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Using and sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) Gregory Doyle Veronica Mitchell Sam Lee Pan 15 Sept 2011 Gregory Doyle Veronica Mitchell Sam Lee Pan
Using and sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) Gregory
Doyle Veronica Mitchell Sam Lee Pan 15 Sept 2011 Gregory Doyle
Veronica Mitchell Sam Lee Pan 15 Sept 2011
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Health OER Unit Gregory Doyle Project manager of the Health OER
Project Veronica Mitchell & Matumo Ramafikeng Health OER
Representatives Sam Lee Pan Health OER Administrator Kende Kefale
Technical Assistant
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Health OER Project in HSF Educational Development Unit (2009)
Funded by Hewlett Foundation in association with OER Africa Aims of
Health OER: Assist staff in: finding OER modifying existing
material into OER creating OER Audit potential OER at HSF Showcase
the teaching of FHS academics Aims of Health OER: Assist staff in:
finding OER modifying existing material into OER creating OER Audit
potential OER at HSF Showcase the teaching of FHS academics
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What is OpenContent?
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The OpenContent Directory
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Why now individually? Profiles teaching Pedagogical idea
sharing Create record of teaching for teaching portfolios Foster
connections between other colleagues, departments and even other
universities especially cross-disciplinary studies Increase impact
of teaching materials Extends use of teaching materials to high
school learners and life-long learners Individual
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Why for departments? Increase institutional visibility,
advancing competitiveness, attracting students and resources
Promote effective social responsiveness Improve learning experience
by selecting materials in pedagogically sound and innovative ways
Improve recruitment by helping the right students find the right
programmes Enhances teaching coherence across courses Ensures
better long-term archiving, curation and reuse of teaching
materials Attracts alumni as life-long learners
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Examples of UCT OpenContent
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South African Child Gauge 2009/2010 Health Sciences, Child and
Adolescent Health Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury P & Smith C (EdS)
Report on the state of Child Health in South Africa Already online,
listing in OpenContent improves discoverability Filetype: pdf
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UCT Libraries: Library Guides Library help guides to working
with library resources Author: Lara Skelly Students were actually
searching for library help guides on OpenContent Filetype: web
pages
What is OER? Open educational resources (OER) are educational
materials (usually digital) that are shared freely and openly for
anyone to use and under some type of license to: repurpose improve
redistribute
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OER Movement Contextualising the OER project
Internationally
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Opening Scholarship Project (2007-2008) Open Educational
Resources Open Access Open Community OER UCT (March 2009 Open
Educational Resources Advocating openness (2009) Open Access Health
OER (2008-) Open Educational Resources in Health Open UCT (2011 - )
History of UCT OpenContent Funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation
Funded by the Hewlett Foundation
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Open UCT
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What might enable or constrain OER o Social (cultural,
organisational, philosophical) o Technical (infrastructure,
bandwidth, expertise) o Financial (sources of revenue,
sustainability) o Legal (copyright, expertise)
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Change in philosophy The Open Source Software movement led the
way in showcasing the value of openness and the architecture of
participation OReilly 2003. OER is based on the philosophical view
of knowledge as a collective social product and the desirability of
making it a social property Prasad & Ambedkar cited in Downes
2007:1.
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Affordances of the Internet OER is premised on the simple and
powerful idea that the worlds knowledge is a public good and that
technology in general and the World Wide Web in particular provides
an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse
knowledge (Hewlett Foundation)
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OER and Copyright
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Alternative copyright licensing Previously copyright was
binary: All rights retained or public domain Now alternative
licensing options Range of options where some rights are reserved
GNU General Public License Creative Commons provide Copyright
Public domain Copyright Some rights reservedPublic domain
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Financial models Donor funding e.g. Hewlett Foundation
Marketing budget e.g. Open University Commission e.g. MIT and
Amazon Endowment e.g. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Membership e.g. Sakai Consortium Government e.g. UK 7.8 million
grant
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Open materials at UCT historically have been... Hard to locate
Not in a single searchable location Unlikely to be adequately
licensed to ensure that the original author is always attributed
Not being leveraged to promote the UCT brand Not being capitalised
upon to promote better contact with alumni
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The UCT OpenContent directory o Lists and describes the open
educational content available from UCT o Links to international
platforms and acts as a mechanism for increasing the visibility of
UCT- produced open educational materials o Facilitate reporting
around questions such as: Which OERs have been published by person
X in my department? What OER content is available from my
department? How many OERs are in the UCT Collection? To what extent
is my departments OER output promoting us globally?
