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Using and sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) Gregory Doyle Veronica Mitchell Sam Lee Pan 15 Sept 2011 Gregory Doyle Veronica Mitchell Sam Lee Pan 15 Sept 2011

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Health OER Unit Gregory Doyle Project manager of the Health OER Project Veronica Mitchell & Matumo Ramafikeng Health OER Representatives Sam Lee Pan Health OER Administrator Kende Kefale Technical Assistant

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Health OER Project in HSF Educational Development Unit (2009) Funded by Hewlett Foundation in association with OER Africa Aims of Health OER: Assist staff in: finding OER modifying existing material into OER creating OER Audit potential OER at HSF Showcase the teaching of FHS academics Aims of Health OER: Assist staff in: finding OER modifying existing material into OER creating OER Audit potential OER at HSF Showcase the teaching of FHS academics

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What is OpenContent?

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The OpenContent Directory

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Why now individually? Profiles teaching Pedagogical idea sharing Create record of teaching for teaching portfolios Foster connections between other colleagues, departments and even other universities especially cross-disciplinary studies Increase impact of teaching materials Extends use of teaching materials to high school learners and life-long learners Individual

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Why for departments? 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 Enhances teaching coherence across courses Ensures better long-term archiving, curation and reuse of teaching materials Attracts alumni as life-long learners

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Examples of UCT OpenContent

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South African Child Gauge 2009/2010 Health Sciences, Child and Adolescent Health Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury P & Smith C (EdS) Report on the state of Child Health in South Africa Already online, listing in OpenContent improves discoverability Filetype: pdf

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UCT Libraries: Library Guides Library help guides to working with library resources Author: Lara Skelly Students were actually searching for library help guides on OpenContent Filetype: web pages

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Occupation Focused Conceptual Frameworks Occupational Therapy Author: Matumo Ramafikeng Filetype: web pages

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What is OER? Open educational resources (OER) are educational materials (usually digital) that are shared freely and openly for anyone to use and under some type of license to: repurpose improve redistribute

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OER Movement Contextualising the OER project Internationally

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Opening Scholarship Project (2007-2008) Open Educational Resources Open Access Open Community OER UCT (March 2009 Open Educational Resources Advocating openness (2009) Open Access Health OER (2008-) Open Educational Resources in Health Open UCT (2011 - ) History of UCT OpenContent Funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation Funded by the Hewlett Foundation

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Open UCT

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What might enable or constrain OER o Social (cultural, organisational, philosophical) o Technical (infrastructure, bandwidth, expertise) o Financial (sources of revenue, sustainability) o Legal (copyright, expertise)

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Change in philosophy The Open Source Software movement led the way in showcasing the value of openness and the architecture of participation OReilly 2003. OER is based on the philosophical view of knowledge as a collective social product and the desirability of making it a social property Prasad & Ambedkar cited in Downes 2007:1.

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Affordances of the Internet OER is premised on the simple and powerful idea that the worlds knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the World Wide Web in particular provides an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge (Hewlett Foundation)

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OER and Copyright

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Alternative copyright licensing Previously copyright was binary: All rights retained or public domain Now alternative licensing options Range of options where some rights are reserved GNU General Public License Creative Commons provide Copyright Public domain Copyright Some rights reservedPublic domain

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Financial models Donor funding e.g. Hewlett Foundation Marketing budget e.g. Open University Commission e.g. MIT and Amazon Endowment e.g. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Membership e.g. Sakai Consortium Government e.g. UK 7.8 million grant

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Open materials at UCT historically have been... Hard to locate Not in a single searchable location Unlikely to be adequately licensed to ensure that the original author is always attributed Not being leveraged to promote the UCT brand Not being capitalised upon to promote better contact with alumni

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The UCT OpenContent directory o Lists and describes the open educational content available from UCT o Links to international platforms and acts as a mechanism for increasing the visibility of UCT- produced open educational materials o Facilitate reporting around questions such as: Which OERs have been published by person X in my department? What OER content is available from my department? How many OERs are in the UCT Collection? To what extent is my departments OER output promoting us globally?

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Potential open content: Handbooks & guides Instructional websites Vula sites Presentations Podcasts Open textbooks Image Collections

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Site Analytics

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Site Visitors

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Traffic sources

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Top Google queries driving traffic from search (3rd referrer)

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Site search

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Most accessed resources Total clicks to to content listed on OpenContent: 9908

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Increasing Visibility

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Good morning Can you send me more information about your'' Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Health (DOH)''. The information that i need is who can do this course how the course works. Best regards Fernando Santos Good morning Can you send me more information about your'' Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Health (DOH)''. The information that i need is who can do this course how the course works. Best regards Fernando Santos Feedback

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We in the IEEE UCT chapter are in the process of donating a computer lab to a high school in the Cape flats. Along with this initiative is computer literacy free training. Therefore, I would like to seek permission to use your CHED computer literacy materials. We would be having 3 or 4 free sessions with the school pupils. It will cover Introduction to PC's, Internet and Word.. I do not plan to modify your materials and they will be used 'AS IS', with all the necessary references to your team. This is aimed to respect the IP (Intellectual Property) rights of the authors of the training material. I hope this request meets your favourable consideration. Thanks Des. Regards, David We in the IEEE UCT chapter are in the process of donating a computer lab to a high school in the Cape flats. Along with this initiative is computer literacy free training. Therefore, I would like to seek permission to use your CHED computer literacy materials. We would be having 3 or 4 free sessions with the school pupils. It will cover Introduction to PC's, Internet and Word.. I do not plan to modify your materials and they will be used 'AS IS', with all the necessary references to your team. This is aimed to respect the IP (Intellectual Property) rights of the authors of the training material. I hope this request meets your favourable consideration. Thanks Des. Regards, David Feedback

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Conclusion Today, a confluence of events is creating the perfect storm for significantly advancing education. With a growing inventory of openly available educational tools and resources, and with an increasingly engaged and connected community, transformative opportunities for education abound. Iiyoshi & Kumar 2008:2.

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Discussion / Questions Can hierarchy and sharing co-exist? http://opensource.com/business/10/8/can-hierarchy-and-sharing-co-exist

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OER used Smith,D (2009) Academic Greybeards and the Net Generation. Presentation to the Teaching with Technology Mini-Conference, 18 November 2010, UCT. Presentations by Cox, G., Hodgkinson-Williams, C. et al CET, UCT Donnely, S CET, UCT Smith,D (2009) Academic Greybeards and the Net Generation. Presentation to the Teaching with Technology Mini-Conference, 18 November 2010, UCT. Presentations by Cox, G., Hodgkinson-Williams, C. et al CET, UCT Donnely, S CET, UCT

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References Attwood, R (2009) Get it out in the open. Online: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=408300 24 September http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=408300 Downes S (2007) Models for sustainable open educational resources. Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects 3: 29-44. Iiyoshi, T & Kumar, MSV (Eds) (2008) Opening Up Education: The collective advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. OReilly, T (2003) The Architecture of Participation. Available online: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3017 (Checked 4 October 2009) Yuan, L, MacNeill, S and Kraan W (2008). Open Educational Resources Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education. JISC CETIS. Available at http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf [Accessed 4 February 2009].

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OER UCT Links Visit the OER UCT open Vula site vula.uct.ac.za/portal/site/openuct vula.uct.ac.za/portal/site/openuct Read the OER UCT project blog blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct For information regarding related workshops and seminars www.cet.uct.ac.za/projects#OER www.cet.uct.ac.za/projects#OER

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Discussion / Questions Can hierarchy and sharing co-exist? http://opensource.com/business/10/8/can-hierarchy-and-sharing-co-exist