Workshop held at the University of South Africa on the 4th of Sept 2012 by Andreia Inamorato at the 1st UNISA Open and Distance Learning Conference. (Pretoria)

1. UNISA Workshop: Designing a road map for
OER implementation
Dr Andreia Inamorato dos Santos
Fluminense Federal University - OportUnidad Project
and Mackenzie University (Brazil)
ainamorato@gmail.com
September 4th 2012 – University of South Africa

2. #UNISAOER12
@aisantos

3. Blog: Open Content Online
aisantos.wordpress.com

5. What are OER?
OER are teaching, learning and research
materials in any format or media that are in the
public domain or open licensed allowing their
use and adaptation by third parties.
(UNESCO, 2002 e COL, 2011)

6. Who uses OER?

14. The 4 Rs of OER
Reuse
Revise
Remix
Redistribute

15. Creative Commons licenses

16. Open format for OER
.doc .docx are proprietary formats and
depend upon commercial software (Microsoft
Office and Mac packages)
.odt is an open format and is downloadable for
free over the Internet: Open Office

17. OER business models
Adapted from Downes’ categories (2007)
• Donation: funding body or foundation
provides funding for the production and
provision of OER (ex. OpenLearn – first 2
years, Khan Academy)
• Subscription: institutions pay to become
members of a consortium which manages the
repository (ex. Connexions)

18. OER business models
• Contribution: the author of the OER is
responsible for the costs of the production
and promotion of the resources (ex. lecturers,
students, teachers etc)
• Sponsorship: the cost of OER production and
promotion is covered by a sponsor in
exchange for visibility and publicity (ex. FGV –
Brazil)

19. OER business models
• Institutional: the educational institution
covers the cost for OER production and
promotion
• Governmental: resources are created with
governmental targets in mind, normally fully
financed by the State
• Commercial : the user pays ( a symbolic
amount) for parts of the contet, tutoring or
certification (ex. OUNL, UnisulVirtual)

29. cnx.org

31. openlearn.ac.uk

35. labspace.open.ac.uk

36. Remix and Redistribute

39. aisantos.wordpress.com
OER IMPLEMENTATION ROAD MAP TEMPLATE

40. In pairs please
• Use the template to think of your own context
• Try and fill in the more you can please
• Think of the main challenges
• Think of any existing practices or examples
• Post a question using Twitter or a comment
using the blog route
• If not connected to the Internet: please write
it down or speak it up! Thanks 

41. Thank you!
ainamorato@gmail.com
Image credits (Creative Commons licensed)
• One laptop per child :wwnorm.com
• Pregnant woman: offbeatmama.com
• Young woman and retired man: georgecouros.ca
• Open Licensed: thelicensingglawblog.com
• Business woman: coachline
• Handcuffs: muraldosescritores.ning.com
• Access signal for the disabled: en.wikipedia.org
• Business meeting: mmc.org