Who needs a repository when you’ve got Google?Information and Digital Literacy in the new Open landscape

Nick Sheppard24th June 2015

A confession…

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Repository Developer

• Began working at Leeds Metropolitan University in 2007

• Jisc Repositories Start-up and Enhancement Projects

• “Blended” repository of OA research and OER• Technical Officer UKCoRR - http://ukcorr.org/ • Jisc UKOER programme (2009-2012)• Jorum - http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

– Steering group member

Coming up…• A new Open landscape• Defining information & digital literacy• What is an OER?• An information literacy OER (case study)

– Xerte Online Toolkits (XOT)– Developing an OER based on the SCONUL 7

Pillars of information literacy

• Copyright and licensing for reuse– Creative Commons– Tools to discover CC content

• Open Access in 2015

A new Open landscape

• Open Access to research• Finch and HEFCE• Role of (institutional) repositories• Research Data Management• Learning Objects and OER• Licensing• Role of academic libraries

– “outside in vs inside out” (Lorcan Dempsey)– Managing and disseminating institutional assets

• New paradigms of scholarly communication– PLOS– Open Library of the Humanities– Institutional publishing

Information & Digital Literacy: towards a definition

• The Seven Pillars of Information Skills model (1999)

• Revised 2011• Different terminologies and concepts• Generic “core” model for HE• Series of “lenses”, representing

different groups of learners

Information Literacy is an umbrella term which encompasses concepts such as digital, visual and media literacies, academic literacy, information handling, information skills, data curation and data management (SCONUL Working Group on Information Literacy 2011)

What is an OER?

• Unpacking “Open”• Suitable licence• File format• Software (run / edit)• Compatibility across

devices (e.g. Flash)

Open educational resources (OER) are learning and teaching materials, freely available online for anyone to use. Examples include full courses, course modules, lectures, games, teaching materials and assignments. They can take the form of text, images, audio, video and may even be interactive. (Jisc)

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Case study

• Core model– Research lens– Digital literacy lens– Open content lens– Evidence based practice healthcare

lens

• "sconul seven pillars of information literacy“ Google search

Xerte Online Toolkits

• Open Source elearning software• Suite of browser-based tools • Create interactive learning materials• Accessed from any networked PC• Potential tool for teaching Digital

Literacy– Digital Literacies in the disciplines http://

www.heacademy.ac.uk/digital-literacies

Developing an OER based on the SCONUL 7 Pillars

Sheppard, NE and Nephin, E (2014) Digital literacy in practice: Developing an interactive and accessible open educational resource based on the SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy. SCONUL Focus, 60. ISSN 1745-5790

Copyright

Licensing for reuse

• Copyright– Automatic– All rights reserved– Limited exceptions

• Creative commons– Some rights reserved– Legalese– Human readable– Machine readable

Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to keep their copyright while allowing certain uses of their work — a “some rights reserved” approach to copyright — which makes their creative, educational, and scientific content instantly more compatible with the full potential of the internet.https://creativecommons.org/about

©

Creative Commons

• Attribution – CC BY• Attribution-Share Alike – CC BY-SA• Attribution-No Derivatives – CC BY-ND• Attribution-Non-Commercial – CC BY-NC• Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share-Alike – CC BY-

NC-SA• Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs – CC BY-

NC-ND

Tools to discover CC content• Google

• “sconul 7 pillars of information literacy” (not filtered by licence)

• “sconul 7 pillars of information literacy” (free to use or share)

• Jorum / OER Commons / SCORE• Solvonauts - http://solvonauts.org/

OER Advocacy: Subject pages Guides

Open Access in 2015• Gold and green Open Access• Creative Commons and Open Access• RCUK policy (April 2012)

– RCUK funded authors must publish in RCUK-compliant journals - offer a suitable gold option OR a suitable green option

• Misunderstanding Creative Commons?– IHR - open letter from the editors of 21 UK history j

ournals

• HEFCE policy (March 2014)– Comes into effect April 1st 2016– Emphasis back on “green” / self-archiving– Info and digital literacy (Systems / Policy)

Synergy: OA & OER• HEFCE policy serves to emphasise OA• Synergies

– Repositories (Institutional/subject, OER)• http://opendoar.org/• https://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/ • http://humbox.ac.uk/• http://www.jorum.ac.uk/ • http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

– Aggregations• CORE (COnnecting REpositories)• http://solvonauts.org/

– Managing (and disseminating) “institutional assets”– Creative Commons– Impact (metrics)

• Dissonance– Institutional resource/support focussed on OA

OER Advocacy: Core content modules

Jorum: Community collections

• Research Data Management– 37 records

• Information and Digital Literacy Skills– 177 resources– 26 “open access”

• UK open access life cycle

• Jorum worked with CoPILOT