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

http://olnet.org

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

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