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Tue, Apr 19 2016, 10:15am – 10:30am Welcome from the conference Co-Chairs Melissa Highton and Lorna Campbellmore |
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Tue, Apr 19 2016, 10:30am – 11:15am If ‘open’ is the answer, what is the question? Whether we consider ourselves to be open education practitioners or researchers, advocates or critics, wonderers or agnostics, our motivating questions regarding openness are likely to be different, often very different. For example: How can we minimise the cost of textbooks? How can we help students to build and to own their content and portfolios? How might we support and empower learners in making informed choices about their digital identities and digital engagement? How might we build knowledge as a collective endeavour? How can we broaden access to education, particularly in ways...more |
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Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm Cataloging open (not only educational) resources has been done for years by many open communities but the most popular posts with curated overviews of open resources, public domain content, infographics and guides were done by users and bloggers (http://openculture.com/, http://otwartezasoby.pl/). At the same time it is a success and it points to a question that maybe we don’t have catalogues and curated top-lists that address exact needs of educational users. People like teachers, librarians or creative people like graphic designers when asked about what would help them use CC and PD resources they often suggest building places where they can...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm Wikimedia UK works with cultural institutions across the UK to support, encourage and facilitate the release online of our common cultural heritage, with a focus on educational content. These partnerships take various forms and we would begin our presentation with a broad overview of this work, then focus in on partnership with the National Library of Wales, and the work of our Wikimedian-in-Residence there. This work has been addressing the key issues of limited provision for digital literacy skills for young people in Wales, and limited community engagement around Welsh cultural heritage. Digital literacy has been identified by the Welsh...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm GLAM[1] is a global initiative for making cultural data open targeting galleries, libraries, archives and museums in particular. GLAM projects are run in collaboration with these cultural institutions where the artifacts and other institutional collections get all sorts of digital treatment, from digitizing manuscripts and books[2] to creating meta data and developing tools to automate and ease the life of contributors[3], building and 3D models of artifacts and creating multilingual virtual museum experience by using Wikipedia.[4] These institutions historically being the reservoir of knowledge need more attention with more digital innovation coming in day by day. There being a synergy...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm In January 2015, Museums Galleries Scotland employed Scotland’s second ever Wikimedian in Residence, the first for the Scottish museums sector. In contrast to most residencies of this kind, where the resident is embedded with just one institution, MGS’s resident was to work with the entire sector, with the aim of increasing open knowledge capacity and beginning to effect culture change with regard to open knowledge in a cultural context. This case study will reflect on what can (and can’t) be achieved in a year, will offer provocations with regard to the challenges faced by the museums sector, and suggestions as...more Live Streamed
Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm Studies have identified that medical practitioners have limited awareness of the needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender patients and that there is little coverage of this within medical curricula (Sequeira et al, 2012).This has been identified as a gap within the medical curriculum at our institution as well. We have a project running throughout 2015/16 to remix and reuse existing open educational resources (OER) in order to close this gap.Drawing upon Joanna Wild’s OER engagement ladder (2012) and the EVOL-OER project, this initiative can be situated in quadrant two of the framework as a repurposed OER in curriculum design.Additionally,...more Live Streamed
Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm An editathon is an event where people develop open knowledge around a specific topic (Cress & Kimmerle, 2008; Kosonen & Kianto, 2009). The event can be online or face-to-face, giving participants opportunity to learn different types of expertise and accumulate social capital to help them learn (Lieberman, 2000). This paper explores learning in an editathon. The event took place over a number of days in April 2015. Over 50 participants created pages in Wikipedia. Collaboration was co-ordinated by facilitators who helped participants select which pages they would work on. An expert Wikimedian provided training on how to create and edit...more Live Streamed
Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm This paper seeks to extend the discussion on participatory learning and teaching beyond the limits of the lecture theatre into the virtual classroom space. It proposes a model of blended learning that involves both on campus and distance students in the process of creating learning content through use of open technologies and free digital media resources. The base of this approach is shaped by the concept of vicarious learning as a way of learning vicariously through learning with others (Lee, 2012). Moving away from the models of teacher-led design of learning objects and passive consumption of learning materials, rich media...more Live Streamed
Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm Introduction: Interest in open educational resources (OER) can be said to have moved from open-license material creation, to repositories, to sharing open practice. OER reuse and repurposing grew slowly, due to quality concerns and lack of a sense of materials ownership (ICDE, 2010). At the same time, learners and educators were discovering free online materials (YouTube, Kahn Academy, iTunes U) (Weller, 2015), considering open licensing when they ran into problems. TeachMeAnatomy matches the second description. Beginning with one medical student who crowdsourced helpers through social media, it grew into a sustainable, internationally popular website/app with articles vetted by its user...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm The quantity of open images available online is growing exponentially. An emerging challenge for the OER community is to identify relationships between sources of images. The ecosystem of open images is complex. Provenance, openness and issues of quality are all factors to be considered. This presentation will showcase examples from three distinct sources, and discuss the challenges and affordances of each respectively. Museums and cultural heritage archives including the OpenGlam initiative. These institutions encourage public engagement including tagging, sharing and re-purposing and include valuable metadata. A key consideration in this category is the quality and agency of the content in...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm This presentation is a case study of a project supporting students with a specific learning difficulty in transitioning to higher education and the challenges and advantages of embedding a culture of openness throughout the lifetime of the project. The project is EU-funded and works across 5 countries, and has committed to all of the outputs being made “open” – blogging about the research and production process, making the code for the technical component of the project open source, publishing all research outputs such as journal articles as open access, openly licensing all content created for the products. The main outputs...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm The OER World Map project aims at collecting and visualizing data about actors, services, projects and events related to OER in order to support the efforts of the OER community to organize and understand itself. The Hewlett funded project started back in 2013 and will be continued to be funded in 2016 targeting at refining the platform and increasing the size of its user community (OER World Map, 2015). Major achievements of phase II, which took place in 2015, where the development of an initial version of the production platform as well as the installation of a global country champion...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm Dublin City University is developing the Irish 101 MOOC as part of a wider strategic aim to deliver an online Irish language higher education degree programme. The project is led by academic staff from FIONTAR, an Irish-medium interdisciplinary School and the National Institute of Digital Learning in Dublin City University. As one of the first MOOCs to be developed by the university, the university engaged in a wide ranging analysis of the strategic institutional drivers and educational goals associated with this endeavour. This paper sets out these drivers and contextualises the strategic necessity of the concept of openness in selecting...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm This concept paper focuses on the strategic advantages and Return on Investment (ROI) possible from a transition to Open Educational Resources (OER) from the dependence on traditional commercial textbooks that is common in primary and secondary public education (PSPE). An OER value proposition includes an analysis of pedagogical and quality issues pertaining to OER and a listing of the challenges and barriers to effective open textbook implementations.The advantages of open texts for PSPE schools are outlined, arguing for the effective exploitation of the educational affordances of tablets and other devices. The ROI of conversion to OER are costed along with...