Regional Consultation Workshop on Quality Guidelines for Open Educational Resources on 13-15 March 2013 at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad

2. Regional Consultation Workshop
on Developing Quality
Guidelines for OER
Professor Dr. Md. Abdul Mannan
Vice Chancellor
European University of Bangladesh
and
Honorary Adviser
Commonwealth of Learning
Email: joyamannan@yahoo.com.au

3. OER and QA: Tensions/
Challenges
 Institutional conservatism vs Openness
 Individualism vs collectivism
 Expansion for Quantity vs openness for opportunity
 Print media vs electronic media.
 OER Movement vs Quality
 Development of OER and Quality

4. OER Development-Embryonic Stage
 Accessing information
 Liberalizing information
 Understanding OER and its benefits
 Open licensing and copyright
 Capacity building (technical know-
how, infrastructure etc)
 Emphasis on availability of resources
 Tools and repositories

5. OER Development Evolving Stage
 OER – means of transforming education
 Beyond access- Open Learning
 Combining formal and informal learning construction
+ sharing
 External validation for quality improvement/assurance
 Change of educational culture as against availability of
resources only
 OER – value added mechanism

6. Scope- OER Categories
 Open Course Ware: the release of the core teaching
and learning materials at any level of education
globally.
 Open Publishing: Publication of journal
materials, text book etc. without the need to pay for
license, access fee etc.
 Open Artifacts: Individual
resources, images, libraries, data sets etc.
 Open support: Supporting materials and tools, for
learning, methodological guide for QA, education
practices and software etc.

7. Role Players in OER
 Creators/Users
 Hosters:
 Regulators
 Validators
 Institutions

8. Transforming Education: Potential of OER
 Institutional level: Internal Quality Assurance Process
 Quality Assurance /Accreditation Bodies
 Academic Recognition bodies

9. Institutional OER Quality Assurance: Challenges
 Integrate OER into institutional quality assurance policy and
practices
 Internal process for validating quality of education materials
 Improving quality through peer review process
 Improving materials through peer review process
 Revise/remix for contextualization, personalization and
localization;
 Choosing and integrating resources into teaching and learning
activities
 CPD for creation and use of OER
 Engaging students for selection and adaptation of OER
 Sharing and collaborating externally
 Defining responsibility of assuring quality of any content use in
teaching and learning
 Embedding creation and use of OER in the institutional culture

10. Quality Assurance /Accreditation Bodies: Challenges
 National QA policy to support OER
 Accreditation bodies recognize role of OER in qualification recognition
 Fostering QA and assessment of programs and institutional QA mechanisms
 Fostering use of OER and assessing educational resources produced, adapted
and used

11. Role of Quality Assurance /Accreditation Bodies
 Develop understanding of OER and its impacts on quality assurance and
recognition
 Develop copyright/Creative Commons License focusing around OER
 Include OER as good practice in QA and Recognition

12. Validation Bodies
 Validated validation bodies
 Encourage user-centered quality mechanisms to allow community to
ensure quality (peer-review, commenting, rating).
 Assessment and certification of OER
 Assessment and certification of learning outcomes achieved through
OER.