OER in the Social Sciences: Tacit models of resourcecreation
Anna Gruszczynska, C-SAP (Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics)
C-SAP OER pilot project overview (1)• Part of UK Open Educational Resources programme
subject strand• Critical social sciences perspective on the processes of
sharing digital educational resources• 6 academic partners: sociology (2), politics (2),
anthropology (1) and criminology (1)• Each partner contributed approximately 60 credits or
equivalent of teaching material• Materials were deposited into JORUMOpen and
MERLOT (US-based educational repository) for sharing
C-SAP OER pilot project overview (2)
Rationale• Within the context of HE
academic practice, most teaching resources are produced at individual level
• The ways in which resources are used in a teaching context are often unrecorded (relying on tacit understanding)
• To re-use material effectively, such tacit understandings might have to be revealed and made open
Aims
• Explore processes, challenges, assumptions about sharing and re-use
• Examine the taken-for-granted, tacit assumptions behind teachers’ selection of topics, issues, pedagogic approaches etc.
• Encourage longer term release of open resources
Exploring ‘tacitness’
• Copyright and IPR• ‘Ownership’ status• Module provenance and history• ‘Normal’ review prior to open release• Relation of original programmes
• Community of practice• Collaborative wiki workspace• Peer supported review exercises• ‘Mapping’ of module outline and contents to facilitate re-use• Copyright audits of materials
• Project toolkit - ‘mapping’ materials, ‘diagnostic’ editing• Source ‘content’ deposited in JORUM and other platforms• Module mappings in project website
C-SAP OER project toolkit: mapping
• Mapping for OER• Overview • Pedagogy• Subject benchmarks• Outcomes and
assessment• Content• Comments
C-SAP OER project toolkit: diagnose/review
• Possibility of re-using OER descriptions created with the mapping tool
• Guidance on creating new OERs from existing module content
Project case studies Partners’ reflections on the
process: before, during, after – examination of assumptions, challenges involved in “opening up” the materials
Focused around one module - but reflect across the scope of the project
Video overview and module ‘map’ link
Supporting materials
Deposit into JORUMOpen
Search terms:•Collections •Author•title• keywords
Granularity: mostly single items
No extra space to expose tacit elements of the resource
http://resources.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2829
Deposit into MERLOT
Search terms:•Materials•Members•Learning exercises•Subject Categories
Additional features:Peer reviewComments
Description field as a space to explore tacit practice
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=446078
Questions? Comments?• For more information about the C-SAP OER pilot project or to
download the toolkit please visit http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/oer/
• To find out more about the involvement of C-SAP in the OER programme, have a look at OER-related resources on our slideshare account http://www.slideshare.net/CSAPSubjectCentre/tag/ukoer
• If you have any queries related to this presentation or work undertaken by C-SAP, feel free to contact Anna Gruszczynska, [email protected].
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