2007 09 Icl Presentation Olcos

Observing Open E-Learning Content:
Roadmap for Educational Policy and
Institutions and Hands-On Tips for
Practitioners.

Guntram Geser, Veronika Hornung-Prähauser, Sandra Schaffert
Salzburg Research, EduMedia Group
Austria

ICL Conference, 26 th September 2007
Special Session “Open Educational Resources and Practices”

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EU Com mission

Agenda

● Background - EU Project Open eLearning Content
Observatory Services (OLCOS)

● Some findings of the OLCOS Roadmap 2012

● OLCOS online support for skill development-
OLCOS Tutorials & Collections

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page: 2 OLCOS - Open eLearning Content Observatory Services EU Com mission

OLCOS Motivation

How to find the right way to use
Open Educational Resources in an era of Web 2.0?

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Background

● OLCOS is a Transversal Action under the Euroepan
eLearning Programme (January 2006 – December 2007)

● Main goal:
To promote the production, sharing and re-use of Open
Educational Resources (OER) in Europe and beyond
● Six partners, co-ordinator: Salzburg Research, EduMedia
Group

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Project Results: OLCOS KNOWWARE

http://www.olcos.org
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OER Community contribution

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The OLCOS Roadmap 2012

The OLCOS roadmap, published in January 2007,

• road mapping time-horizon set for 2012(+),
• identifies drivers/enablers and inhibitors of
open educational practices and resources,
• provides a set of recommendations (25 recs.)
for decision makers
– from political and institutional level to
individual teachers and students!

The roadmap (~150 pages) is available for download at
http://www.olcos.org/english/roadmap/

Required future work:
Monitoring progress in open educational practices and resources

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Some Roadmap Findings (1)

1) Massive investment in ICT over the last 10 years, but little
change in educational practices
• Teacher-centred “knowledge-transfer” model still dominates
• Expectations to bring about student-centred and collaborative
learning approaches have not been fulfilled

(2) Concerns about non-alignment of educational institutions
with
demand for knowledge society competences and skills
• However, still “top-down” approach of national e-content repositories
that want to deliver a “critical mass” of learning objects to teachercentred
education

(3) Easy access to (digital) OER is considered important to drive
Lifelong Learning agenda
• Participation in Lifelong Learning is critical in Europe’s competition
with other increasingly knowledge-based economies and societies
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(4) Business models in open educational resources are tricky
• The right mix of income streams must be found – public or/and
private funding, sponsorships, donations, fee based services…
• There will be a growing competition on scarce funding resources

(5) Difficulty to find a balanced approach for open and commercial
educational offerings
• Entrenched commercial interests of educational publishers – will
make it difficult to establish innovative private-public partnerships related to
OER
• Little innovation by most academic and educational publishers
• Much of existing digital content has simply been transposed from other forms,
prepared for traditional models of learning based on knowledge transfer

(6) International interest in, and funding of, open educational
resources

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(7) Healthy competition among leading institutions in providing free
access to educational resources

(8) At present most available open educational content is static
teaching
and learning material (“course ware) in closed formats

(9) Institutional barriers to develop open content repositories
• Lack of incentives & reward mechanisms for academic and other teachers
to excel in producing and openly sharing of high-value teaching material
• Often lack of clear-cut regulations regarding IPR/copyrights for material
that could be made available
• Often content incorporates some material from third parties under the
assumption of copyright exceptions or “fair use” (copyright clearance is
costly!)
(10) Educational open content repositories will need to think more
thoroughly about how to be useful for communities of practice
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OLCOS Brief Assessment

►Current focus of initiatives is on providing access to resources,
but it is important to also promote educational innovation and
change

►Delivering OER to the still dominant model of teacher-centred
knowledge-transfer will have little innovative impact

►Priority should be on promoting open educational practices and
focus on developing competences and skills for the
knowledge society – students and teachers

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Online Tutorials & OER Collections

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Online Knowledge Service

How to
● plan educational scenarios with the ► Tutorial 1
use of OER?
● search and find OER? ►Tutorial 2
● produce and remix OER (author and
modify) ►Tutorial 3
● Share, publish and re-use OER
● Choose a license ►Tutorial 4
● Use open source tools
►Tutorial 5

