1. Joint Information Systems Committee Open educational resources and repositories Open educational repositories: share, improve, reuse Amber Thomas Programme Manager, JISC This presentation is available from: http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/298/http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/298/

2. Joint Information Systems Committee Route Plan Introduction How different is open? Academy/JISC OER Programme Thoughts about the road ahead for OER

3. Joint Information Systems Committee About JISC JISC's activities support education and research by promoting innovation in new technologies and by the central support of ICT services. JISC provides: A world-class network - JANET Access to electronic resources New environments for learning, teaching and research Guidance on institutional change Advisory and consultancy services Regional support for FE colleges - RSCs

4. Joint Information Systems Committee About JISC JISC delivers its mission through: innovative and sustainable ICT infrastructure, services and practice that support institutions in meeting their mission promoting the development, uptake and effective use of ICT to support learning and teaching promoting the development, uptake and effective use of ICT to support research promoting the development, uptake and effective use of ICT within institutions and in support of their management developing and implementing a programme to support institutions' engagement with the wider community continuing to improve its own working practices

5. Joint Information Systems Committee Services … and there’s more!

6. Joint Information Systems Committee JISC’s support for repositories To improve long term availability and access to digital content, through a network of repositories that provide capability for teachers, learners and researchers to use and share content

7. Joint Information Systems Committee Route Plan Introduction How different is open? Academy/JISC OER Programme Thoughts about the road ahead for OER

8. Joint Information Systems Committee 1 View from the Mountain Blauen Napoli Centrale http://www.flickr.com/photos/28329597@N06/30035 54075/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/28329597@N06/30035 54075/ 2 View from the Top Emilymc http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilycmccall/139397 8027/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilycmccall/139397 8027/ Cue overused metaphor

9. Joint Information Systems Committee Route Plan Introduction How different is open? Academy/JISC OER Programme Thoughts about the road ahead for OER

10. Joint Information Systems Committee Learning objects, c.2003 http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/page.aspx?o=135264

11. Joint Information Systems Committee Major Steps Forward Produced at wordle.com CC:BY Amber Thomas, JISC 2009

12. Joint Information Systems Committee So where are we now? Produced at wordle.com CC:BY Amber Thomas, JISC 2009

13. Joint Information Systems Committee Open educational resources c.2007 “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 but 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, http://tinyurl.com/62hjx6 Quoted on p4 http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education, Li Yuan; Sheila MacNeill; Wilbert Kraan, JISC CETIShttp://tinyurl.com/62hjx6 http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf

14. Joint Information Systems Committee What does “open” mean? 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”. See JISC Guidance on Open Licences Guidance on Open Licences 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 See JISC OSSWatch http://www.oss- watch.ac.uk/resources/beginn ers.xml http://www.oss- watch.ac.uk/resources/beginn ers.xml 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. See JISC OA Briefing Paper http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publicat ions/publications/pub_opena ccess_v2.aspx http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publicat ions/publications/pub_opena ccess_v2.aspx

15. Joint Information Systems Committee How important is “editable” to “open”? 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”. See JISC Guidance on Open Licences Guidance on Open Licences 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 See JISC OSSWatch http://www.oss- watch.ac.uk/resources/beginn ers.xml http://www.oss- watch.ac.uk/resources/beginn ers.xml 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. See JISC OA Briefing Paper http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publicat ions/publications/pub_opena ccess_v2.aspx http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publicat ions/publications/pub_opena ccess_v2.aspx

16. Joint Information Systems Committee Use and Reuse

17. Joint Information Systems Committee Share exchange swap publish put online channels playlists With thanks to David Millard, Southampton From RSP Softwares Day 19/03/09 “ Sharing becomes a byproduct of putting it online. This isn’t about altruism”

18. Joint Information Systems Committee Spectrum of OER Content Open courseware Videos/ Podcasts Images Slides / Worksheets Learning Objects Large hosted collections Distributed

19. Joint Information Systems Committee Route Plan Introduction How different is open? Academy/JISC OER Programme Thoughts about the road ahead for OER

20. Joint Information Systems Committee Overview of OER Programme Where does sharing happen? How can it be supported? Institutional £1.50m (up to £250k per project) Individual £200k (up to £20k per project) Subject £3m (up to £250k per project) HEFCE-funded via JISC and Academy, so England/Wales only Outline Bids currently being evaluated Successful projects to start in April for one year Support will be available for everyone within and outside the programme

21. Joint Information Systems Committee OER Programme: what we want Get £££ for your learning resources Cultural Change Sustainable processes

22. Joint Information Systems Committee Technical Requirements for Projects All content should be stored in Institutional Repositories All content should be IMS Content Packaged All content should be released under a custom JISC licence All content should be tagged with full UK Lom metadata

23. Joint Information Systems Committee Requirements overview The OER Programme will not mandate: –the use of one single platform to disseminate resources –a single metadata application profile to describe content But … we do need you to ensure that content can be: –Found –Used –Analysed –Aggregated –Tracked

24. Joint Information Systems Committee Requirements: 1 All content should be stored in Institutional Repositories Content can be anywhere (and in JorumOpen) BUT consider: how easily discoverable is the content? [public VLEs? slideshare?] how stable are the URLs? how easily can you update and manage it? how can you track usage? [google analytics? social bookmarking?]