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm In recent years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been an emergent mode of educational delivery. The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has launched three MOOCs in the past year, with nearly 40,000 students enrolled worldwide. These courses have driven awareness of open educational practices within the School, culminating in the launch of our Open Study at LSHTM platform, housing open access courses and OER both independent of and related to our MOOC provision. This growing culture of openness is in line with our broader strategic aims of promoting better health and equity through high quality, flexible, and...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm Join staff from the Centre for Research Collections for a practical hands-on exploration of the University of Edinburgh’s unique and world-renowned cultural heritage collections. Learn how our collections are being digitised and used in new and creative ways: test the experimental new student experience of play through crowdsourcing tools and engage with collections that are being developed to enhance learning, teaching and the what is uniquely something that is an ‘Edinburgh experience’. Our staff have a broad range of expertise in the development and embedding of authoritative metadata (written to professional standards using trusted authoritative sources) to ensure that researchers...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm The pervasive presence of recommender systems in our daily lives is undeniable. From books to clothes to colleagues on LinkedIn we are encouraged to personalise our Web activities. This perceived desire for a ‘Google-like experience’ and the sociocultural mediation of educational experience has started to permeate resource provision through the adoption of recommender systems to support discovery and use in open educational repositories (ROER) such as Merlot II (California State University, 2015) The true value and impact of educational recommender systems is not yet fully explored, with the exception of some work around the mechanistic nature of systems and the...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm Funded for 3 years by the Scottish Funding Council, the Open Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) project (http://oepscotland.org) aims to facilitate best practice in Scottish open education. It plans to enhance the Scottish tertiary education sector’s capacity and reputation in developing publicly available and licensed online materials, supported by high quality pedagogy and learning technology. In order to support capacity building and develop a nuanced understanding of the level of open educational practice (OEP) awareness and use of open educational resources (OEP) in Scotland, OEPS ran a series of sector wide surveys. The first survey was launched in October 2015...more Live Streamed
Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm The authors of this paper are interested in developing new frameworks for lecturer professional development that integrates the scholarship of technology enhanced learning (SOTEL) into innovative pedagogical practice supported via communities of practice (COP). Throughout 2015 we designed and trialed a cMOOC (connectivist massive open online course) for lecturer professional development as a scalable framework to create an institutional culture and foundation for global open scholarship research collaboration in SOTEL. We define SOTEL within the context of mobile social media as it has become the most ubiquitous technology on the planet (International Telecommunication Union, 2014). Traditional forms of measuring scholarly...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm There are several tabletop games that hold the potential to be an effective Open Educational Resource, but the packaging does not always showcase the potential of the content. They are mostly evaluated in terms of the fun factor. This is also the hidden strength of the medium that it renders the educational layer so obliviously that the players imbibe it in a very natural manner. Gaming is one of the largest existing industries and yet it has very low presence in the context of OER. Despite of there being millions of tabletop games, existing and dedicated crowd-sourced resources about them,...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm During the last year the awareness of OER in Germany was rising continuously. The first whitepaper on OER in the School sector (Muuß-Merholz & Schaumburg, 2014) was followed by whitepapers on OER in higher education (Deimann et al, 2015) and life long learning. A governmental workgroup released a working paper on OER in that they set two main issues to focus in. 1) To build or support web services that collect references to OER. 2) To discuss further issues like quality and qualification, licencing or business models. The first point can be seen as a result from experiences in other...more Type: Lightning Talk Authors: Natalie Eggleston, and Beatriz de los Arcos Room: Duddingston Chair: L Campbell Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm The Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) is a global network of doctoral students whose research projects include a focus on openness in education through, for example, OER, MOOC, open data, open licensing and open access publishing. Around these students is a network of experts, supervisors, mentors and interested parties. The aim of the GO-GN is to both raise the profile of OER research and offer support for those conducting PhD research in this area. GO-GN started as an initiative from the UNESCO Chair in OER at the Dutch Open Universiteit, in collaboration with the UNESCO / COL Chair in OER...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm In medicine and the health care professions there are substantial numbers of OERs and other open access resources. However, these resources may be difficult to find, and the learner is frequently uncertain about the quality and context of the material. OpenMed (http://openmed.co.uk/) is a learning framework to curate these resources. It is being co-created by our undergraduate medical students and staff for the benefit of students, trainees and educators in medicine and health care professions. A key element to facilitate development is the involvement of all our medical students, who we encourage to take some responsibility and ownership. For any...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm We are witnessing a cultural shift -from close to open, from eventually to instantly. Digital tools enable us to publish thoughts in numerous ways changing the form that individuals collaborate. The very notion of literacy has changed. It is no longer literacy but literacies, denoting by its plural form the complexity of this new medium. Based on this, my research asks: how can students be supported to engage in an open and meaningful way with digital literacies in academic settings so they become research digitally literate? This research aims to provide empirical evidence on students’ process of crafting their PLEs...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm It is a generally accepted principle that the collectors of learner data are also the owners of that data. Under this premise, it then becomes the thorny responsibility of data collectors to determine what is collected, how it is used, and with whom it is shared. What happens if, we instead work from a starting point where learners are given the ability to create, maintain and build their own learning data store in alignment with Windley’s (2016) “sovereign-source identity” and Groom’s Domain of One’s Own concept and grounded in learner-centered and connected learning theory? Brigham Young University’s Personal API experiment...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm The continued growth in the scope of learning resources available in online repositories has contributed to the trend of sharing and use of these learning resources. This underscores the open nature of the materials and their accessibility on the Web. A large number of OER can be found on the Internet using search engines. However, there is no guarantee that a query will lead to trustable, properly licensed materials on which high quality open education can be built, making the use of them in teaching challenging for educators (Camilleri et al., 2014). Well?managed OER repositories that aggregate high quality content,...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm As a gigantic open repository of knowledge, Wikipedia has great potential for use in learning processes. Many faculty members from different universities have begun to use it as a teaching tool and most of these experiences present very satisfactory results and a positive influence on students’ motivation (Aibar & Lerga, 2015). Thus, Wikipedia is becoming an agent of learning innovation and a driver of promoting open culture, the sharing of information and the ethos of free exchange of ideas also in higher education institutions. Yet, despite the growing importance of e-learning methodologies, the widespread reach of the open educational resources...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm The Research Data Management and Sharing MOOC is a collaboration between the EDINA/University of Edinburgh Data Library team (which has been maintaining the MANTRA Research Data Management OER for a number of years), and the University of North Carolina. MANTRA is a web-based OER developed using the Xerte open source course authoring platform while the Research Data Management and Sharing course is being created on Coursera. I will discuss the pros and cons of the two platforms. Using Coursera will allow us to provide certification for the many users who have contacted us over the years to request it. Using...more |
