Modes and models of production

of OERs: The missing link to wider

adoption

Dominik Lukes@TechCzech - Researchity.net

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When did you last

use an OER?

When did you last

produce an OER?

Why, how, who

for?

Most produced

OERs?

Photos? Sounds? Short videos?

Why?

Easy to produce, modify, reuse!

Typical end-user

question about

OER?

Is it really free?

Is it any good?

How much work will it take

to use?

Typical OER

answer…

It is openly licensed.

It is as good as it is.

Community/Contribution…

What we need is…

Materials that are high

quality, reliable, respectable,

easy to reuse, free/cheap,

…

…openly licensed!

How are OERs

produced?

The lone hero model of OER production

Individual (well-meaning)

creator makes their

materials available…

…on an individual website,

institutional website, shared

repository.

Quality is guaranteed by

crowd curation in the style of

Amazon.

Results

OERs are hard to…

Find

Modify

Integrate

Build on

Trust

Crowd is NOT enough!

Crowd is NOT what it seems!

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comments

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Better models of

creation, curation?

1. Wikipedia model

2. Code sprint model

3. Fan-fiction model

Wikipedia model

Wikipedia myth: Ant accretion

Wikipedia reality: Focused editorial

communities

Similarly to academic

journals, OERs need

editorial communities

identifying needs, gaps and

providing work.

Code sprint model

Code sprints > Book sprints

From idea to book in 7 days!

4-10 people get together for

a week, outline work, do

focused writing, edit each

others work, publish results.

There are at least 2 Open Source tools

Other inspiration from Open Source software development:

Versioning/Releases

Branches

Maintainers

Patches

Issue queues

Fanfiction

How does Twighlight Fanfiction become

a popular book?

Alpha/Beta readers

Reviewers

Theorists

The Fanfiction ecosystem

produces edited novel-

length works, properly

categorised, reviewed, with

interaction between

reader/writer.

You don’t need publishers

to produce high quality work

meeting the needs of the

audience!

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comments

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What can you do

about it?

Funders

Require online e-pub books

Fund Wikipedia editathons

Fund topic book sprint series

Fund editorial groups

Universities

Accept OER editorial work

toward degrees (more than

Wikipedia editing in a

course)

Start Open publishing

houses with Open

production workflows

Schools

Form OER production and

maintaining collectives

Accept OER engagement as

CPD

OER Theorists

Redefine success of OERs

by actual usability by

teachers and students not

by license and availability.

Quality is relative to use / value, not to

looking like old-style published works

Image credits

Lone hero by JD Hancock CC BY

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/4713569968

Crowd by Guilhem Vellut CC BY

https://www.flickr.com/photos/o_0/9493106932

https://www.flickr.com/photos/o_0/9493108712

Ant hill by Martin LaBar CC BY NC

https://www.flickr.com/photos/32454422@N00/18070583

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Wikipedians by Sage Ross CC BY SA

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34166194@N00/21938435

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Book sprint CC BY-SA 2.0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_sprint#/media/File:Adam

_Hyde_and_Alan_Toner_at_Collaborative_Futures_Book

_Sprint,_January_2010.jpg

Thank you

@TechCzech