Open Educational Resources Discussion Session Intrallect Conference Open Educational Repositories Share | Improve | Reuse Session Chairs Sarah Currier & Lou McGill With a some slides from Charles Duncan (Intrallect) and Amber Thomas (JISC) Intrallect Conference: Open Educational Repositories, March , Edinburgh, Scotland

Session Plan 11:30 – 11:45 Introductions, what do we want from session? 11:45 – 12:05 Introduction to Open Educational Resources Business Models (with handout from ‘Good Intentions’) 12:05 – 12:25 Look live at some OER repositories & services 12:25 – 13:00 Open discussion

OERs Report (JISC CETIS) “digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self- learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research” “’resources’ are not limited to content- comprise three areas, these are (OECD, 2007): Learning content: Full courses, courseware, content modules, learning objects, collections and journals. Tools: Software to support the development, use, reuse and delivery of learning content, including searching and organisation of content, content and learning management systems, content development tools, and online learning communities. Implementation resources: Intellectual property licenses to promote open publishing of materials, design principles of best practice and localise content” from “Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources” OECD, 2007, Quoted on p4 Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education, Li Yuan; Sheila MacNeill; Wilbert Kraan, JISC CETIShttp://tinyurl.com/62hjx6

Facets of Open-ness Open Access The Open Access research literature is composed of free, online copies of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers as well as technical reports, theses and working papers. In most cases there are no licensing restrictions on their use by readers. They can therefore be used freely for research, teaching and other purposes. But not repurposed – so tension / difference with OERs Open Source Licenses that grant of the right to freely redistribute the software, access to the source code, and the permission to modify that source code and distribute the modified version of the software. Open Licensing Access, Redistribution, Source, Reuse, Absence of technological restrictions, Attribution, Integrity, No discrimination, Distribution of licence, Independence, No restriction on other works (This list is based on definitions of “open knowledge” and “open source software”). Open Standards Support sharing, reuse and repurposing by enabling tools to be developed that can interoperate.

Spectrum of Open-ness Open courseware Videos/ Podcasts Images Slides / Worksheets Learning Objects Large hosted collections Distributed

‘Good Intentions’ Case Studies OpenLearn, UK, Open University Jorum, UK, National Repository NDLR, Ireland, National Repository COLEG, Scotland, FE National Repository IRISS Learning Exchange, Scotland, Social Work IVIMEDS, International, Medicine SURF WBL, UK, Cross-institutional CELLS, Scotland, Cross-institutional, Life Sciences EdShare, Southampton, UK, single institution

‘Good Intentions’ Case Studies (open) OpenLearn, UK, Open University Jorum, UK, National Repository NDLR, Ireland, National Repository COLEG, Scotland, FE National Repository IRISS Learning Exchange, Scotland, Social Work IVIMEDS, International, Medicine SURF WBL, UK, Cross-institutional CELLS, Scotland, Cross-institutional, Life Sciences EdShare, Southampton, UK, single institution

Open Sharing Models Studied by ‘Good Intentions’ OpenLearn, UK JorumOpen, UK MIT OCW, US NZ OER, New Zealand Merlot, International OER Commons, International Connexions, Rice University US Knowledge Hub, Mexico BC Campus, Canada

OpenLearn, OU, UK Self-learning materials available to learners and educators globally See it as large-scale action research CoP basis: topics and topic discussion forums Media-rich resources, complex learning objects / tutorials / study units made available via interactive VLE

EdShare Open Web sharing and institution-only sharing According to academics’ wishes: bottom-up and not top-down Assets (PowerPoint, Word/PDF documents) “Light-weight” approach- no IMS CP / LOM Intent to share practice and learning designs – but want to get engagement first.

BC Campus Key intent: reuse and re-purposing across Canada FE/HE of BC Campus resources Open Web sharing (CC licences) and Canada- only sharing (BC Commons licence) 90% of academics chose BC Commons For academics and students: but most use ended up being from students

IRISS Learning Exchange Started out with closed sharing within social work education CoP Licensing and cultural barriers Now 90% completely open licenses Web-based open; lots of standards-based tools to disseminate widely Share freely with other services, e.g. NHS Assets, web links, some complex learning objects.

MIT Open Courseware Primary intent: to publish all courses at MIT on Web Courseware: not individual re-purposable learning objects or assets Levels of granularity and quality variable: warts and all! Evaluation study: 47% reused MIT materials or plan to in future Over 97% of educators expressed satisfaction with materials

References Free MIT web book mentioned in session: Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge / Edited by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar JISC-funded report on learning resource sharing business models, including OERs: Good Intentions: Improving the Evidence Base in Support of Sharing Learning Materials / Authors: Lou McGill, Sarah Currier, Peter Douglas, Charles Duncan JISC CETIS report on OERs: Open Educational Resources : Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education / Authors: Li Yuan; Sheila MacNeill; Wilbert Kraan, JISC CETIS

Credits and Contacts Slides by Sarah Currier and Lou McGill Many slides re-purposed from Charles Duncan (Intrallect) and Amber Thomas (JISC) ;