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OER and Institutional Change at Nottingham Steve Stapleton Open Learning Support Officer The University of Nottingham [email protected]
Transcript of Steve Stapleton
OER and Institutional Change at Nottingham
Steve StapletonOpen Learning Support OfficerThe University of [email protected]
Outline of presentation
About Nottingham
The OER journey
Evidencing change
The next steps
About Nottingham• Research led institution
• Student numbers• 30,000 students (postgrad and undergrad)• 6,000 international (130 countries)• Six campuses (inc. China and Malaysia)
• E-Learning Support (Learning Team)
Background to OER
U-Now (Launched 2007)
Sponsored by PVC
Grew organically
Significant successes
Member of the OCWC
Joined OCWC in 2007/8Membership $500 p.a.
Mathematical institute, OxfordPeoples-uni.orgThe Open UniversityThe University of Nottingham
RSS submissionDoubled visitors to U-Now
Jan-Feb 2010 3713 visitors1494 via OCWC
Open Courseware Consortium
The BERLiN projectRe-invigorate work to support U-Now
Capturing resources from across all campuses
Module framework approachIntroduction to microeconomics
Multiple resource types
67% increase in visitors to U-Now Q1 2010 over the same period in 2009 (pre BERLiN).
Opening up: Staff attitudesOpen learning focus groups (Summer 2009)20 academic staff across 5 focus groups
Online staff survey (Mar 2010)6% of academic staff
Why is Nottingham involved?
1.Promotional opportunities2.Cost efficiencies3.Social responsibility
Staff survey
Staff survey
Institutional Change
Senior Management
Academic BoardsTeaching and
Learning Committees
School Based Approach
Academic Engagement: Top Down
Senior Management Buy-in
http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/about.html
12 months ago had no involvement in OER
School of Politics Case Study
Today are active in a wide range of OER activities…
Published 50 credits as part of BERLiN:
Understanding Global Politics
Introduction to European Politics
Theories and Concepts
School of Politics Case Study
Are involved in the school based pilot:
Publish 100% of module handbooks/reading lists
School specific RSS feeds
Surface OER in school web pages
Investigate the impact OER use has on students prospective students and staff
School of Politics
Politics in 60 seconds:
U-Now
YouTube Edu
Itunes U
Podcast site
School of Politics
150 Academics engaged
Resources across all faculties Over 600 credits
Dissemination and local
issues
Academic Engagement: Bottom Up
Align to Strategies
Embedding Use and Reuse
Image © Bill Moseley 2008Released under creative commons licence:
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31442459@N00/2516648940
3rd Party material
Open for Learning Workshop
PGCHE Optional Module
Open For Learning
Develop open contentliteracy
Image © Don Solo 2008Released under creative commons licence:
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/60648084@N00/2462966749
The Open For Learning module is…
“Really valuable, important to disseminate as widely as possible.”
Chris Middleton, Head of Academic Services, University of Nottingham
Tools
www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte
www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert
Rapid innovation project
XPERT
OER image search with attribution
Demonstration at ALT C (Sept)
UKOER~OER Africa /UKNC for UNESCO (ISWG) partnerships
OER ‘Shopping list’ to support African HEIs
Kenyatta project (others to follow)
Provides a compelling reason to get involved
For more information get in touch with [email protected]
International partnerships
Next steps
BERLiN becomes Open Nottingham
Open Nottingham as a ‘Grand challenge’
Open Learning Support Officer role centralised
Open Nottingham Programme
Social responsibility
Promotion
Cost efficiencies
Increased academic and student use
XPERTProducer-centric modelsXerte Public E-learning ReposiToryUK JISC funded under rapid innovation programmeTo progress the vision of a distributed architecture of e-learning resources for sharing and re-useBased on Xerte Online Toolkits
www.nottingham.ac.uk/xertewww.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/
Connections•Internal•External•Partnerships
Connections•Internal•External•Partnerships
Open Nottingham ProgrammeSocial responsibility
UKOER~OER Africa frameworkFE college support
PromotionU-Now reviewSchool based and subject based RSS Link to prospectuses / does it workConsideration of adverting within RSS
Cost efficiencies/Quality Try to understand and prove itEmbed useEngage with students, Sharing across campuses
