21. NIACE – ALT Seminar
‘Free and open educational resources
treasure chest or irrelevance to adult
learners’
Spring 2011
22.
23. encourage providers to make a policy of
sharing materials that they produce through
assignment of a creative commons licence
or similar process.
24. encourage public funding projects to assign
creative commons or government commons
licences to materials produced.
25. seek to include Open Educational Practices
as part of Initial Teacher training and to be
available for in service training.
26. encourage providers to make OERs available
on platforms where independent learners
can easily access them
and offer clear guidance on how to study
alone and where to go for additional
support.
27. The risks associated with Open
Educational Resources
These resources are subject to very
variable quality checks
OERs could undermine the market in good
quality commercial content creation leaving
a residual set of mediocre free resources.
28. ‘There is already a vast store of free online resources
…………………
The priority is not more resources but well- trained staff.’
NIACE response
31. The great Pretend…oer
Public funding for so called OER projects
where the plans are purely for content
creation that would have happened anyway.
No account taken of needs of other users
35. Key messages
Develop teacher skills: sourcing , adapting
and deploying materials
Learners skills in self study.
Public funding for OERs should take
account of all potential users.
I work for NIACE NIACE is………and head up the Digital Learning Team. One of our projects is to help set up Learning with Technology World Forum n London in January. Invitation only but I am happy to talk to anyone who is interested in being invited. This is m y job Monday – Friday but on Saturday I am a teacher of adults – I treach navigation skills.
This is a stone wall from the part of England where I live.
Adult learning has a long tradition Britain. It has been closely linked to movements for democratic change and particularly associated with providing opportunities for those with least educational achievement to have a second chance. Local associations set up Mechanics Institutes, to help industrial workers gain the skill to develop themselves for the new job opportunities presented by the rapid change of the Industrial Revolution. A numberThe Workers Educational Association was set up very early in the Twentieth century The democratising role was even reflected in the approach to organising the learning /’ the teachers will be learners ad the learrners will be teachers’
One of the best remembered manifestations of this commitment is shown in the work of Henry Morris who led the education service for Cambridgeshire County Council. He pioneered the idea of a village college which would provide true ‘lifelong learning’
An important feature of the village colleges has been the alliance between formal taught learning and self organised groups following interests......... Sport, history, crafts, art.....
We looked at online learning offers elsewhere in Europe and came across Ich Will Lern – in Germany and a spookily similar site in Ireland called Write On . Actually built on the same technology they offered a mix of online self study as well as opportunities for the materials to be used in class. This really was a key finding that best value comes from materials which can be accessed for use in different ways.
Through this ACLF project we will create a veritable treasure chest of more exciting materials
NIACE made a full response to the govt FE consultation – I just want to share a couple of our points .In response to a question about resources for informal adult learning we said……There is already a vast store of free online resources. These can make the biggest contribution when used as part of a blend of learning approaches which include opportunities for learners to have opportunities to interact with each other and with tutors either online or face to face. The priority is not more resources but well- trained staff.