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Unisa and Open Education Practices
Seminar on Open Learning in South African UniversitiesJuly 2013
Kerry de Hart
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Use of OER in SA Universities
• Unisa is positive about the harnessing of OER in the development of courses
• Positive about contributing to OER repositories• Supportive of Open movement
• How is the use of OER envisaged by the DHET and other universities?
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What is Unisa doing re OER?
• OER coordinator• Strategy for OEP
– discussion document– forcing the harnessing of OER when developing
courses– all Unisa produced materials will be CC-BY license
• Advocacy• Open portal (www.unisa.ac.za/oer)• Setting quality standards for OER use• Founding partner OERu
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What are the barriers to using OERs?
• Knowledge of the open movement• Capacity (skills, personnel, time)• Finding suitable• Time taken to adapt or repurpose• Contextualisation • Linking to learning outcomes• Knowledge of licensing – risk of infringement and CC licencing• Change of mind set• Accreditation with professional bodies• Perceive quality risks• Link rot or OERs not always being available• Access to computers or internet
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Processes and Mechanisms
• Collaboration
• Repositories (with ratings)
• Subject interest groups
• Funding made available
• Show case examples