Case for OER

An open and closed case for educational resources?

Phil BarkerICBL, School of Maths and Computer

Sciences, Heriot-Watt University.

By Phil Barker, © Heriot Watt University Feb 2011. <[email protected]>.This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 UK: Scotland Licence. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/scotland/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94105, USA.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/scotland/

orA whirlwind tour of the

world of Open Educational Resources and some

discussion of what it might mean for Heriot-Watt.

Define “Educational Resources”

Define “Open”

Santa’s Chair © Daniel R Blume, CC-BY-SAhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/drb62/1099880155/

Arts and industries chair © Darren and Brad, CC-BY-SAhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ brad-darren/2329466605/

Bench © dcJohn CC-BY-SA http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcjohn/2946647/

from Two Bar Stools © Rennet Stowe CC-BY http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomsaint/2897079476

Tree Stump 2 © Ashish Joy CC-BY http://www.flickr.com/photos/myguitarzz/155124684/

Educational Resources

• Something useful for teaching and

learning?

• Something designed with pedagogic intent?

• I shall be talking (mostly) about online educational resources.

Open = Free

Open educational resources: Second, we call on educators, authors, publishers and institutions to release their resources openly. These open educational resources should be freely shared through open licences which facilitate use, revision, translation, improvement and sharing by anyone. Resources should be published in formats that facilitate both use and editing, and that accommodate a diversity of technical platforms. Whenever possible, they should also be available in formats that are accessible to people with disabilities and people who do not yet have access to the Internet.

Capetown declaration on open education

http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/


Open licences

Retain ownership of copyright and other IPRs, but make minimal restriction on use (viewing, copying, modifying, redistributing, selling)

E.g. Creative commons

• Attribution

• Non-commercial

• No derivatives

• Share alike


Some Examples of OERs


Taken from MIT OCW site © MIT. CC-BY-NC-SA http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/


• MIT OCW was launched in ????

• MIT OCW has ??? Courses


• MIT OCW was launched in 2001

• MIT OCW has 2000 Courses

Taken from Berkeley Webcast site © Berkeley university. http://webcast.berkeley.edu/

Taken from Stanford Engineering everywhere site © Stanford University. CC-BY http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=86cc8662-f6e4-43c3-a1be-b30d1d179743

Taken from Tufts OCW site © Tufts University. CC-BY-NC-SA http://ocw.tufts.edu/

Taken from Johns Hopkins OCW site © Johns Hopkins University. http://ocw.jhsph.edu/

New Jersey Institute of Technology OCW site © NJIT. http://ocw.njit.edu/

UMass, Boston OCW site © University of Massachusetts. http://ocw.umb.edu/

University of Michigan OCW site © University of Michigan. http://ocw.umich.edu/

Notre Dame OCW site © university of notre dame. CC:BY-NC-SA http://ocw.umich.edu/

UC Irvine OCW site © University of California, Irvine. http://ocw.uci.edu/

Utah OCW site © University Utah http://my.courses.utah.edu/course/category.php?id=3

USQ Australia OCW site © University of S Queensland. CC By-NC-SA http://ocw.usq.edu.au/

UCT Open Content site © University of Cape Town. http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/

Carlos III OCW site © Universidad Carlos III. CC BY-NC-SA http://ocw.uc3m.es/

OUNL OCW site © Open Univeriteit (NL). CC BY-NC-SA http://www.ou.nl/eCache/DEF/2/19/943.html

Farabi OCW site © International University of Iran. http://farabi.ac.ir/ocw/

Open University Israel OCW site © OU Israel. http://farabi.ac.ir/ocw/

Hokkaido University OCW site © Hokkaido University. http://ocw.hokudai.ac.jp/

Korea OCW © Korea University. CC BY-NC-ND http://ocw.korea.edu/ocw

OpenLearn site © Open University. CC BY-NC-SA http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/

OpenSpires site © University of Oxford. http://openspires.nsms.ox.ac.uk/

Open Exeter Repository © University of Exeter. https://open.exeter.ac.uk/repository

LeedsMet Repository © Leeds Metropolitan University. http://repository.leedsmet.ac.uk/main/index_oer.php

http://repository.leedsmet.ac.uk/main/index_oer.php

Curve resource Centre © University of Coventry. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/access/

University of Leicester Repository © University of leicester. http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/oer

University of Nottingham OCW © University of Nottingham. http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/

So much for “big OER”,what about individuals?