25. Joint Information Systems Committee Requirements: 2 All content should be IMS Content Packaged Content can be in any format BUT consider: how accessible is the content? how easy is it to edit the content? [youtube? slideshare? flash player?] how long/how well will the format be supported? [msoffice versions?]

26. Joint Information Systems Committee Requirements: 3 All content should be released under a custom JISC licence Content can be released under a creative commons licence (or similar) BUT consider: how will authors know whether they own the content they create? how will third party content use be identified, checked and permitted? how will the appropriate licences be chosen and communicated? how will service providers handle the rights issues? [service T&Cs] how will other legal issues be addressed? [performance rights? consent for filming lectures?]

27. Joint Information Systems Committee Requirements: 4 All content should be tagged with full UK Lom metadata Content can be minimally tagged BUT consider: how will you ensure attribution if you don’t include the author name and licence terms? how will you describe the content to a learner and/or a teacher? how will you tag the content by subject/topic? [controlled vocabularies? user-generated tags?]

28. Joint Information Systems Committee Requirements 4: “Metadata” What does “metadata” make you think of? –Complex standards –Application profiles –Formal structured records –Cataloging rules –Subject classifications –Controlled vocabularies –Web forms But metadata can be any type of information about a resource. Metadata can be Tags added to resources in flickr, YouTube, etc. Time & date information automatically added by services such as slideshare, etc. Your name, affiliation & other details added from your account profile when you upload a resource.

29. Joint Information Systems Committee Requirements 4: Mandated “metadata” Added by projects –Programme tag – “ukoer” –Title Generated by most systems –Author / owner / contributor (from user profile) –Date –URL –Technical info – file format, name & size Projects should use platforms that can generate or accommodate this information

30. Joint Information Systems Committee Requirements 4: Optional “metadata” Language – default is English but other languages encouraged! Subject classification – if used, projects should select an appropriate vocabulary Keywords Tags Comments Descriptions Think about the kind of information that people will need to find and use your content.

31. Joint Information Systems Committee Requirements: Other standards Projects must use platforms that are capable of generating RSS/Atom feeds, particularly for collections of resources e.g. YouTube channels Projects should use appropriate standards for sharing complex objects: –e.g. IMS Content Packaging, IMS Common Cartridge, OAI ORE –e.g. IMS QTI for assessment items

32. Joint Information Systems Committee Requirements: 5 Deposit of objects/links to JorumOpen BECAUSE JorumOpen will showcase current practices in the UK We need to ensure that all content produced under this programme is surfaced to the open web, with no excuses HEFCE investment needs visible results There’s potential for building rich services on top of an aggregation, so we need to find out what the aggregation looks like It’s better to start with a central model and have the option tomove to distributed rather than start with distributed and hope to aggregate it later

33. Joint Information Systems Committee OER Movement: Developing issues We want release to be SUSTAINABLE, hence the minimum technical requirements We hope to learn more about … –Improving institutional and individual workflows for managing content –Limitations and benefits of different file formats for OERs –Limitations and benefits of different platforms for OER sharing –Search engine optimisation and resource discovery mechanisms such as bookmarking and tagging –Persistent identities and version-handling for OERs –How to track usage and impact of OERs

34. Joint Information Systems Committee Route Plan Introduction How different is open? Academy/JISC OER Programme Thoughts about the road ahead for OER

35. Joint Information Systems Committee OER: a new use case for learning materials WORK HOME C2C CREATION TO CURATION WORKFLOWS DISCOVERY TO DELIVERY WORKFLOWS JORUMOPEN IR ‘SLIDETUBE’ D2D THE CONTENT CLOUD IT’S ALL IMPORTANT

36. Joint Information Systems Committee Mindmap from the National Symposium of Learning Resources Repositories 2008 showing Measures of success

37. Joint Information Systems Committee Looking at the Cloud View from the Mountain Blauen Napoli Centrale http://www.flickr.com/photos/28329597@N06/3003554075/

38. Joint Information Systems Committee Route Plan Introduction How different is open? Academy/JISC OER Programme Thoughts about the road ahead for OER

39. Joint Information Systems Committee Closing Remarks OER Call now closed but expect to hear lots more over the coming months If you’re interested in developing technical solutions for OER, please do consider bidding to the Information Environment Rapid Innovation Call http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/03/309ricall.aspx and see: http://wiki.writetoreply.org/wiki/Jiscri_Seeking_Collaborators http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/03/309ricall.aspx http://wiki.writetoreply.org/wiki/Jiscri_Seeking_Collaborators Follow the CETIS educational content focus http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/domain/educational-content http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/domain/educational-content

40. Joint Information Systems Committee Open educational resources and repositories Open educational repositories: share, improve, reuse Amber Thomas Programme Manager, JISC