This presentation discusses open educational resources (OER), which are teaching and learning materials that can be freely used and reused. It defines OER and provides examples of different types, including open courseware, reusable learning objects, and massive open online courses. The presentation also covers finding and accessing OER through repositories, creating OER, and implementing OER in teaching through staff development activities. It aims to raise awareness of OER and their benefits for expanding access to educational materials.

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In Brief – Open Educational Resources
Phil Hardcastle
Steve Saffhill
www.rsc-em.ac.uk

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OER Definitions
 „Digitised materials offered freely and openly for
educators, students and self-learners to use and
re-use for teaching, learning and research‟.
– OECD
 A good OER is

3. Guide to OER
 Toolkit from Jisc
 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelat
ed/2013/Openeducationalresources.aspx
 Finding of Jisc Research “open educational
resources were more likely to be reused if made
available in smaller modules as opposed to large
units.”
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4. Different Approaches
 Open Courseware – e.g. MIT
 Re-Usable Learning Objects
 Massively Open Online Courses (MOOC)
 All types
– Use for own learning
– Re-use to teach others
– Re-purpose to create new teaching resources
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5.  Open University: OpenLearn
 Course in OER
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/open-
education/content-section-0
 YouTube EDU
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6. Perception Poll
 OER Materials
1. Used a lot
2. Used a little
3. Not used
4. Shared materials
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7. Perception Poll
 OER Materials are
1. Difficult to find
2. Low quality
3. A poor fit with the curriculum
4. Time consuming to adapt
5. Not contextualised
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8. Perceptions Poll
 OER materials
 Save tutors time in preparation
 Give access to materials not otherwise available
 Are well designed
 Are easily contextualised
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9. Where to go?
• JorumOpen http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui
 OER Dynamic Search Engine go.bath.ac.uk/q24b
 Jorum Powered
– Jorum sub site – fully hosted repository
– Jorum window – customisable web interface
– Jorum API – an opportunity to build your own…
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10. Where to go
 Google search – Creative Commons
 Flickr search – Creative Commons
 iTunes U
 Xpert – Xerte Public E-Learning Repository –
biggest collection of OER
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11. Wide range of materials available
 60 second economics
 How big is a…?
 Periodic Table of Videos
 Politics in Spires
 VAL
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Lists of resources
• OpenLearn http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
• OU Labspace http://labspace.open.ac.uk
• JorumOpen http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui
• MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
• OER Africa http://www.oerafrica.org/
• Merlot http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
• OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/oer
• Humbox http://www.humbox.ac.uk/
• Xpert http://xpert.nottingham.ac.uk/
• OER Dynamic Search Engine go.bath.ac.uk/q24b

13. Why create OERs
 Organisational advantages:
– Building the institution's reputation
– Marketing the institution or individual courses
– Efficiency, particularly when creating a resource which can be used
across a number of courses
 Strategy
– Develop a clear rationale along with credible business and benefit
cases, perhaps using examples from elsewhere in your institution
– OER may be of interest to almost anyone in your organisation from
library staff to learners through to academics or marketing
professionals
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14. Creating OERs
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15. Production Flow Diagram
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16. Preparation
 STEM OER Guidance Wiki
– Accessibility
• Reasonable adjustments have been made to allow access –
see Jisc Techdis site
– Context
• Place the materials in context
– Metadata
• Information about the resource allowing it to be searched for.
– File Type
• Possible offer in more than one file type pdf and doc
– File Size
• Keep file size down or split into manageable chunks
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17. How to implement
 Staff Development
– Perceptions
– Skills
– Implementation
– Contextualisation
 Staff Development Days
– How to find and use free materials
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18. Contact
 Phil Hardcastle – phil.hardcastle@rsc-em.ac.uk
 Steve Saffhill – steve.saffhill@rsc-em.ac.uk
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