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OPENNESS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: OPEN
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER)
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IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL POLICY, PRACTICE and RESEARCH in developing countries
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University of Cape Town,University of Fort Hare, UNISA
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OER from UCT: OpenContent (June 2014)
Feedback
this site is pricelessthis is my first visit, and i'mvery impressed.i really appreciate the idea of the site as i'm Syrian ENT fresh graduated doctor, and it's not that easy to get and afford the textbooks that you need.i've already shared your site with colleagues in order to spread the knowledge.thanks again
yours sincerelyHelal Alsaleh
Dear Course Moderator, Thank you so much for considering to provide Initial French Lessons through this medium. I found it very useful for my pursuit towards learning French language. ………………………Hi Ms. Cox,Greetings!I am in India. The usefulness of online media is this, you have students from all over the globe. Thanks for asking.Loveson
Studying at University: A guide for first year students
Used by Venda University and the University of the Western Cape with new students
Stellenbosch University uses some of the illustrations
The guide has been accessed over 6,500 times via the directory and over 600 physical printed guides have been sold!
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Materials published as OER on OpenContent selected for
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Incentives for academics: OER Grants
Faculties and areas 2011-2014
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Commerce 6
Engineering 8
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Humanities 15
Science 6
Law 3
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15 grants still being worked on. So far 55 resources have been added.
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What ENABLERS and BARRIERS to OER can
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What are the enablers of OER?
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• Lack of awareness
• Institutions are not always supportive of sharing
• Individual academics need to believe in the value of sharing
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• Not everyone has access
• Digital divide between Global South and North
• Lack of ability and skills
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• Support from external funders like Shuttleworth and Mellon is temporary
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Legal
Enabler Barrier
• Academics are not aware of Creative Commons or how Creative Commons works
• They are not that concerned about their Intellectual property (although they do want attribution) but they are very concerned about infringing the copyright of others
“So actually I think you’re more protected if you make something legitimately an OER and then somebody else uses it.”
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Pedagogy
Enabler Barrier
• Creation: interactive teaching styles do not always result in online materials
• Use: difficult to find relevant OER
Quality
Enabler Barrier“.. I think it will make everyone go over it two or three times, ya.”
“If they’re ready for students to see, then they’re as ready as they’re going to get.”
“I think that each individual preparing their materials must be sure that their material is substantively correct, sound or critical.”
“They don’t look good enough to put out there.”
“But I would love to be able to give what I had to somebody and say does it… it’s sort of like is there cohesion, does it make sense”.
Why OER?
What are the potential benefits of OER?
Global challenges of higher education
Increasing demand for education and
insufficient institutions
Increasing cost of higher education and
text booksIncreasing competition
Variable quality in teaching
Asymmetries of power and wealth and
curriculum from the Global North favoured over the Global south
Challenges for South Africa
Crisis in Basic education
Skills shortage/’persistent human Capital gap” (Taylor,
2011)
Higher education: high school graduates of varied ability
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Why OER now for academic departments?
• Increase institutional visibility, advancing competitiveness, attracting students and resources
• Promote effective social responsiveness
• Improve learning experience by selecting materials in pedagogically sound and innovative ways
• Improve recruitment by helping the right students find the right programmes
• Enhance teaching coherence across courses
• Ensure better long-term archiving, curation and reuse of teaching materials
• Attract alumni as life-long learners
Why OER now - individually?
• Profile teaching and pedagogical idea sharing
• Create record of teaching for teaching portfolio
• Foster connections between other colleagues, departments and even other universities (especially cross-disciplinary studies)
• Increase impact of teaching materials
• Extend use of teaching materials to high school learners and life-long learners
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Conclusion
• Amazing work globally (e.g. Commonwealth of Learning, UNESCO)
• OER repositories, networks and research continues to grow
• Opportunity to use OER’s in MOOCs
• Opportunity to share resources across the world across the Global South, North to South and also South to North
Creators and Contacts
Prepared by:
Glenda Cox - glenda.cox@uct.ac.za
Some slides were created by Michael Paskevicius -mike.vicious@gmail.com
OpenUCT repositoryhttps://open.uct.ac.za/
CILT websitehttp://www.cilt.uct.ac.za/
ROER4D website:http://roer4d.org/
License
Openness in Higher Education: Open Educational Resources (OER) by Glenda Cox is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution
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