Open Educational Resources: Nuts and Bolts of Developing an Online Plagiarism Tutorial

Jenny Collery, UCD LibraryLIR Annual Seminar, 2014

What’s the link?OERs & Open Access

• Open Educational Resources have been described as a “public good” where “the producers of the good decide that they do not want to exclude people from this resource.” (Billings et al., 2012)

• OERs are part of “Open Movement” (JISC and McGill, 2013)

UCD eLearning Teamest. May 2013

Jenny Collery,Plagiarism Lead

Diarmuid Stokes

Sonya Hood

Michelle Dalton

Gerard Walsh

Susan Boyle

James Molloy, eLearning Lead

Carmel Norris

Emily Doherty

Sue Daly

Nuts & Bolts: Searching for OERs • Top locations - JORUM, Flickr,

Google, YouTube and Slideshare etc. (Graham and Secker, 2012)

• Sharing practice: visit to team by Philip Russel, Deputy Head of Library & Information Services at ITT Dublin

• Local over International (de Beer,

2012)

• Benchmarking & idea generation (Common Wealth of Learning and UNESCO, 2011)

Courtesy of LOC, Hollem, Howard R., (photographer)

ITT Tutorial - Perfect structure

High Quality Academic Standard

User tested

Clear, intuitive design

Major learning objectives covered

Plain English

Image courtesy of Phil Gyford

Compatible s/ware used

Branding & Localisation

Mobile Ready, Interactivity & Assessment

Mobile Ready, Interactivity & Assessment

Auditory

Visual

Kinaesthetic

Kolb (1984)

Multi-sensory learning

Image courtesy of Joalo Loureiro

Plagiarism as Gaeilge

• Request from UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore & Linguistics

• First Irish Language Plagiarism Tutorial*

• Collaborated with Bord na Gaeilge, UCD (translation & audio narration)

Where to share OERs?Professional Networks…

“I think the online tutorial is excellent – very clear, with lovely interactive aspects, and the Irish is a delight. It’s sadly rare to come across something of such high quality in Irish…”Coláiste na hÉireann/Gaelchultúr

“it's really high quality, we are all delighted with it.”School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Folklore & Linguistics, UCD

“Delighted by this tutorial as #Gaeilge on avoiding plagiarism Fáilte roimh an suimh seo - conas bradáil a seachtaint, Bríd McGrath, McGrath Barrett Consulting

Where to share OERs?Professional Networks…

• Request for Multi-Lingual IL resources for “Overview of Information Literacy Resources Worldwide” (Horton Jr., 2013)

Where to share?OER Repositories…

hurdles + (training + patience) = success

Using OERs: Evaluation• OERs provide a Vygotskian “Scaffolded Learning Environment”

(Daniels and Net Library Inc., 2005)

• Sharing in OER repository makes the invisible, visible (Hughes & McKenna, 2012)

• Adaptable across institutions, e.g. MOOCs

• Time efficiency*

• Adapt for new technology

• Team Feedback & Review

• Professional Development

Tempted to re-purpose an OER?Save some time…

NDLR* JORUMOER CommonsOpenLearn (OU)MERLOTPrimo

MIT Open CourseWareWikiEducatorXpert

UCD Library TutorialsITT Tutorials

References

Billings, M. S., Hutton, S. C., Schafer, J., Schweik, C. M. and Sheridan, M. (2012) 'Open Educational Resources as Learning Materials: Prospects and Strategies for University Libraries', Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, (280), pp. 2-10.

Common Wealth of Learning and UNESCO (2011) Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education. Available at: http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=364

Daniels, H. and NetLibrary Inc. (2005) An introduction to Vygotsky London ; New York: Routledge,. Available at: http://eproxy.ucd.ie/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.aspx?action=summary&v=1&bookid=122960

de Beer, T. (2012) SCORE Library Survey Report: SCORE. Available at: http://www.open.ac.uk/score/news/score-library-survey-report

Graham, N. and Secker, J. (2012) Librarians, information literacy and open educational resources: report of a survey. Available at: http://delilaopen.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/findingsharingoers_reportfinal1.pdf

Horton Jr., F. W. (2013) Overview of Information Literacy Resources Worldwide, Paris. Available at: http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/news/overview_info_lit_resources.pdf

JISC and McGill, L. (2013) What are Open Educational Resources JISC. Available at: https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24836860/What%20are%20Open%20Educational%20Resources 2014

Russell, P., Ryder, G., Kerins, G. and Phelan, M. (2013) 'Creating, Sharing and Reusing Learning Objects to Enhance Information Literacy', Journal of Information Literacy, 7(2), pp. 60-79.

Thanks for Listening…

Jenny Colleryjennifer.collery@ucd.ie

Tel: 01 716 7097