OER use: who, what, where, how and most of all WHY?

Chris PeglerIET,Open University

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Where am I coming from?

Promise

What we think/sayOERwill offer

Where we find out

what OERoffers

Practice

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ORIOLE PROJECT

The long OER journey: As I see itHow can you discover and

select material?

Problems obtaining metadata

Describe fully + consistently with metadata

Let’s automate as

much as possible

Found something. Can I use it?

Can I repurpose

it?

We need something like

an ‘open license’

Open content/OER: ‘a learning object plus an open licence’ (Wiley, 2009)

Automated impersonal reuse with

RLO!

Open Resources:Influence on Learners and

Educators(ORIOLE)

National Teaching Fellowship ProjectORIOLE Team: Chris Pegler (OU), Allison Littlejohn (Glasgow Caledonian), Patrick McAndrew (OU), Helen Beetham and Lou McGill (eLearning consultants), Isobel Falconer (GlasCal + OU) ++

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Who?

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Who are the users?

• Are we talking suppliers or demanders?• Are the users the educators (who release/reuse

OER) or the learners (who release/use OER)?• Are the ‘users’ outside the education system

altogether (outsiders/informal learners)?

Leading to questions about …

What?

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What is OER use?

• Using it in learning and teaching by linking to it? • Using it as optional or core educational content? • Using it as publicity (the showcase or student

sampler model)• Little OER or big OER use – which is more

used/useful/sustainable? (Weller, OpenEd 2010)

Leading to questions about …

Where?

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Where is OER use happening?

• Conventional courses or experimental ones? • Locally or nationally or internationally?• Within formal systems (e.g. VLE-local) or

spread across the internet (i.e. linking out)

Leading to questions about …

How?

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How is OER use happening?

• Online or online reformatted as offline?• Downloading a resource or simply looking at

one? • Use, reuse, repurposing or versioning?

Leading to questions about …

When?

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When is OER use happening?

• When its mandated or when its voluntary? • When the educators are new to the job? • When content is ‘ready to show’ or when its

work-in-progress (ready-to-share)? • Is it everyday or special occasion only?

Is lack of time an influence, or an excuse, or both?FINALLY, leading to questions about …

Why?

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Why use OER?

My research into reuse suggests 3 sets of factors technical, quality and motivational (Pegler, OER10 2010).

This suggests at least 8 different motives for OER use:

• Reward/Requirement: Payment made or targets met. • Reputation: Recognition or showcasing beyond the usual audience.• Review: Obtaining comments, reviews and feedback• Reach: Access to resources which would not otherwise be available• Research: Curiosity about OER as new, novel and untested area• Right thing to do: driven by personal/institutional altruism/mission• Renewal: As part of academic practice/educational development• Resourcing: Urgency/other constraints preventing new creation

Change what you can

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Thank you:Thank you to the following for releasing your material under a creative commons license that allows me to do the same with my presentation.

Bernard Burns (West Drayton) for flash mob demo

golbenge (골뱅이 ) (Seoul) for maze

Idelros60 (unknown location) for piano practice

*Maya* (Milan) for Lab set up

Mikipedia (Los Angeles) for SuperCCMan sflaw (Montréal) for square plug/round hole

Tableatny (unknown location) for passing baton

Perpetualplum (Portland) for Orioles nestbuilding

Jaggitha (Vancouver) for Radiating Man

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