Tina Wilson, The Open University, UKEdReNe 4th strategic seminar Barcelona, Spain 24-26th March 2010
Engaging users and producers whilst gathering evidence of design, use, reuse and redesign of Open Educational Content
Open Educational Resource (OER) context
the OLnet project
Building up partnerships and global networks
Sharing evidence back to the community
One strand of OLnet - The professional educator role.
Tina Wilson
Open Educational Resource context Plenty of OER repositories available
Not much evidence of reuse of OER
The potential importance of design of the OER in terms of reuse
Tina Wilson
Network
Research
Fellowships
From producing open resources to use of open resources•Build capacity•Find evidence•Refine the issues
Sharing and discussing ideas and designs for OER,
Facilitating worldwide use and reuse of OER for teaching and learning
- using all available OER repositories
Researching, evaluating and sharing global evidence of:
- the impact of use and reuse of OER- transformative educational
practicesTina Wilson
OpenLearn
Equalise access to high quality education
Support social justice agenda
Repository containing 13,500 study hours
Units between 3-50 study hours each
Funded initially by the William and Flora Hewlett foundation.
Tina Wilson
Wilson, T. (2007). Transformation for an open education repository: Issues associated with IT and Computing distance learning course materials. In proceedings of the International conference, Information Technologies: Theory, Practice, Innovations, pp 143-147, 6th and 7th Dec 2007, Alytus College, Alytus, Lithuania. ISBN 978-9955-9779-4-0 and ISBN 978-9955-9779-6-4.
Tina Wilson
OpenER@Open Universiteit
Extend opportunities for lifelong learning
Aimed at lowering existing thresholds to achieve higher participation in higher education
Repository with 24 courses
Most courses 25 study hours
Robert Schuwer
One strand of OLnet - The professional educator role the role of educators and learners in the
process of OER creation, use and reuse.
how OER are being reused for teaching and learning (HE, FE and schools)
key stakeholder opinions on the impact of OER to their educational institution and changes to working practices
Tina Wilson
One strand of OLnet - The professional educator role barriers that have an impact on reuse
(technical, support and design)
communication tools associated with OER content and a sense of community
Tina Wilson
Projects associated with the professional educator role Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa –
Hewlett funded
Open Software Engineering - EU funding
Using Open Educational Resources and Web 2.0 Tools to support Ethical Reasoning in ICS Project-Based Learning – HEA funded
POCKET (Project on Open Content for Knowledge Exposition and Teaching) – JISC funded
Tina Wilson
Projects associated with the professional educator role
CAPITAL (Curriculum And Pedagogy In Technology Assisted Learning) - BECTA funded
OpenLearn/SCORE Hewlett, HEFCE and OU funded
OpenER - EU funding
Tina Wilson
In depth analysis of the different approaches to creating OER
Comparing approaches to the development of new OER courses (not based on legacy content)
Investigating:- whether the original design of the OER
has helped or hindered the reuse of OER- ease or difficulty in reusing OER- how the OER was reused in terms of
context and format.
Future work
Tina Wilson, Robert Schuwer and Patrick McAndrew