Oer11 developing tech patterns
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This presentation discusses the development of technical approaches for open educational resources (OER) within the context of UK higher education, highlighting the differences between 'big' and 'little' OER. It emphasizes the need for sustainable and effective methods for sharing educational content while considering the role of institutions, individual efforts, and existing technologies. The document also addresses ongoing trends, challenges in accreditation, and the significance of leveraging current tools for innovative educational practices.
Oer11 developing tech patterns
- 1. Developing patterns in technical approaches for Open Educational ResourcesR. John Robertson (1) and Lorna Campbell (1), & Phil Barker (2)JISC CETIS. Presentation at OER 11, Manchester, May 11th 2011Ā 1 Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement, University of Strathclyde, 2 Institute for Computer Based Learning, Heriot-Watt UniversityThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence. Individual Images in this presentation may have different licences .
- 2. overviewSome ContextBig and Little OERGlobal PatternsUKOER PatternsPossible Trends
- 3. Context: JISC CETISJISC CETIS is a JISC Innovation Support Centre. We provide advice to the UK Higher and Post-16 Education sectors on the development and use of educational technology and standards through:
- 4. participating in standards bodies
- 5. providing community forums for sharing experience about educational technologies and interoperability standards
- 6. providing strategic advice to JISC and supporting JISC development programmes3
- 7. Context: UK OER and moreUKOER programme: Phase 2 of the HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resources (OER) programme runs between August 2010 and August 2011 (Ā£5 million funding)
- 8. Other OER work in the UK and globally as well as other related technical developments4
- 9. Is there a sustainable and consistently successful technical approach to sharing OER?Option AYes, use your (institutional) repository and /or VLE Option BYes, use your (personal) blog
- 10. Big and Little OERIn the wider OER community there are two distinct approaches to sharing open content for education. Weller characterises these as Big and Little OER (http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2009/12/the-politics-of-oer.html)
- 11. Big and Little OERBig OERInstitutional effortOften polished and high qualityHigh reputationTechnical approach likely to use centrally managed system; favours CMS/VLE/RepositoryLittle OERIndividual effortOften āas isā or āwork in progressāPersonal and word of mouth reputation Technical approach likely to use tools to hand which author can use; likely blogs, wikis, slideshare
- 12. Global patterns ā āBigāEmergence of āsupportā communities and beginning of consideration of accreditation (e.g. OpenStudy for OpenCourseWare; parts of P2PU; OERU)Approach is web scale hosted communities creating or supporting given courses
- 13. Global patterns ā āBigāFederal US Government Initiatives around open contentFocus on sharing of content to meet workforce needsInterest in usage data ā Learning Registry work to aggregate and share data to support discovery servicesPoint of interest: as yet unknown how particular discovery services deal with packaged content
- 14. Global patterns ā āBigāOpenTextBooksUS and wider interest in ātangibleā OERServices like Flatworldknowledge (semi-commercial model) offering online adapt your own book toolsBut some initiatives such as opencourselibrary taking a very flexible technical approach
- 15. Global Patterns āLittleāUse of blogs, YouTube, and other platforms to share resources and make toolsProfessional networksOL DailyOSSOpen Attribute
- 16. Global Patterns āLittleāOpen Courses like:Ds106 and other MOOCsUsing existing tools # and blogsInnovative outputs, process, and forms of feedback and assessment. Infrastructure not innovative
- 17. Middle OER?Initiatives like UKOERmodel of institutional support to allow individuals to release OER using institutional toolsmodel of Institutional release of OER using 3rd party tools
- 18. Phase 1 technical overview
- 19. Phase 2 technical overview
- 20. Provisional differences in UKOER 1 &2Talking about tech issues less (Strand A+B)More concentration of platform and standards choicesMany projects less concerned with tech choices ā using whatever is to handIn particular increased use of institutionally supported systemsSlight shift towards wordpress, drupal, rssLower use of externally hosted web 2.0 platforms Less content creation (in scope of call)Less focus on file formatMuch less use of QTIOutside of collections strand very little technical developmentCollection projects tending to build destination sitesDevelopment in collections stand largely around existing platforms not form scratch
- 21. Observations from OER hackday & bidsWhat people worked on:Wordpress widgets2 different Bookmarking toolsGoogle CSE based course catalogueA windows install packager for OERbit (drupal based OER production tool)Extracting paradata (attention metadata) from mediawikiData visualisationsPatternsMostly built in existing tools and platformsLots of ideas that we didnāt have time to work onMini-projectsOpen process2 bids funded a focus on usersonline tools ā bookmarking and citation
- 22. Provisional TrendsBeginning to see more examples of online and distributed educational or edu support opportunities outside of institutions or alongside course offerings Web scaleDestination more than āsharingā
- 23. Provisional TrendsOER release projects rightly focusing on content rather than dissemination mechanismsAccreditation is the coming challenge ā work on badges and eportfolios likely to be of growing interest
- 24. Strategic BalanceIf you want to release content stick with safe technical choicesPlenty of existing tools; whether taking a big or little OER approach, use what you already have or have access tooIf you want to innovate (increasingly outside of most institutional work)Think web scaleXpert...Build on existing platforms where possibleWordPressWikisOffice tools
- 25. SustainabilityFunded projectsTech innovation not sustainable as such but :funded to prove possible lower cost alternatives...funded to embed or demonstrate infrastructureworking with existing tools potentially taps into existing community Self running projectsSmall scale voluntary efforts to address specific tasks can be very effectiveOpen Attributeworking with existing tools can utilise existing community
Editor's Notes
- #9: Focus on content and community