Cal09 Presentation

Developing a Framework for Understanding and Evaluating the

Impact of Open Educational Resources

Li Yuan

JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

A Definition of OER

““digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research” (OECD, 2007)research” (OECD, 2007)

““digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research” (OECD, 2007)research” (OECD, 2007)

Content Tools Implementation

Developm

ent &

Delivery

Searching &

Organising

Sharing &

Collaborating

IPR

& C

opyright

Co-produce or P

roducer- C

onsumer

Institution & C

omm

unity &

individual

Full courses & m

odules

Collections &

Journals

Textbooks &

course m

aterials

MIT OpenCourseWare

Rice University’s Connexions

OpenLearn

National OER Programmes

ParisTech Open Course Ware

Japan OpenCourseWare Consortium (JOCW)

China Open Resources for Education (CORE)

Irish Open

UKOER – (JorumOpen)

The complexity of OER

…it “hides a wealth of complexity and has profound implications for the way we conceive and practice higher education” (Weller, 2007)

Legal & Technical

issues

Services & Business models

Pedagogical practice

Organisation and culture change

OER

Conceptual the Zachman Framework

Contextual

Conceptual

Logical

Physical

As Built

Functioning

WhyWho WhenWhereWhat How

Planner’s view

Owner’s view

Designer’s view

Builder’s view

Integrator’s view

User’s view

Deriving an analytical framework for OER – a Zachman approach

Why

Motivation

What

content

How

Process

Where

Location

Who

People

When

Time

Contextual (Planner)

Vision, mission, drivers

Learning resources

Funding mechanism

Places for creating and

using content

Education stockholders

Events, funding

programme

Conception(Owner)

Goals, objectives

Subjects, media types and content formats

Policies, business plans

Department, subject groups

Decision makers

Lifecycle of producing and releasing resources

Technology model (Designer )

System function and capacities

Platforms and tools

Work flow Online social networks and communities

managers and technician

Set up and run/training

Functioning (User)

Needs and interests

Teaching and learning material

Open sharing

Formal and informal learning

Educators and learners

Creating, using, modifying and reusing

Bridging the gap of perspectives

Why

Motivation

What

content

How

Process

Where

Location

Who

People

When

Time

Contextual (Planner)

Vision, mission, drivers

Learning resources

Funding machnism

Places for creating and

using content

Education stockholders

Events, funding

programmer

Conception(Owner)

Goals, objective

Subjects, media types and content formats

Policies, business plans

Department, subject groups

Decision makers

Lifecycle of producing and releasing resources

Technology model (Designer )

System function and capacities

Platforms and tools

Work flow Online social networks and communities

managers and technician

Set up and run/training

Functioning (User)

Needs and interests

Teaching and learning material

Open sharing

Formal and informal learning

Educators and learners

Creating, using, modifying and reusing

Bridging the perspectives is the key to transformation

Why

Motivation

What

content

How

Process

Where

Location

Who

People

When

Time

Contextual (Sponsor)

Vision, mission, drivers

Learning resources

Funding machnism

Places for creating and

using content

Education stockholders

Events, funding

programmer

Conception(Owner)

Goals, strategies

Subjects, media types and content formats

Policies, business plans

Department, subject groups

Decision makers

Lifecycle of producing and releasing resources

Technology model (Designer )

System function and capacities

Platforms and tools

Work flow Online social networks and communities

managers and technician

Set up and run/training

Functioning (User)

Needs and interests

Teaching and learning material

Open sharing

Formal and informal learning

Educators and learners

Creating, using, modifying and reusing

Managing the process

Integrating the basic elements in the process

Why

Motivation

What

content

How

Process

Where

Location

Who

People

When

Time

Contextual (Sponsor)

Vision, mission, drivers

Learning resources

Funding mechanism

Places for creating and

using content

Education stockholders

Events, funding

programmer

Conception(Owner)

Goals, strategies

Subjects, media types and content formats

Policies, business plans

Department, subject groups

Decision makers

Lifecycle of producing and releasing resources

Technology model (Designer )

System function and capacities

Platforms and tools

Work flow Online social networks and communities

managers and technician

Set up and run/training

Functioning (User)

Needs and interests

Teaching and learning material

Open sharing

Formal and informal learning

Educators and learners

Creating, using, modifying and reusing

Assessing the impact

Context Mechanism Outcome

Current practice Future practice OERs

Why

Motivation

What

content

How

Mechanism

Contextual (Sponsor)

Conception(Owner)

Technology model (Designer )

Functioning (User)

• Technology

• IPR &Copyright

• Pedagogy

• Culture

• Organisation

• Business models

• Technology

• IPR &Copyright

• Pedagogy

• Culture

• Organisation

• Business models

“Thinking through” an OER programme – case studies

MIT

OpenLearn

Connexions

…

References:

CETIS Briefing Paper (2008), Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education , http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf

OECD (2007), Giving Knowledge for Free: the Emergence of Open Educational Resources, http://tinyurl.com/62hjx6

Pawson, Ray and Tilley, N (1997), Realistic evaluation

Zachman, J. A. (1987), A Framework for Information Systems Architecture. IBM Systems Journal 26,(3).

Thanks for your attention!!!

For more information about OER working group and future events at CETIS, please visit Cetis website at http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/ or email Li Yuan at l.yuan@bolton.ac.uk