Seminar on Excellence in ICT Enhanced Higher Education

EFQUEL Innovation Forum /LINK 2014

Quality in OER

Ebba.Ossiannilsson, PhD Lund University, SEEvaluator SEQUENT

UNESCO Parisdeclaration 2012

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation.

UNESCO Parisdeclaration 2012COL-UNESCO defines OER as: The phenomenon of OER is an empowerment process, facilitated by technology in which various types of stakeholders are able to interact, collaborate, create, and use materials and pedagogic practices, that are freely available, for enhancing access, reducing costs, and improving the quality of education and learning at all levels

(Kanwar, Balasubramanian & Umar 2010).

How open is open?

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Copyright Public domainCreative Commons

Expectations to OER

“OERs have the potential to solve the global education crisis and contribute to sustainable economic growth”

Sir John Daniel, former CEO for Commonwealth of Learning and David Killion, US ambassador to UNESCO said in Guardian in July 2012

OER Paris Deklarationen (1)

awareness and use enabling environments strategies and policies open licensing frameworkssustainable development of quality

OER Paris Deklarationen (2)

strategic alliances variety of languages and cultural contextsresearch finding, retrieving and sharing open licensing, public funds

Product/Process (Mackintosh 2013)

“In education, quality is more about the process than a product. Most open developments start as a first draft -- the expression of an idea. Through repeated iterations and refinements, and collaboration from the [community] the quality of individual projects improve over time."

Image CC BY-SA Wayne Mackintosh (N.B. 'WE' = 'WikiEducator')

HEA/JISC OERinfoKitQA will occur as a result of

Self-assessment (individuals and institutions release resources of highest quality possible)Internal QA processes (institutions to QA their own resources before release) Rating systems (community-driven QA through ratings and comments within OER release platform)Individual review (comments and suggestions made by individuals and institutions) HEA/JISC InfoKit

HEA/JISC OERinfoKitQuality-using the following lenses

AccuracyReputation of author/institutionStandard of technical production Accessibility Fitness for purposeTrust

HEA/JISC InfoKit

Pedagogical aspects HEA/JISC OERinfoKit

Learning and Teaching considerations OER Use and Reuse Stakeholders and benefits Cultural considerations HEA/JISC InfoKit

Technical aspects HEA/JISC OERinfoKit

TechnicalHostingMetadata and resourse descriptionAggregationDiscoverabilityAssessibilityProductionModels and workflow

HEA/JISC InfoKit

Openess to learnersDigital opennessLearner centredIndependent learningMedia supported learningQuality focusSpectrum of diversityOpenupEd label

Open Education Networkhttp :// www . open - ed. net

the five Domains of Learning :

Cognitive : the aptitude, prior knowledge and skills necessary for performing

a task or test, and the content knowledge and reflective critical thinking skills to be learnt

Affective : the motivation, attitude and decision to initiate performance,

including the will to reduce own autonomy in order to achieve group tasks

Metacognitive : understanding how the task is performed, and the ability

to self-monitor, evaluate and plan own future learning, and willingness to help others to learn

Environment : the social or physical forum and virtual or augmented reality

in which learning occurs, including any group characteristics

Management : coping critically with massive amounts of information

to obtain appropriate material in a suitable quality for learning, and time management

Kawachi P (2014) FRSA

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