1. WikiVet – a new model for sharing Open Educational Resources Nick Short, E-media Unit, Royal Veterinary College, University of London Gillian Brown, Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry & Veterinary Medicine, Newcastle University eLearning in health conference, Birmingham, 28 th June 2011

2. Outline What’s the problem? What is OER? Projects, policies, risk, tools to help you Creative Commons licences Wikivet and veterinary OERs How can we make OERs more accessible?

3. What’s the problem? Creation of learning materials/resources for VLE Students downloading resources to their devices Students uploading to… “…but they were intended for my own university only!”

4. What is OER? Open Educational Resources Programme Managed by the: Higher Education Academy www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/teachingandlearning/oer/ www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/teachingandlearning/oer/ Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) www.jisc.ac.uk/oer www.jisc.ac.uk/oer £5.7+£4=£9.7M OER3 (due soon) = approx. £4M over 1 year

5. What is OER? Open educational resources resources created with an ‘open’ licence to reuse and repurpose in accordance with the licence. Best practice created using openly licenced material already available on the internet – … you just need to know where to look Guidelines creating materials within the law and your own institutional policies and practice

6. Benefits of OER Use of public funds/money, cost savings, collaboration Transparency and accountability Legally defensible Advantages for student recruitment, learning, satisfaction and retention Equality of access, helping the developing world Students are using OER and it does save time: blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/learningtechnology/2011/02/08/it- turns-out-that-oer-does-save-time-and-students-do-use- them/

7. Institutional policies and disclaimers Does your institution have policies in place for staff creating openly licenced material? Where can you find out? Do you want to ask the question?

8. Understanding and managing risk Intellectual property rights Patents protect what makes things work (e.g. engine parts, chemical formulas) Trade marks are signs (like words and logos) that distinguish goods and services in the marketplace Designs protect the appearance of a product/logo, from the shape of an aeroplane to a fashion item Copyright is an automatic right which applies when the work is expressed (fixed, written or recorded) Copyright, Design and Patents Act, 1988 Copyright arises automatically when an original idea (author uses some judgment or skill) is expressed/created www.ipo.gov.uk

9. OER and MEDEV projects OOER – produced best practice risk assessment toolkit PORSCHE (Pathways to Open Resource Sharing though Convergence in Healthcare Education) ACTOR (Accredited Clinical Teaching Open resources) www.medev.ac.uk/ourwork/oer OVAL in collaboration with WIKIVET

10. Toolkit http://www.medev.ac.uk/ourwork/oer/toolkits/

11. Creative Commons “Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and post to the Web.” Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/abouthttps://creativecommons.org/about

12. Creative Commons A licence is simply a legal statement saying what you can and cannot do with the copyright work Creative Commons provides some well-recognised licencing schemes to suit you and your work: Attribute Share alike No derivatives Non-commercial

13. Found in | Journal of an Open Source Original comic by | Nerdson (Under CC-BY License)Journal of an Open Source Nerdson

14. WikiVet and Veterinary OERs Recent history Collaboration Target audiences Creation and publishing International relevance Web 2.0 integration Commercial partnerships

15. History CLIVEWIKIVET Started in 1993 UK veterinary schools CD ROM based Government funding Static content Enthusiast driven Started 2007 – International Vet Schools Wiki Based Mixed Funding Web content Student and graduate authored

16. Collaboration

18. Target Audiences Veterinary students Veterinary graduates Veterinary nurses General public

19. Creation and Publishing Student and new graduate driven All content is OER compliant Integration of learning objects Use of categories and search Mixed media Language and international relevance

21. International Relevance Over 200 veterinary schools involved Sharing content with international partners Working through student organisations Initiatives in the developing world Translation and contextual adaption

22. Web 2.0 Tools Integration with You Tube Regular Twitter updates Integration with Wikipedia Links to YouTube videos Elgg discussion boards

23. Commercial Partnerships Multiple donor sources Big pharma involvement Working with publishing houses Advertising revenue Business model for sustainability International competitors

25. References/links Creative Commons (2011) Creative Commons, creativecommons.org creativecommons.org Facebook (2011) Welcome to Facebook, www.facebook.comwww.facebook.com MySpace (2003-11) MySpaceUK, www.myspace.comwww.myspace.com YouTube (2011) You Tube – Broadcast Yourself, www.youtube.com www.youtube.com

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