"Bridging the gap: OER for increasing access, openness and performance"
Presentation at University of Mumbai on 10th March,2016 during Open Education Week 2016, Organized by Department of Education, Department of Computer Science & Department of Information Technology
Bridging the gap: OER for increasing access, openness and performance
1. BRIDGING THE GAP: OER FOR
INCREASING ACCESS, OPENNESS
AND PERFORMANCE
Organized by
Department of Education,
Department of Computer Science &
Department of Information Technology
10th March,2016Ramesh Sharma
4. 4
Affordances of the Internet
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5. Available to other
faculties, students and
institutions.
Other educators can now
discover and reuse.
Learning activity
or resource
Creates
Designated as
OER on web
Adapted from Conole, G., McAndrew, P. & Dimitriadis, Y., 2010
Shares
with students
and other
faculty
Traditional sharing of
teaching materials
Sharing educational
resources as OER
Additional considerations:
• Clearing of copyright issues
• Formatting for web and accessibility for reuse
• Addition of descriptive metadata
• Publishing in repository, referatory or on the web
Educator
…sharing beyond the classroom
7. OER: Definition
• teaching, learning and research
materials in any medium, digital or
otherwise, that reside in the public
domain or have been released under an
open license that permits no-cost
access, use, adaptation and
redistribution by others with no or
limited restrictions. Open licensing is
built within the existing framework of
intellectual property rights as defined by
relevant international conventions and
respects the authorship of the work.
8. What is “Open”?
It’s about open license used to share
educational material
• Reuse
• Revise
• Remix
• Redistribute
• Retain
No permission required as long as the open
license is respected
11. OER Paris Declaration 2012:
Recommendations related to
Government
• Promote awareness and use of OER
• Bridge digital divide by developing infrastructure
(broadband, mobile, electricity)
• Develop national policy for OER
• Promote use of Open licencing frameworks
• Support capacity building initiatives on OER
• Encourage and support research on OER
• Adopt open standards and technologies for
interoperability
• Encourage open license for materials produced
using public funds
23. Open Educational Practice (OEP)
A characteristic of Open
Educational Practice,
compared with
conventional forms of
professional practice, is
that it changes the
nature of relationships…
http://littlebylittlejohn.com/do-oer-funded-initiatives-impact-professional-practice/
- Allison Littlejohn, Lou McGill, Isobel Falconer, Jay Dempster
24. What this change is?
• Between academics and support staff (as people
work in multi-disciplinary teams, sharing areas of
expertise);
• Amongst academics (as teaching practice shifts from
individual practice to cross-institutional and inter-
institutional collaboration);
• Between academics and students (as teachers and
learners (who may not be registered with a university)
interact in new ways);
• Between academics and organisations {including the
university where they are employed} (as university
activities open up).
http://littlebylittlejohn.com/do-oer-funded-initiatives-impact-professional-practice/
29. Curate…
Create a specific collection of OER for easy access and sharing
http://www.scoop.it/t/open-learning-news
http://www.scoop.it/t/open-educational-resources-oer