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Tue, Apr 19 2016, 1:20pm – 2:00pm Editing Wikipedia has never been easier with the new WYSIWYG Visual Editor interface which makes editing Wikipedia as easy as blogging or utilising MS Word. A 2014 Yougov survey found that around two thirds of the British public trust Wikipedia more than traditional news outlets including the BBC, ITV, the Guardian and the Times. One of the most visited websites worldwide, and now one of the most trusted, Wikipedia is a resource used by most university students. Increasingly, many instructors around the world have used Wikipedia as a teaching tool in their university classrooms as well. Indeed, as the drive...more |
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Type: Presentation Authors: Gill Hamilton, and Andrew McDougall Room: Pentland (East) Chair: S Koseoglu Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm National Library of Scotland is committed to providing open access to its internationally renowned collections and will make a third digitally accessible by 2025. In October 2015, the Library announced that it had completed digitisation of every known out-of-copyright Gaelic print item in its collection. These 1,200+ resources and their associated transcriptions are made available online under a Creative Commons license making them accessible for the first time to people outwith Edinburgh and to Gaels in Scotland and around the world. To deliver enhanced access and interpretation of this Gaelic language collection, the Library has developed an innovative and progressive...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm Teaching practices have often been private, shared only with students, and very occasionally with colleagues observing or co-teaching a lesson. Open Educational Practices (OEP) have changed the scene radically as they encourage the production, use and reuse of Open Educational Resources (OERs) which can now be shared and collected in unprecedented ways. This means that, for the first time in history, we have an abundance of multimodal records of educational practices that not only have a pedagogical impact but also a great historical relevance for the field. In this presentation we will offer a conceptualisation of OERs as indexes or...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm The musical instrument collection of the University of Edinburgh hasbeen a vital part of music pedagogy since its founding in the mid-19thcentury. Historically the instruments were used for classroom demonstrations inthe teaching of acoustics and music history, but over the generations, the roleof the Collection has changed. Today, Musical Instrument Museums Edinburgh isundergoing a dramatic transformation and our goal is to create a truly openuniversity museum. We are throwing open our doors, both physically andvirtually, by redeveloping our building to become a public museum. We will discusshow our plans blend the 18th-century ambience of St Cecilia’s Hallwith modern approaches to...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm There are over 1.2 billion specimens in natural history collections around the world, of which 300 million are held in herbaria. The primary function of these collections has been to provide data for taxonomic research and, as most of the data are held in non-electronic format on the physical labels, they have not been available outside of the herbaria. More recently, there has been a drive to digitise the collections to make the data available online to a wider community. As the data have been made accessible, there has been a rapid increase in the diversity of research using the...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm Since its inception, the Latin American Network of Educational Portals[1] (Spanish acronym: Relpe) has been a natural space for ??open exchange among its 20 member states (20 Latin American countries, almost all of them sharing the same language). This network was created to promote the use of technologies for the purpose of improving the quality and equity of education through the free exchange and use of digital resources located on member Education Portals. The original resource-sharing model, implemented between 2005 and 2008, was based on a centralized network design with a hierarchical logic, where the nodes depended on a core...more Live Streamed
Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm Much has been written in respect of the potential of digital games in education to engage learners however ;the uptake use and development of “Serious” or “applied” games within educational institutions in formal educational settings in particular has been quite fragmented. Whilst some educational domains including Health,the Military and Business studies have a rich history of the use of simulations and digital gaming other domains have not embraced their use of in quite the same way. Research is emerging that identifies a number of significant major barriers to much broader implementation and uptake of games and these include ; the...more Live Streamed
Type: Presentation Authors: Russell Boyatt, and Meurig Beynon Room: Pentland (West) Chair: C McLaughlin Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm Much attention has been devoted to ensuring that open educational resources (OERs) can be freely adapted and remixed by teachers so as to suit their particular needs. To maximise the strategic benefit of the open education culture, it is of course vital that there are no legal constraints on such repurposing of OERs. A complementary concern is whether the adaptation and remixing of OERs by teachers is in fact technically feasible, bearing in mind how few teachers have specialist skills and knowledge of computing. In practice, the difficulties faced by a teacher who wishes to adapt an OER may be...more Live Streamed
Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm Open Source Learning is a term coined by American educator David Preston over ten years ago when he hacked traditional classroom learning and began using the public Internet as a way to support learners’ curiosities and passions. As the practice evolved, Preston discarded traditional curricula in favor of co-creating interdisciplinary paths of inquiry around learners’ Big Questions (see Quillen, 2013; Preston, 2015). Liberated from the textbook, his English Literature students explored topics ranging from aviation to zoology in ways that were personally meaningful to them. These learning journeys galvanized communities of expert mentors, critics, engaged peers, and the media. As...more Live Streamed
Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is the only University in the Australian State of Tasmania and has a reputation for learning and research that is international in scope, vision and standards. UTAS has broadly endorsed to share the unique expertise of UTAS teachers through openly sharing developed educational resources with the broader academic community and develop further resources through the use of high quality content sourced from experts around the globe through Open Educational Resources (OER). In 2013 UTAS developed a technology enhanced learning and teaching White Paper that provided centrally endorsed strategies for the implementation of sustainable Open Educational...more Live Streamed
Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm The Open University launched its open educational resources platform, OpenLearn, on the 25th October 2006. OpenLearn began as a 2 year institutional project funded by the Hewlett Foundation and sought to test out and build upon its previous notions of how openness in adult education were instantiated through its mission of being open as to people, places, methods and ideas (Author, 2006; Gourley and Author, 2009; Author and Author, 2010) as well as enter the new world of openly licensed content. OpenLearn has since become a mainstream part of University business and has been the focus or the prompt for...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm The Open Educational Resource (OER) movement has been successful in developing a large, global community of practitioners, in releasing high quality learning material and influencing policy. It now stands at the cusp of mainstream adoption, which will require reaching different audiences than hitherto. This paper analyses the findings of the Hewlett funded OER Research Hub (http://oerresearchhub.org) to identify different categories of users. Drawing on a range of surveys with over 7,000 respondents from educators, formal and informal learners (OERRH, 2015) three categories of OER user are identified. OER active – this group is ‘OER aware’, in that the term itself...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm The OpenLearn platform was developed in 2006 as the home for The Open University’s (OU) free learning provision. It was to be a showcase for the OU’s taught modules, providing free extracts from the University’s taught curriculum. It now supports a diverse range of learning materials ranging from around 2,500 videos, hundreds of blogs and articles by academics, interactive games and around 900 free courses, some of which offer OU-branded digital badges as markers for achievement. It receives over 5 million new learners each year is used by around 150,000 OU students to inform module choice, develop study skills and...