OER synthesis and evaluation

seeing the big picture

making links

business cases and benefits realisation

cultural issues

drivers and barriers

business case for OER may differ across strands

different stakeholders have a different balance of benefits

guidance and support mechanisms

MARKETISATION

WEB 2.0

learners

institutions

ATTITUDES

ETHICS

benefits

SUBJECT DISCIPLINES

OER originator

• Guidelines on disaggregating and repackaging

learning objects

• Guidelines on how to develop re-usable materials

in Wimba and other open source applications

• Guidelines for contributing to repositories such as

JORUMOpen and institutional/SC repositories

• Guidance on open source release in general, including

marketing and assessing educational impact

• Sample copyright documents, including transfer,

request letter, licenses

• Guidelines on assessing and assuring quality of open

resources. Criteria on: accessibility, usability, fitness

for purpose, meeting external requirements e.g. JorumOpen

• Guidelines on delivering courses to incorporate open content

• Staff development materials on OER & IPR

LINKS TO RESEARCH

employers

other staff

INSTITUTION WIDE

TECHNOLOGIES

OPEN LICENCING

variable IPR support

in institutions

institutional issues

ownership

strategy - policy - practice

dangers in raising

IPR issues

branding

robust and sustainable

quality processes needed

educational quality

through existing

academic processes

model licences

legal issues

reputation

cc licences

technical support

mechanisms

seeing patterns

contributor contracts

linking to strategies

clearing copyright

quality issues

synthesis & evaluation framework

Peer review as part of a pilot

(assessing quality, usability and re-usability)

how can this be sustained, encouraged and resources?

Student feedback (survey and questionnaire)

Expert/critical friend (quality assurance, procedural checks)

Community use, comments, ratings etc

international partnerships

senior management buy-in

generic maps

project maps

technical and hosting issues

JorumOpen

variety of materials - wide range of standards

individual support to projects

hybrid, interactive multimedia resources

staff skills

metadata - tension between rich tagging and lightweight solutions

issues

student created content

OER synthesis and evaluation

making sense from many voices

who adds metadata?

ensuring legal status of content and achieving permission to share from original author and owner of license (if relevant)

repositories

degrees of openess

repositories

• updating
• versioning
• tracking
• management
• preservation
• archiving

web 2.0 approaches

'decontextualising' content, whether technically (converting materials to non-proprietary and standards-based formats), educationally (removing much of the original course context to produce free standing resources) or organisationally (negotiating how resources are branded). Includes consideration of granularity, language, format, editability.

OER release processes

Lou McGill, Helen Beetham,

Karen Smith, Allison Littlejohn

OER synthesis & evaluation team

developing - managing

- sharing OERS

ensuring quality of content – over and above the local academic processes of quality assurance, and with a recognition that open content involves unique considerations of re-usability, accessibility, and conformance to other web-based standards

making content available i.e. hosting solutions

http://www.caledonianacademy.net/spaces/oer/

making content known to relevant communities of practice and ideally providing information to support sharing and re-use

• awareness raising
• sustainability issues
• different processes
• different QA/QE processes
• emerging community models
• technology enhanced learning
• support established curriculum processes
• demonstrate benefits to learners
• learners as producers of content
• exploring mechanisms for sharing
• using institutional reporitories
• JorumOpen

pedagogy/end use issues

level of pedagogic or user-related information

included within packaging

granularity and value of parts

concerns of contributors about potential use

intentions of user as important

representing contexts of use

different pedagogic cultures may present different

approaches

sensitivity to different cultures of education required

issues to explore:

• deposit & repurpose protocols
• available local expertise
• technical issues
• lightweight metadata solutions
• representations of original educational contexts and intentions