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Andreia Inamorato dos SantosSCORE 29th June 2010

OER collaborators beyond borders:The case of Brazil

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From user to provider

• MOVE 1: invite (under)graduate programme coordinators to browse OL for courses of potential interest to their students as complementary study material, to be translated into Portuguese. OER USER

• MOVE 2: invite coordinators to suggest Unisul courses of potential interest to external communities for upload and sharing on the Unisul Collaborations Area inside the LabSpace of OpenLearn. OER PROVIDER

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Unisul motivations

• To use, provide, promote uptake. Then...• Make the collaboration formal! Commitmet!

• Encourage DE faculty and technical staff to participate (innovation).

• Encourage students to use OpenLearn (quality)• Publish, repurpose, translate material (8 Portuguese-

speaking countries = 223 million people (opportunity)• Share their own intellectual production (cross-cultural

studies).• Build on existing reputation (opportunity)• Visit the collaborator relate with them (relationships)

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Towards OER acculturation

• “+ in June” Programme 2009:• The Concept of Innovation (215 students)• Designing the User Interface (136 students)• TOTAL = 351 students enrolled.• Steps involved:• Translation.• Adaptation.• Hiring tutor.• Double interface: UnisulVirtual VLS and OpenLearn

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Taking OER beyond the universityProgramme + June 2010

• Digital literacy initiave: basic computer skills + “Information on the Web” (taken from OL).

• Aimed at UnisulVirtual students’ friends and/or relatives (30,853 students at UV).

• Tutor + friend/relative support widening participation participatory culture.

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What is it about collaboration?

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Collaboration cycle

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Researching UnisulVirtual

Addressing the following research questions: ✔ 4 a/b. How can we support (in)formal learning communities?

✔ 5 a. Are OER being reused by teachers?

✔ 5 d. What does a collaborative framework for learners with OER mean?

✔1 a . How can web 2.0 technologies support community work?

✔ How can we understand the user-provider-user continuum? (imperialism or opportunity?)

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Thank you!

Andreia Santos

a.i.santos@open.ac.uk

Blog: Open Content Online

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