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Online Knowledge Service

Where to find OER material?
Exemplary collections of

● Open e-learning content repositories
► OLCOS OER
● Institutions with OER policy Collections
● Open Content licensing approaches

● Open formats, educational standard and
tools for producing open educational
content

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Advantages of the „open and living“
OLCOS Tutorials& Collections

http://www.wikieducator.org/Open_Educational_Content

adresses OER beginners
interactive content

links OER content& tools

wiki based produced
content adaptable to your needs

wiki pages can be inserted into any
web-portal

Use and share OER experience
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Contact

JOIN US!
info@olcos.org

Sandra Schaffert M.A.
Mag. Veronika Hornung-Prähauser
Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Jakob-Haringer-Str. 5/III
A-5020 Salzburg
Phone: +43-662-2288-429
Fax: +43-662-2288-222
http://www.salzburgresearch.at

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Introduction: PLAN the use of OER

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Introduction: PLAN the use of OER:
Expected benefits of OER

● Viewpoint of educational networks and institutions, e.g.
● Higher return on investment of taxpayers‘ money
● Enrich the pool of resources
● Lead to a leverage in the educational quality of content through quality
control, feedback and improvements

● Viewpoint of teachers and learners, e.g.
● Offer a broader range of subjects and topics
● Save time and effort through re-using
● Provide learning communities
● Promote use-centred approaches

Source: Geser (2007): OLCOS Roadmap 2012, http://www.olcos.org

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Introduction: PLAN the use of OER:
How to start?

Didactical questions before you design your open practice and

educational resources regarding the following questions:

● What are the target groups, their needs and competence?
● What are the concrete topics and learning goals, as described e. g. in
a curriculum?
● How the instructional design and respectively the learning strategies,
e.g. are the students involved in the creation of the open content?
● What technical equipment do we have?

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CHOOSE a license

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Link to Tutorial 4:
CHOOSE a license: Benefits

In the E.U. everybody has to ask the owner of the copyright of learning materials
before using, copying, modifying the learning content and so on, and to enter
into a contract.

With an open content license,you could profit about
● clear descriptions of the rights of the author(s) and the users
● licensing formulations which are proved by legal practitioner
● the awareness level of the license
● the possibility (for others) to search for your content with most of the search-
engines, when they support your license
● and (if you choose such a license) you could be sure, that your name is used
and that all materials, that are based on your work are published under the
same conditions (share alike)

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CHOOSE a license: Suggestions and
tips for decision

First of all, we recommend to choose a popular license to profit about

• it popularity and the possibility (for others) to search for your content with
most of the search-engines, when they support your license
• to be ensure the reusablity of the content (especially when a share alike
licence should be chosen: It is not very easy to mix up different licenses
when mixing up open educational content).

Remember, that you can allways place an individual contract, e.g. for
permitting commercial use, to vary from the license text!

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CHOOSE a license: Creative
Commons

http://creativecommons.org/education/publish-website

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Tutorial 1: SEARCH & FIND OER

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SEARCH & FIND OER:
overview

Different choices:

Effective search with search engines
OER search
Media specific search
Searching in dedicated OER sites

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SEARCH & FIND OER: Effective
search with search engines

In a project a group of students is working
on a short presentation about
pollination of apples.
If you like to search for the fruit quot;applequot; you
should exclude all findings about
computers and operating systems.
Every search engine use a own request-
language, but nearly all of the major
search engines understand the
following request.
apple +fruit -macintosh -mac -computer

http://www.wikieducator.org/Open_Educational_Content/olcos/SEARCH#Effective_sear

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SEARCH & FIND OER: OER Search

In a project a group of students is working on a short
presentation about the settings and circumstances of
Cosimo de' Medici.

In the following sequences we will lead you through the
search process
* the Yahoo CC Search
http://www.olcos.org/english/Yahoo-Search.html
* and the Google Search
http://www.olcos.org/english/Google-Search.html
* using the Creative Commons Search
http://www.olcos.org/english/Screencast-CCS-Search.html

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Contact

info@olcos.org


Sandra Schaffert M.A.
Mag. Veronika Hornung-Prähauser
Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Jakob-Haringer-Str. 5/III
A-5020 Salzburg
Phone: +43-662-2288-429
Fax: +43-662-2288-222
sandra.schaffert@salzburgresearch.at
http://www.salzburgresearch.at

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