Sharing information literacy teaching materials openly: Experiences of the CoPILOT project Nancy Graham and Dr Jane Secker
- 1. CoPILOT: sharing information literacy resources for researchers Nancy Graham (University of Birmingham) Dr Jane Secker (London School of Economics)
- 2. Who are we? • Dr Jane Secker j.secker@lse.ac.uk ▫ Copyright & Digital Literacy Advisor at London School of Economics and Political Science ▫ Previous IL OER projects include JISC funded DELILA ▫ Editor of Journal of Information Literacy • Nancy Graham n.graham.1@bham.ac.uk ▫ Subject Librarian at University of Birmingham ▫ Chair of CILIP IL Group ▫ Previous IL RLO projects include BRUM, CaRILLO and DELILA
- 3. What are OERs? • UNESCO definition: 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.
- 4. How do OERs fit in with other open stuff? • Complementary to Open Access, MOOCs and Research Data Management • All resources can sit within same platform (institutional repository) • Librarian has a role with all of these open educational trends • We can lead by example – share our own stuff!
- 5. Why share Information Literacy resources? http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_grey/4582294721/
- 6. Background: DELILA • Developing Educators Learning and Information Literacies for Accreditation • Cross institutional project to adapt digital and IL resources to OER • Improved institutional repositories hosted material • Encouraged academics to share • Highlighted a range of challenges when sharing IL resources as OER • Project website: http://delilaopen.wordpress.com/
- 7. Background: April 2012 survey • To gather information about librarians’ sharing of IL teaching material • April 2012 for one month • 101 responses from UK, Europe, US and beyond • Findings indicate closed sharing • Willingness to share openly but don’t know where to start • Available at http://delilaopen.wordpress.com/il-oer-survey/
- 9. Project CoPILOT: • Funded by JISC / HEA and aimed to develop a strategy to promote international sharing • Part of JISC/HEA UKOER Phase 3 Programme • 2 month timescale • Exploited UNESCO Knowledge Communities platform • Posted links to IL material • Discussions on OER and Creative Commons
- 10. CoPILOT Committee • Established as a sub-group of the CILIP Information Literacy Group in December 2012 • Aim: to support UK librarians in sharing IL resources openly • Aims for 2013…… • Mailing list IL-OERS@jiscmail.ac.uk • Wiki: http://iloer.pbworks.com • Twitter: @CoPILOT2013
- 11. Sharing research support materials • Key priority and new opportunity for academic libraries • Not a critical mass of resources in the area yet • Need for professional development for librarians – new roles, new skills • Building on existing librarian expertise
- 12. Where and how to share? • Is it feasible to share ‘research support’ resources by uploading them to repositories such as Jorum, Merlot? • Should resources by organised by subject / institution / country / topic / level • Links or deposit?
- 13. Progress so far • CoPILOT training event (more to follow) ▫ raising awareness about Creative Commons ▫ Advice about where to find existing materials • Slides available: http://www.slideshare.net/UKCoPILOT • Creating an online space to share • Encouraging and supporting the development of a community of practice
- 14. Questions? • What type of IL resources are most useful? Slides, lesson plans, worksheets, reading lists? • How should IL resources be catalogued and organised? • Where should they be deposited or shared? • What role is there for institutional repositories? • What sort of training for research support librarians should CoPILOT be running?
- 15. Get involved! • Join IL-OERS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK • Join us at Twitter: @CoPILOT2013 • Join our wiki: http://iloer.pbworks.com (note this site will eventually be replaced by our new online community with greater functionality)
- 16. Research support OERs • MI512 Programme in LSE Learning Resources Online and in Jorum • RDMRose - http://rdmrose.group.shef.ac.uk/ • RILADS - http://rilads.wordpress.com/ • RIN Data management • DCC - http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/rdm-librarians
- 17. Further reading Appleyard, S. (2012) A Survey of sharing and reuse of Information Literacy resources across Higher Education Libraries in the United Kingdom. Aberdeen; Robert Gordon University. Boon, S., Bueno de la Fuente, G. & Robertson, J. (2012) The roles of librarians and information professionals in Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives. Bolton; CETIS. Available at: http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/OER-Libraries-Survey-Report.pdf Graham, N. & Secker, J. (2012) Librarians, information literacy and open educational resources: report of a survey. Available at: http://delilaopen.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/findingsharingoers_reportfinal1.pdf Secker, Jane (2012) Digital literacy support for researchers: the personalised approach. In: Priestner, Andy and Tilley, Elizabeth, (eds.) Personalising library services in higher education: the boutique approach. Ashgate, Farnham, UK, pp. 107-125. Available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/45810/