What are OERs?

What are OERs?Simon Allan | Lecturer in Academic Development |

CDEPP

Open source goes to high school, by Libby Levi and Mike Esser for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4967939593/in/set-72157623343017387/

Education without limits, by Christina Hardison for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5393579026/in/set-72157625612605617/

Open access overview: Focusing on open access to peer-review research articles and their preprints, by Colleen Simon for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5188228228/in/set-72157623343017387/

Improving the speed and quality of research via shared algorithm implementations, by Meredith Atwater for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5752191166/

Open Source Bach, by Christina Hardison for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5755171802/in/photostream

What are OERs?

Benefits of OER to the University

• Increased visibility• Showcase for attracting students• Decrease duplication• Increase collegiality• Enhance institutional expertise• Develop reputation as socially responsible

Benefits to HE Practitioners

Ernest Boyer (1997)

• Extended reach and visibility• Individual publicity and reputation• External collaboration• Stimulates innovation• Potential for commercialisation• Contribution to scholarship

Teaching

Discovery

Integration

Application

SCHOLARSHIP

Benefits to Learners

• Greater control and ownership of learning• Selectivity over institutions and learning resources• Wider pool of knowledge to tap into

Key debates

The course-to-co-op lifecycle, by Libby Levi for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4426824995/in/set-72157623343017387/

Teacher / Learner, by Libby Levi for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5538035618/

Copyright grafitti, by Libby Levi for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5537457973/sizes/z/in/photostream/

IntellectualPropertyRights(IPR)

More restrictive

More flexible

BYAttribution

BY-SASharealike

BY-NDNo Derivatives

BY-NCNon-commercial

BY-NC-SANon-commercial

Sharealike

BY-NC-NDNon-commercial No Derivatives

Venn Smiles, by ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5755219051/sizes/z/in/photostream/

Share

Exchange

Chocolate tools, by Janne Moren ‘JanneM’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/jannem/3312946500/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Where to find OERs

Reusing other content

Sharing your content• Choose a neutral repository or your own HEI to publish

• Investigate standardised metadata to improve visibility

• Use an institutional tag: universityofcumbria; cumbria; cumbriauni

• Include your name as well as the course and HEI

• Provide a context statement where possible

• Check back to track the number of views/downloads

• Respect your responsibility to share and share alike

• Take responsibility for QA (largely devolved in OER)

• Treat reuse of student work ethically

• Make sure you have IPR clearance

Quality Assuranc

e

Peer Review

Self AssessmentInternal QA

ICT

(reposito

ry

support)

CDEPP

(pedagogy

support)

LISS(IPR support)

AQS(existing QA processes)

OER at the University of Cumbria?

Q&A orange, by Libby Levi for ‘opensourceway’ | http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5556249000/sizes/l/in/photostream/

JISC OER Infokithttps://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24836860/What-are-Open-Educational-Resources

JORUMhttp://www.jorum.ac.uk/

Open University’s OpenLearnhttp://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

Open Cumbriahttp://open.cumbria.ac.uk

Creative Commonshttp://creativecommons.org

OER IPR Toolkithttp://www.web2rights.com/OERIPRSupport/index.html