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm Educ.ar is an official educative site for the Ministry of Education in Argentina. The site includes an OER repository and also an e learning platform and a social network for primary and secondary schools teachers. These digital services are integrated in an educational concept about use of IT. The use of digital contents is the point we are working at this moment. The open repository has many objectives: knowledge diffusion but also a pedagogical proposal to teachers: the “enlarged classroom” (Sagol 2013). The enlarged classroom consists in a digital environment –a group in a social network, a folder in an...more Type: Presentation Authors: Tony Coughlan, and Leigh-Anne Perryman Room: Prestonfield Chair: T Coughlan Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm The UKOER community, cultivated in part by the HEFCE-funded Open University SCORE project (http://www.open.ac.uk/score/), has remained an enduring and influential presence within the open education and OER landscape. Evidence of the impact of the UKOER community can, in part, be found in two recent awards gained by SCORE Fellow Author 1, one naming him among the 50 most influential social-media-using professionals in UK higher education – recognition of the public engagement impact of his CYP-Media project. CYP-Media takes a three-platform approach to public engagement. Core to the project is a blog (www.cyp-media.org) for which Author 1 curates and evaluates free...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm Across the United States, textbook prices have dramatically increased in the past 10 years, and can cost several hundred dollars per book (PR Newswire, 2015 par 2). As a result, some students are not purchasing but renting or borrowing their textbooks or they are taking fewer courses. Various institutions of learning throughout the nation are leading curation efforts to discover OER, high-quality and openly licensed educational materials that can be shared, revised and reused. In 2010, the Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$) Initiative was launched at a large university system which is comprised of 23 campuses; 460,000 students and 47,000 faculty...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm “Open” is often associated with concepts like cooperative, friendly, progressive, forward-thinking, and disruptive, and conversations about open are often led by evangelists and people who are pushing for more openness in whatever discipline or industry they are addressing. While being open isn’t problematic per se, the assumption that open means the same thing and will bring the same benefits to everyone most certainly is. In academia, there is a lot to be gained from being open – publicizing your research, networking, creating and nurturing community, creating scholarship, and finding collaborators, for example. Being a public scholar can boost your reputation...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm The sustainability of open education projects and (OER) is increasingly becoming a topic of urgency, as epitomised by a recent online discussion that resulted in ongoing reflection and commentary (Campbell 2015). There is much to consider regarding technical and curatorial aspects of OER sustainability, and the notion of self-hosting, creating lots of copies for dispersal over the internet, and aligning with the features of OER aggregators such as Solvonauts.org, all appear to be appropriate strategies to adopt (Campbell 2015, Rolfe 2015). Sustainability may be defined as the ability of a project to “continue its operations” and “accomplishing goals” (Wiley, 2007),...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm This session is led by the members of the Open Education Special Interest Group. Come along to find out more about what the group is up to, how to join if you are interested in getting involved and what’s coming up in the next year. Everybody welcome. To find out more about the Special Interest Group visit the homepage at http://go.alt.ac.uk/OESIGmore Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm This paper reports on the proposition that “the richest space of all is the in-between space” and connects thinking on liminality (Shortt, 2015), hybridity (Goodwin, Kennedy & Vetere, 2009), Third Space (Bhabha, 2004), and non-formal learning (Eraut, 2000). The challenge of the open is cultural. Ultimately learning happens how and where the learner decides, epitomising the notion of ‘remix’ (Wiley, 2014) and the other ‘4Rs’ that frame open education. We draw upon a series of self-determined non-formal initiatives that critically examine and seek to develop the relationship between binaries such as formal and informal, teacher and learner, physical and virtual,...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm Using Open Educational Resources (OER) provides opportunities for collaboration both in the classroom and beyond. Many universities have embraced video conferencing tools such as Skype and Google Hangouts for common learning activities with students in classrooms across the street, across the country, or across the globe (Tuomi, 2013). This paper describes an ongoing collaboration between two universities, one in the United States and the other in Romania, where students use synchronous and asynchronous communication tools to complete a combined work product during the course of a semester. The project requires students to create, curate and publish digital media using established...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm At OER15 Nicol, Highton & Sekhar (2015) presented a short paper describing the journey towards developing an Open Educational Resource (OER) policy, driven by the University’s student association. This paper reports on a subsequent research project designed to better understand the complexities of OER practice in relation to the development of policy. Using Actor Network Theory (ANT) as a framework for exploring the ‘messiness’ of technology-mediated innovation (Nimmo 2011), the study assumes that knowledge is enacted into being by complex assemblages of human and non-human actors (Fenwick & Edwards 2013). Further, following the work of Ann-Marie Mol (2002), it assumes...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm While the Creative Commons license can theoretically be applied to any Open Education Resource (OER) in any medium, the structure of the licenses are most valuable to text-based content, potentially to the point of a bias toward text-based use. This is in part because in its final state text still has maximum flexibility for reuse and remixability, as well as the ubiquity of text-based editing options across the globe. However, as more and more global citizens access the Internet through mobile device, what factors to does one need one to consider when looking to create and sustain OER materials for...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm In an open research and development project with FLAX at the University of Waikato, we have developed domain-specific language learning collections, and game-based mobile apps and eReaders for Android devices, to support second language learning. Research contexts include English for Specific Academic Purposes, English for translation studies, and Massive Open Online Courses. Open Data, Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Open Access (OA) publications provide a compelling opportunity for Computer and Mobile Assisted Language Learning (CALL, MALL) for support with second language learning. OERs and OA publications supply large corpora of linguistic material relevant to particular subject areas, including text, images,...more Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm This session will describe the experience and challenges of running two versions of the same Continuing Professional Development course at two different universities. The course was called the ‘12 Apps of Christmas’(12AoC) and ran in December 2015. Both courses fully embraced the concept of ‘openness’ and made all the content sharable using a Creative Commons licence. Each day over 12 days the course released a different app that could be used for teaching, learning or research. The app was accompanied with a ten minute activity and participants were encouraged to discuss how they used the apps within the course discussion...more Type: Wikipedia Room: Boardroom 2 Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm Did you know that only 16% of biographies on Wikipedia relate to notable females? Once training is completed, why not join us for an editathon to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of Women in Art, Science & Espionage to put these skills into practice & help redress the balance? Contributing to Wikipedia during an editathon can be about creating an entirely new page on Wikipedia (250 words minimum backed up by at least 3 references) or as simple as adding a citation or an image to an existing article or even just fixing a typo. Full training will be given at 1.20-2pm...more |
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Tue, Apr 19 2016, 4:00pm – 4:45pm Great Writers Inspire http://writersinspire.org/ contains lectures, eBooks, contextual essays, a blog, podcasts and interview-format discussions about contemporary and historical great writers. Topics range from in-depth studies of particular plays to talks that ask why we should study the canon writers, from feminist approaches to literature to questions about what literature really is. There are thousands of individual items, as well as curated thematic and historical collections to help students research and interrogate their literary ideas. The collection is aimed at teachers, lifelong learners and students in sixth-form or university, and all the resources are available for use by individuals and...more |
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Tue, Apr 19 2016, 4:45pm – 5:30pm In September 2015 John launched ‘The way forward: 2015-2020’ the National Library of Scotland (NLS) digital strategy through which centuries of knowledge and learning are to be made available online under major plans to turn Scotland’s premier library into a global digital destination. The NLS plans to put a third of its renowned collection of 24 million items online in the next 10 years in one of the biggest programmes of its kind anywhere in Europe. ‘Our role is to be the guardian of the published and recorded memory of Scotland for current and future generations. Our aim is to...more |
