OSTRICH OER Presentation for UKOLN

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Open Educational Resources

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Why OER?

• for the individual?• for the institution?

 • from a national or international perspective?

 • from a learning and teaching perspective?

• The roots of OER • International OER projects

 • OER in the UK

The background...

OERs at the University of Bath 

• JISC OER Programmeso UK Centre for Biosciences OER Project

Pilot Phase Subject Strand: Cancer Biology learning materials

o OSTRICH project  Phase 2 Aiii Cascade Strand: The support of existing teams who are already

releasing OER in embedding their practice in other environments o delOREs

Phase 2 Aiii Cascade Strand: Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design

o OeRBITAL  Phase 2 Ci Collections Strand: UK Centre for Biosciences collection: Open

Educational Resources  for Biologists Involved in Teaching And Learning  

• "Little OERs"1

PROJECT AIMS • Transfer and cascade key outcomes of OTTER project • Adapt CORRE framework to the University of Bath context and evaluate its

sustainability • Promote creation, release and reuse of Open Educational Resources

 PROJECT OUTPUTs• OER release

o Staff development and student support resourceso Units of study from across the institutiono Panopto lecture capture materials

• Draft policy documents and guidelines • OER repository 

OSTRICH project

ostrich.bath.ac.uk

Current Internal Drupal CCK Data Model

Describing OERs 

IEEE LOM as the resource descriptor

OAI-ORE as the aggregation descriptor

Proposed Internal Drupal CCK Data Model

Themes and Challenges

• Intellectual Property and Ownership• Copyright and Third Party Content• Creative Commons Licences

 • What constitutes a usable/reusable OER?• Understanding of Audience/End User• Use and Reuse cycle 

 • Sustainability of OER release processes • Models for conversion/creation of OER materials

Further information…

OERs : Getting Started guide available at: go.bath.ac.uk/OERintro 

OSTRICH project details available at: blogs.bath.ac.uk/oer 

OSTRICH OER Repository available at: ostrich.bath.ac.uk

JISC Phase 2 OER Programme 

OER Infokit (from Pilot Phase of the JISC/HEA OER Project) 

Synthesis and Evaluation Report (from Pilot Phase of the JISC/HEA OER Project) 

OER Impact Study by JISC

1 Martin Weller, Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University  (http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2009/12/the-politics-of-oer.html)

Presentation available at: go.bath.ac.uk/ukoln-ostrich

Vic Jenkins, Learning Technologist(v.k.jenkins@bath.ac.uk)

 Alex Lydiate, Educational Software and Systems Developer(a.lydiate@bath.ac.uk)

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