WikiVet – a new model for sharing Open Educational Resources

Nick Short, E-media Unit, Royal Veterinary College, University of LondonGillian Brown, Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry & Veterinary Medicine, Newcastle University

eLearning in health conference, Birmingham, 28th June 2011

Outline

• What’s the problem?• What is OER? • Projects, policies, risk, tools to help you• Creative Commons licences• Wikivet and veterinary OERs• How can we make OERs more accessible?

What’s the problem?

• Creation of learning materials/resources for VLE

• Students downloading resources to their devices

• Students uploading to…

• “…but they were intended for my own university only!”

What is OER?• Open Educational Resources Programme

• Managed by the:• Higher Education Academy

www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/teachingandlearning/oer/ • Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

www.jisc.ac.uk/oer • £5.7+£4=£9.7M • OER3 (due soon) = approx. £4M over 1 year

What is OER?• Open educational resources

• resources created with an ‘open’ licence to reuse and repurpose in accordance with the licence.

• Best practice • created using openly licenced material already available on the

internet –… you just need to know where to look

• Guidelines• creating materials within the law and your own institutional policies

and practice

Benefits of OER• Use of public funds/money, cost savings, collaboration• Transparency and accountability• Legally defensible• Advantages for student recruitment, learning, satisfaction and

retention• Equality of access, helping the developing world• Students are using OER and it does save time:

blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/learningtechnology/2011/02/08/it-turns-out-that-oer-does-save-time-and-students-do-use-them/

Institutional policies and disclaimers

• Does your institution have policies in place for staff creating openly licenced material?

• Where can you find out?

• Do you want to ask the question?

Understanding and managing risk• Intellectual property rights

• Patents protect what makes things work (e.g. engine parts, chemical formulas)

• Trade marks are signs (like words and logos) that distinguish goods and services in the marketplace

• Designs protect the appearance of a product/logo, from the shape of an aeroplane to a fashion item

• Copyright is an automatic right which applies whenthe work is expressed (fixed, written or recorded)

• Copyright, Design and Patents Act, 1988 • Copyright arises automatically when an original idea (author uses

some judgment or skill) is expressed/created• www.ipo.gov.uk

OER and MEDEV projects

• OOER – produced best practice risk assessment toolkit• PORSCHE (Pathways to Open Resource Sharing though

Convergence in Healthcare Education) • ACTOR (Accredited Clinical Teaching Open resources)• www.medev.ac.uk/ourwork/oer

• OVAL in collaboration with WIKIVET

Toolkit

http://www.medev.ac.uk/ourwork/oer/toolkits/

Creative Commons

“Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and post to the Web.”

Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/about

Creative Commons

• A licence is simply a legal statement saying what you can and cannot do with the copyright work

• Creative Commons provides some well-recognised licencing schemes to suit you and your work:

• Attribute• Share alike• No derivatives• Non-commercial

Found in | Journal of an Open Source Original comic by | Nerdson(Under CC-BY License)

WikiVet and Veterinary OERs• Recent history• Collaboration• Target audiences• Creation and publishing• International relevance• Web 2.0 integration• Commercial partnerships

History

CLIVE WIKIVET• Started in 1993• UK veterinary schools• CD ROM based• Government funding• Static content• Enthusiast driven

• Started 2007 –• International Vet Schools• Wiki Based• Mixed Funding • Web content• Student and graduate

authored

Collaboration

Target Audiences• Veterinary students• Veterinary graduates• Veterinary nurses• General public

Creation and Publishing• Student and new graduate driven• All content is OER compliant• Integration of learning objects• Use of categories and search• Mixed media• Language and international relevance

International Relevance• Over 200 veterinary schools involved• Sharing content with international

partners• Working through student organisations• Initiatives in the developing world• Translation and contextual adaption

Web 2.0 Tools• Integration with You Tube• Regular Twitter updates• Integration with Wikipedia• Links to YouTube videos• Elgg discussion boards

Commercial Partnerships• Multiple donor sources• Big pharma involvement• Working with publishing houses• Advertising revenue• Business model for sustainability• International competitors

References/links• Creative Commons (2011) Creative Commons,

creativecommons.org • Facebook (2011) Welcome to Facebook, www.facebook.com • MySpace (2003-11) MySpaceUK, www.myspace.com • YouTube (2011) You Tube – Broadcast Yourself,

www.youtube.com

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