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An introduction toOpen Educational Resources
Workshop at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
& Michael Paskevicius
from the University of Cape Town
15 April 2010
On 12 Feb 2010 UCT launched
OERs in action
What are Open Educational Resources?
Open educational resources (OER) or Open Content are educational materials (usually digital) that are :
• shared freely and openly for• use by anyone to • repurpose/ improve
under some type of license in order to
• redistribute
• Instructional websites
• Handbooks & guides
• Image Collections
• Open textbooks
• Presentations
• Vula sites
• Podcasts
Example of an OER graphic
Original diagram in a PhD thesis
Adapted for the Portuguese context Translated
into Greek
Adapted and translated to Spanish
Aggregating content: OER Commonswww.oercommons.org
Aggregating video: Academic Earth
Aggregating podcasts: Steeple
Why and why now?
Why now for institutions?• Increase institutional visibility, advancing competitiveness,
attracting students and resources• Promote effective social responsiveness• Improve learning experience by selecting materials in
pedagogically sound and innovative ways• Improve recruitment by helping the right students find the
right programmes• Enhance teaching coherence across courses• Ensure better long-term archiving, curation and reuse of
teaching materials• Attract alumni as life-long learners
Why now for individuals?
• Profile teaching as well as research• Create record of teaching for teaching portfolio• Foster connections between other colleagues,
departments and even other universities (especially cross-disciplinary studies)
• Increase impact of teaching materials• Extend use of teaching materials to high school
learners and life-long learners
Increasing Visibility
Profiling of teaching
Metadata: Describing your electronic resource
Metadata: Feeds to OER Commons
Tracking usage at UCT
What OER has done for UCT
• Still early days but there are signs that our OpenContent site is:– Become part of the OER world– Increasing visibility or materials– Increasing access to materials for other groups –
schools and the community – Improving curation of digital teaching materials– Attracting students (alerted through our feedback
form)– Starting conversations about collaboration
Practicalities of Contributing to Open Educational Resources
Developing Open Educational Practice
Michael Paskevicius
Difference between "online content" and "open content" (OER)• Much of the content we interact on a daily basis
is online, but that does not necessarily make it open.
• Truly OpenContent can be: – Reused – Revised – Remixed – Redistributed
(Wiley, 2009)
Identifying something to share
• The UCT OpenContent directory hosts openly licensed teaching and learning resources created by academics and students at UCT
o Instructional websiteso Handbooks & guideso Image Collectionso Open textbooks o Presentations o Vula sites o Podcasts
What resources do you have that you could share?
A Creative Commons image by (ta)
Evaluating the media resources within your resource• If resource falls under copyright protection, either:
o Recreate the resources using office or online tools
o Replace the resource with a similar resource by finding an open source alternative or by creating your own resource
o Obtain permission from the author, publisher, editor, organization who holds the copyright
o Reconsider if the resource is really necessary?
Example: Copyrighted Resource
Recreated resource
CopyrightedResource
Recreated resource
Recreation of images
http://google.com/docshttp://www.gliffy.com/
Sourcing Alternatives • Finding an alternative image
o Search Creative Commons Flickr imageso Images on Wikipedia are either Creative Co
mmons or PDo Medical Images - Grays Anatomy
o Re-creation of the image for your own purposes o GoogleDocs drawing /diagram tool o http://www.gliffy.com/o Powerpoint, Word, Excel, scanned hand-
drawn graphics
Compfight search for "computer laptop"
Wikimedia search for "leg"
Referencing open content
http://www.learnerstogether.net/how-to-use-and-cite-creative-commons-resources/312
• Mention License • Creators Name • Link to source if possible
Presentation Example
Original PowerPoint presentation
Converted PowerPoint presentation
Discuss issues with resources
• What issues do you foresee with your potential OER resources?
Choosing a license
• Would you allow commercial uses of your work?
• Yes
• No
• Would you allow modifications or derivatives of your work?
• Yes
• No
Questions to ask
OpenContent Suggests
Get a license
• http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/Get-a-Creative-Commons-license
• Copy and paste license into resource
• Or http://creativecommons.org/choose/
Hosting
• Hopefully the resource is already online (LMS, Departmental server, etc.)
• Choose host most suitable to file type o Slideshare (Example)o HTML sites hosted on LMS (Example) o Document Departmental Server (Example)o Flickr o Youtube
• No matter where it is hosted, you will be able to describe it and make it more discoverable using the listing it in an OER Directory!
Creating a link on OER Commons
• Create an account / Log in to OER Commons• Click ‘Contribute Content’• Select type of resource • Enter the necessary metadata • Submit! • Your resource is moderated and becomes
part of the global community of OER Demo
References
Wiley, D. (2009) Defining “Open”. Blog post on iterating toward openness. Posted November 16, 2009. Retrieved online April 13, 2010. http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1123
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa License. To view a
copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/za/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300,
San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.
Prepared by Cheryl [email protected]
& Michael Paskevicius [email protected]
OpenContent Directory: http://opencontent.uct.ac.zaCompanion site on Vula: https://vula.uct.ac.za/portal/site/openuct
OER UCT project blog: http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct
Follow us: http://twitter.com/openuct
Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/mpaskevi