Open Educational Resources

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Open Educational Resources

• Building open content for the bioscience community

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Outline

• Open Educational Resources
• Background, current status and problems
• The OER programme
• How it is being executed and what it means to the
  centre workload
• Expected outcomes
• Critical success factors for the pilot
• Further information
• Key links and tags to follow progress

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What is an OER?

• Creating educational resources for sharing and
  further development
• Easy to find (fully described)
• Easy to use (context and guidance available)
• Quality assured (authenticated?)
• Re-purposable, and shared back again if possible
• Key groups
• OER Commons, OCW Consortium, CCLearn
• Reuse, Redistribute, Revise, and Remix

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Problems OER has to tackle

• OER culture slow to pick up in UK HE
• Needs resource databases and COPs
• Sharing is costly, but reinvention more-so
• IPR clearance, tagging, branding, discovery
• Worldwide profile for UK HE
• Inter-institutional dependencies
• Bonus Added value and cost savings?

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The OER programme

• Initiated by HEFCE/JISC and delivered by
  JISC/Academy
• Pilot project for a 25m programme (2009-2012)
• Pilot phase 5.7m (April 2009-April 2010)
• lt3m for 12 Subject Centres to run projects
• Not buying rights to old resources!
• But re-purposing existing, valued content
  demonstrating various approaches
• Cultural change and sustainable processes
• Content is an indicator of processes in place a
  metric
• Sustained release institutional IPR policies
  updated
• Benefits for academic profile, institutional
  profile, discipline profile and their students

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What it means to the Centre

• Large project - 250k
• Significant project profile
• New networks and COPs
• Staffing and resources
• Tight timescale!!

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Funded projects

• Institutional, Subject and Individual strands
• Coventry - Open Content Employability
• Exeter - Open Exeter
• Leeds Met - Unicycle
• Leicester University - OTTER
• Nottingham University - BERLiN
• Oxford University - Open Spires
• Staffordshire University - OpenStaffs
• York, Westminster, Oxford Brookes, Falmouth,
  Anglia Ruskin, UCL, UCLAN, Lincoln and Bradford

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Funded projects
Subject strand

• SC LLAS (Southampton), ENG (Royal Holloway), PRS
  (Leeds), HCA (Durham) The HumBox Project
• SC ICS (Ulster) Open Educational Repository in
  Support of Computer Science
• SCEngineering (Loughborough) Open Educational
  Resources Pilot
• SC UKCME (Liverpool)) CORE-Materials
  Collaborative Open Resource Environment for
  MaterialsSC Economics (Bristol) TRUE Teaching
  Resources for Undergraduate Economics
• SC Physical Sciences (Hull/Liverpool) Skills for
  Scientists
• SC GEES (Plymouth) C-change in GEES Open
  licensing of climate change and
  sustainabilityresources in the Geography, Earth
  and Environmental SciencesSC ADM (Brighton) Open
  Educational Resources in Art, Design and Media
• SC MSOR (Nottingham Trent) FETLAR (Finding
  electronic teaching learning and assessment
  resources)
• SC Bioscience (Leeds) An Interactive Laboratory
  and Fieldwork Manual for the Biosciences
• SC UKCLE (Warwick) Simulation Learning Resources
• SC HSAP (KCL) Public Health Open Resources in the
  University Sector (PHORUS)
• SC C-SAP (Southampton) Evaluating the practice of
  collective endeavour in opening up keyresources
  for learning and teaching in the social
  sciencesSC MEDEV (Newcastle) Organising Open
  Educational Resources (OOER)

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Our work

• Ten project consortia with Bioscience
• Nottingham Biodiversity components
• Oxford iCases Influenza outbreak
• DeMontfort Virtual Analytical Laboratory
• OU Biochemistry virtual laboratories
• Bath Cancer Biology
• UCL Virtual museum zoology
• Glasgow Virtual Ecology
• Gloucestershire Java based Rocky Shore
  simulation
• Leeds Microbiology labs (10 tutorials and
  exercises)
• Manchester Genetic Analysis scenarios

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Our work

• Contributing existing resources which need
  reworking for open release
• Output into JorumOpen where possible
• Resolving IPR using creative commons UK licences
  (e.g. BY-NC-SA)
• Sharing IPR successes through network
• Cataloguing issues Jorum support
• Managing the project - Sharepoint

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Key Issues and outcomes

• IPR cleared content for re-use and redevelopment
• Use of appropriate descriptive meta-data
• Dissemination and distribution from key
  repositories and source providers
• Sustainability a 5 year minimum
• Raised OER awareness
• Final Report

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Follow developments

• Tags OER and UKOER (or OER and UKOER) in
  online updates
• Academy OER newsfeed (soon)
• Open Education News
• Cetis Educational Content
• Terrys OER blog and project partner blogs