Bringing the benefits of OER to Scotland's colleges
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Bringing the benefits of OER to Scotland’s colleges Allan Forsyth, Ben Ryan, Jackie Graham [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] RF3: Pecha Kucha - National Infrastructures Wednesday, 11 July 2012: 11:00am - 12:30pm Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1), Appleton Tower Edinburgh University
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Scotland's Colleges and Jorum are collaborating on an initiative to bring about a significant advance in the use of Open Educational Resources in support of learning and teaching in the college sector in Scotland. This initiative has formed at a time of major organisational change in the college sector in Scotland and is well placed to address some of the pressures this change brings and to help support the sector going forward. This initiative is also timely following the recent approval of the UNESCO declaration on OER. Making use of the functionality offered by the open source DSpace repository and integration tools, this project will launch a new open resource-sharing service for the Scottish FE sector in Autumn 2012. This pecha kucha looks at the drivers which have led to this development and the positive impact it will have nationally in Scotland.
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Bringing the benefits of OER to Scotland’s collegesAllan Forsyth, Ben Ryan, Jackie Graham
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
RF3: Pecha Kucha - National Infrastructures Wednesday, 11 July 2012: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1), Appleton TowerEdinburgh University
Scotland’s Colleges exists to support, represent and promote the Scottish college sector.
Based in Stirling in the heart of Scotland, Scotland's Colleges is the trading name of the Scottish Further Education Unit (SFEU) and the Association of Scotland's Colleges (ASC).
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The Scottish Further Education Sector
41 colleges
19,500 staff
306,000 students
1 in 16 of the working-age population is attending a further education course at a college in Scotland. One qualifications authority: Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA)
Coherent and Common Curriculum
Regionalisation and funding cuts
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Funding has been cut by 25% in last 3 years.Colleges to merge to form 13 regional colleges.
Jorum is the UK service funded by JISC to facilitate the collection and sharing of OER in the UK
Drivers - demand
More sweets please
What we got What we need
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Drivers - value
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Hitching a ride
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Open Educational Resources
We are on the cusp of a global revolution in teaching and learning. Educators worldwide are developing a vast pool of educational resources on the Internet, open and free for all to use...
Cape Town Open Education Declaration:Unlocking the promise of open educational resources
Getting under the hood
Making the right connections
Now we’re flying high
A bit of configuration
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- Search for resources across Scottish repository and Jorum
- Curriculum-specific searching
- Integration with VLEs (Moodle, Blackboard planned)
- Authentication through Shibboleth, OpenAthens etc
- Branded for Scottish FE sector
Functionality
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Value
Costs of this shared service are less than 50% of the previous repository.
Can demonstrate value to the sector.
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Service level agreements and contracts take longer than you expect - but it’s important to get it right!
Pitfalls
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Content
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Migrating content from existing Scotland’s Colleges repository.Including content not previously openly licensed. Adding new content. Providing access to other collections – NHS, Jorum and BBC.
Engagement Group
- process not a project- ownership not confined to one organisation - belongs to the sector which will always be there - developed organically - those who are keen to participate and contribute
Engagement
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What have we learned from engagement?
E-learning Practitioners convinced of benefits of OER.
Teaching Staff and Senior Management moving in the right direction but there are still doubters.
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What have we learned about collaboration?
Common Aims:
- OER- Open Source- DSpace- Remit for FE- Hard up!
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What will it look like?
Bottom up - working with teaching staff, CPD, workshops.
Top down - convincing senior management.
Environment - Repository functionality.
Changing culture
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Next steps
Launch Autumn 2012Rollout of engagement strategy
Ongoing merging/regionalisation