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Wed, Apr 20 2016, 9:30am – 10:15am We often frame OERs, open, shareable educational resources, in relationship to content, but rarely in relationship to shared technical infrastructure. How would our conception of OERs expand if we could easily and efficiently create and share applications across institutions? What if we focused more on small, focused, re-usable software as reflective of specific cultures rather than large, institutional repositories as monolithic solutions? What if we worked towards a collaborative infrastructure for open educational resources that was always framed and scaled at the level of the individual, not unlike the web. With the shift in web infrastructure to the cloud, and...more |
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Wed, Apr 20 2016, 10:30am – 11:30am This paper argues the Openness movement is part of a kaleidoscope of competing discourses. The current language of crisis, disruption, democratisation and re-imagination in the age of Openness is inherently political. Forecasts and predictions of the future of higher education are inherently political images entwined within different social imaginaries of what constitutes the good society. As Toffler (1974) long ago stated, ‘All education springs from images of the future and all education creates images of the future. Thus all education, whether so intended or not, is a preparation for the future. Unless we understand the future for which we are...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 10:30am – 11:30am Most discourse on open educational resources (OER) revolve around issues with access to educational content, which may include “full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge” (The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2015). However, such common definitions of OER overlook an important educational resource in the formal education system: teachers/facilitators and learners, in other words, the learning community itself. Thus, we propose a broader understanding of OER, which includes the processes and products of open scholarship as valuable resources. Here, building on Veletsianos and Kimmons’s...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 10:30am – 11:30am Open data is becoming an important resource for teaching and learning across a variety of contexts and subject matter (Atenas & Havemann, 2015). As well as providing opportunities for open learning practices, this is of interest to the OER community with regards to the ways in which open data and open education could interact and evolve together. However the current reality may be closer to two “open silos” that “progress in parallel with little sign of convergence” (Campbell, 2015). The work undertaken by organisations to release open data is likely to lead them to a desire to engage audiences and...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 10:30am – 11:30am This paper is based on an ongoing doctoral research project. Given the resource scarcity evident in higher education systems across the globe, one expects the emergence of Open Educational Practices (OEP) in general and Open Educational Resources (OER) in particular (Schaffert and Geser, 2008, Ehlers, 2011) to benefit higher education, especially in Africa. Available evidence however contradicts this expectation (de los Arcos et al., 2014), thus raising the question: What drives or hinders OER utilisation by learners in an African university? The study employed communities of practice (Lave and Wenger, 1991), a social theory of learning, as a framework linking...more Live Streamed
Wed, Apr 20 2016, 10:30am – 11:30am Museums and galleries are a vital tool for education. Every schoolchild has, at one time, enjoyed a visit to one of the UK’s world-beating museums or galleries. Digital technology is building on that. Thanks to the world wide web, any teacher, any student, should be able to access the digitised version of any cultural asset in the country at the click of a mouse. That’s the theory, in practice, it’s not that easy. While significant progress has been made digitising cultural objects and good work has been done in creating metadata standards, data and assets largely remain silo’d in museum...more Live Streamed
Wed, Apr 20 2016, 10:30am – 11:30am This presentation will discuss a series of games played with the Archive of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA) and the new and unconventional modes of access that followed, and will also provide a jumping-off point for discussion of the interplay between cultural institutions, artists and the public. In 2013 artists Carson & Miller circulated a call for interest through the Archives-NRA listserv, in search of an archive collection with which to play. Central to their artistic practice over the preceding years had been the creation and use of games to explore both physical collections (such as that...more Live Streamed
Wed, Apr 20 2016, 10:30am – 11:30am Wikipedia is core to the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement and is considered as the biggest OER in the world (Caswell et al., 2008). Wikipedia provides learning and research resources through a public online platform, and it is widely used to find information and to collaborate in knowledge creation. Although Wikipedia is frequently used by higher education students as a source of information (Wannemacher & Schulenburg, 2010), there are a few courses in which it plays an actual ‘active’ role within the learning process (Aibar & Lerga, 2015). A pilot developed in 2013 offered the first evidence about the effects...more Live Streamed
Wed, Apr 20 2016, 10:30am – 11:30am The global open education community, whether engaged in sharing open educational resources (OER), developing practice (OEP) or delivering open courses, is transforming education access and networks beyond the classroom. But is it doing enough? There is some suggestion that the promise of massive online open courses (MOOCs) to empower learners has not been realistically met (Rolfe 2015). There is a lack of awareness and understanding of OER amongst educators in the US (Allen & Seaman 2014), and that without wholesale commitment and engagement by institutions openness will be usurped by those with commercial interests (Weller 2014). So why is it...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 10:30am – 11:30am The Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) project is exploring how we share, disseminate and develop good practice in the use of OER. The project focusses on enabling open educational practices (OEP) via cross sector collaborative partnerships to explore the extent to which Open Educational Resources (OER) can transform and widen participation in higher and further education (Welsh Government, 2014, D’Antoni, 2013). To facilitate best practice OEPS is building a peer support network as it collaborates with more than 50 organisations (both inside and outside the academy, including universities, colleges, trade unions, some employers, regional and national third sector and...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 10:30am – 11:30am Since it started in summer 2014 Open Educational Practices Scotland (OEPS) has been working across the formal and informal education sectors in Scotland to develop good practice in the use of Open Educational Resources (OER). OEPS has a specific focus on lifelong learning, widening participation and educational transitions (Cannell, 2015). This paper explores four interlinked themes: social pedagogical practices; public facing scholarship; supporting wider engagement OER; and remixing and reversioning content. OEPS has worked with union and third sector partners to co-create and evaluate practice designed to support non-traditional learners. Social learning practices emerge as a response to the challenge...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 10:30am – 11:30am A need for open policies for schools in countries like Poland is often amplified by large scale digital literacy or open textbooks projects. Those projects usually do not have enough resources to teach about copyright in classroom and how to use and what is becoming even more important, how to reuse and create new OER’s. Trainings and support for individual schools which want to adopt openness in their activities is time and resource intensive. With those problems in mind many OER initiatives (http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/ls/open-education/) and Creative Commons Affiliates (http://oerpolicy.eu/open-lesson-do-it-yourself-workshop-materials-on-open-education/) across the globe started working on easy to easy to scale up...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 10:30am – 11:30am Whether you are a seasoned open education advocate or a newcomer to the movement, communicating about “open” can be a challenge. The English language alone has more than 40 definitions of “open” (according to Dictionary.com), and the term has gained myriad nuanced meanings to different communities, from free software to open access research to open education. Effective communication is the key to success for any movement, so it’s important for OER advocates to hone their skills. The session will be structured into two parts: (1) a general overview of communication in an advocacy environment, with tips and tricks learned during...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 10:30am – 11:30am The OER World Map project aims at providing the most complete and comprehensive picture of the global OER movement up to date and to develop a global network of partners and volunteers to guarantee ongoing data curation. The origins of the project go back to 2005 when the OECD attempted to understand the impact of OER through mapping patterns of OER production and use. A longer period of consultation and prototyping (D’Antoni, 2012; Farrow, 2014) has brought OER mapping to a central point in the efforts of the OER community to organize and understand itself. By the end of 2015...