Presentation slides for a MEDEV OOER workshop given at OER10, Cambridge, 23 March 2010.

1. Workshop: Organising Open Educational
Resources - OOER!
Suzanne Hardy Dr Jane Williams
Senior Advisor Director eLearning
MEDEV Centre for Medical Education
Newcastle University University of Bristol
www.medev.ac.uk

2. Background
• History of developing and sharing learning resources
in our subject areas
• Already multiple places to choose to deposit
• Academic identities - e.g. UK Council for Teaching
Communication Skills in Undergraduate Medical
Education
• How resources are used in teaching, how they relate
to the curriculum - e.g. Dynamic Learning Maps
(http://learning-maps.ncl.ac.uk/)
• 18 partners ready and raring to go.....
www.medev.ac.uk

3. Partners
• Imperial College • University of Aberdeen
• Keele University • University of Bedfordshire
• London School of Hygiene and • University of Bristol
Tropical Medicine • University of Edinburgh
• Newcastle University • University of Liverpool
• Queen’s University Belfast • University of Nottingham
• Royal Veterinary College • University of Oxford
• St George’s University of • University of Southampton
London
• University of Warwick
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4. OOER is about:
• Exploring barriers - what is preventing us from
sharing, and trying to overcome that
• Empowering people to overcome these barriers
themselves as they relate to their own contexts
• Surveying
– what’s already out there
– how people find ‘stuff’
– what support exists
• Identifying and sharing good practice across the
sector
• Bringing together expertise from a fluid CoP
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5. OOER
• Filled a gap allowing us to work together more formally
• Organising Open Educational Resources
• Bid can be downloaded from www.medev.ac.uk/oer
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7. Group activity - 15 minutes
• Introduce yourself together with one barrier,
challenge or question you have identified in your
context
• What are the top three in your group?
• Feedback
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8. Feedback
• IPR: perceived • Is this going to • Quality issues -
risk, process was take me extra what level to be
barrier time? Lack of able to be
• Licensing: what motivation or shared?
you can and can’t recognition of • The best being
actually do e.g benefits the enemy of the
disaggregating • People barriers good
PDFs, clipart and managing • Programme does
• Lack of time: retro expectation not support
fitting existing • Open licenses - technology
resources to fit sharealike • Branding -
the ‘OER’ shape, implications not marketing tool,
unsustainable recognised but how far to go
• Potential to have with branding
work ‘defaced’ • Lack of use
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9. OOER: Workflow diagram for uploading a resource – what does the project look like?
Star
t
Identify ontent type
Refer to
Image/ Y Y patient
Patient
video/ consent
data?
audio? workflow
N N
N Text?
Y
Refer to Is the
Refer to N
interntiona IPR
IPP
lisation status
workflow
workflow clear?
Y
Refer to
IPR/
copyright
workflow
Collect basic
metadata about
resource
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10. OOER Project: Workpackage flow diagram for uploading a resource – what does the project look like?
Collect basic
metadata about
resource
Map against
readiness scale
Refer to
Is it a N quality and
quality
pedagogy
resource?
workflow
Y
Refer to
categorisa
tion
workflow
Is the Make any
resource N technical
ready to adjustments
upload? necessary
Y
Choose APIs
and add
appropriate
metadata
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11. OOER Project: Workpackage flow diagram for uploading a resource – what does the project look like?
Choose APIs
and add
appropriate
metadata
Refer to
resource
discovery
and reuse
workflow
Upload resource
Refer to
upload
workflow
Syndicate
metadata by PIMP
End
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12. What does this actually look like?
• www.medev.ac.uk/oer
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15. Upload? Share? Publish? Deposit?
• As easy as possible to end user
• API toolkit
– Put stuff
– In
– Many
– Places
– Syndicates resource info
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16. PIMPS example
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17. Summary
• Toolkits available so far (all feedback gratefully
received!):
– IPR and copyright
– Patient consent
– Institutional policy and procedure - available but very draft
form
– See www.medev.ac.uk/oer
• Ready soon:
– Quality and pedagogy
– Resource discovery and reuse
– Metadata and API
– Impact on existing projects – senior manager briefing paper
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19. Group activity
• We want your feedback!
• Pros and cons of our approach
• What might be the outcomes of this approach?
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20. Feedback
• Consistency of approach - pro and con - how do we
align the subject strand processes with institutional
processes?
• Air of sustainability
•
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21. Our experiences so far....
• All partners are testing the processes and toolkits
• Feedback loop for iterative improvement
• Capturing the process
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22. Readiness categorisation pyramid (in development)
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23. Capturing the process
• Case studies
• 11 so far with more on the way
• Example:
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24. Iterative improvement cycle
Institutional
Policies
Case Studies Toolkits
www.medev.ac.uk

25. Summary: demonstrating impact of this and
other related projects
• GMC patient consent guidance (revised)
• eVIP – embedded IPR process
• Policy development e.g. Southampton, RVC,
Warwick, Bristol
• Already working with over 50% of UK schools of
medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine
• In discussions with the NHS eLearning Repository
www.medev.ac.uk

26. Find out more....
• Showcasing the toolkits at MedBiquitous/eViP
conference at County Hall in London, late April
• JISC conference, London, mid-April
• AMEE in Glasgow, early September
• Workshops and conference - join MEDEV JISCmail
for advance notice www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/
medev.html
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28. Call:
0191 246 4550
Email:
suzanne@medev.ac.uk
j.williams@bris.ac.uk
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