Introduction to Open Educational Resources OER Michael Paskevicius

Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) Michael Paskevicius June 21, 2011 Presentation to: University of Cape Town, Health Science Campus

What does the term open educational resources mean to you? by dkscully

Open Educational Resources and • Discoverable online openly licensed tools, media, materials, documented ideas, practices, activities or techniques used to support the process of education • The value of an OER is its potential to support learning in many ways and in many contexts (Anderson, 2011) Anderson, T. (2011). Quality of Open Educational Resources. Virtual Canuck blog March 15, 2011. Available online: http: //terrya. edublogs. org/2011/03/15/quality-of-open-educational-resources

What are open educational resources? Open Content / Open educational resources (OER) / Open Courseware educational materials (usually digital) that can be: … redistribute and share again. Shared Redistributed … adapt / repurpose/ improve under some type of license in order to … Shared freely and openly to be… Used Improved … used by anyone to …

Open educational resources part of the “Open Movement” Open Data Open Source Software Open Society Open Access The Open Movement Open Science Open Educational Resources Open Licences

Towards open educational practices…

Creative Commons licenses See ‘Why using open licenses is important. pdf’ on Vula for more info

Open education practices enable a culture of reuse Creates Educator Learning activity or resource Publishes as OER on web Repurposed material goes back online as OER Other educators can now discover then use or repurpose Adapted from Conole, G. , Mc. Andrew, P. & Dimitriadis, Y. (2010). The role of CSCL pedagogical patterns as mediating artefacts for repurposing Open Educational Resources. In: Pozzi, Francesca and Persico, Donatella eds. Techniques for Fostering Collaboration in Online Learning Communities: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. Hershey, USA: IGI Global.

I’m proud of what I created and I want to share it online!! You may be breaching copyright law in doing so! Obey the terms of the open license and you are good to go!

What do you mean by share online? WWW

UCT Open. Content

Indexing of resources Listing content in Open. Content allows you to add metadata which increases the discoverability of a resource This particular resource is hosted in Vula, but described and shared in Open. Content

What’s inside? By Faculty By media type

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Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius Contact me: mike. vicious@gmail. com Open. Content Directory: http: //opencontent. uct. ac. za OER UCT project blog: http: //blogs. uct. ac. za/blog/oer-uct Follow us: http: //twitter. com/openuct Follow me: http: //twitter. com/mpaskevi Presentations: http: //www. slideshare. net/mpaskevi This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2. 5 South Africa License. To view a copy of this license, visit http: //creativecommons. org/licenses/by-sa/2. 5/za/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.