Pete Watton, Learning from WOeRK Project

TEL Showcase, July 2011

Freely available resources

• What are OERs• Brief overview of the projects•Demonstrate some of the resources available • Raise some of the issues surrounding open release.

OverviewOverview

OERsOERs

Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge”.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, supporter of the worldwide Open Educational Resources (OER) movement

“OER are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property licence that permits their free use or re-purposing by others.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA

“This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms".

(http://creativecommons.org/ Accessed 4/7/11)

http://c-changeproject.org.uk/Exploring the open licensing of educational resources in the GEES disciplines through a themed approach focusing on “climate change and sustainability”.

http://edor.org.uk/Bringing together a collection of open licensed resources for use by new and experienced academic and support staff

http://openfieldwork.org.ukBringing together publicly available fieldwork education resources on the web

Developing OERs to support continuing professional development and workplacelearning

Plymouth based Plymouth based ProjectsProjects

•Project completed

•OERs available through: www.jorum.ac.uk•Search on GEESOER•243 items at 3/7/11

Project completing Drawing together existing OERS through the Open Fieldwork Aggregator

See workshop this afternoon

•Project completing

•OERs available through project website: CPD collections•OERs published on www.jorum.ac.uk and www.uplace.org.uk • 103 items at 5/7/11

•Project completing •OERs available through www.jorum.ac.uk

Learning from WOeRk CollectionLearning from WOeRk Collection www.cpdoer.net

1. Leadership in Action

2.Understanding the organisation• Introductory video

3.Conducting coaching • Conducting Coaching - Giving Feedback

4.Numeracy and Quantitative Research methods•Research Design: Quantitative Approaches to Research

5. Social Enterprise• Introduction to to Social Enterprise

6. Designing an APEL Process for Your Institution•Group APEL processes for employers

The full Learning from WOeRK collection is published on the Jorum repository: http://www.jorum.ac.uk/. All resources produced by the project can be located by searching on: LFWOER.

Learning from WOeRK Learning from WOeRK Project TeamProject Team

UPlaCe: http://uplace.org.uk

Jorum http://www.jorum.ac.uk

Humbox: http://www.humbox.ac.uk/

Leeds Met http://repository.leedsmet.ac.uk/

OpenLearn: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

U-Now, Open Courseware

http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/resources.aspx

MIT Opencourseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm For links see

http://cpdoer.net

1. OERs are free to use and publicly available.

2. OERs can be used in teaching and learning (usually

with attribution to the creator).3. The majority of OER can be altered and

adapted (‘repurposed’.)4. Using OERs are not cheating; it can

improve learning experiences by building on other people’s work.

5. OER development is a global movement – don’t be

afraid to search global OER repositories.6. OER materials are not just teaching

materials; there are a number of student support

materials

Some key pointsSome key points

Questions? Questions? Comments?Comments?

This resource was created by the University of Plymouth, Learning from WOeRK project. This project is funded by HEFCE as part of the HEA/JISC OER release programme.

This resource is licensed under the terms of the Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/).

The resource, where specified below, contains other 3rd party materials under their own licenses. The licenses and attributions are outlined below:

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Author Pete Watton

Title Open Education Resources at Plymouth

Description Presentation to the Technology Enhanced Learning showcase, University of Plymouth

Date Created 5th July 2011

Educational Level N/a

Keywords UKOER, LFWOER, Learning from WOeRK, OER

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