Mike Sanders, Alison Stokes , Pauline Kneale and Yolande Knight

GEES Subject Centre

Open Educational Resources (OER) in fieldwork: practicalities,

pedagogy, and cross disciplinary applications

7th July 2011

Open Fieldwork Project

Session Outline

1. Introduction to OER and background to project

2. Explore the Fieldwork Education Resource Collection (FERC)

3. Practicalities of releasing fieldwork OER

4. pedagogy, and cross disciplinary applications

Open Fieldwork Project

Key project aims1.To establish a collection of UK and international fieldwork OER for sharing and reuse

2.To develop a sustainable community of those interested in contributing and reusing fieldwork resources

3.To engender cultural change towards open licensing of educational resources within the GEES (and wider) disciplines

What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?

• OER: Educational resources released under an open licence that permits free use, re-use, and development by others for teaching

• Open licence: A way of licensing your material so that you keep copyright but allow other people to copy and distribute your work on the conditions you specify as long as they give you credit, e.g. Creative Commons

What are OER?

• The Jorum national repository www.jorum.ac.uk/• A place to put OER• Jorum contains either:

– The actual resources or– A link to the resources

• The majority of resource in Jorum are freely available under a CC licence to anyone

Creative Commons

Can control whether:•Attribution should be given or not•Commercial use permitted or not•To allow derivatives to be made or not

The end user does not have to contact the owner

It is NON-TRANSACTIONAL

Creative Commons

http://creativecommons.org/

A way of licensing your material so that you keep copyright but allow other people to copy and distribute your work on the conditions you specify as long as they give you credit

Creative Commons

• Go to www.flickr.com/

• Search for “commercial jet”

• Pick the first image and find the licence associated with it

• Can you find a way of only searching for images released under creative commons?

• When you have found an image can you find details of the CC licence it has been released under

Fieldwork resources

1. Location-specific (e.g. virtual field trip)

2. Generic:a) Skills or techniques-based

b) General information or guidance (e.g. safety briefings, good practice guides)

http://www.openfieldwork.org.uk/api/

•As you explore the Fieldwork Education Resource Collection please feel free to note down any constructive feedback!

Explore the FERC!

Pros:• Provides examples of field sites

• Provides some form of redress if misused

• Good to share / self-promotion

• Reusing in different ways – if there, then easy/useful

• Not reinventing wheel

• Good for more complicated formats

• Saving of time (!) - leads to better quality teaching

• Ethics – do as I do

• New ideas

• Could lead to collaboration

• Level of permissions clarified

Pros and cons of usingOER to support fieldwork

Cons:• Unlikely to find exact resource > > modification needed?

• Problems with accessing resources in Jorum

• Time spent searching ≠ time preparing – every second counts

• Hard to find solid OER – searching is problematic (Jorum)

• Problems with uploading into Jorum – metadata fields etc + problems with updating

• Poor / non-uniformity of metadata

• If creating for OER >> more time needed to ensure CC clear

• Repurposing harder than creating

• Mapping >> EDINA data? OS data closely guarded beyond institution firewall

• If web-based, issue with longevity >> might disappear!

Pros and cons of usingOER to support fieldwork

Preparing for open release

Using the FERC find the Devon Great Consols Virtual Tour

Preparing for open release

What would be involved if you wanted to release your own materials as an OER?

IPR support

http://www.web2rights.com/OERIPRSupport/

Use of OS materials in OER

This sketch map is based on Ordnance Survey map OL41 for the Forest of Bowland and Ribblesdale, scale 1:25,000 (ISBN 0319234703)

Available under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ ). Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2011 which has been made available under the Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm). The same attribution statement must be used if you reuse this image and where possible a link back to the Open Government licence.

Look at this: Search for “os opendata” – then click “order” icon (bottom right)

Use of images in OER

• You’ve already seen Flickr commons

• Have a look at the xpert attribution tool (you can Google “xpert attribution”):

• http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/attribution/

• Search for “earthquake” and see what is returned

Discussion

• How important is the disciplinary context in which a resource is created?

• Would you consider repurposing a resource created in:

– A cognate discipline?

– A non-cognate discipline?

Any final comments / thoughts / questions?

Preparing for open release

For the Fieldwork Educational Resources Collection to automatically add your resource from Jorum, you can put ‘fieldwork’ (all one word) into the title and/or description. If a position on the map is required, coordinates as decimal degrees in square brackets e.g. [51.785461 -5.10323] should also be included in the description.