Presentation on quality and OER at the EFQUEL/LINQ conference in Crete during the SEQUENT workshop 7th MAy 2014

1. Seminar on Excellence in ICT Enhanced
Higher Education
EFQUEL Innovation Forum
/LINK 2014
Quality in OER
Ebba.Ossiannilsson, PhD
Lund University, SE
Evaluator SEQUENT

2. UNESCO Parisdeclaration 2012
Open Educational Resources
(OERs) are any type of
educational materials that are
in the public domain or
introduced with an open
license. The nature of these
open materials means that
anyone can legally and freely
copy, use, adapt and re-share
them. OERs range from
textbooks to curricula, syllabi,
lecture notes, assignments,
tests, projects, audio, video
and animation.

3. UNESCO Parisdeclaration 2012
COL-UNESCO defines OER as: The
phenomenon of OER is an
empowerment process,
facilitated by technology in which
various types of stakeholders are
able to interact, collaborate,
create, and use materials and
pedagogic practices, that are
freely available, for enhancing
access, reducing costs, and
improving the quality of
education and learning at all
levels
(Kanwar, Balasubramanian &
Umar 2010).

4. How open is open?
©
Copyright Public domainCreativeCommons

5. Expectations to OER
“OERs have the potential to solve
the global education crisis and
contribute to sustainable economic
growth”
Sir John Daniel, former CEO for Commonwealth
of Learning and David Killion, US ambassador to
UNESCO said in Guardian in July 2012

6. OER Paris Deklarationen (1)
awareness and use
enabling environments
strategies and policies
open licensing frameworks
sustainable development of
quality

7. OER Paris Deklarationen (2)
strategic alliances
variety of languages and
cultural contexts
research
finding, retrieving and
sharing
open licensing, public funds

8. Product/Process (Mackintosh 2013)
“In education, quality is
more about the process than
a product. Most open
developments start as a first
draft -- the expression of an
idea. Through repeated
iterations and refinements,
and collaboration from the
[community] the quality of
individual projects improve
over time."
Image CC BY-SA Wayne Mackintosh (N.B. 'WE' = 'WikiEducator')

9. HEA/JISC OERinfoKit
QA will occur as a result of
Self-assessment (individuals
and institutions release
resources of highest quality
possible)
Internal QA
processes (institutions to QA
their own resources before
release)
Rating systems (community-
driven QA through ratings and
comments within OER release
platform)
Individual review (comments
and suggestions made by
individuals and institutions) HEA/JISC InfoKit

10. HEA/JISC OERinfoKit
Quality-using the following lenses
Accuracy
Reputation of
author/institution
Standard of technical
production
Accessibility
Fitness for purpose
Trust
HEA/JISC InfoKit

11. Pedagogical aspects HEA/JISC
OERinfoKit
Learning and
Teaching
considerations
OER Use and Reuse
Stakeholders and
benefits
Cultural
considerations
HEA/JISC InfoKit

12. Technical aspects HEA/JISC OERinfoKit
Technical
Hosting
Metadata and resourse
description
Aggregation
Discoverability
Assessibility
Production
Models and workflow HEA/JISC InfoKit

13. Openess to learners
Digital openness
Learner centred
Independent learning
Media supported learning
Quality focus
Spectrum of diversity
OpenupEd label

15. Open Education Network
http://www.open- ed.net
the five Domains of Learning :
Cognitive : the aptitude, prior knowledge and skills necessary for performing
a task or test, and the content knowledge and reflective critical thinking skills to be learnt
Affective : the motivation, attitude and decision to initiate performance,
including the will to reduce own autonomy in order to achieve group tasks
Metacognitive : understanding how the task is performed, and the ability
to self-monitor, evaluate and plan own future learning, and willingness to help others to learn
Environment : the social or physical forum and virtual or augmented reality
in which learning occurs, including any group characteristics
Management : coping critically with massive amounts of information
to obtain appropriate material in a suitable quality for learning, and time management
Kawachi P (2014) FRSA

16. Caring is sharing, sharing is
caring
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