1. Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) Michael Paskevicius June 21, 2011 Presentation to: University of Cape Town, Health Science Campus

2. What does the term open educational resources mean to you? by dkscully dkscully

3. Open Educational Resources Discoverable online and openly licensed tools, media, materials, documented ideas, practices, activities or techniques used to support the process of education The value of an OER is its potential to support learning in many ways and in many contexts (Anderson, 2011) Anderson, T. (2011). Quality of Open Educational Resources. Virtual Canuck blog March 15, 2011. Available online: http://terrya.edublogs.org/2011/03/15/quality-of-open-educational-resources

4. What are open educational resources? Open Content / Open educational resources (OER) / Open Courseware are educational materials (usually digital) that can be: Shared Shared freely and openly to be… Used Improved Redistributed … used by anyone to … … adapt / repurpose/ improve under some type of license in order to … … redistribute and share again.

5. The Open Movement Open educational resources part of the “Open Movement” Open Source Software Open Access Open Licences Open Science Open Society Open Educational Resources Open Data

6. Towards open educational practices…

7. Creative Commons licenses See ‘Why using open licenses is important.pdf’ on Vula for more infoWhy using open licenses is important.pdf

8. Other educators can now discover then use or repurpose Learning activity or resource Creates Publishes as OER on web Repurposed material goes back online as OER Adapted from Conole, G., McAndrew, P. & Dimitriadis, Y. (2010). The role of CSCL pedagogical patterns as mediating artefacts for repurposing Open Educational Resources. In: Pozzi, Francesca and Persico, Donatella eds. Techniques for Fostering Collaboration in Online Learning Communities: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. Hershey, USA: IGI Global. Open education practices enable a culture of reuse Educator

9. I’m proud of what I created and I want to share it online!! You may be breaching copyright law in doing so! Obey the terms of the open license and you are good to go!

10. What do you mean by share online? WWW

11. UCT OpenContent

12. Indexing of resources Listing content in OpenContent allows you to add metadata which increases the discoverability of a resource This particular resource is hosted in Vula, but described and shared in OpenContent

13. What’s inside? By Faculty By media type

14. OpenUCT

15. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/za/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius Contact me: mike.vicious@gmail.commike.vicious@gmail.com OpenContent Directory: http://opencontent.uct.ac.zahttp://opencontent.uct.ac.za OER UCT project blog: http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-ucthttp://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct Follow us: http://twitter.com/openucthttp://twitter.com/openuct Follow me: http://twitter.com/mpaskevihttp://twitter.com/mpaskevi Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/mpaskevihttp://www.slideshare.net/mpaskevi