Open Education Network http :// www. open - ed. net Creating Open Educational Resources : Guidelines for Quality Assurance Paul Kawachi FRSA open - ed. net open educational resources cost

Open Education Network http :// www. open - ed. net Creating Open Educational Resources : Guidelines for Quality Assurance Paul Kawachi FRSA open - ed. net http : // www. open - ed. net / oer-quality / cost. ppt cost

Open Education Network http :// www. open - ed. net Cost & Access are related to Quality as the lengths of the sides of a triangle the problem is that keeping the total length of the three sides constant then expanding one side leads to a decrease in one or both the other two Daniel cost access quality cost ??

Open Education Network http :// www. open - ed. net should OER be free - of - cost ? cost

Open Education Network http :// www. open - ed. net should OER be free - of - cost ? green vs gold libre vs gratis cost

Open Education Network http :// www. open - ed. net should OER be free - of - cost ? green : publisher grants own copy and gratis gold : publisher offers free open access gratis : only free online access libre : free online access + other rights eg to adapt usually via Creative Commons open licence cost further details :

Open Education Network http :// www. open - ed. net should OER be free - of - cost ? i to the student end-user ii to the intermediary teacher and translator iii to the archive repositories but surprisingly expensive to create … who pays ? cost

Open Education Network http :// www. open - ed. net should OER be free - of - cost ? cost an ancient book cost a lot to make but a digital copy can be shared freely subject to copyright

Open Education Network http :// www. open - ed. net should OER be free - of - cost ? cost an ancient book cost US$ but a digital copy can be shared freely subject to copyright

Open Education Network http :// www. open - ed. net should OER be free - of - cost ? cost = stg£ funded by the Polonsky Foundation cost Oxford University Bodleian Libraries set to digitize 1.5 million pages of ancient texts and make them freely available online

Open Education Network http :// www. open - ed. net should OER be free - of - cost ? cost Oxford University Bodleian Libraries Euclid’s Text c350 AD already digitized MS. D'Orville 301, fol. 1r. © 2013 Bodleian Libraries

Open Education Network http :// www. open - ed. net Cost & Access are related to Quality whole courses created from reusing OER can have high development cost OER units = free checking internal OER quality = +$ bridging gaps between OERs = +$ institutional QA process = same overall ~ +15% higher cost Abeywardena 2013 p cost

Open Education Network http :// www. open - ed. net Cost & Access are related to Quality whole courses created from reusing OER can have high development cost but we can bring down costs through sharing and reusing these OER-courses Abeywardena 2013 p cost

Open Education Network http :// www. open - ed. net OER quality : (a) avoid paid-for-advertising by sponsors (b) avoid branding by author, by institution, by publisher ? quality

Open Education Network http :// www. open - ed. net Cost & Access are related to Quality as the lengths of the sides of a triangle Daniel cost access quality cost this triangle has been expanded to become a pentagon cost access quality relevance governance

Open Education Network http :// www. open - ed. net You can download these slides freely from the website http : // www. open - ed. net / oer-quality / cost. ppt or by to me at open - ed. net