ALT Learning Technologist of the year : Team award 2009 European foundation for quality in e-learning Unique Award winner A framework for transforming teaching materials into OERs Alejandro Armellini, Richard Mobbs, Gabi Witthaus, Samuel Nikoi, Tania Rowlett and Emma Davies

Open Educational Resources (OERs) Digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research.’ (OECD) Educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licences to re-mix, improve and redistribute.’ (Wikipedia)

OTTER Open, Transferable and Technology-enabled Educational Resources Phase 1, institutional OER project

OER development around the world LocationOER programme or project UK University of Leicester – Open University - “Open Learn” University of Nottingham - BERLiN University of Oxford - OpenSpires USA MIT Open Courseware project - Rice University - Connexions Utah State University - USU OCW EUROPE ParisTech OCW. - MORIL. A Pan-European OERs initiative - ASIA China Open Res. for Educ. Consortium - Japanese OCW Consortium - OTHERS OER Africa - WikiEducator - AEShareNEt in Australia -

OTTER academic partners Leicester International partner Academic DepartmentsAcademic units  Archaeology and Ancient History  Criminology  Education  Genetics  Institute of Lifelong Learning  Law  Media and Communications  Politics and International Relations  Psychology  Beyond Distance Research Alliance  Staff Development Centre  Student Support and Development Service  South African Institute of Distance Education (SAIDE)

OTTER achievements 438 credits’ worth of OERs on OTTER’s repository and JorumOpen Leicester on the global OER map Research evidence on student use of OERs Raised institutional awareness of OERs Put-up and take-down policy OER toolkit The CORRE framework

Formatting Conversion Standardisation Metadata Pedagogical wrap around Upload to repository I nstitutional (Plone) JorumOpen Others C ONTENT R EUSE & R EPURPOSE E VIDENCE O PENNESS Gathering Collect existing materials Credit weighting Memorandum of understanding Transformation Decoupling Scaffolding Meshing Sequencing Editing Internal Validation OER project team Academic partners Students Tracking Downloads Adaptations User feedback Emerging user community Screening Learning and teaching context Media and format Structure & layout Language Learning design Rights clearance Copyright IPR Licensing External Validation Students Librarians Educators ‘Non-public’ teaching and learning material Open teaching and learning material Open Educational Resources (OERs) A framework for transforming teaching materials into OERs CORRE:

Taking our materials through CORRE Stage in CORRE Sample challenges ContentAre the materials usable out of context (e.g. without seminar input)? OpennessHave I copyright cleared all 3 rd party content (e.g. images) embedded in my materials? Reuse & Repurpose Are all authors happy with the CC licence assigned to the new version of the materials? EvidenceWho is your OER primarily aimed at? Future Leicester students? Academics in other universities? Others?

Research findings (1): staff Supportive but sceptical about value and impact Willing to make use of and contribute, but not full force Reward and recognition, especially non-financial Lack of awareness of CC Team effort

Research findings (2): students Supportive and enthusiastic Highly satisfied with OTTER OERs Concerned about trustworthiness of external OERs Preferred access via VLE as hub 1/3 unwilling to turn their own stuff (e.g. lecture notes) into OERs

Research findings (3): librarians Concerns: 3rd party copyright, currency, quality, funding, management support, institutional policies and metadata requirements See themselves as managers of OER repositories, developers of generic OERs, indexers, cataloguers and promoters

Key messages Institutional policy on who owns what CORRE as a robust framework Clearance of 3 rd party materials Designing for openness & culture shift Supply vs demand-driven approaches Sustainability Visibility

OTTER lives on OSTRICH ( – a cascade project with Bath and Derbywww.le.ac.uk/ostrich TIGER – a ‘new release’ project with De Montfort and Northampton