4. Monopolising knowledge
• OER 2011 included Towards the Triumph of the
Commons that equated HE with the process of
enclosure that devastated English common land
in the late eighteenth century.
• Edupreneurs?
• Uncertain boundaries make the Creative
Commons licensing system much more than ‘a
peasant’s revolt’.
5. What are OERs?
Open Educational Resources are digital resources that
can be used openly and freely by anyone interested in
that field.
Creative Commons licences encourage their re-use, re-
purposing, re-mixing and re-distribution.
IPR? Fair use? YouTube?
OER University OpenLearn
Peer to Peer University Jorum
iTunesU OCW
MITx
11. Social tagging
“Delicious is like a
Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2012
virtual fieldtrip
through a library
built by the
recommendations
of others.”
http://1.bp.blogspot.com
– Chris Sessums
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14. Community Challenge 2012-13
Additional Learning
Lecture and Seminar
Series at UCBC :
Community As
Curriculum
prolearn-academy.org
15. • How do I find stuff?
• How do I know it’s accurate?
• How do I share content?
• How do I filter content?
• How do I keep up with all the news?
• How do I file content?
• How do I categorise content?
Write a 2,500 word essay on the above
scavenging.files.wordpress.com
16. Benefits from OEP (open educational practices)
Tutorial: Using a search engine
Learning Outcome: A clear understanding of the
role of the critical factors in the system
Summary: through preparing their own account
of using a search engine, to demonstrate
the role of the critical factors, using the
Library guidelines; presenting it to their
group; defending it against questions and
comments; and revising their account in the awater cycleprocess
Tutorial: On system or
The
light of the tutor’s summary of the
Learning Outcome: A clear understanding of the
discussion
role of the critical factors in the system
Summary: through preparing their own account
animation of the water cycle, to
of the system/process, to demonstrate the
demonstrate the factors, using the
role of the criticalrole of the critical factors,
using the provided; presenting it to their
resourcesOER cycle; presenting it to their
cycle;
group; defending it against questions and
comments; and revising their animation in
OER the light of the tutor’s summary of the
repository discussion
17. Community Challenge
• Food • Effects of the internet
• Exclusion • Diversity
• Cohesion • Collaboration
• Advertising • Copyright/copyleft
• Health • Problem solving
18. AnyModule.com
• Could these themes or others apply to your
course?
• Interested in the receipt of a ‘readymade’
alternative assignment?
• Flexible interpretations of regulations can be
achieved.
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25. References
This work is licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-
ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
(Thanks to Steve Wheeler, Plymouth University for
many of these slides and Simon Thomson, Leeds
Metropolitan University for the ‘jet pack ascent of
man’)
White, D. and Manton, M. (2011) JISC-funded OER
Impact Study.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programm
es/elearning/oer/OERTheValueOfReuseInHigherEduc
ation.pdf (accessed 24 October 2011).
