Introduction to Open Educational Resources
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Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) Michael Paskevicius March 31, 2011 Presentation to: EDN6099F: ICT in Education - Issues & Debates
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An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) delivered to educational technology masters students. This particular presentation focuses on the issues of materials reuse, produsage, and the shift to open educational practices.
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Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Michael PaskeviciusMarch 31, 2011
Presentation to: EDN6099F: ICT in Education - Issues & Debates
Question
• How many of us have shared some form of media online?
• How many of us have put some form of educational media online?
• How many have heard the term open educational resources?
What are open educational resources?Open Content / Open educational resources (OER) / Open Courseware are educational materials (usually digital) that can be:
Shared
Shared freely and openly to
be…
Used
Improved
Redistributed
… used by anyone to … … adapt / repurpose/
improve under some type of license in order
to …
… redistribute and share
again.
Open Educational Resources
• Discoverable online and openly licensed tools, media, materials, documented ideas, practices, activities or techniques used to support the process of education
• The value of an OER is its potential to support learning in many ways and in many contexts (Anderson, 2011)
Anderson, T. (2011). Quality of Open Educational Resources. Virtual Canuck blog March 15, 2011. Available online: http://terrya.edublogs.org/2011/03/15/quality-of-open-educational-resources
OEReLearning materials
intersection represents open, electronic, instructional
resources
Adapted from: Fons, G. (2009). Beyond Open Access: Creating Open Educational Resources. Enriching Scholarship, May 2009. Available online: https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Open_Content_How-to
• Stored in the LMS/ CMS•Not necessarily openly licensed• Used to support students learning
• Available online•Openly licensed•Used to support students learning
The Open Movement
Open educational resources part of the “Open Movement”
Open Source Software
Open Access
Open Licences
Open Science
Open Society
Open Educational Resources
Open Data
All images sourced from www.clker.com licensed in the public domain
Resources for teaching
Traditionally…
This textbook does not quite work for me!
I wish this had x…maybe I
will adapt it?
All images sourced from www.clker.com licensed in the public domain
Copyright in a digital age
The problem with using the internet as a resource is that while
most of the material online is easily accessible they are not necessarily openly licensed
Creative Commons licenses
See Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Licensing.pdf from CC Learn
Towards open educational practices…
Other educators can now discover then use or repurpose
Learning activityOr resource
Creates
Publishes as OER on web
Repurposed material goes back online as OER
Adapted from Conole, G., McAndrew, P. & Dimitriadis, Y. (2010). The role of CSCL pedagogical patterns as mediating artefacts for repurposing Open Educational Resources. In: Pozzi, Francesca and Persico, Donatella eds. Techniques for Fostering Collaboration in Online Learning Communities: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. Hershey, USA: IGI Global.
Open education practices enable a culture of reuse
I’m proud of what I created and I want to
share it online!!
You may be breaching copyright law in doing
so!
Obey the terms of the open license and you are
good to go!
What do you mean by share online?
OER
Example of OER development
Original diagram in a PhD thesis …
Improved and adapted for the Portuguese context …
Translated into Greek …
Adapted and translated to Spanish …
Adapted at the University of Cape Town
Bruns, A. (2008). Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage. Peter Lang, New York.
Produsage
• Goods are PROD-uced by the people who USE them
• “The collaborative and continuous building and extending of existing content in pursuit of further improvement” (Bruns, 2008)
• Not produced for capitalist sale, nor by governments for public good, but rather goods produced by and for the people who consume them
MIT
Open University
The Khan Academy
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Aggregating content: OER Commons
Collecting OER in Africa: OER Africa
UCT OpenContent
What we have learned
• Sharing OER requires more than simply a facility for sharing
• Requires change in academic practices
• Shift question from – ‘why should I share my educational content?’
to – ‘how can I stay in control of the process of my
educational content being shared?’ (Butcher, 2010)Butcher, N (2010) Open Educational Resources and Higher Education. http://oerworkshop.weebly.com/documents and papers.html‐ ‐
OER engagement and open practices
Adapted from Ehlers, U. (2010). Open Educational Practices: A position paper from the Open Educational Quality Initiative. Open Educational Quality Initiative. Available online: http://opal.innovationpros.net/publications/guide/
"When you learn transparently (and openly) you become a teacher“
Siemens, 2010
Siemens, G. & Matheos, K. (2010). Open Social Learning in Higher Education: An African Context. VI International Seminar of the UNESCO chair in e-learning; open social learning. Available online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oexie4cwpf8
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa License. To view a copy of this license, visit
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/za/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco,
California, 94105, USA.
Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius Contact me: [email protected]
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