Outline of an OER sensitisation workshop facilitated for staff of the Department for Curriculum and Learning Development, University of South Africa

1. OER at Unisa – the what, the why, and the how Tessa Welch, 30 November 2011 DCLD, Unisa, TvW 4-112

2. Overview of Day

3. Look at the Wordle on the next slide - Use it to trigger a discussion of your understanding of OER What are OER? 9h00

4. What are Open Educational Resources? http://www.wordle.net/create [an OER tool]

10. See the OER Africa website for a range of material, but particularly the case study of OER use at the University of Malawi Why would we want to use OER?

11. How do we find OER ?

16. They already have been used at Unisa! In Saide’s ACEMaths project, starting in 2006 How could OER be of use at Unisa?

18. Saide’s ACEMaths project

21. With ACEMaths, we went through the whole OER Life Cycle!

22. OER at Unisa ? Ideas of participants Policy Quality Staff development Course design Collaboration HR implics OER should be/are part of Unisa’s policy – fits with mission/slogan Could use OER in order to benchmark the quality of Unisa’s courses Need to educate lecturers on how to find and integrate OER Integrate open tutorials and e-media /RLOs into online module resources Encourage more collaborative research Library to coordinate OER sites All/some modules open? All textbooks open (and part of package)? Can use OER for staff training Argue that OER resource development is a R&D exercise Encourage collaborative course development OER resource and information manager needed Get DHET to allow accredited journals to use CC licences Encourage integration/ad-aptation of OER modules for courses OER researcher per college