OER10 Reflections Day 1: Morning March 31, 2010
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , trackbackI provided a quick overview of the OER10 conference last week – here is a little bit of a more detailed overview I have decided to do the posts in half day chunks for manageability as there is so much.
Malcolm Read: OER and the Open Agenda: Malcolm talked about the broader context of the open environment, he introduced a range of open activities e.g. source, standards, access, data, e-resources and science. He said that he expected the HE environment to embrace openness, that academics want to be open and that there are tools to facilitate this. However, there is a challenge with respect to rights clearance. He also referred to the importance of aggregating resources and the fact that strategic subjects should build-up the corpus of OER, as OER can help to expose the academic experience that students can expect. In addition Malcolm discussed the need for reducing the academic burden of tagging/providing metadata for resources, that there was a need to reward academics for developing OERs and the value of providing good learning design.
Unicycle – a sustainable model of institutional implementation of OER Simon Thomson: This was an interesting presentation as some of the characteristics of the Unicycle Project are similar to the SHARE project. Referring to issues relating to sustainability Simon said that the size of the operation was important and issues with respect to engagement needed to considered. He presented a model of Central OER support which was not a controlling mechanism and involved senior level buy-in (PVCs office), specialist teams involved in technology enhanced learning, the copyright clearance office and the repository team. With respect to academic involvement the project linked to six faculties – all of which provided a faculty area coordinator and the 3 CETLs. The Faculty/Area Co-ordinator role involved:
- managing content locally
- overseeing quality
- cascading IPR advice and support
- coordinating events and workshops
- raising awareness
- submitting content to the repository
- liaising with central OER team
- feeding back on the process
- sharing good practice
A decision was made to manage quality within the faculties as they were in a better positing to identify the quality of the material. The project found that it was challenge to make resources open that had not been created with openness in mind and this issue came up a couple of times within the conference, clearing images was a particular demanding activity so there was a move to encourage staff to use Flickr - as we have mentioned at our meetings the advanced search has a creative commons option. Simon also mentioned that there had been considerations with respect to rewarding staff who were depositing content and integrating openness within strategy, which was also another issue that other presenters and attendees had mentioned.
CORRE: A workflow for transforming teaching materials into OERs Simon Nikoloi and Tania Rowlett University of Leicester: This presentation provided an overview of the processes for transforming and developing existing teaching materials into open educational content. This included the screening materials, which included the legal, pedagogic and technical aspects – which as a result to facilitated the assessment of the quality, accessibility and and adaptability aspects of the material. This was quite a formalised process Simon stated that there were there are three aspects of “OPENNESS ”.
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