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 10:30am – 11:30am This workshop aims to ‘flip’ the workshop. Traditional conference formats tend to be unilateral, and much of the best discussion happens informally among small groups (whether on Twitter or personal conversation). Similarly, Storify is often used to capture conference activity after the event, but by this point possibilities for interaction are limited. Just as the ‘flipped’ classroom maximizes the value of personal contact time by preparing participants for making best use of contact time, ‘The Open Research Agenda’ will use online interaction to make the most of conference time. Key areas of discussion will include localised strategies, ways to collaborate...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 10:30am – 11:30am This session is led by the members of the ALT Scotland Members Group. Come along to find out more about what the group is up to, how to join if you are interested in getting involved and what’s coming up in the next year. Everybody welcome. 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Wed, Apr 20 2016, 11:45am – 1:00pm Democracies are at serious risk. After a profound civic disengagement process over the past decades, democracy is faced today with a broad social disapproval that questions the legitimacy of democracy as the principle of social agreement. As democracies struggle to renovate or create news ways to close the gap between political institutions and citizenship, agendas related to transparency are shy of the expected results. In this context, Openness emerges as a strategic trend that can create and develop deeper relations between citizens and polititians and political institutions. This presentation is an attempt to break the “Open Silos” looking for convergence...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 11:45am – 1:00pm The movement for Open Educational Resources (OER) has evolved from a collection of small, localized efforts to a broad international network. In recognition of this progress, a collection of OER leaders came together in 2015 to launch www.OERstrategy.org, a resource created for and by the OER community to support the collaborative development of OER implementation strategies. The document reflects the state of the OER movement through the eyes of its practitioners: what we need as a movement, what we agree on, areas where we differ, and opportunities for advancing OER globally. This talk will provide an overview of this effort...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 11:45am – 1:00pm Open education has been gaining visibility and momentum as part of open government initiatives — from open licensing of publicly-funded educational materials, to transparency in education funding, to leveraging open technologies and practices to increase the efficiency and efficacy of instruction. One important avenue for advancing these conversations is the Open Government Partnership (OGP), a multilateral initiative of more than 60 countries through which national governments make commitments to being more open, accountable and responsive to citizens. At least three countries involved in OGP have specifically adopted commitments to open education in their open government plans, the United States, Slovakia,...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 11:45am – 1:00pm At today’s knowledge society the information is available, open, varied, plentiful and practically inexhaustible. The educational scenario is also changing in the face of facilities caused by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The openness movement deals the knowledge as a public good, and the Open Educational Resources (OER) intends to improve quality in education through provision of open resources. This paper aims to identify the progress in the literature by OER over the last years, and barriers that still exist to be used more consistently. In order, a systematic search was made in scientific databases Scopus and Web of Science...more Live Streamed
Wed, Apr 20 2016, 11:45am – 1:00pm This paper reports on a project that has sought, through the production of OERs, to address the problem of effective transitions and the foundations for student success during initial stages of the study lifecycle, with a specific focus on flexible learners. Drawing on the literature, the experience of major international providers, and a set of overarching guiding principles, this project adopted a design-based methodology (Reeves, 2006; Wany & Hannafin, 2005) to develop eight digital readiness/preparation OERs, along with a guide to supporting new flexible learners, which will inform institutions/discipline teams on how to effectively augment and deploy these OERs. The...more Live Streamed
Wed, Apr 20 2016, 11:45am – 1:00pm This presentation is a critical look inside some of Wikipedia’s sister projects. Wikipedia is successful as a highly-used open resource and as a productive community, but its format restricts it to a narrow concept of educational resouce. An enormous amount of research has been published about Wikipedia, but the other Wikimedia projects, are less well-known. We will look at Wikibooks as a platform and community for creating open textbooks, Wikidata as a source of open data for educational resources and Wikisource as a way to add educational value to historic texts. All these sites have “Edit” buttons and depend on...more Live Streamed
Wed, Apr 20 2016, 11:45am – 1:00pm We believe that tools, environments, and processes are integral to open practice as the sharing of open content, or the development of policies. The BC Open Ed Tech Collective is dedicated to supporting a broad community while implementing specific strategies. In this session, we will share the motivations, the experiences and the lessons learned while co-operatively developing an open educational toolset across institutions. It will outline the ways that ill-suited and underdeveloped educational technologies impede the growth of open practices, and demonstrate tools and approaches that promote them. This work has taken place in the context of the global “indie...more Live Streamed
Wed, Apr 20 2016, 11:45am – 1:00pm The National Library of Scotland[1] contains a wealth of digitised archival documents which record information about Scotland’s past, including 700 Post Office (PO) Directories from the 1700s to 1940s from all over Scotland. However, the usefulness of the Directories would be greatly enhanced if the information was structured, in order to make it easier to recognise and search for different entities such as people or places. In our project, we are focussing on Edinburgh PO Directories from the early 20th century, with the goal of converting the entries into structured data, and then trying to link entities across directories from...more Type: Presentation Authors: Leigh-Anne Perryman, and Beatriz de los Arcos Room: Prestonfield Chair: A Fitzgerald Wed, Apr 20 2016, 11:45am – 1:00pm In 2006 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (United Nations, 2006). The Convention addresses both the risks of exclusion for disabled people that might arise from increasing use of ICTs, and the potential for ICT to help increase social, political and economic inclusion. However, digital accessibility for disabled people is slow in being realised globally and despite the unprecedented growth in mobile and Internet use worldwide, ‘very few nations today have acted to ensure that persons with disabilities are part of this technology revolution’ (ITU/G3ict, 2014, p. iii). Open educational resources...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 11:45am – 1:00pm Openness is at the heart of a massive educational intervention underway in India led by MIT, the Tata Institute for Social Sciences and the Tata Trusts. The Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx) aims to impact a total of 150,000 high school students in four states in India by the end of 2017 in the areas of English, science and mathematics. Without openness—in practice and in resources—our approach could not hope to be successful at the scale of this undertaking. The founding partners are working in collaboration with a number of curriculum and implementation partners across India to design, develop and implement...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 11:45am – 1:00pm ‘Openness’ has become a highly charged and politicised term, a movement operating in many areas outside of education (open knowledge, open government, open access, open data, open source, open culture). In the process it has acquired a sheen of naturalized common sense and legitimacy, and formed what seems to be a post-political space of apparent consensus. Invitations to question openness are quite rare, particularly within a field like education that is above all motivated by a desire to exchange knowledge, to make it accessible, and to positively affect the lives of individuals. However, it is precisely this view of openness...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 11:45am – 1:00pm Bliss, Robinson, Hilton, III, & Wiley (2013) suggest that there are four primary categories of effects from OER use, including cost, outcomes, use, and perceptions. These four categories, which form the acronym COUP may be useful in identifying strategic advantages of openness. Cost Given that some students report not purchasing textbooks because of their high cost, and there is evidence that having early access to resources during a course leads to improved learning, Wiley (ND) argues that reducing costs is a clear win for OER. Outcomes In light of evidence that OER do reduce student costs, (Bliss et al., 2013)...more Type: Presentation Authors: Terri Edwards, and Alannah Fitzgerald Room: Prestonfield Chair: A Fitzgerald Wed, Apr 20 2016, 11:45am – 1:00pm In this presentation, we will discuss findings from a series of online keyword searches carried out on UK university websites in 2015-2016. Using the most recently published Guardian University League Table (2014), searches were made on the websites of the top 10 and bottom 10 UK universities for the following keywords: “OER”, “Open Access”, “Open Content”, “MOOCs”, “Open Data” and “ Open Research” in order to find out whether there were any obvious institutional differences of awareness and promotion of these aspects of openness in higher education and research. Judging by the evidence of the 20 university websites surveyed, by...