Enabling Openness at USQ - PowerPoint Presentation

Enabling Openness at USQ Presenters: David Bull and Kate Judith University of Southern Queensland

USQ’s OER History 2007 – USQ joins the Open Course Ware (OCW) ConsortiumUSQ joined newly formed OER Foundation in 2010 http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home OER University – USQ became a founding anchor partner http://wikieducator.org/Towards_an_OER_university:_Free_learning_for_all_students_worldwide ALTC Project – Developing an OER Feasibility Protocol for Australian Higher Education (partner with UNE and Massey)

USQ OER Activities in Progress ‘Making the Connections’ - internet independent delivery of an OER based undergraduate program (Dr Helen Farley ) OERu course offering OER1001: Regional Relations in Asia and the Pacific – conversion to 4 micro courses (Dr Marcus Harmes ) OER resources for RUN Maths and Science Digital Classroom (Professor Mike Keppell ) USQ’s first MOOC – OPE1000: Introduction to OER – micro courses for professional development (Adrian Stagg) Addressing the challenges of OER implementation – case study action research (Kate Judith )

Social Science Research Methods Brent Gibbs & Gruszczynska 2012 Uni. S . PacificKoroivulaono2014Open Uni. NetherlandsSchwuwer & Mulder2009NPTEL IndiaHarishankar2012UN UniversityBarrett et al2009Connexions at RiceSchmidt-Jones2012AgShare: OER Africa and Michigan State UniLevey2012Virtual Uni. Small States of the CommonwealthWest & Daniel Lesperance20092012Open Uni. UKLaneGourley & Lane20122009Teacher education Asia e UniversityPhilips2012Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (JHSPH)Kanchanaraksa et al2009Ghana Health ServicesOmollo, Rahman & Yebuah2012Uni. Western CapeKeats2009S.Africa Higher Education InstitutionsLesko2013Thompson RiversFriesen & Murray2011TESSAWolfenden2012AthabascaIves & Pringle2013S.Africa Maths teacher educationSapire, Reed & Welch2012British ColumbiaLalonde2014Commonwealth of Independent States & the Baltic StatesBardach et al2012 The case studies

Additional sources of case studies Armellini A & Nie M 2014 ‘Open educational practices for curriculum enhancement’ Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, vol. 28 no.1 , pp. 7 - 20 Mawoyo M & Butcher N 2012 ‘Sharing Existing Teaching Materials as OER: Key Considerations from Practice’ Glennie et al. Open Educational Resources and Change in Higher Education: Reflections from Practice Ch. 12 pp. 199-216White D & Manton M 2011 JISC-funded OER Impact Study, University of Oxford

Identifying the challenges Contextual Suitability Copyright Discoverability Knowledge ‘For teaching staff, the subject relevance and pedagogical ‘fit’ of a resource to their teaching strategy was the key factor.’ (White & Manton, 2011)http://www.flickr.com/photos/epublicist/8718123610/ by epublicist

Individual approaches Learning clever search strategies ( Agshare ) Limiting search to more reliable sources Using help guides ( Agshare)Taking a cautious approach to copyright (UN Uni., Nottingham, Leicester)Using url links only (Athabasca)Providing OERs as ‘independent’ extra resources (JISC)Adding richness/enhancement

Structural support approaches Boot camps on OER use for subject specialists (VUSSC) Making the use of OERs simpler – providing repository of images, charts and graphs set up for easy access (JHSPH) OER Library and information technology specialistsProviding compilations of examples, resources and tools to assist (Uni. Michigan)Recognising the need for pedagogical metalanguage

Institutional approaches Teams of experts including copyright expert working alongside content developers and reusers (OU UK ) Institutional structures and communication to get the right resource into the right place (Athabasca) Taking an institutional response to building knowledge: appropriate PD, specialist expertise (OU UK) Designing OERs with flexible reuse in mind (TESSA)Templates for consistency, two knowledge areas, one generic, one for local context

Collaborative approaches Collaborative communities, blogs and reviews Teams collaborating to share OER knowledge ( S. African Mathematics Teacher Education) Teachers sharing their created content and assisting each other in adapting it ( CoP style)(CIS & BS) Students providing information about suitability back to course developers (Armellini & Nie)

Network or user-shaped approaches Disaggregating OERs into Learning Objects (LOs) (many case studies) A response to user behaviour User delimits search, setting the quality/suitability standards (Connexions)Offloading searching to students (AgShare) Multi-user development platforms (Athabasca, OU UK)Crowd sourced quality control (Ossiannilsson & Creelman 2012)

Appraising Strategies

References Armellini A & Nie M 2014 ‘Open educational practices for curriculum enhancement’ Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, vol. 28 no.1, pp. 7-20 Atenas , J & Havermann L 2013, "Quality assurance in the open: an evaluation of OER repositories." The International Journal for Innovation and Quality in Learning 2013.2.Bossu, C, Brown, M & Bull, D 2012, ‘Do Open Educational Resources represent additional challenges or advantages to the current climate of change in the Australian higher education sector?’ Ascilite 2012: Future Challenges, Sustainable Futures, Wellington, NZ.Bundy, A 2004, Australian and New Zealand information literacy framework: principles, standards and practice Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy, Adelaide.Dichev, C & Dicheva, D 2012, ‘Open educational resources in computer science teaching’ Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education, Raleigh, North Carolina, USAMawoyo M & Butcher N 2012 ‘Sharing Existing Teaching Materials as OER: Key Considerations from Practice’ Glennie et al. Open Educational Resources and Change in Higher Education: Reflections from Practice Ch. 12 pp. 199-216Ossianilsson, E Creelman A 2012, ‘OER, resources for learning – Experiences from an OER project in Sweden’, European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning vol. 17 no. 42.Sloep, P 2004, ‘Reuse, portability and interoperability of Learning Objects’ Ch 10 pp. 128-137 in McGreal (ed) 2004 Online Education using learning objects Routledge London and New York.White D & Manton M 2011 JISC-funded OER Impact Study, University of Oxford