Slides for an event in Turkey 20th March 2018.

1. Designing Open Educational
Resources (OER) based materials
Tips for creating open educational resources like a ninja OEP!
Teresa MacKinnon
Principal Teaching Fellow, Warwick University

2. OEP and sustainable teaching
“A European-wide framework could stimulate the creation…and the supply of quality digital
content…European framework conditions could also boost synergies across countries in the
development of innovative teaching and learning practices and thus help to improve the quality of
European education” Reusing Open Resources (Littlejohn et al, 2014, p85)

3. A changing landscape
•Learning theories
•Teaching approaches
•Digital capability

4. Challenges and opportunities identified:
• embedding Creative Commons
licensing into institutional practices
• clarification of copyright
restrictions
• a need for clear institutional
policies for OER and OEP
• opportunity for reaching
geographically distributed learners
• fostering freedom to innovate
• recognition of the powerful
benefits of open teaching resources

5. Identifying the issue:
• fewer resources dedicated to the purchase and development of teaching materials... often assumed that such resourcing
is no longer necessary
• Our reflections on language teaching in the UK and Australia, we identify a gap between what is available online and can
be distributed via institutionally-adopted means, and what can be a) suitably modified for educational purposes, and b)
legally used, especially in a context where large class sizes and online distribution models are being embraced as cost-
cutting measures.
Article focus:
• identify a number of barriers to the adoption of OER, with a particular focus on video resources, including policies
aimed at protecting IP rather than facilitating learning outcomes, copyright concerns, commercial agreements, and the
resourcing of staff, as well as outlining a vision for grassroots OER also known as “little OER” (Weller 2011 p109)
Such barriers relate to the following areas:
• the legal framework for sharing (e.g. policies relating to IP, copyright concerns, commercial agreements with publishers)
• the responsibilities for managing shared resources (ownership of platforms for sharing)
• the psychology of sharing (individual responses to using and creating resources, concerns regarding recognition of
work)

6. Exploring the site: videoforall.eu

7. Foter via Foter blog
CC BY SA

8. Avoiding headaches
•Transcoding, bit rates, file types, delivery
•Access, ERA+ compliance, licences
•Inclusivity, contribution, creativity
•Analytics, usage data

9. Useful tools
Freemake: free download; file conversion, editing video,
audio and image files
VLC player: free download; plays anything. Add subtitle
files
Streaming media host: free, create playlists and
channels, share and curate.

10. Claim your OEP badge!
Provide evidence of your creation/s to the link
https://credly.com/claim/45921
Display your digital badge with pride!

11. Connect with me on twitter
@warwicklanguage or
about.me/teresamackinnon