An Exploration of Real World OER Examples
Symposium on the Benefits of e-Learning Technologies,
Wednesday 13th April 2011,
University of Manchester.
Alex Fenlon, OER Project Officer
Email: alex@engsc.ac.uk
What is OER?
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OER has been defined as
‘digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and selflearners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research’
Flora and William Hewitt Foundation, 2006.
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Effectively, this means anything that is an educational resource available
openly, i.e. under an open licence.
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Large global movement of institutions releasing OERs
– MIT’s Open Course ware (OCW)
– Open University’s Open Learn
– JISC/ HEA managed Hefce funded projects 2009 – to date.
Change of practice rather than revolution?
Academics have always been sharing, now a legal manner?
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Open Licences
Most OERs are released under a
licence.
Attribution only
Attribution share alike
Attribution non-commercial
Attribution non-commercial share alike
Attribution no derivative
Attribution non commercial no derivative.
There are other open licences available such as the Open
Government Licence & GNU.
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Where can I find OER?
Lots of universities supply/ produce/ release OERs:
• Stanford, MIT, Michigan …..
• The Open University,
• Sheffield, Oxford, Loughborough, Nottingham
• Lots of the Subject Centres involved - Engineering, Bio Sciences, Physical
Sciences, MSOR……
Mostly via third party sites:
• JORUM
• YouTube (via JISC projects)
• Flickr
• Slideshare
• iTunesU
• Merlot
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Jorum
Enter Search term.
Link to resource.
Click on
resource.
Look at licence type.
www.slideshare.net/EngSC
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Where can I find OER?
www.engsc.ac.uk/oer
www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/oer/
www.fetlar.bham.ac.uk/
www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/home/projects/skillsforscientists
www.jorum.ac.uk
www.openlearn.open.ac.uk/
www.ocwsearch.com/
ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
www.google.co.uk/advanced_search?hl=en
www.flickr.com/search/advanced/
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Demo of OER – Engineering
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YouTube: Two-dimensional Heat Conduction
SlideShare:
– Laplace Transforms
– Flywheels- An Alternative Energy Storage Method
JorumOpen:
Distributed web systems : past exam questions : level 3
Vimeo: Particle Technology and Characterisation
Flickr: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M
Created by Prashant Maxsteel
and available under a Creative
Commons licence.
Created by COREMaterials available under a
Creative Commons licence.
Demo of OER – Physical Sciences
Skills for Scientists Project.
• Using the Vernier Scale
– http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1592
• ChemTube3D
– http://www.chemtube3d.com/Cycloaddition1.html
• First Year Inorganic Chemistry workbook
– http://www.scribd.com/doc/28622308/First-Year-Undergraduate-InorganicChemistry-Workbook
• Routes to success
– https://edocs.hull.ac.uk/muradora/objectView.action?parentId=hull%3A2199
&type=1&start=30&pid=hull%3A2339
• Core Physics PBL
– http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/3330
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Demo of OER – MSOR
FETLAR Project
The FETLAR project addresses the challenge associated with students'
mathematical skills and competencies on transition into higher education and the
need to raise the retention rate of first-year students on science and engineering
courses.
• First Year Mathematics Transition Module based on Initial Assessment
• Algorithms and their Efficiency
• Exploring the Tidal Cycle
Other resources…..
• Algebraic methods- Calculus (Integration)
• Linear equations with additive noise I
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Demo of OER – Bio Sciences
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Virtual Educational Resources for the Biosciences
– Resources for teaching Elvolutionary History- Eutherian
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQo1jrNACdw
Virtual Laboratories
– http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/4479
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQo1jrNACdw
iCase Influenza Outbreak
– http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/5615
Virtual analytical Lab
– http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2290
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC1FPH-q_9c
Medical Microbiology
– http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/oer/projectpartners_Med
icalMicrobiology.aspx
– http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1339
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Questions?
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