Sustainable Texts and Disciplinary Conversations: OER in practice and policy

http://sustainabletexts.wordpress.com

Colleen McKenna, Jane Hughes

Phot

o: K

athl

een

Cohe

n

Sustainable Texts - Overview

Context

JISC/HEA OER Phase 3: ‘Institutional OER Embedding’

Building on CPD4HE (OER phase 2 OMAC project)

Photo: Andrei Ceru

Key Areas of Work

OER in academic practice - disciplinary focus

Policy surrounding OER

Broadening conversations about OER creation, use and practices

Bringing people interested in Open Education together

Creating e-book of disciplinary narratives

Project partners

Dr Ulrich Tiedau

Dr Jane HughesDr Colleen McKenna

Photo: Andrei CeruPhoto: Eric Hackathorn

Project Outputs

E-book: texts about teaching and learning by academics and researchers who teach in HE

Related resources: podcasts of interviews with e-book authors, writing prompts, workshop plans, presentations

Guidance on using the materials, including advice on incorporating writing into professional education courses

A toolkit to support institutional OER possibilities and policy

Project report, paper(s), webinar, disseminating what we have learned …

Photo: Paul Slick

Disciplinary Conversations ebook

Activity 1: working with narratives

Photo: TechCocktail

Please select one of the extracts

What markers of disciplinary practice are present?

How, if at all, do these disciplinary practices differ from your own?

Is having a sense of the narrative voice helpful? (As compared, say, to a 3rd person case study.)

Photo: wonderlane

How would you go about a similar sort of task? (eg, what examples might you write about? What discipline might you use for a comparison?

Activity 2: Suggestions for re-usePlease work in pairs or small groups.

1.On the sheets of paper provided, make a list of ways in which you think any of the sample texts could be used:

a. In an accredited academic professional development programme

b. In any other contexts2.If you have time, suggest other OERs that might be used in conjunction with these.

We will collect the results of this exercise at the end of the session and circulate all your suggestions.

What we have learned• Where Open Education can

align with institutional strategies

• What types of strategy documents might address OER

• Who are the key people who might be able to effect change in relation to OER)

• How to find support from subject areas and programmes with a potential interest in open education and digital disciplinary narratives

• That academics from a range of disciplines are happy to engage in open publication

• About ebook formats and software

• About the editorial process • About other projects engaging

with disciplinarity and academic practice

• About how Open Educational ‘values’ can be aligned with HE teachers’ personal and professional values

• How to consider the intersection between Open Education and Open Access

Get in touch

Website: http://sustainabletexts.wordpress.com/

Twitter: @SustextsOER

Email: u.tiedau@ucl.ac.uk j.hughes@hedera.org.uk c.mckenna@hedera.org.uk

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

Photo: Andrei Ceru

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License CC-BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.