Presentation prepared for the OERRH Project

1. Introducing Open Educational Resources in a private, for-profit
Brazilian university: a case study
Introducing Open
Educational Resources in a
private, for-profit Brazilian
university
Presentation to the OERRH
Dr. Giselle Ferreira
University Estácio de Sá
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
January 2014

2. Overview
Context
Umbrella project
Aims and Objectives
Methodology
So far…

3. Context (1/2)
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HE in Brazil: widening participation through positive
action; exponential growth of HE, particularly private
HEIs, eligible for numerous public funding streams
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Public vs. Private
Growth of OER movement nationally
Estácio de Sá: second largest HEI in BR; >280k
students; >50k DL; UNESA (5 PG programmes, inc.
Education)

4. Context (2/2)
• New Teaching and Learning Model
• Centrally selected and produced resources, for centrallydetermined curricula; unified assessment
• Distance Education
• Knowledge Factory
• ‘Open courses’
• Post-graduate training in Education

5. Umbrella project
(with Dr. Laélia Moreira)
Introducing OER in a for-profit university: between the
atelier and the factory
(proposed as a 2-year project, started in January 2013)

6. Aims and objectives
• Integration of OER practices into research
training in Education (action research)
• Exploration of institutional impact of
‘openness’ values

7. Related initiatives
Sendo livre você aprende mais (Being free
you learn more):
http://www.voceaprendemais.com.br/
Ateliê de Pesquisa (Research Atelier):
http://ateliedepesquisa.wordpress.com

10. Methodology
• Participant observation
• AR
• Interviews and focus groups
• March 2014 – May 2014
• Stakeholder groups: senior management; teaching
staff (post-graduate)
• Institutional survey

11. So far…
• Literature review (in Portuguese)
• Atelier site launched
• Integration plan – in development
• Institutional survey – in preparation

12. Emerging themes
• Conceptualisations of ‘open’
• Relationships with (awareness/knowledge of)
IP-related issues
• Clashing cultures/discourses: academic
requirements – corporate management –
governmental regulation
• (local idiosyncrasies?)