Building a community of practice for sharing information literacy resources as OERs

Nancy Graham (University of Birmingham)Dr Jane Secker (London School of Economics)

University of Birmingham, 14th August 2012

Information Literacy OERs – going for gold!• Bringing together two key areas:

information literacy and open educational resources

• UNESCO extremely interested in both areas as are many information professionals

• UK could be an exemplar!• Important for:

▫ Supporting lifelong learning▫ Building up expertise and sharing

good practice▫ Capacity building

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Workshop overview10.30 – 11.00 Registration and coffee11.00- 11.30 Welcome and introduction to the day

Presentation of findings from the survey

11.30 – 12.30 WORKSHOP 1

First set of small group discussions on the following topics:

How do you want to share IL resources?

Licencing of resources: CC and other licences

Metadata standards and cataloguing IL resources

Role of peer review and evaluating resources

12.30-12.45 Feedback from groups?12.45-1.15 LUNCH BREAK1.15-2.00 WORKSHOP 2

Second set of small group discussions on the following general questions:

Who should do this work in the UK?

What sort of funding might we need?

How many people need to be involved?

Do we need a cross sectoral group?

2.00-2.30 Feedback from groups?2.30-3.00 Discussion and agreement of roles and next steps3.00 Close

Project team and background• Dr Jane Secker j.secker@lse.ac.uk

▫ Copyright & Digital Literacy Advisor at London School of Economics and Political Science

▫ Previous IL OER projects include JISC funded DELILA

• Nancy Graham N.graham.1@bham.ac.uk ▫ Subject Librarian at University of

Birmingham▫ Previous IL RLO projects include

BRUM, CaRILLO and DELILA

• Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg▫ Programme specialist

(Communication and Information Sector) at UNESCO

• Background▫ Previous projects and events

highlighted a demand for librarians to share information literacy (IL) open educational resources (OER)

▫ Existing platforms were not quite the right “fit” (too local, only basic metadata etc.)

▫ Project team worked together on DELILA and wanted to follow up

Previous projects: BRUM & CaRILLO

BRUM•Created 15 RLOs for information literacy for academics to use•Various formats and topics•Available online

CaRILLO•One day event for librarians creating and sharing teaching material•Highlighted demand for a ‘one stop shop’ of IL material to share•Created a wiki

Previous projects: DELILA

•Developing Educators Learning and Information Literacies for Accreditation

•Cross institutional project to adapt existing digital and information literacy teaching material to be OER

• Improved institutional repositories hosted material•Encouraged academics to share•Highlighted a range of challenges when sharing IL

resources as OER•Project website: http://delilaopen.wordpress.com/

The survey

•To gather information about librarians’ sharing of IL teaching material

• Launched in April 2012 for one month•101 responses from UK, Europe, US and beyond•Available at http://delilaopen.wordpress.com/il-oer-

survey/

Key points – current sharing

•Majority are sharing but through closed professional networks

•Far fewer use national or global sites – but most would like to use them more!

•Main barriers are lack of technical and licencing skills/knowledge

Survey findings

Survey findings

Key points – current re-use

•Huge range of sites (~57 listed in survey) but only few very popular

•Minority don’t re-use due to lack of relevant material available

•Many would like to see explicit Creative Commons licences

Survey findings

Our project aims•Develop a site for librarians to share material, to

host links and to find help when creating material•We are starting with UK resources but aim to recruit

partners globally – don’t want to reinvent the wheel!•Want to raise awareness of OER and Creative

Commons amongst librarians• Librarians well placed to be advocates of OER•To include lesson plans and “how to use” guides•Capacity building through partners such as UNESCO

and IFLA

Community of practice• JISC Good Intentions report (2008) highlights

importance of CoP – same curricula encourages sharing

• Librarians in UK with interest in IL have LILAC and CSG-Information Literacy Group

•Other existing groups in US, Ireland etc.•Used LILAC network to build global capacity• Looking to use IFLA and UNESCO groups to build on

to help LDCs

Challenges & next steps• IPR issues - particularly

screenshots and logos• Institutional nature of IL

material – too specific? • Need to include learning

designs rather than just PowerPoints

• Need for good quality metadata and agreed vocabulary to ‘tag’ IL resources

• Keeping resources up to date

• Report of survey findings• Build on technical expertise• Recruit more advocates• Develop annual timetable of

activities/events▫Kick off meeting in the UK

today! • Explore role of peer

reviewers/editorial boards▫Devised evaluation criteria as

part of DELILA

Challenge 1: What’s in a name?•Can you come up with a good acronym for our

project in your groups today?

Word Search by peretzpup

Challenge 2: how do we do this?•Think about what you could contribute personally?

▫Expertise and time?•How do we build a community of practice?

▫What tools do we need?▫Do we need face to face and virtual meetings?

Workshop 1

•First set of small group discussions on the following topics:▫How do you want to share IL resources? (A)▫Licencing of resources: CC and other licences (B)▫Metadata standards and cataloguing IL resources (C)▫Role of peer review and evaluating resources (D)

Workshop 2

•Second set of small group discussions on the following general questions:▫Who should do this work in the UK?▫What sort of funding might we need?▫How many people need to be involved?▫Do we need a cross sectoral group?

Next steps

•3 – 5 tasks – what are they? Who will do them?

•When will the next meeting be and who wants to be there?

•Use of the wiki for collecting ideas / getting contributions from others

Thanks for coming!

•Stay in touch

•http://ilrloshare.wetpaint.com

•Twitter:▫@msnancygraham▫@jsecker