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