OULDI (Open University Learning Design Initiative) : About the initiative. The OU Learning Design Initiative (OULDI) started with institutional strategic funding in 2007 and has been funded by JISC under the Curriculum Design programme since September 2008. Our work is focused around several key questions: Our aim is to develop and implement a methodology for learning design composed of tools, practice and other innovation that both builds upon, and contributes to, existing academic and practioner research. We have been working across several OU faculties and with 4 other universities to pilot curriculum design activities and relevant supporting tools and to contribute to the broader academic work in the subject. We have produced a range of tools which include: Additional outputs include: Our is underpinned by an ongoing programme of empirical work, aimed at getting a richer understanding of educational design processes.
OER. Oer conferences. Home. Overview Management Learning & Teaching Technical Legal JISC/HE Academy UKOER Programme UKOER tweets Going further... Recent changes to the infoKit Cookie statement Last Cookiweek David Kernohan, a JISC Programme Manager, commented in a Guardian article last week that Open Educational Resources are a radical idea that has now become mainstream. To try and condense some of the vast amount that has been learnt about the benefits of OER releases in the past 10 years, the Higher Education Academy and JISC have developed an InfoKit. (David Kernohan) As David mentions, one section that was missing up until now is a section giving an overview of Open Educational Resources for Senior Managers. . · OER infoKit >>> Senior Management Overview >>> Menu If you're a Senior Manager - or even if you're not - we'd love some feedback! Guidelines For EngSC OER Descriptions.
Toolkit - OpenCourseWare Consortium. Educational Content OER. From CETISwiki An introduction to Open Educational Resources CETIS are engaged in a wide range of open educational resource initiatives both nationally and internationally in support of JISC's work in this domain. A major part of our work in this area is to provide technical guidance and support to the UK Open Educational Resource (UKOER) Programmes run jointly by JISC and The Higher Education Academy. CETIS also provides strategic technical input and synthesises and disseminates the technical outputs of these programmes.
This page and subsections provide an overview of CETIS's work with Open Educational Resources (OER), including our support for the UKOER programmes, and list some key resources. Contents This page and subsections provide an overview of CETIS's work with Open Educational Resources (OER), including our support for the Open Education Resources programme, and list some key resources. Key sections include: CETIS support for the UKOER Programmes UKOER sources Describing OERs. JISC CETIS - Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards.
Open Educational Resources Resources Index of John's OER-related blog posts Date: Feb 2011 CETIS OER Technical Support Project Final Report Date: May 2010 The CETIS OER Technical Support Project was funded by JISC to provide support to the JISC HEA Open Educational Resources Pilot Programme. Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Date: Sep 2008 Open Educational Resources- Opportunities and Challengers for Higher Education.
OER resources Date: Jan 2007 Open Educational Resources Publications.
User:Leighblackall/Open educational resources and practices. From WikiEducator Slides and audio to support this article In this article the author looks at what constitutes an open educational resource and considers the issues and benefits to an educational institution. An institution which is moving to participate in open educational resource development and adopt more open educational practices. There is a description of the initial steps being made by the Educational Development Centre at Otago Polytechnic - a tertiary education and vocational training institution in Southern New Zealand. Introduction In a recent First Monday paper titled The Genesis and emergence of Education 3.0 in higher education and its potential for Africa, Keats and Schmidt described an educational system that benefits from international and cross cultural relationships and the adoption of open educational resources (OER) and practices to improve operational effectiveness and the quality of teaching and learning services.
Open Courseware and Open Educational Resources. Any student, any subject, anywhere. Mandy has been on a study trip to the Sistine chapel without going to Italy. Tina, while working as a full-time carer, has been taking a free university course in psychology on another continent. And Scott has recently secured a degree from an online university on the basis of learning, largely acquired at work.
New web technologies are driving a revolution, not only in the way students consume and institutions deliver higher education, but in the very idea of what makes a university. At its heart is a move to make universities' educational materials, from seminar notes to podcasts and videos of lectures, available free online. Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been doing this for nearly a decade.
