Opening up Educational Resources
Professor Frank RennieLews Castle College
University of the Highlands and Islands
Pedagogic Styles
Distributed Learning
Blended Learning
Distance Education
elearning
f2fOpen Education
Self Study
Face to Face
Online Tuition
Activ
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Instructional Learning
Educational Technology
Why strive to be more open?
More Interactive/Collaborative
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Encourages diversity
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Easier to update resources
Build Digital Literacy
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The essence of OER• 1) Open access• 2) Freely available• 3) Shareable• 4) Relatively discrete ‘chunks’• 5)Saves needing to ‘re-invent the wheel’• 6) Needs to be contextualised• 7) You can add to the OER pool.
Examples of OER
Learning Communities
Online libraries
Geographical data
E-book repositories
YouTube
Open Courses
Wikipedia
Certification
Social networking
Journals
Images
OER Template
Learning Resources
OER
OER
OER OEROER
OER
Certification
Award
Assessment
TMA
Exam
Tutorials
LMS
Peer-to-peer
Dboard
skype
1. Identify the main generic headings for course content (key topics for discussion and
learning)
2. Search for relevant
resources that can be re-
used for these headings
3. Write ‘wrap-around’ materials that
contextualise and support the learning resources
4. Add your new materials
to the common pool (if required)
5. Select the format for
sharing (wiki etc)
Using OER in Course Design
Creative Commons Licence
Advantages
• Rich and ready-made resources
• Share the best of what is available
• Free at point of use• Encourages best
practice• Builds a library of
diversity
Disadvantages
• Variably quality (but can be brand-led)
• Can be hard to locate (need to learn new skills)
• Can be size problems (what is appropriate?)
• Need to be contextualised (content only is not enough)
How OER are usedOpen
• Ad hoc (on the fly)• Bottom-up• Low cost (or free)• Not always peer reviewed• Free to all users• Weak marketing brand• Inexpensive to maintain• Reliant upon individuals• May need contextualisation• Wide variation in level
Membership• More structured• Tend to be top-down• Can be expensive• Usually peer reviewed• Free to membership• Strong marketing brand• Expensive to maintain• Reliant upon organisations• Probably contextualised• Greater consistency in level
Some things to watch
The Attention Economy Self-organisation of learners Integration of platforms BIG OER meets small OER Course components will be owned and shared Dominance of Third Places – ubiquitous
learning Institutions will provide student support
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Good resources to read• Gurell S. and Wiley, D. (2010) Open Educational Resources
Handbook 1.0 for educators. Available from http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator_version_one
• Commonwealth of Learning (2005) Creating learning materials for open and distance learning: A Handbook for Authors and Instructional Designers. Available from http://www.col.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/odlinstdesignHB2.pdf
• OECD (2007) Giving knowledge for free: The emergence of Open Educational Resources. ISBN 978-92-64-03174-6 Available at: www.sourceoecd.org/education/9789264031746
• Kanwar, A and Uvalic-Trumbic, (2011) A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources. Commonwealth or Learning & UNESCO http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=357
Useful Links• sideCAP wiki (with resources)http://sidecap.wetpaint.com
• Courses on OpenLearnhttp://openlearn.open.ac.uk
• The sideCAP report http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1267854
• Creating Open Educational Resources (a free, 15 hour online course) available on Openlearn at http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3636
Resources for online learning (amazon.co.uk)
Key Concepts Network ecology Web 2.0 applications
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