15. Data Collection
• Interviews with OERu network partner
members (14)
• Interviews with UK HEI thought leaders (11)
• Survey among UK HEIs (42 respondents)
16. Interviews with thought leaders (11)
• Open University (UK)
• University of Leicester
• University of Salford
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Nottingham
• University of Derby
• JISC
17. The UK HEI interviewees
• Leicester: Christine Fyfe (PVC), Dave Hall (Registrar),
Prof. Grainne Conole (Director, BDRA)
• OU: Andrew Law (Dir, Open Media), Jonathan Darby
(Dir, HE Shared Solutions)
• Salford: Prof. Martin Hall (VC)
• Edinburgh: Prof. Jeff Haywood (CIO)
• Nottingham: Prof. Wyn Morgan (Dir, Teaching &
Learning)
• JISC (personal capacity): Amber Thomas and David
Kernohan
• Derby: Julie Stone (Head, University of Derby Online)
18. The survey
Bournemouth University University of Bath,
Coventry University University of Cambridge
De Montfort University University of Huddersfield,
Institute of Education University of Hull,
King's College London University of Leeds,
Leeds Met University (2) University of Leicester (5)
Loughborough University University of Manchester
Middlesex University University of Nottingham (2)
Newcastle University University of Oxford
Open University (4) University of Southampton
Southampton Solent University of Surrey
University Plus eight others
26. Key concerns
• Student support
• Quality
• Assessment & credibility
• True cost
• Credit transfer difficulty
• Devaluation of qualifications
… volunteers are clearly NOT seen as the answer
34. Make up your mind!
• Many lukewarm (very English) responses, e.g.:
– ‘sitting on the fence’;
– ‘we should not ignore it’
… which do not suggest snogging, never mind
marrying the OERu!
37. Snog, marry or avoid the OERu?
In June, 2012…
•No evidence for ‘marry’
•Limited evidence for ‘snog’, often skewed by
respondents’ passion (rather than the
institutions’ policy)
•Some evidence for ‘flirt’ (at arm’s length)
•Overwhelming evidence for ‘avoid’
38. With many thanks to…
• Prof. Patrick McAndrew – Gabi’s SCORE mentor at the
Open University.
• Dr Angela Murphy (USQ) - co-creator of the TOUCANS
survey instrument.
• Colleagues who trialled early versions of the survey – Prof.
David Hawkridge, Dr Palitha Edirisingha, Dr Paul Rudman,
Dr Ming Nie, Brenda Padilla, Ali Ewing.
• Dr Vivien Rolfe, Fred Garnet, Prof. Andy Lane, Prof.
Graham Gibbs, Terese Bird and Stephen Walker, who
responded to the survey (and agreed to be attributed for
their contributions).
• Wayne Mackintosh of the OER Foundation, who facilitated
communication between the OERu community and me
around the research.
39. To continue the conversation:
www.toucansproject.wordpress.com
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