Good intentions: improving the evidence base in support of sharing learning materials
Sustainability
Aims to become part of established OU practice.
Phase/timing
2005-
Type of content
Media rich resources made available via interactive OS VLE
institutional strategies and needs.
also donations
Institutional commitment from MIT to sustain
Expect continued public funding
community has sustained operations over the last seven years
Community buy-in continued grants?
Decentralised model dependent on CoP likely to help sustainability
As above
Continued public funding
2009-
2002-
2006-
1997-
2007-
1999-
2008-
2003-
OERs at varied levels of granularity.
lecture notes, problem sets, syllabi, reading lists, tools and simulations as well as video and audio lectures
Varied granularity but courseware rather than smaller elements
Primarily school and college level OERs but with pedagogic context added through comments of staff and students. Peer reviewed. Over 16000 OERs & 8000 contributions of teaching expertise
OERs – school and college level
Index to open resources that fit a strict evaluation criteria.
Courses, course modules, OERs, and tools which added complications to licensing
Globally open
Globally open to Globally open to Globally open for contribute and use contribute and use users but restricted contributors
90% of contributors chose BC commons – open within Canada Shareable Online Resources Repository
5400 resources by 2008 study units, subject themes and study skills.
1800 courses
Modules. Collections/course s. community reviews Tools of how used By 2004 – 1600 knowledge 20000 resources modules By 2007 – 4500 modules
7,762 OERs from range of disciplines. (6054 at UG and PG level)
Level of openness
Globally open
Globally open with Globally open parallel services containing more controlled licences
NZ primarily but licence makes it open to all
Level of content management
Learning space – structured and lab space unstructured
Service around content very important. National UK repository
highly centralised and tightly coordinated
National repository Peer review of content. Comments added about content and how used. Classified and indexed.
Web 2.0 features (tags, ratings, comments, reviews, and social networking) to create an online experience that engages educators in sharing their best teaching and learning practices.
Open repository (content commons) system is basis as much as the content.
High level of selection criteria and addition of metadata and subject classification
Encourages re-use Key aim of lab and re-purposing space area
Key aim
No a key focus
Key focus
Key focus
Key purpose
Release 1 in 2004 – Roadmap aims to encourage reuse
Not a specific goal Key focus
model
OERs with added
OCW institutional
OCW
OERs and CoP
Public model t&L
CoP model and
Index/Catalogue
OERs structured
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OERS, CoP and