1. OER and Institutional
Change at Nottingham
Steve
Stapleton
Open Learning Support Officer
The University of Nottingham
steven.stapleton@nottingham.ac.uk

2. Outline of presentation
About Nottingham
The OER journey
Evidencing change
The next steps

3. About Nottingham
• Research led institution
• Student numbers
• 30,000 students (postgrad and undergrad)
• 6,000 international (130 countries)
• Six campuses (inc. China and Malaysia)
• E-Learning Support (Learning Team)

4. Background to OER
U-Now (Launched 2007)
Sponsored by PVC
Grew organically
Significant successes
Member of the OCWC

5. Open Courseware Consortium
Joined OCWC in 2007/8
Membership $500 p.a.
Mathematical institute, Oxford
Peoples-uni.org
The Open University
The University of Nottingham
RSS submission
Doubled visitors to U-Now
Jan-Feb 2010 3713 visitors
1494 via OCWC

6. The BERLiN project
Re-invigorate work to support
U-Now
Capturing resources from across all campuses
Module framework approach
Introduction to microeconomics
67% increase in
visitors to U-Now
Multiple resource types Q1 2010 over the
same period in
2009 (pre BERLiN).

7. Opening up: Staff attitudes
Open learning focus groups (Summer 2009)
20 academic staff across 5 focus groups
Online staff survey (Mar 2010)
6% of academic staff

8. Why is Nottingham involved?
1.Promotional opportunities
2.Cost efficiencies
3.Social responsibility

9. Staff survey

10. Staff survey

12. Institutional Change

13. Academic Engagement:
Top Down
Senior
Management
Teaching and
Academic Boards Learning
Committees
School Based
Approach

14. Senior Management Buy-in
http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/about.html

15. School of Politics Case Study
12 months ago had no
involvement in OER
Today are active in a
wide range of OER
activities…

16. School of Politics Case Study
Published 50 credits as part of BERLiN:
Understanding Global Politics
Introduction to European Politics
Theories and Concepts

17. School of Politics
Are involved in the school based pilot:
Publish 100% of module handbooks/reading lists
School specific RSS feeds
Surface OER in school web pages
Investigate the impact OER use has on students
prospective students and staff

18. School of Politics
Politics in 60 seconds:
U-Now
YouTube Edu
Itunes U
Podcast site

19. Academic Engagement:
Bottom Up
150 Academics
engaged
Resources across
all faculties Over 600 credits
Dissemination
and local
issues

20. Align to Strategies

21. Embedding Use and Reuse
3rd Party material
Open for Learning
Workshop
PGCHE Optional Module
Image © Bill Moseley 2008
Released under creative
commons licence:
Source:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31
442459@N00/2516648940

22. Open For Learning
Image © Don Solo 2008
Released under
creative commons
licence:
Develop open content
literacy
Source:
http://www.flickr.com/ph
otos/60648084@N00/2
462966749
The Open For Learning module is…
“Really valuable, important to disseminate as widely as possible.”
Chris Middleton, Head of Academic Services, University of Nottingham

23. Tools
www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte
www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert
Rapid innovation project

24. XPERT

25. OER image
search with
attribution
Demonstration at ALT C (Sept)

26. International partnerships
UKOER~OER Africa /UKNC for UNESCO (ISWG)
partnerships
OER ‘Shopping list’ to support African HEIs
Kenyatta project (others to follow)
Provides a compelling reason to get involved
For more information get in touch with
steven.stapleton@nottingham.ac.uk

27. Next steps
BERLiN becomes Open Nottingham
Open Nottingham as a
‘Grand challenge’
Open Learning Support Officer
role centralised

28. Open Nottingham Programme
Social responsibility
Promotion
Cost efficiencies
Increased academic and student
use

29. Any Questions?
steven.stapleton@nottingham.ac.uk
unow.nottingham.ac.uk

30. XPERT
Producer-centric models
Xerte Public E-learning ReposiTory
UK JISC funded under rapid innovation programme
To progress the vision of a distributed architecture
of e-learning resources for sharing and re-use
Based on Xerte Online Toolkits
www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte
www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/

31. Connections
•Internal
•External
•Partnerships
Connections
•Internal
•External
•Partnerships

32. Open Nottingham Programme
Social responsibility
UKOER~OER Africa framework
FE college support
Promotion
U-Now review
School based and subject based RSS
Link to prospectuses / does it work
Consideration of adverting within RSS
Cost efficiencies/Quality
Try to understand and prove it
Embed use
Engage with students,
Sharing across campuses