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Getting toOpen Educational Resources (OER)
at NMMU
Developed and Facilitated by:
Mr. Gino Fransman
Academic Literacies & Writing Support
in theCentre for Teaching, Learning and
Media (CTLM)
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In this session
1. Putting it all into context NMMU Vision2020 graduate profile
2. Open and Open Educational Resources (OER)1. Types of OER2. Open CourseWare (OCW)
3. Discover OER in practice4. Let’s Get Practical: Find OER for Your Discipline – click on
links to explore what’s out there
5. Innovating T&L with OER: Writing and Assessment pilot at MUM
6. Three Questions to You
7. Find Support Here
Overview of This Session
Acknowledging the support of
Centre for Teaching Learning and Media CTLM (NMMU)
Dean of Teaching and Learning: Professor Cheryl Foxcroft
NMMU Values
• Well rounded, capable of success anywhere in the world
• Committed to: • Social Justice• Equality• Civic Consciousness• Adaptable
• Technology savvy• Supportive of Green
Initiatives
NMMU stude
nt graduates
will be
Vision 2020
"We have not adapted to the new realities. We can't wish them away. The level we get from the schools is just not
good enough."
Originally published in The Herald Newspaper. Tuesday 29 October 2013.
Available online, in condensed format from Michael Kimberley, Rhodes University website at https://www.ru.ac.za/vice-chancellor/latestnews/strugglingstudentschampions.html
Academic Staff Members: Ask yourselves
Students: Ask yourselves
Where are you
in this Vision?
Open
Share
Re-use
ReviseRemix
Redistribute
No Permis
sion
What is OPEN?
Teaching and Learning
Research *
Content *
Openness
Igor Lesko, Open Education Consortium (OEC), November 2013, Wits University Open Access Week Presentation, http://www.slideshare.net/OCWConsortium/facets-of-academic-openness (accessed 2014-09-12)
“... an OER is simply an educational resource that incorporates
a license that facilitates reuse, and potentially adaptation,
without first requesting permission from the copyright holder."
A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER). (2011) Prepared by Neil Butcher for the Commonwealth of Learning & UNESCO. Edited by Asha Kanwar (COL) and Stamenka Uvalic´-Trumbic´ (UNESCO).
What are Open Educational Resources
(OER)?
What are some types of OER? Stand-alone T&L objects,
including but not limited to: Lecture handouts Class Notes Revision/ Exam Prep Facilitation
Materials Test Scopes Tutorial Guides – full term/semester, or
simply per class/ session
Your own support materials for expanding insight and engagement in your edu-domain and related environments - Pictures of your white-board? Do you just write and erase?
Recordings (audio and/or visual – consider available TECH) of your lectures or other teaching engagements, those important features requiring further exploration and thought?
Test or exam rubrics?
WHAT ELSE CAN YOU IMAGINE AS POTENTIAL OER THAT YOU HAVE ALREADY, OR MAY ALREADY
HAVE, MADE?
Types of OER – continued
Environmental Science in the 21st Century
http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/environment-book/contents.html
Using the Web – Some help http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/environment-book/usingthewebE.html
Other Course Materials
Global Development Resource Center's Virtual Library Collection of online resources for Environmental Studies.
MIT Open Courseware - Urban Studies and Planning MIT's extensive list of open Urban Studies courses includes Environmental Justice, Policy and Planning materials. Lectures, quizzes, exams, problem sets and in some cases entire ebooks are available for use in the classroom or as supporting materials.
MIT Open Coursware - Earth Sciences MIT also offers a wide variety of open courses on earth and environmental sciences. Course component are available for reuse in the classroom or by students to review concepts.
Let’s watch...
Open CourseWare
http://www.opencourseware.eu/
How much does your course cost a student?
Consider:using Open Educational Resources to
lower the costs of textbooks and support materials students will need.
How?Let’s get practical -
Textbook costs in YOUR NMMU module or studies
Do the math Let’s look at ways to reduce the
overhead Tailor materials for your module’s needs Open Textbooks Support Materials Printing Handouts Assessment
Licensing Open...
Creative Commons
https://vimeo.com/13590841
https://creativecommons.org/choose/
6 variations of the licences, from fully open with commercial rights allowed, to open with restrictions, including commercial use.
Always, however: attribution to the originator or content creator is facilitated.
Creative Commons Licences
Getting familiar with new forms of content licensing
Cable Green, June 2nd, 2015http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/45593
New to edX? Try DemoX, which is a brief self-access
course explaining how to use edX.
Sign up here https://www.edx.org/course/demox-edx-demox-1
Making Sense of News
Learn essential, critical thinking skills in the age of social media to effectively navigate and make sense of news
https://www.edx.org/course/making-sense-news-hkux-hku04x#!
www.oeconsortium.org http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-spe
cific/ http://www.oerafrica.org/teachered www.oercommons.org
Finding OER:
Your click takes you forward.
P2PU
The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project that organizes
learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their
achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional
formal higher education. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly
available online, P2PU enables high-quality low-cost education opportunities.
OER Africa: proudly African (look at)
http://www.oerafrica.org/resource/guidelines-teaching-numeracy-foundation-phase
Foundation phase education resources, Grades 1,2 & 3.Share with local schools, teachers in primary school education.
