Getting switched on-removing to re-use and sharing
- 1. “ Getting Switched ON! Open Nottingham, removing barriers for re-use and sharing ” Andy Beggan Head of Learning Technology The University of Nottingham Steve Stapleton, Alison Johnson BERLiN Project Team ALT-C 8 th Sept 2010
- 2. Outline of presentation About Nottingham About Open Nottingham Encouraging re-use Removing barriers Digital Literacy programme New tools End-user feedback Next steps
- 3. About Nottingham Research led institution Student numbers 40,000 students (postgrad and undergrad) 6,000 international (130 countries) Six campuses (inc. China and Malaysia) Learning Technology Support Learning Engagement Team VLEs E-assessment Learning Innovation Team Video production E-learning development (Xerte) Open Learning
- 4. What is Open Nottingham? U-Now – OCW/OER Launched 2007 Member of OCWC Visitors up 67% Q1 2009 HEA/JISC funded through BERLiN project 2009/10 Open Nottingham Open source tools Open learning support U-Now iTunesU YouTube Edu OER discovery & re-use
- 5. Encouraging re-use & sharing In a recent staff survey the main benefits cited for publishing OER were: Enhancing University reputation (73%) Sharing best practice (72%) Supporting students without formal access to HE (66%) Whereas the main barriers were: Time constraints (65%) Fear over copyright infringement (58%) Ownership and legal barriers (43%)
- 7. Connections Internal External Partnerships Connections Internal External Partnerships
- 8. Open Nottingham Support Open Learning Support Officer Promote new tools/services (e.g. XPERT) Provides support and advice Upload and cataloguing within OER repository Workflows to facilitate publication Resources can be: Sent to team directly by email Submitted online via U-Now website School based initiatives
- 9. Digital Literacy Workshop Aim: to inform and promote re-use of OER Discover or source Creative Commons educational resources and images Use and attribute creative commons resources appropriately Explore the process and licences involved in creating and publishing OERs as well as their own attitudes Run 3 times so far… Optional module on PGCHE from 2010-11 Open for Learning RLO
- 10. 2. Copyright infringement 3. Ownership and legal barriers
- 11. Staff survey
- 12. XPERT X erte P ublic E -learning R eposi T ory Over 60,000 resources Over 3,000 feeds UK JISC funded under rapid innovation programme To progress the vision of a distributed architecture of e-learning resources for sharing and re-use Based on Xerte Online Toolkits www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/
- 14. Where next? Open for learning workshops Publish RLO openly Open Nottingham Seminar Update of U-Now Promoting staff contributions School based approaches Release of module handbooks Links to University website Links to prospectuses Reward and recognition? OER Africa
- 15. Any Questions? http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert