ldquoOpening Up Staff attitudes to open learningrdquo

OCWC Global7th May 2010

Andy BegganLearning Team Leader

The University of Nottingham

Outline of presentation

About Nottingham

Why open learning Strategic drivers

Background

Staff attitudes Focus group feedback

Staff survey results

Challenges

Activities

Impact on Nottingham

Next steps

About Nottingham

bull Research led institution

bull Student numbersbull 30000 students (postgrad and undergrad)

bull 6000 international (130 countries)

bull Six campuses (inc China and Malaysia)

bull E-Learning Support (Learning Team)bull Multimedia production unit

bull VLEs

bull E-assessment

bull Video production

bull Podcasting

bull E-learning development (Xerte)

1Social responsibility

2Promotional opportunities

3Cost efficiencies

Why is Nottingham involved

What is Nottingham doing

U-Now ndash OCWOER

Launched 2007

Member of OCWC 200

Visitors Up 67 over Q1 2009

UK HEAJISC funded through BERLiN project 200910

The BERLiN project

Re-invigorate the U-Now (200910)

Capturing examples from across all campuses

Issues assigning credits Led to bdquomodule frameworks‟ Introduction to microeconomics

Rich learning objects add further depth

No limitations of what can be made available Podcasts and videos interactive learning content PDFs etc

Copyright bdquohurdles‟ main barrier

Opening up Staff attitudes

Open learning focus groups (Summer 2009)

20 academic staff across 5 focus groups

All faculties at all levels of academic staff

Feedback grouped under themes Areas

+ve -ve neutral

Themes

Online staff survey (Mar 2010)

6 of academic staff

Focus group feedback

19

154

138

Social responsibility

Promotion

Cost efficiencies

Focus groups

Impact

Commercial

IPR

University showcase

Academic concerns

Academic promotion

Changing current practice

Development costs

Target audience

Learning strategies

Book sales

QA

Barriers for reuse

Loss of control

Social responsibility Promotion Cost efficiencies

Distribution across themes

Focus groups

1 Social responsibility

ldquoI have got this feeling that there‟s people out there who don‟t have access to education and that they‟ve got access to the internet Maybe they could use these courses or sessions or the odd video or whatever to just top up what they cannot manage to get from their own education systemrdquo

Focus groups

1 Social responsibility

Impact

Commercial

IPR

University showcase

Academic concerns

Academic promotion

Changing current practice

Development costs

Target audience

Learning strategies

Book sales

QA

Barriers for reuse

Loss of control

Positive Negative NeutralFocus groups

Contribution

bullIndividual

bullSchool

bullConsortium

Clearance

bullPermissions

bullIPR

bullCopyright

Construction

bullAssembly

bullPackaging

bullURLs

Cataloguing

bullMetadata

bullKeywordstags

bullUpload

Circulation

bullOER aggregating sites

bullRSS feeds

bullWeb20

Connections

bullInternal

bullExternal

bullPartnerships

Connections

bullInternal

bullExternal

bullPartnerships

Connections

bullInternal

bullExternal

bullPartnerships

Strongly

Agree

11

Agree

56

Neutral

25

Disagree

7

Strongly

Disagree

1

Open Educational Resources (OER) can help build fruitful partnerships

with colleagues and institutions worldwide

Strongly

Agree

7

Agree

48

Neutral

38

Disagree

5

Strongly Disagree

2

Students benefit from the range of approaches available through the use

of Open Educational Resources(OER) in my teaching

Staff survey

OER Africa feedback on U-Now Address multiple audiences at the same time

Display

Intended level of use and target audience

Brief description

Licence

File size

Technical information and publisher

Downloading instructions

Different approaches to navigation (browse filter search)

Encourage editing and repurpose

UKOER~OER Africa UNESCO partnerships OER bdquoShopping list‟ to support African HEIs

International partnerships

2 Promotion

ldquoI don‟t think it would make any difference to our reputation as teachers The whole culture is research All the promotions and everything are through researchrdquo

ldquoI fought quite hard for the materials to be made more widely available than just within the University for a number of reasons It adds to the reputation of the Centre it attracts good tutors it‟s got lots of knock on effects that are very positiverdquo Focus groups

2 Promotion

Impact

Commercial

IPR

University showcase

Academic concerns

Academic promotion

Changing current practice

Development costs

Target audience

Learning strategies

Book sales

QA

Barriers for reuse

Loss of control

Positive Negative Neutral

Focus groups

73

5660

47

66

72

22

44

33

58

97

51

34

22

42

47

21

30

15

What benefits do you see in publishingand using OER materials

Publishing Using

Staff survey

Open Courseware Consortium

Joined OCWC in 20078

One of 4 UK members Mathematical institute Oxford

Peoples-uniorg

The Open University

The University of Nottingham

Doubled visitors to U-Now Around 30 referrals to U-Now

Q1 2010 comes via OCWC

Submission via RSS

Promotion of staff

3 Cost efficiencies

ldquo I‟ve used other people‟s materials and some stuff you see is terrible and other things you think oh that‟s a good idea I‟ll do it like that You pick and choose mix it up with your own stuff and I find that an incredibly positive processrdquo

ldquoThere would be issues over copyright principally images graphs figures data from papers and textbooks used willy-nilly in lectures because you don‟t have that fearhellip you are breaching copyrightrdquo

Focus groups

3 Cost efficiencies

Impact

Commercial

IPR

University showcase

Academic concerns

Academic promotion

Changing current practice

Development costs

Target audience

Learning strategies

Book sales

QA

Barriers for reuse

Loss of control

Positive Negative NeutralFocus groups

Strongly

Agree

19

Agree49

Neutral

20

Disagree

10

Strongly

Disagree

2

I would only use OER in my teaching if I am able to edit and personalise the

materials for use with my students

Strongly

Agree

1

Agree

49Neutral

42

Disagree

6

Strongly Disagree

2

Reusing OER is a useful way of developing new courses

Staff survey

Re-purposing OER

49

30 30

38

66

3337

23

53

15

35

28

35

46

27

33

39

59

32

38

29

43

9

46

3842

What types of open resources would you be most willing to publish or use

Publish Use

Staff survey

XPERT

Producer-centric models

Xerte Public E-learning ReposiTory

UK JISC funded under rapid innovation programme

To progress the vision of a distributed architecture of e-learning resources for sharing and re-use

Based on Xerte Online Toolkits wwwnottinghamacukxerte

wwwnottinghamacukxpert

XPERT

httpwwwnottinghamacukxpert

32

58

43

65

16

37

2123

119

3

8 8

13

55

25

16

2624

8

3

85 8 8

1

40

5

What barriers do you face in publishing and using

OER materials

Publishing Using

Staff survey

Staff survey

Impact on Nottingham

Yes

29

No

68

Unsure

3

Staff survey I have submitted teaching and

learning resources for publication as OER

Yes

39

No

17

Unsure

44

Staff survey I will submit teaching and

learning resources for publication as OER in the

future

Yes

27

No

70

Unsure

3

Staff survey I have used OER from other

academics in my teaching

Yes

42

No

14

Unsure

44

Staff survey I will use OER from other academics

in my teaching in the future

Next steps Social responsibility

UKOER~OER Africa framework

Promotion U-Now website review

School based and subject based RSS feeds

Support growth of local communities

Link to prospectuses school webpages

Cost efficiencies bdquoDigital literacy course‟

Appropriate reuse and repurpose of OER

Workshops seminars PGCHE

New tools and technologies

Any Questions

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