But the quantity of this material is set to increase dramatically over the next few months as governments wake up to the opportunities that "open educational resources" offer in the global marketplace. But the move to shared resources has implications for the status of universities. OER - Open Educational Resources: Suggested enhancements to JorumOPEN user interface. (I think everyone’s disappeared on holiday!) Not suprisingly, we have experienced the same kind of issues. To put this in context our project involves nearly twenty academics producing their own OER and then uploading them to JorumOpen themselves; I provided only a walkthrough of the JorumOpen site at a meeting, pointing out where the help sheets and vidcasts could be found and after that only encouragement to get uploading.
So far I haven’t had to upload anything for anyone so all my remarks are based on what they have told me (we have run a questionnaire with them about their experiences.) : The group was mixed but tended towards limited or no knowledge of Jorum or uploading to repositories. None used JorumOpen prior to its launch (they wanted to upload when they could see the results of their efforts.) The concept of adding metadata was new to many as well. An ideal test group! : When we asked our group if they’d used the help, few had but those that did found it useful. Support Centre for Open Resources in Education - OpenLearn - The Open University.
Browse: OER Community Type: Articles and Reports. Free Online MIT Course Materials | Why Donate? Open EdTech - CallToAction. Browse: OER Community Topic: How and Why of OER. OpenLearn - The Open University. OERs shining light, new textbook model, or harbinger of a new imperialism. @ Dave’s Educational Blog. Ok. So I’ve been backchanneling all over the place trying to get my mind around what I’ve been trying to get my mind around this week (really… for the past year). I have a couple of questions that I’d like to explore… What are OERs good for? When are they a good thing? Sacrilege? Straight knowledge For those of you who’ve ever heard George siemens and I at the same event, our discussions inevitably descend into the same area… about ‘truth’ and more recently the ‘advancement of knowledge’. Curvy knowledge This is not true for what most of us call learning. Hold on a second… I thought you were talking about OERs… do you even know what one is?
Other definitions could be found, and hairs could be split, but essentially we have three big words. OERs and straight knowledge. OERs and curvy knowledge This is where i jump ship. ) to take a look at that syllabus and ask yourself if you would choose those particular articles… You might. The new imperialism The Myoops issue. IREL-Open Project.
Phil’s JISC CETIS blog» Blog Archive » Repositories and the Open Web. On the 19 April, in London CETIS are holding a meeting in London on Repositories and the Open Web. The theme of the meeting is how repositories and social sharing / web 2.0 web sites compare as hosts for learning materials: how well does each facilitate the tasks of resource discovery and resource management; what approaches to resource description do the different approaches take; and are there any lessons that users of one approach can draw from the other? Both the title of the event (does the ‘and’ imply a distinction? Why not repositories on the open web?) And the tag CETISROW may be taken as slightly provocative. Well, the tag is meant lightheartedly, of course, and yes there is a rich vein of work on how repositories can work as part of the web. Lara Whitelaw presented on the PROWE Project, about using wikis and blogs as shared repositories to support part-time distance tutors in June 2006.David Davies spoke about RSS, Yahoo!
What are the barriers to reusing/remixing OERs? | OLnet. In the OLnet team we lately started a collaborative process of "reflecting" on Open Educational Resources reuse/remix challenges. In order to understand what these challenges may be we tried to answer to the following main questions: Why reusing/remixing and Open Educational Resource? What are the barriers to reusing/remixing OERs?
Liam's blog post summarized the answers that the OLnet team members proposed to the first question. In this Blog Post I just open for discussion and improvements the list of 20 barriers to OERs reuse/remix that the OLnet team identified as answer to the second question. Are this all the possible barriers? 1) Internationalization, OERs may be available but in a different language; 2) Cognitive overload: it is difficult to separate the 'content' from the 'context' in a OER, thus it is difficult to decontextualize an OER and re-contextualize it to a different learning context/purpose; 6) Digital divide: lack of digital literacy;