Post on 29-Jun-2015
Open educational resourcesDr Ester Ehiyazaryan
Lecturer in Professional and e-Learning Development, University Centre DoncasterSCORE Fellow, Open University
Repositories
Jorum/ Jorum Open
HumBox - humanities teaching resources on the web
SlideShare – sharing presentations online
iTunesU – OER available through the iTunes store
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
Ester’s contribution so far: http://resources.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/15113
http://www.humbox.ac.uk/
http://www.slideshare.net/
iTunesU
Open source development tools
Xerte – a suite of tools for the development of interactive learning resources; Nottingham Universityhttp://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/
LabSpacehttp://labspace.open.ac.uk/
Examples of Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) developed with Xerte:
Introduction to qualitative data analysis
A classification of qualitative research methods
Licensing with Creative Commons
Copyright explained:
http://blip.tv/creative-commons/wanna-work-together-289871
CC licenses:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Most commonly used:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Incentives•Focus on designing learning rather than developing content
•Demonstrate excellence – the ‘shop window’ approach; access to some content to attract prospective students
•Improve quality through collaboration
SCORE project
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/5548
The use of OER for research methods teaching in social science and education