What does OERu mean for a blended university?

Professor Sandra WillsUOW Executive Director, Learning & Teaching

Wollongong

main campus one hour drive from Sydney airport

seven smaller locations along the coast

UOW Dubai Campus

UOW Wollongong Campus

plus teaching partnerships in ten international locations

• 26,000 students - 30% international off-shore and on-shore• Top 200 Times Higher Ed Rankings 2009, 2006 & 2007• #1 for Student Satisfaction Sweeney Research Group 2009 • Top 500 - Shanghai Jiao Tong Index 2006• decade of 5 stars in Good Universities Guide• #1 for 3 years of National Teaching & Learning Performance Fund• # 1 for 4 years of Citations for Outstanding Contribution to

Teaching & Learning• inaugural Commonwealth University of the Year Award for

Community Engagement - The Times Higher Ed & Commonwealth Association of Universities 2006

• University of Year for Research Partnerships 2000• University of Year for Preparing Graduates for e-World 1999

Not sandstone however 60 years old research intensive & international

Why call Wollongong a blended university?Why call Wollongong a blended university?

• High satisfaction scores derive from personal contact

• Not a distance education university• However online is a given – 80% of subjects

use learning management system, lecture capture, videoconference etc

• Because we are multi-location

1994 PAGE post grad distance ed via TV & print2004 Shared Teaching Resources2011 Content Beyond Borders &

Creative Commons

2000 Learning Designs2006 Project EnROLE

What’s our experience with OERs?

about 100 items so far…

What is the OERu?

What is the OERu?

Challenges for UOW in OERuni

What does a subject look like as an OER

vs composed of OERs?

Is it sustainable? Is it cost-effective?

Maths ALIVE: Access Live Interactive Virtual Environments

Dr Caz Sandison

Access Grid

Pathway to becoming a Uni studentOER ALIVE Watch recording in own time

Open ALIVE Participate, no credit

UOW ALIVE Enrol for credit

Why Mathematics?Essential for a digital economyShortage of maths teachers especially in rural & regional Australia

Teaching the teachers Improve the education of our childrenTwo subjects for primary teachers to improve skills & confidenceTwo subjects for secondary maths teachers

Parents tooPrimary level subjects suit general audience

OERu is a charitable trustnot a business venturedoes not change UOW’s core business

OERu@UOW is a social inclusion strategya taste of university study

Why is UOW an OERu anchor partner?

Open UOW

resources

activities supports

= UOW experience

taster

UOW quality open resources

Articulation to enrolment @ UOW

?subject degree

subjects

UOW Social inclusion

oSchool studentsoPeople up skillingoMature age peopleoRegional peopleoPeople in developing nations

UOW open practices

Draft eLearning Strategic Draft eLearning Strategic Plan 2012Plan 2012

integrated/collaborative/engaged

Mission: maintain UOW’s position as Australia’s

#1 university for teaching & learning through creative & sustainable

eLearning practices

eLearning used to achieve excellent learning outcomes

eLearning used to enhance public & professional networking

open educational practices used to transform university access

quality planning & review processes used to support innovative teaching

DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT

From our early work in distance education by TV & print, interested in disaggregation of:

ContentSupportAssessmentAccreditation

Why is UOW an OERu anchor partner?

Why OERu?

Now digital revolution & CC licensing enables variety of open educational practices:– Open delivery– Open support– Open design– Open evaluation– Open research

Learning Design has a dual impact on OER:

• learning designs provide good practice models for stitching together OERs

• learning designs spell out how an OER is an exemplar of good practice

learning designs as OERs themselves?