Presentation delivered by Nancy Graham, chair of CoPILOT, as part of the 'Ooer-OERs! Using free, shared information literacy resources' event held at the University of Bradford, 24th June 2015, organised by the Yorkshire and Humberside division of the Academic and Research Libraries Group.

1. CoPILOT: how can we help you?
Supporting librarians create, share
and re-use information literacy
resources openly
Nancy Graham (Chair – CoPILOT)
Leeds, June 2015

2. Running order…
• Definitions and principles of OER
• Librarian role in OER
• Questions for you!
• Case studies of OER for information literacy
• CoPILOT
• Jorum
• Questions for me!
• Further reading/resources

3. Some definitions
Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning or
research materials that are in the public domain or
released with an intellectual property license that allows
for free use, adaptation, and distribution.
UNESCO 2012
Communities of practice are groups of people who share a
concern or a passion for something they do and learn how
to do it better as they interact regularly.
Etienne Wenger

4. Why share Information Literacy
resources via a CoP?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_grey/4582294721/

6. Librarians as OER advocates
• Leading by example
• Gaining new expertise by adapting and sharing our
own materials
• Builds on core librarian skills: licensing, copyright,
finding quality resources (information literacy)
• Highly established profession with strong networks

7. OER Research Hub Survey
• Run in November/December 2013 by Dr Beck Pitt
from the OER Research Hub
• Over 300 librarian respondents
• Headline statistics…
http://oerresearchhub.org/2014/02/07/survey-
results-librarians-and-oer-part-i/

8. Top three challenges for using OER
• Knowing where to find resources
• Finding resources of sufficiently high quality
• Finding suitable resources in my subject area
Other considerations:
• Not having enough time to look
• Technology problems
• Finding up to date resources

9. Top three reasons for selecting one
particular OER over another
• The resource being created or uploaded by a
reputable/trusted institution or person
• The resource being relevant to my particular interests/needs
• The resource having a Creative Commons license
Other considerations:
• Evidence of popularity
The being recently created
Having previously used this resource successfully
Lots of detail of how to use the resource, learning objectives etc.
Easy to download

10. Top three purposes for using OER in
context of Librarian role
• To help find available content for learning, teaching
or training
• To get new ideas and inspiration
• To enhance respondent's professional development
Other consideration:
• To stay up to date in a topic area
• Broaden resources available to my users/supplement existing
resources
• To broaden my teaching methods

11. Group discussion
• What are the barriers to sharing?
• What support do you need?
• What would motivate you to share?

12. What are the barriers to sharing?
• Ipr/copyright
• How to properly licence
• Org culture – who owns ipr
• Confidence
• Concerns about relevancy
• Tech needs
• Time to look for OER
• Time to create sharable resources

13. Support for sharing
• Autonomy
• Endorsement/encouragement of manager
• Tech training
• Blocking out time for training
• Advice from experienced OERers
• Formal review of good tech products to use
• Objective reviews

14. Case Study 1: University of Northampton
• Skills Hub: information, digital, academic
literacies
• Winner of Credo Online Information Literacy
Award 2014
• Bite sized resources – many videos
• All OERs and licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA
• Aimed at their own staff to encourage them to
embed IL into the curriculum (online and f2f)
• Can be used by others

15. OERs elsewhere: LILAC delegates
told us…..
• In Finland: seminar in sharing best practices -
doubts about collecting material in one place
as don't keep up to date. Sharing ideas is useful
• New Zealand - online hub for IL. Academics
want a collection of IL resources to pick and
choose. But should it be open access or just
one institution?
• Czech Republic - IL group share resources and
tips using website. Need to update materials
regularly - time consuming

16. Case Study 2: University of Leeds
• Skills @ Leeds provides support for students in
information, digital and academic literacies
• Range of resources: PDFs, online tutorials etc.
• Also resources aimed at Uni of Leeds staff to
embed IL in teaching online
• Staff resources licenced under CC-BY-NC and
student resources are CC-BY-NC ND
• Won Credo Online IL Award in 2013