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 11:45am – 1:00pm The Clipper project is developing innovative open source software tools to help researchers, educators, learners and citizens make better use of time-based media in the cultural sector and elsewhere. You can find out more about the project at this web link http://blog.clippertube.com. The project is working with a diverse range of institutions that all want to make better use of their audio-visual collections, including the National Library of Scotland, The Royal Scottish Conservatoire, The Roslin Institute (Edinburgh University), BUFVC and EUSCREEN. The Clipper project will demonstrate and provide hands-on access to its latest toolkit prototype to elicit feedback and discussion....more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 11:45am – 1:00pm The university is a techno-social structure. It was designed by technologies of information and knowledge production that were the most viable for storing, sorting, transmitting, and preserving knowledge (Goldberg & Svenson, 2015). With new technologies we have introduced new forms and formats of knowledge but have left the centralized broadcast-based model of learning institution as a central mediating structure unchallenged. Thus universities become ‘closed’ learning environments where filtered learners get privileged access to curated information protected equally by regimes of research secrecy and intellectual property rights. In 2015, we conducted a workshop with 30 stakeholders to map the tension at...more |
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Wed, Apr 20 2016, 1:20pm – 2:00pm OER16 has a number of Wikimedians attending in Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian in Residence for University of Edinburgh), Sara Thomas (Wikimedian in Residence for Museums & Galleries Scotland), Martin Poulter (Wikimedian in Residence for the Bodleian Library, Oxford University) and Jason Evans (Wikimedian in Residence for the National Library of Wales). This lunchtime session will allow you to ask questions about their experiences & seek advice, be it on working with Wikipedia or its sister projects.more |
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Wed, Apr 20 2016, 2:00pm – 3:00pm The EDUCAUSE-funded Bridge to Success project (B2S) 2011-2012 http://bridge2success.aacc.edu) aimed to help students gain essential skills in order to successfully and effectively transition into college level study in the United States. The project reversioned whole courses on mathematics and learning skills/personal development, taken from The Open University’s (UK) (OU) Openings courses, making them available as OER (containing additional pencasts, videos and quizzes in addition to revised text) on The OU’s Labspace platform whilst promoting use in US community college sector. In the short-term, positive student feedback on both of the open courses, and positive impact on learner test scores in...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 2:00pm – 3:00pm As universities increase their engagement in digital spaces, and further develop their digital practices, there is a greater need to challenge and scrutinise how and for whose benefit our institutions are harnessing ‘the digital’. (MacNeill, Johston, 2012). Our starting point here is to contend that despite the early promise of open online education, including developments such as MOOCs, the Higher Education sector as a whole has fallen short in using digital spaces to provide equitable distribution of access to education. Instead we have tended to amplify access to Higher Education for those who have already benefited from traditional educational experiences,...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 2:00pm – 3:00pm The Stolen Lives project (http://www.stolenlives.co.uk/resources/) is a collaborative, community-based, creative and open educational resource designed to raise awareness of historic and contemporary slavery. There are estimated to be more than 35 million enslaved people currently in the world (Global Slavery Index, 2014). Even in the UK, roughly 13,000 individuals are believed to be in some form of slave labour today. Given the importance of the topic and potential positive impact of increased awareness, the Stolen Lives resources are available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license to encourage widespread access, use and recreation within all forms of education....more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 2:00pm – 3:00pm Mauritius is a 2030 sq km tropical small island developing state with a population size of 1.4 million. Popularly known as an exclusive tourist destination, even with the effect of the recent economic downfall, Mauritius has astutely steered through the world economic crises by diversification of its economic pillars and the current government’s vision is to transform the country into a Knowledge Society. In the educational sector, we are not shielded from the effects of globalisation and worldwide diffusion of education policies of integrating technology in the classrooms. Policies for integrating technologies in schools are often articulated due to shifting...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 2:00pm – 3:00pm Introduction This session will examine how the open source software development model can be applied to Open Educational Resources, and, in the light of the retirement of Jorum1, how the new Jisc App & Content Store can aid this. Method The session will be split into two main parts: we will look at the three main ways that the Open Source Software (OSS) development model2 can aid the development of OER, and then at the development of the Jisc Content & App Store and how it applies to the priciples of OSS development to OERs. These principles are actually already...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 2:00pm – 3:00pm Open Data is produced and used at various levels in research, governance, policy making and civil society. So far though, conversation around its value and significance has tended to occur within an Open Data silo, existing in parallel with other open discussions around Open Educational Resources and Open Access. In our presentation we explore practices which make use of Open Data as OER, with a focus on the the opportunities and challenges inherent in this approach. For the OECD, “All citizens should have equal opportunities and multiple channels to access information, be consulted and participate. Every reasonable effort should be...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 2:00pm – 3:00pm The concept of open badges is viewed as changing the way that individual and collaborative learning is supported, recognised, and assessed in learning contexts. Open badges are considered a “lightweight and trusted mechanism” (Sharples et al., 2013, p.14) that may establish a learner’s credibility outside the context in which their badges were originally earned by providing a record of the skills and achievements that learners gain through their participation in various programs (Davis & Singh, 2015). In other words, open badges have the potential to indicate a student’s profile of skills to external audiences such as fellow peers/colleagues and employers....more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 2:00pm – 3:00pm When we presented at the OER 2015 conference we talked about our plans to launch transition Open Online Courses (OOCs) to support mainstream university students. We have now successfully completed our first full cycle of one of these courses for international students in the form of a “blended OOC” with three weeks fully online, followed by a fourth week of online engagement blended with on-campus activities. Our goal as an institution was to improve the international student experience, their academic engagement and outcomes. It was hoped that students would engage with academic and support services that they may otherwise not...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 2:00pm – 3:00pm In this workshop participants work in small groups and use tactile media to experience the fundamentals of OSL with the aim of creating and document their learning experience. The workshop begins with a brief introduction to the concept of Open Source Learning and how it is practised and perpetuated within the OSL Foundation. Small groups of three to four people work together with the ‘Open Source Learning Kit’. It is collaborative tool (game) to empower participants to work together to test out, reflect, and articulate their ideal learning environment. It is about developing social communities, micro-learning communities or “clusters”, and...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 2:00pm – 3:00pm Recent years have seen rapid growth of digital heritage resources, and along with them – the possible ways of sharing and usage. However, the implementation of openness in cultural institutions is a process, which in order to be effective requires certain competencies and informed decisions, resulting from the way of thinking about the strategy of an institution, its mission, and social role. That is why we conducted a research project aimed at looking at this process among Polish heritage institutions, its sources, progress and outcomes for education and audience development. A study consisted of two parts: one was a quantitative...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 2:00pm – 3:00pm The pitch on the “Bündis freie Bildung” (BFB, Alliance for Open Education) will offer the audience an insight into the aims, work and political objectives of the major network of Open Educational Resources in Germany. The first part of the talk will sketch the vision of the BFB, to make educational materials acessible without any judicial or technical barriers. A major problem that BFB seeks to address is the lack of activities on a policy level connecting the abstract work on open education and the grassroots OER initiatives already active in Germany. To address this issue, the concrete actions taken...