pen Educational ResourcesCREATING, USING AND SHARING

Chris Andrew YebuahOER Media Specialist

University of GhanaCC-BY-NC Chris Andrew Yebuah, 2013http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

List of Acronyms

• OER – Open Educational Resources• UG – University of Ghana• CHS – College of Health Sciences• DVD – Digital Versatile Disk• HTML – HyperText Markup Language

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Joining OER Tech-Team

• Experience from Media and Entertainment• The Challenge of doing Media for Education

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Creating OER Materials

1. Select departmental OER coordinator!

Each CHS department appoints an OER project coordinator to oversee

OER development within the department.2. Identify authors & topics!

The OER project coordinatorconvenes a departmental meetingwith lecturers and the OER mediaspecialists to identify authors and

topics for OER. !

3. Develop content !The media specialists schedule an appointment

with the faculty members to develop the resource. This often entails filming a lab

demonstration or surgical procedure. During this step, the doctor or media specialists solicit

consent from all those to be filmed (e.g., students, lecturers, patients). !CC-BY-NC Chris Andrew Yebuah

Creating OER Materials

4. Edit!The media specialists make any

necessary edits to audio and video,!looking for any technical, copyright

or privacy concerns in the resource.!

5. Package!The media specialists

package the OER into anHTML template and onto aDVD with a cover label. !

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Creating OER Materials6. Review by authors!The authoring lecturers

andothers in the department

review the OER foraccuracy and pedagogy.!

Repeat as necessary!Depending on the feedback, the OER media specialists

may need to re-film or re-edit components of the module.!

8. Review by Dean!The Dean of the School

reviews the OER foraccuracy and pedagogy.!

7. Distribute within CHS!The resource is distributed toCHS students via DVD orthrough restricted local access on the UG OER site. !

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Creating OER Materials

9. Publish!The module is made public

onthe African Health OER

Network websites. !

We now have a Server which is running with OER materials

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Lighting

• Check light source

• Check power source

• Do not put all lights in one plug

• Do ambiance lighting

• Check whether light and power interfere with audio signal

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Audio

• Record and check if it sounds good.

• Monitor while recording

• Make sure the sound fits the video

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Videoing

• Check the colour balance

• Be confident

• Understand what you are videoing

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Video: Open Education Matters-Why is it important to share content-CC BY Funktionell

http://sharingoer.com/Sharing_OER/Video.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTNnxPcY49Q

Thank You

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References

• Slide 1: http://www.123rf.com/photo_12284959_planet-earth-

earth-globe-3d-render-maps-courtesy-of-nasa.html

• Slide 3:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8769680@N08/8056633112/

• Commonwealth of Learning – Perspectives on open and

distance learning - Open Educational Resources and Change

in Higher Education: Reflections from Practice - Jenny Glennie,

Ken Harley, Neil Butcher and Trudi van Wyk, Editors -

Published by Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2012,

http://www.col.org/psoer CC-BY-NC Chris Andrew Yebuah