Exploring OER in education:
Another Question:
What if we initially tried to provide a
more OPEN access to one or two of our
*contributory T&L materials?*
(maybe you could TRY it, and see?)
o Do you blog yet?o Use your NMMU lecturer profile page?
o Got your own website? Who sees it?
o Load content on your site: then share witho Scoopito Pinteresto Create an academic/ personal/ discipline/
interest/ exploration site: CURATIONVisit my Scoopit pages here, see how you Scoopit
too:http://www.scoop.it/t/academic-literacy-development
Where to share openly, in lieu of an Open NMMU Repository:
Busting some common OER myths often encountered: http://mythbusting.oerpolicy.eu/
Teachers need more time and work to adapt OER
Discussing teachers’ work on preparation and adoption of learning materials is a much more complex issue and depends on many factors. Changes to resource-based learning which are happening recently are a part of increased work time needed for teachers to create and adapt learning materials to more individualized and active use. Growing access to different resources on the internet, combined with the ongoing rollout of ICT infrastructure into educational institutions brings a lot of new challenges for
teachers. OERs are rather a solution then a cause of the problems. Though, as any new solution or device, they need some time to become easy and intuitive for people who want to work with them.
OER movement is developing very fast on new tools, database and learning opportunities for teachers and educator to implement them in their work. As the number of open resources and tools will grow, it will be easier for teachers to work with them. Also, if we want to work with complete sets of resources like e-textbook (and a lot of those are already available for many subjects in many countries) there can be no additional work.
Want to know more?
Siyavula Educator Survey Results: OER Behaviours and Attitudes (Part III)
How to adapt/localize training material Open Training Platform
“...When it comes to open sharing, authors start being afraid of
losing the control over their work...”
“they also consider open publication as giving the work for free and receiving nothing
in return. These concerns, while understandable, rarely turn out to be justified. There is always a risk even if the work is copyrighted, that it may be used, without asking for permission, by someone acting illegally.
Such situation may happen regardless the type of legal protection of authors’ intellectual rights.”
“On the other hand, publishing under open conditions increases the visibility and the
availability of their work.”
http://mythbusting.oerpolicy.eu/authors-will-not-agree-to-such-terms-of-open-publication/
Yes!!!There are many more concerns.
What are yours?
Please take the time to share your own questions, critiques and
suggestions in the evaluation form available for you to complete at the
end of this awareness-raising session
Little to no awareness was evident after delivering the info-sharing introduction session about OER to lecturing staff in the 2 faculties at NMMU, on 2 separate campuses and occasions
Staff in several sessions, as well as in 2 x T&L Committee meeting presentations; with institutional Research Committee meetings: participants were highly motivated to understand more about OER, and expressed interest to explore the implications and processes of being more Open
Anecdotal experiences at NMMU: staff information-sharing workshops 2014/2015 –
The chief concern voiced (and repeatedly written in individual
session evaluations)
The change in practice and
effort required to adapt course material is often considered prohibitive
“Must I?” NMMU seems to present comparable responses experienced after several OER-related staff development and information sharing sessions at Unisa (2009 – 2014) as similarly conducted.
Recent* research from the USA says OER awareness is (still) low amongst educators in HE (W&F Hewlitt Foundation and Pearson)
between one third and three quarters of those surveyed (2014) classify themselves as “unaware” of OER
Raises a question: Do respondents even know what OERs are?
Open Educational Resources. Opening the Curriculum: Open Education Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2014 http://goo.gl/OofPdb (Accessed 2014/11/09)
Awareness of OER
Interesting findings stem from this study:
faculty appreciate the concept of OERsfaculty are largely willing to try OERsfaculty consider OERs as high quality, effective resources
Most significant barrier to adoption of OERs, as was found:the time and effort required to find and evaluate an OER
Using an OER for Writing and Assessment
Advocating for Open at NMMU Selected a Primary tool to approach writing challenges and explore OER potential at NMMU A writing OER: an open tool via OERcommons/ LoC
no devices copies of excerpt/ text to engage
with in hardcopy hand written, supported writing artefacts for immediate review, for groupwork,
for developing in association with academic support units
…the steps are essential and handy in writing a good piece…
…when answering the questions, I realised that I was not specific, my statements were vague…
…It got me to reflect on a question and critically think about what I am writing…
student reflections…using the OER
…learnt not to be so ignorant of the things happening around me…
…very insightful, I’d like to see more…
…I’m going to share what I learnt here today, it might help quite a few people that I know…
student reflections:engaging social issues via OER #RhodesMustFall#RhodesSoWhite
About yesterday’s presentation, a welcome eye-opener to all of us; it also puts the Writing Centre in a more “modern” light. OER: thumbs up!*
Motivational, interesting, you caught and kept our attention, eye-opener and a nice exercise in class; the Rhodes topic interesting and stimulating
I definitely see potential for using the OER Writing Tool in my T&L. To make it more meaningful and practical, I would like us to spend more time on the actual OER searching part in class, this could then be enforced and followed up by means of an assignment*
Lecturer reflections
*Response after Intro to Open & OER, instigating further interactions, several emails, and ongoing and future engagements
1. What is your impression about OER?
2. Would you try OER?Consider why/ why not: to what aim? What would you expect using it?
3. What do you think the gap between your knowing about OER and actually using, or trying, an OER is, if any?
Discussion Questions
Some ALW engagements in 2014/5
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Gino Fransman
Individual Consultations with Lecturers
Supporting writing in modules and programmesDeveloping writing support strategies, face to face or
onlineSupporting practical graduate attribute developmentIntroduction and more: Open Educational Resources (OER)
for T&LAcademic Literacy development and support in T&L
Workshops and Presentations for Lecturers, Staff & Student Groups
Topics includeIntroduction to Open
Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Academic WritingAnswering Questions in assignments and exams
Twitter: @ginofransman
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