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 2:00pm – 3:00pm In my time in the HEA (2001-15) and JISC (2010-14) I had the opportunity to oversee many projects and work with a wide range of appraoches that promoted an Open Education. This culminated in two one day focus group meetings drawn from the network of Open Education practitioners around the UK in July and August 2015. We discussed the barriers and opportunities for OER/P having the benefit of MOOCs and JORUM ‘retirement’ to consider what it means for all the various roles of staff and students. Over 100 pages of conversation were captured from a discussion involving leading practitioners and...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 2:00pm – 3:00pm Martin Poulter (Wikimedian in Residence for the Bodleian Library, Oxford University) will demonstrate how to get the best out of Wikisource. Wikisource is a multilingual project, started in November 2003, to archive a collection of free and open content texts. It is not only a superior format for storing classics, laws, and other free works as hypertext, but it also serves as a base for translating these texts. At the beginning, source texts in all languages (except Hebrew) were all on one wiki. However, Wikisource now has several editions in many individual languages. NB: Please bring a laptop of tablet...more Wed, Apr 20 2016, 2:00pm – 3:00pm Editing Wikipedia has never been easier with the new WYSIWYG Visual Editor interface which makes editing Wikipedia as easy as blogging or utilising MS Word. A 2014 Yougov survey found that around two thirds of the British public trust Wikipedia more than traditional news outlets including the BBC, ITV, the Guardian and the Times. One of the most visited websites worldwide, and now one of the most trusted, Wikipedia is a resource used by most university students. Increasingly, many instructors around the world have used Wikipedia as a teaching tool in their university classrooms as well. Indeed, as the drive...more |
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Wed, Apr 20 2016, 3:15pm – 4:00pm At OER16 Melissa will discuss the challenges for leadership in open educational resources, the role of universities in open knowledge communities and reflect upon the returns and costs associated with institutional investment. ‘There are shared areas of the internet, where we all have a civic responsibility to contribute and participate. The big cultural organisations such as universities have an important role to play’.more |
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Type: Poster Authors: Keith Smyth, and Frank Rennie The University of the Highlands and Islands covers a very large area with 14 campuses and 70 local learning centres, and utilises high technology to link with students and staff for learning, teaching and research. As such, the role of the university as the creator and publisher of e-textbooks and networked resources is a natural imperative. Through a Jisc-funded project conducted by the UHI and Edinburgh Napier University, two e-textbooks are being produced, and their use evaluated to investigate the role of the institution as an e-textbook publisher. The e-textbooks have companion websites with a range of open educational resources...more The Raspberry Pi is an adaptable, low-cost computer, about the size of a credit card. It is primarily used to teach computer programing to school children, but it can also be extended by adding environmental sensors, cameras, motors, etc. This turns it into a useful platform for hackers and makers to create a wide variety of projects. At Edinburgh University’s Veterinary School we were interested in learning more about the capabilities of Raspberry Pis, and seeing if they could be used to help our students, or streamline administrative processes. In the true spirit of hacking and making, I decided to...more This poster will describe the purpose and development process of the University of Edinburgh’s Open.Ed website, an institutional website about Open Educational Resources (OERs). OERs have been shown to benefit institutional reputation and to assist marketing of both the institution and individual courses: potential students report OERs to play a factor in choosing an institution; whilst OERs can also foster greater, often more informal, collaborations between educational institutions, employers and other organisations. Clearly we need to be able to showcase our OERs, and our approach to OERs, to the world in a consistent way. It was decided that best way...more Type: Poster There have been numerous calls for research that demonstrates how open education resources are actually being used (Schmidt-Jones 2012). The present study seeks to address the gap in the literature relating to the use of OER in higher education. We conducted a case study a Flemish university in Belgium. Two classes of 68 students participated in the study. An OpenLearn course developed by the Open University was used as a self-study material to supplement a campus-based course. An end-of-course survey was administered online to gather information about student reaction to the use of OER online course as self-study material. Overall,...more Type: Poster The Clipper project is developing innovative open source software tools to help researchers, educators, learners and citizens make better use of time-based media. You can find out more about the project at this web link http://blog.clippertube.com. The project is working with a diverse range of institutions that all want to make better use of their audio-visual collections, including the National Library of Scotland, The Royal Scottish Conservatoire, The Roslin Institute (Edinburgh University) and EUSCREEN. A simple but significant innovation in Clipper is the use of HTML as the native file format, users create clips and annotations with the data being...more This poster will show how and why the OU provides free learning via its OpenLearn platform as well as other third party channels and how it continues to innovate to reach new learners. The OU ensures it provides about 5% of its course materials as free open educational resources every year. It does this because informal learning is part of the OU’s Royal Charter: “Advancement and dissemination of learning and knowledge … to promote the general wellbeing of the community”. OpenLearn contains over 12,000 study hours of material in 12 subject areas and has received over 40 million visitors since...more Type: Poster Authors: Ronald MacIntyre, and Jeremy Roebuck The Open University has a commitment to releasing core curriculum openly, while we have always edited for “the open” tailoring has been minor. Rural Entrepreneurship in Scotland is a different model. It is based on material on developing your business idea from across our academic programme. However, the material has been revised significantly to place it in a rural Scottish context. Setting up a business is a complex and personal. It is about more than knowing the right steps, it is about applying that knowledge in context. The materials are designed around “real” case studies developed with key stakeholders within...more Teachers are commonly ignorant of what history in technology can bring to technology education. Technology therefore tends to be presented as deterministic, leaving the pupils with the impression they are in the hands of technology itself. Contrary, the story to be told about technology should be that it is a consequence of needs and successive improvements built on political as well as individual values and decision. Teachers’ historical consciousness should therefore be taken into consideration in teacher education as teachers’ ignorance could otherwise imply a non-critical perspective in school. In the history of technology, for instance the implementation of gas...more The DYNAMED project is an initiative set up to provide multimedia teaching resources to meet the demands and requirements of our student population. The intention to open up resources to the wider world has always been a significant, but secondary, desire. Now with the availability of a sizeable body of work the next steps we take to make this happen become increasingly important. Work with our students, aligned with the literature, has identified video resources as an extremely popular and valuable addition to their study material and we have been developing increased numbers of these resources in recent years. [1]...more Type: Poster Purpose Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) urgently need more trained healthcare staff to deliver eye care services. There are 285m visually impaired people globally, 90% live in LMICs. To address this issue, our programme aims to: Scale up the impact of a successful face-to-face course in public health eye care using Open Education (OpenEd) approaches and create content relevant at a local level. Build sustainability and capacity by promoting OpenEd amongst eye care educators internationally Methods We created a short, openly licensed, online course: Content applicable across multiple cultures and settings. Hypothetical case study for application of learning Local...more Having researched and examined how Open Source has reached out into many areas of education I was struck by how little education exists for Open Source in tandem with the Film Production community. It seems little has been developed for an entire production workflow from the sensor and how it is used and manipulated, the colour science and the workflow (utilising both software and hardware). Examples exist such as ACES (Academy Color Encoding System) providing a free, open source colour and look management architecture. http://www.oscars.org/science-technology/sci-tech-projects/aces through the educational department of the Oscars.org, and has been taken onwards by Universities in...more |