This is a backup powerpoint presentation for the OER 2010 event at Clare College, Cambridge, where Darren Marsh, Anna Gruszczynska and Richard Pountney will be presenting a paper "Evaluating the Practice of Opening up Resources for Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences" (for abstract, see here http://www.ucel.ac.uk/oer10/abstracts/1036.html).

1. Evaluating the practice of opening up resources for learning and teaching in social sciences Darren Marsh, C-SAP Anna Gruszczynska, C-SAP

2. Social sciences perspective on OERs Motivations Challenges Critique Communities of practice model Collaborative methodology

3. Materials submitted: 6 partners, 4 subjects, 360 credits

4. Series of development activities “Before” and “after” narratives Encouraging reflection Mapping the modules Providing the context An iterative process Shared working space: pbworkswiki

5. Teaching materials Tacit understandings Localised Context-bound Located on institutional VLEs The need to tease out the teaching rationale

6. Exploring potential frameworks to address pedagogy and curriculum issues for OER courses are designed as 'sets' of modules (i.e. they have been modularised) modules (in line with HE convention and practice) are aligned with learning outcomes, and a form of assessment the contextualisation of modules involves intent that is often implicit / tacit / invisible - and constructing them to be shared requires this intent to be re-examined by a) the originator b) future user(s)

7. Exploring potential frameworks to address pedagogy and curriculum issues for OER modules have moments of varying pedagogical activity and tactics (the pedagogy is a composite of practice) by examining the existing structure and tacit practice, we begin to create an enhanced description to support granular levels of re-use

8. Propositions about pedagogy derived from literature but tested and explored with partners Practitioner-centric - after Mayes and Fowler, JISC e-Learning Models Desk Study http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/Stage%202%20Mapping%20%28Version%201%29.pdf JISC Design for Learning (needs of practitioners, illustrating practice, case studies)

9. What is a pedagogical framework?... “The point is not to construct one ideal pedagogical framework; but neither are all possible frameworks equally satisfactory” Goodyear, P & Jones, C (2004) Pedagogical frameworks for DNER (p. 25)

10. Dimensions of transformation: Dimensions of transformation: translation / ownership - materials into practice re-use / recontextualisation - sense of entitlement open / closed - materials and intentions private / public - shared understandings? parts / wholes - reduction of complexities

11. Producing materials which are: Shareable Customisable Accessible Open (CC licensing) JorumOpen Web2.0 scoping

12. Case studies Partners’ reflections on the process: before, during, after; supported through conversation and discussion Focused around one module but reflect the scope of the project: recontextualisation origins, use, feedback, iterations before OER typical delivery and reflections on practice (tacit knowledge) reinterpretations, points of ambiguity, hidden curriculum

13. Project toolkit Map Diagnose Generate (work in progress!)

14. Questions? Comments?