Engaging staff with OER persuasion, support, reward

Ripple OER Cascade Project Workshop 4

Richard Francis

Oxford Brookes University March 2011

• Academic and administrative restructuring

• Performance tracking

• Graduate attributes

• Mapped onto all undergraduate programmes

• Programm level curriculum design (Course Design Intensives)

• Brookes Virtual

• Open source, open architecture

• Faculty VLEs

• Digital communications review

Context of far-reaching change

• Mandate

•  There is none

Engaging staff with OER

• Persuasion

•  Faculty of Health and Life Sciences: the story so far

•  Marion Waite

Engaging staff with OER

• Support

• Supporting students

• Scaffolded publishing opportunities for undergraduate research

• Helen Walkington

• Supporting staff

• OER in RADAR: a workflow case study

• Steve Burholt

• Supporting innovation

• Using and producing mobile lectures in Urban Design

• Laura Novo de Azevedo

Engaging staff with OER

• Reward

•  Teaching fellowships

•  (i) Interactive Object Virtual Reality web images for Anthropology

•  Simon Underdown

•  (ii) Reward and Return: using a teaching fellowship to create and share OER

•  Tom Cosgrove

Engaging staff with OER

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All students and staff

Faculties

Departments and programmes

Modules

Individuals and groups

Open

an open VLE reflecting the identities of its users

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Wikis, blogs, shared documents, portfolios

Module content, discussions, activities, assignments

Programme level learning elements

Faculty VLEs, intranets, induction wikis

RADAR teaching collection

BCE, short courses, conferences, webinars, taster courses, podcasts

More efficient resource management

PIP eCSIS LDAP

BrookesVirtual

An integrated set of best-of-breed tools

Open

All students and staff

Faculties

Departments and programmes

Modules

RADAR - digital asset repository

Open

All students and staff

Faculties

Departments and programmes

Modules

Moodle VLE - core learning platform

Open architecture Avoids lock-in Software-as-a-service

Aggregates resources at appropriate level Underpinned by RADAR

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Individuals and groups

Open

All students and staff

Faculties

Departments and programmes

Modules

RADAR - digital asset repository

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Open

All students and staff

Faculties

Departments and programmes

Modules

RADAR - digital asset repository

Cross-disciplinary teaching materials

Example content

Open

All students and staff

Faculties

Departments and programmes

RADAR - digital asset repository

Referencing and citation guides

Example content

Open

All students and staff

Faculties

Departments and programmes

RADAR - digital asset repository

Modules

Masters dissertations

Example content

Open

All students and staff

Faculties

Departments and programmes

RADAR - digital asset repository

Modules

Podcasts

Example content

Open

All students and staff

Faculties

Departments and programmes

RADAR - digital asset repository

Modules

RSS feeds Wiki

Brookes website Social media Example content

• …a step-change in the student experience of technology-enhanced learning in a manner distinctive to Brookes, providing more flexible, better-integrated online environments, which reflect the identities and expectations of users within the institutional framework.