
policymakers, particularly MIT, OCWC and
the (UK) Open University
• A background in using small projects with an
emphasis on sustainable practice as a model
for changes in institutional processes
4. UKOER phase 1
subject institution individual
Programme Management
14 projects 7 projects 8 projects
support function – covering technical, legal, strategic
advice, workshops, support for deposit and aggregation
of materials, communities of practice. Based around
existing services.
OER infokit – a “how to” guide for future work
evaluation & synthesis function
5. UKOER phase 2
Impact of
OER
New study
release
Cascade Thematic
support Case Collections
studies
Teaching
in HE Tracking
Programme support, evaluation, synthesis & comms
Programme management
6. The future?
• Business models? How can we identify the most appropriate and
sustainable business models for OER, building on our UKOER work and Good
Intentions report?
• How do we justify 'open' in the current financial
climate? How do we “sell” OER as an idea to policy makers?
• Student involvement? How can we ensure learners get the best
deal out of OER? How can we encourage them to release their own OER?
• Online learning at scale? How will OER contribute to a growth
in online/distance learning (and how will the Online Learning Task Force
report enable this)?