Open educational resources and repositories

1. 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/

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

3. 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. 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. Services … and there’s more!

6. 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. Route Plan Introduction How different is open? Academy/JISC OER Programme Thoughts about the road ahead for OER

8. Cue overused metaphor 2 View from the Top Emilymc http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilycmccall/1393978027/ 1 View from the Mountain Blauen Napoli Centrale http://www.flickr.com/photos/28329597@N06/3003554075/

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

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

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

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

13. 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 CETIS

14. 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 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/beginners.xml What does “open” mean? 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/publications/publications/pub_openaccess_v2.aspx

15. 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 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/beginners.xml How important is “editable” to “open”? 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/publications/publications/pub_openaccess_v2.aspx

16. Use and Reuse refer disaggregate download edit

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

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

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

20. 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. OER Programme: what we want Get £££ for your learning resources Cultural Change Sustainable processes

22. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Requirements 4: “Metadata”

29. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Route Plan Introduction How different is open? Academy/JISC OER Programme Thoughts about the road ahead for OER

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

36. Mindmap from the National Symposium of Learning Resources Repositories 2008 showing Measures of success

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

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

39. 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 • Follow the CETIS educational content focus http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/domain/educational-content

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