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An Introduction to Open Educational Resources

An Introduction to Open Educational Resources. Steve Bailey. Original Creator : Non Scantlebury The Open University Library Services. Licensed for reuse under: Creative Commons Share Alike. What is an OER?. T eaching , learning, and research resources

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An Introduction to Open Educational Resources

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  1. An Introduction toOpen Educational Resources Steve Bailey Original Creator:Non Scantlebury The Open University Library Services Licensed for reuse under:Creative Commons Share Alike

  2. What is an OER? • Teaching, learning, and research resources • Reside in public domain or have been released to permit free use or re-purposing • Include… • full courses • course materials • modules • textbooks • streaming videos • tests • software, and • any other tools, materials, or techniques

  3. About Creative Commons • Applied by the content creator • Allows free use with optional restrictions: • Attribution • Commercial use • Derivative works • “share-alike”

  4. Examples • 1st Place: The molecular basis of photosynthesis. • Submitted by Katy Jordan, University of Cambridge. • http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/7023 • 2nd Place: The Open Dementia E-Learning Programme: Living with dementia. • Submitted by Colin Paton, Social Care Institute for Excellence • http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/7022 • 3rd Place: Making the creative process visible. • Submitted by Dr Natasha Mayo, University Wales Institute, Cardiff • http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2027

  5. Finding and evaluating OERs • Activity (20 minutes) • find an OER on a topic of our own choosing by querying two OER specific search engines • use the checklist supplied to evaluate your OER • Discussion (10 minutes) • share the evaluation and how easy it would be to adapt for your own learning and teaching purposes

  6. Finding and evaluating OERs Key evaluation criteria: • Accuracy • Reputation of author/institution • Standard of technical production • Accessibility • Fitness for purpose • Clear rights declarations e.g. Creative Commons

  7. Finding and evaluating OERs “Hands on” activity (20 minutes) • Using the search engines page available on the JISC Infonet Toolkit site to select at least 2 search engines to query and locate an OER on a topic of your own choosing. • Use the checklist available to evaluate the OER you have found • Share your evaluation with your fellows and how easy it would be to adapt and reuse for your own purposes

  8. Questions?

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