18. Case Study 3: Glasgow Caledonian
University
• SMIRK
• A second generation OER - re-purpose of SMILE
project
• http://www.gcu.ac.uk/library/SMIRK/Start.htmlTeac
hing
• Teaching IL/DL to all students and staff
• Covers creation of OER
• Licenced with CC-BY 4.0 (the most permissive
licence)

19. • Sub-group of and funded by CILIP IL Group
• Set up in November 2012
• Aim: to support UK librarians in sharing openly
• Three training events (so far!) at University of Surrey, Glasgow Caledonian
University and Cardiff University
Get involved!
• Mailing list IL-OERS@jiscmail.ac.uk
• Twitter: @CoPILOT2013
• Website: http://www.cilip.org.uk/information-literacy-
group/about/copilot

20. Where next?
•More training events for 2015/2016
•Work on the online site on the Information Literacy
website
•Contribute to global OER movement

21. CoPILOT webpages
• Hosted on www.informationliteracy.org
• Split into sections:
▫ Where to find IL OER
▫ How to re-use/re-purpose content
▫ How to create resources for sharing
▫ How to upload your resources
▫ Using Creative Commons

22. LILAC Credo Award
• Annual award from LILAC
• Sponsored by Credo Reference
• Awarded to outstanding IL resources
• Judges look for innovation but also openness
• Further information:
http://www.lilacconference.com/WP/awards/credo-
digital-award
• Past winners include… Open University, University of
Northampton, Regent's University, University of
Leeds…could you be next?

24. Jorum’s Information and Digital
Literacy Skills collection

25. Improving discoverability and
description:

26. Contact details
• Nancy Graham
▫ N.graham1@lse.ac.uk
▫ @msnancygraham
• Twitter
▫ @CoPILOT2013
• Mailing list
▫ IL-OERS@jiscmail.ac.uk
• More information:
▫ http://www.cilip.org.uk/information-literacy-group/about/copilot

27. Takeaways from today
• Find something on Jorum and RE-USE it!
• Go on the IL-OERS@jiscmail.ac.uk and ask for
resources/advice
• Go on the mailing list and show off your own
resources
• If you've created a resource submit it to the Credo
Award in 2016
• Join us at our next event!

28. Further reading…
• CILIP Information Literacy Group (2014) Available at: http://www.cilip.org.uk/about/special-interest-
groups/information-literacy-group
• LSE (2012) Project CoPILOT. Available at: http://delilaopen.wordpress.com/project-co-pilot/
• Pitt, Beck (2014) Survey Results: Librarians and OER (Part I) Available at:
http://methylatedorange.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/survey-results-librarians-and-oer-part-i/
• Russell, P. et al. 2013. Creating, sharing and reusing learning objects to enhance information literacy.
Journal of Information Literacy, 7(2), pp. 60-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.11645/7.2.1744
• UNESCO (2012) Open Educational Resources. Available at:
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-
educational-resources/
• Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of practice: learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge University Press:
Cambridge.
• Graham & Secker (2012) Librarians, information literacy and open educational resources: report of a
survey. https://delilaopen.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/findingsharingoers_reportfinal1.pdf
• John Robertson, Gema Bueno de la Fuente and Stuart Boon: The roles of librarians and information
professionals in Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives (http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2012/492)

29. Key resources:
• Jorum – www.jorum.ac.uk
• OER Commons – www.oercommons.org
• Creative Commons – www.creativecommons.org
• MERLOT – http://merlot.org
• UNESCO OER Knowledge Community – http://www.wsis-
community.org/pg/groups/14358/open-educational-
resources-oer/
• Open Education SIG - https://www.alt.ac.uk/get-
involved/special-interest-groups/oer-sig
• Credo Reference IL Award:
http://www.lilacconference.com/WP/awards/credo-digital-
award