Khan Academy © Salman Khan. http://www.youtube.com/khanacademy#p/p

Multimedia Training Videos © University of Westminster. http://www.multimediatrainingvideos.com/

brOME © M van Hoor / Bradford University. http://mvanhoor.co.uk/wordpressoer/?page_id=141

ChemFM © University of Lincoln. CC BY-NC-SA http://forensicchemistry.lincoln.ac.uk/

http://forensicchemistry.lincoln.ac.uk/http://forensicchemistry.lincoln.ac.uk/

Core Material © University of Liverpool. CC BY-NC-SA http://core.materials.ac.uk/

HumBox © University of Southampton. http://www.humbox.ac.uk/

A few things that stretch the definition of OER


PLOSone © Public Library of Science. CC BY http://www.plosone.org/


OpenStreetMap © OpenStreetMap. CC BY-SA http://www.openstreetmap.org/


OS OpenData © Ordinance Survey. Crown Copyright http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/


Data.gov.uk © Crown Copyright http://data.gov.uk//


Arduino Mega © David Mellis CC-BY http://www.flickr.com/photos/mellis/4784333051


Mendel RepRap © Adrian Bowyer GNU FDL http://reprap.org/wiki/


Reload Equipment © MC Levesley / Leeds university http://reload.leeds.ac.uk/equipment.php


Enough examples.Who’s behind this?


OER/OCW Initiatives

UNESCOOER Community Wiki:

http://oerwiki.iiep.unesco.org/


OER/OCW Initiatives

Hewlett foundation>$40million since 2001

Helped many of the US OCW and OU OpenLearn

http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources


OER/OCW Initiatives

HEFCE: UKOER• Aim: institutions to set up sustainable mechanisms for

making a significant amount of existing learning resources freely and openly available.

• Extent: Phase 1, 2009-10 ~£5.7M; Phase 2, 2010-11 £5M.See also http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2011/01/oltf.aspx

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer


OER/OCW Initiatives

US Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College And Career Training (taaccct) Grants

$2 billion for Fiscal Years (FY) 2011 – 2014 ($500 million annually)

[To provide] community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs…

The Grantee will be required to license to the public … all work created with the support of the grant (“Work”) under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (“License”).

From http://www.doleta.gov/grants/pdf/SGA-DFA-PY-10-03.pdf


If you want to use it, how do you find this stuff?


Other collections / search

Jorum: Collection of OERs from UK HEhttp://open.jorum.ac.uk/

OCWSearch: selection of OpenCourseWare siteshttp://www.ocwsearch.com/

Xpert: ~160k OER resource http://xpert.nottingham.ac.uk/

CC Search by Creative Commons: cross search several services.http://search.creativecommons.org/


Why provide OERs?


Why not?

• (online) Educational resources are not “consumed”, you don’t lose them when you “give them away”.

• Students don’t pay HW for content.


• OCW is not an MIT education.

• OCW does not grant degrees or certificates.

• OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty.

• Materials may not reflect entire content of the course.

http://ocw.mit.edu/about/


The Ethos of HE

2 The objects of the University shall be to advance learning and knowledge by teaching and research particularly in Science, in Technology, and to enable students to obtain the advantages of liberal university education.

Heriot-Watt University charter, http://www.hw.ac.uk/ordinances/charter.pdf


Accountability / FoI

It must be open to those outside the academic community to question what is being taught and to what level in our universities

UK Information Tribunal ruling


Resource management

Image by (nutmeg) licence cc-byhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/absolutely_loverly/2348473585/


Image by Steve Harris licence cc-by-nchttp://www.flickr.com/photos/steveharris/3328419931/

IPR clarity/verification


Some things become simpler

Image by takacsi75 licence cc-by http://www.flickr.com/photos/13519089@N03/1380483002/


Open to solutions

YouTube Edu http://www.youtube.com/education?b=400


Shop window

Image by Tony Eccles licence cc-by-nc-sahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/tonytoo/3659947093/


78Image by Monica Bargmann licence cc-by-sa

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_mistress/1304655401/


A reasonable estimate of recruitment influenced by OpenLearn is the approximately 10,500 students since launch who have made use of OpenLearn before they register for a course at The OU in the same online session.

http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/4ii7jyi4jnx


Open to partnerships

Image by University of Adelaide licence cc-byhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/the_university_of_adelaide/969267722/


Summary

• OER is well-established and widespread

• OER brings benefits for us as users and providers


Questions

• How should we facilitate the use of OERs at HWU?

• Should we facilitate the release of OERs from HWU?


LicencePresentation and text by Phil Barker, <[email protected]>. Feb 2011 © Heriot-

Watt University. Images ownership is indicated on each page.

By Phil Barker, © Heriot Watt University Feb 2011. <[email protected]>.

The presentation and text is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 UK: Scotland Licence. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/scotland/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94105, USA.

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