steven.stapleton@nottingham.ac.uk

Background: OER @ Nottingham

U-Now launched in 2007

JISC/HEA fundedBerlin Project 2009 – 2010

Published 360 credits

BERLiN

Open Nottingham

What support does it have? Senior Support, Vice-Chancellor, Pro Vice Chancellors,

Director of Teaching and Learning

Opt-in

Approx 25% of schools have engaged (Boards/Committees)

3 schools have provided 360 credits or more

Option to pilot or provide as much content as happy to do so

Why is Nottingham involved?

Social responsibility Excellence in education Promotional opportunities Internationalisation Cost efficiencies (use and re-use)

Change Management

Social Responsibility

University 5 year Strategic Plan

Excellence in Education

Additional way of accessing learning / widening literature searches / planning

Promotional Opportunities

• Academic/Module/Course/School/University

• Can this be proved?

• New funding environment

On-line prospectuses, RSS feeds, links to e-staff profile, school web pages

15 months ago had no involvement in OER

1. School of Politics and International Relations

Today are active in a wide range of OER activities…

Are involved in Open Nottingham:

Publish nearly all module handbooks at all levels (approx 700 credits)

School web pages

School specific RSS feeds

Pilot of the on-line prospectus

School of Politics

Politics in 60 seconds:

YouTube Edu

iTunes U

U-Now

Podcast site

Engaging with iTunes U and You Tube Edu

Internationalisation

Cost efficiencies (use and re-use)

• Central to sustainability of OER

• Save design time (case study)

• Understanding of how others are delivering topic

• Workshop (PGCHE module)

Practical Re-use

• Dr Richard Field (School of Geography – Nottingham)

• Handout for SPSS

• 200 students

• Had limited time to put it together

• Open Nottingham team advised – try OER

Activities tools and services

www.nottingham.ac.uk/open

www.unow.nottingham.ac.uk

• School based

• Module handbook (powerful open resources)

• Schools identifying preferred methods

• 25% schools have engaged

•Target of 3600 credits by 2015

www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte

www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert

www.nottingham.ac.uk/itunesu

www.youtube.com/nottmuniversity

• Flickr (Nottingham account)

• Academic led steering group (teaching/research – subject collections)

• Building Connections (collaborations + tracking)

• Re-use

• Reward and Recognition

• Open Nottingham event

Next Steps……………

Any questions?