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Potential open content: Handbooks & guides Instructional
websites Vula sites Presentations Podcasts Open textbooks Image
Collections
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Site Analytics
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Site Visitors
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Visitor location
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Traffic sources
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Top Google queries driving traffic from search (3rd
referrer)
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Site search
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Most accessed resources Total clicks to to content listed on
OpenContent: 9908
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Increasing Visibility
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information that i need is who can do this course how the course
works. Best regards Fernando Santos Good morning Can you send me
more information about your'' Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational
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Feedback
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We in the IEEE UCT chapter are in the process of donating a
computer lab to a high school in the Cape flats. Along with this
initiative is computer literacy free training. Therefore, I would
like to seek permission to use your CHED computer literacy
materials. We would be having 3 or 4 free sessions with the school
pupils. It will cover Introduction to PC's, Internet and Word.. I
do not plan to modify your materials and they will be used 'AS IS',
with all the necessary references to your team. This is aimed to
respect the IP (Intellectual Property) rights of the authors of the
training material. I hope this request meets your favourable
consideration. Thanks Des. Regards, David We in the IEEE UCT
chapter are in the process of donating a computer lab to a high
school in the Cape flats. Along with this initiative is computer
literacy free training. Therefore, I would like to seek permission
to use your CHED computer literacy materials. We would be having 3
or 4 free sessions with the school pupils. It will cover
Introduction to PC's, Internet and Word.. I do not plan to modify
your materials and they will be used 'AS IS', with all the
necessary references to your team. This is aimed to respect the IP
(Intellectual Property) rights of the authors of the training
material. I hope this request meets your favourable consideration.
Thanks Des. Regards, David Feedback
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Conclusion Today, a confluence of events is creating the
perfect storm for significantly advancing education. With a growing
inventory of openly available educational tools and resources, and
with an increasingly engaged and connected community,
transformative opportunities for education abound. Iiyoshi &
Kumar 2008:2.
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Discussion / Questions Can hierarchy and sharing co-exist?
http://opensource.com/business/10/8/can-hierarchy-and-sharing-co-exist
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OER used Smith,D (2009) Academic Greybeards and the Net
Generation. Presentation to the Teaching with Technology
Mini-Conference, 18 November 2010, UCT. Presentations by Cox, G.,
Hodgkinson-Williams, C. et al CET, UCT Donnely, S CET, UCT Smith,D
(2009) Academic Greybeards and the Net Generation. Presentation to
the Teaching with Technology Mini-Conference, 18 November 2010,
UCT. Presentations by Cox, G., Hodgkinson-Williams, C. et al CET,
UCT Donnely, S CET, UCT
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References Attwood, R (2009) Get it out in the open. Online:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=408300 24
September
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=408300
Downes S (2007) Models for sustainable open educational resources.
Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects 3:
29-44. Iiyoshi, T & Kumar, MSV (Eds) (2008) Opening Up
Education: The collective advancement of Education through Open
Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: The MIT Press. OReilly, T (2003) The Architecture of
Participation. Available online:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3017 (Checked 4 October 2009)
Yuan, L, MacNeill, S and Kraan W (2008). Open Educational Resources
Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education. JISC CETIS.
Available at
http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf
[Accessed 4 February 2009].
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OER UCT Links Visit the OER UCT open Vula site
vula.uct.ac.za/portal/site/openuct
vula.uct.ac.za/portal/site/openuct Read the OER UCT project blog
blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct For
information regarding related workshops and seminars
www.cet.uct.ac.za/projects#OER www.cet.uct.ac.za/projects#OER
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Discussion / Questions Can hierarchy and sharing co-exist?
http://opensource.com/business/10/8/can-hierarchy-and-sharing-co-exist