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Open Educational Resources - Bioscience Subject Strand
Why?
National benefits
Institutional benefits
Individual benefits
benefits to Learners
benefits to those who support/facilitate learning
Decrease in duplication
Cost benefits
Support cross-intstitutional sharing
Share skills base (to further develop resource)
Provide access to other groups eg employers, professional bodies, unions, taxpayers
Supports shared curricula(where appropriate)
Support discovery of most valued/used resources
Promote long-term sharing
Peristance of resources improved i..e updateable
Taxpayer and alumni benefits





Maintaining and building on national reputation
Maintaining and building on global reputation
Attracting new staff and students
increased transparency and quality of learning materials
supports sharing within organisation units
supports sharing between disciplines
Share expertise efficiently
Support module development
Supports altruistic notion that sharing knowledge is a good thing
Support review of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment
Preserve learning resources
Enhance connection with external stakepholders
Supports subject-discipline communities to share
Encourage experimentation and innovation
Share expertise between developing and developed countries
Support re-use and re-purposing between cultures
Supports community input via meta-tagging, comments and reviews
encourage trust via licencing
support development of global standards for interoperability
Support development of tools (into larger market)
Support sharing and re-use of individual assets
Support sharing and reuse of complex learning materials
Helps develop critical mass of materiasl in particular subject areas
Support ease of access through global search engines

Easy and free access to materials
Supports collaborative learning
Supports development of student content within and outside formal learning activities
Enables existing student technologies for easy access
Supports WP agenda
helps flexible learners
Likely to increase demand for assessment and recognition of competencies gained outside formal learning settings
Likely to encourage peer support, mentorship and ambassadorial programmes
Evidencing skills development

Increased personal recognition
Supports sharing of knowledge and teaching practice
Encourages involvement in teaching practice
Supports attribution
Supports immediate one-off instances of sharing
Offers one-stop access point for staff
Encourages multidisciplinary collaboration and sharing
Supports CPD by evidence
Bridges gaps in diverse organisational structures
Builds community involvement
lowers the threshold of engagement

Credit: After McGill, L. 'Good Intentions: Improving the evidence base in support of sharing learning materials'. http://prezi.com/aozoxhpxxnnb/
Who is doing it?
Funded Projects
The UK Centre for Bioscience is taking part in a pilot programme for the release of Open Educational Resources (OER) following a successful bid for £250,000 from HEFCE/JISC as part of the subject strand. This is part of a wider programme on £5.7m to encourage and enable the open sharing of educational resources.
To do what?
What are we seeking to achieve?

By working in partnership with the Academy, professional bodies and insitutions we will identify the issues and problems for developing OER in the Biosciences. We have selected a broad sample of learning and teaching materials which we believe are representative of the types of resource available to support practical work in many Bioscience disciplines, which also illustrate a range of approaches. These will become 'An Interactive Laboratory and Fieldwork Manual for the Biosciences' and made available through links on our project site and numerous services including the forthcoming JorumOpen. Although these are targeted towards level 1 practical classes we expect components to be useful for various levels. 
Projects have been selected from the following universities for the breadth of content they offer and various methods of delivery involved to enable us to maximise the issues involved in producing Open Educational Resources and sharing them with the bioscience community.

    * University of Oxford - Dr Vivien Sieber; iCases 'Influenza Outbreak' 
    * University of Leeds - Dr John Heritage, Dr Sue Bickerdike; Medical Microbiology 
    * University of Nottingham - Dr Kevin Caley; Biodiversity 
    * University College, London - Dr Helen Chatterjee; Virtual Education Resource for the Biosciences
    * University of Bath - Dr Momna Hejmadi; Interactive Resources in Cancer Biology
    * University of Glasgow - Dr Ross MacLeod; Virtual Field Ecology 
    * The Open University - Professor David Male; Virtual Biochemistry Laboratories 
    * University of Manchester - Mr Ian Miller; Genetic Analysis virtual laboratory scenarios
    * DeMontfort University - Dr Vivien Rolfe; Virtual Analytical Laboratory
    * University of Gloucestershire - Dr Richard Stafford; Virtual Rocky Shore 

 
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/oer.aspx
Common project plan structure and expectations
Common Workpackage Format
Common processes eg. upload
 into repositories - JorumOpen
Testing with critical friends
What's new about this approach?
Open is more than shared
Open means do as you need
Open means 'do as you want' ?
Open means respect the contribution
Open means put your share back in
IPR issues
Reward and recognition
New skills
Role of repositories
Use outside UK - different perceptions
Toolkits or guides for Bioscience Academics
Technica so utions
Repositories
Academic 2.0 skills?
JorumOpen and any suitable others
Support through metadata, not by forum location (avoid access limits)
Process evaluation via project blogs
A new social structure
for resource development?
OPEN-NESS
PUBLIC
EDUCATIONAL
NEWSWORTHY
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Culture change necessary?
Is the 'Academic 2.0' required (a social re-user, adopter and open collaborator)?
- will the time ever be available?
Individual (9)
Institutional (7)
Subject-disciplines (14)
Building layers of content based on 'learning objects' to expand them
Building collaboration networks (COPs)
Going beyond sharing similar versions of the same 'thing'
MIT OCW Initiative
Established practice
Pioneer of OER
Significant funding
http://ocw.mit.edu
A Pilot study
Discovering the barriers for production and adoption
Outputs
IPR Clearance; 
Preparing Packaging and Uploading; 
Evaluation and Quality Assurance; 
Release, Dissemination and Sustainability.
Processes
Follow this Project
http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/oer