Undergraduate Health Science students can be users and producers of Open Educational Resources (OER). These slides were presented at the HELTASA conference held in Nov 2012 at Stellenbosch University, Western Cape, South Africa. They explain how and why we are introducing students to OER in the Health Sciences Faculty at the University of Cape Town.
1. Opening up new ways
as students engage with
Open Educational Resources
(OER)
@ HELTASA 2012
Veronica Mitchell
Education Development Unit, Health Sciences Faculty
University of Cape Town, South Africa
2. Philosophy of openness
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hikingartist/7165990596/sizes/m/in/photostream/ CC.BY-ND
3. Open Scholarship @ UCT
What
Why
How
Educational theory
?
www.tagxedo.com
A changing educational landscape
4. Commitment to
Commitment to openness
openness
2011
Signi
n g th e
Berlin
Decla
ration
2012
2007
Images from http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct
http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/
http://oercongress.weebly.com/paris-declaration.html
5. What are we doing?
www.tagxedo.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loop_oh/4313629167/
10. Resources
In networked society
Social media
Websites
Blogs
etc
Icons by http://dryicons.com
11. in the Health Sciences Faculty
New ways
that
matter
Self-organization
as a learner Image: David Castillo Dominici / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
3d Man With Multiple Arrow Paths"vv/
12. Opening up new opportunities for learning
Created by Shihaam Shaikh
14. Shifting pedagogy
Value
Sharing quality s o f on
line o
p en co
n tent
Value inversion
Online education as poor relation
high status participation of elite universities
Pedagogy Quality as fitness for purpose
Online Accessible rather than doubtful quality
Size & shape Expansion at all levels
15. UNESCO-COL GUIDELINES
“
OER are teaching, learning, and
research materials in any medium
that reside in the public domain or
have been released under an open
licence that permits their free use
and, in some instances,
re-purposing by others.
The use of open file formats
improves access and reuse potential
of OERs which are developed and
published digitally
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002136/213605e.pdf
17. Reuse, Remix, Revise
Sourcing images: Yale University
http://www.yale.edu/imaging/
18. Reuse, Remix, Revise
Sourcing images Centre for Disease Control
and Prevention
Public Health
Image library
Searc
h ed: E
mphy
sema
http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/quicksearch.asp
19. Reuse, Remix, Revise
Sourcing images
UCT Open Content
Self s
tu dy fo
r stud
ents
21. UNESCO-COL GUIDELINES
Suggest that student bodies:
Familiarize themselves
Undertake advocacy
Encourage publication / redistribution
Quality assessment through social networks
Engage with institution re ICT connectivity
Actively support and promote OER
23. Copyright
Now alternative licensing options
Internet enables …
Some rights reserved
24. Where are we heading?
Stacey Stent illustration 2010
http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/Centre-for-Higher-Education-Development/Studying-at-University-A-guide-for-first-year-students
25. Workshop@UCT
OER4Us
Digital Discourse
for Students in the
Health Sciences Faculty
2012
Veronica Mitchell & Nicole Southgate
Carpeted_Commons.jpg
26. Students feedback…
eneficial
ful / b
Very help
expo sure
New
of o thers
work
espe ct the
earnt to r
L
ation
i nform
of sharing
port ance
Im
27. Workshops: Digital professionalism
Self regulation
http://www.bma.org.uk/images/socialmediaguidancemay2011_tcm41- http://www.waikatodhb.govt.nz/file/fileid/37681
206859.pdf
28. Publications / Redistributing
Video recording:
Fertility discussion for HIV+ women
Year 3 medical students
In Women’s Health block
Affordance of the internet
Peer-to-Peer teaching
beyond the UCT classroom
30. Theoretical frames
Basil Bernstein
< Power – weaker classification
< Control – weaker framing
> Porosity of boundaries
31. Theoretical frames
Ronald Barnett
UCT June 2012
Supercomplexity
A Will to Learn
Lifewide Learning
Curricula in professional subjects (Barnett & Coate 2005:77)
32. Theoretical frames
Stewart Mennin
Complex Adaptive
Systems
Stacey Matrix
Ralph Stacey's Agreement & Certainty Matrix
Zimmerman, B., Lindberg, C., & Plsek, P. (2001). Edgeware: insights from complexity science for health care leaders. Irving, Texas: VHA
http://www.gp-training.net/training/communication_skills/consultation/equipoise/complexity/stacey.htm .
33. Theoretical frames
Yrjo Engeström
Activity Theory
Activity theory as a potential framework for technology research in an unequal terrain
J. Hardman
http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/educate/download/SAJHE.pdf
34. Benefits
Expanding horizons of knowledge & experiences
Sharing & building knowledge
Openness & transparency
Personal agency
Increased potential learning resources
Up to date information
Building online Community of Practice
35. Caution / Protection
User
/ p ro
duce
Copyrights r
Institutional IP policies
Ethics
Reliability
36. Educational landscape?
?
“[moving] from cultivating walled gardens
to supporting
do-it-yourself landscapes
Learner Weblog Education and Learning weblog
http://suifaijohnmak.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/cfhe12-oped12-moocs-emerging-as-
landscape-of-change-part-5-questions-openness-with-mooc/
John Mak’s blog on Connectivism .
37. Acknowledgements to:
Greg Doyle
Sam Lee Pan
Nicole Southgate
Tamzyn Suliaman
Laura Czerniewicz
Image by Shihaam Shaikh 2011
Shihaam Shaikh
Glenda Cox
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
Thank you Stacey Stent
38. References
Barnett, R. 2000. Supercomplexity and the curriculum.
Studies in higher education. 25.3: 255-265.
Barnett. R. & Coate, K. 2005. Engaging the higher curriculum in higher education. SRHE
& Open University Press. London.
Bernstein, B. 2000. Pedagogy, symbolic control and identity: Theory, research and
critique: The pedagogic device. Revised edition, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Lanham.
Mennin, S. 2010. Self-organisation, integration and curriculum in the complex world of
medical education. Medical Education. 44:20-20.
Engeström, Y. 2001. Expansive Learning at Work: toward an activity theoretical
reconceptualization. Journal of Education and Work. 14:1.
Wiley, D. (2009) Open education license draft.
Available on: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/355
39. Opening up new ways as students engage with Open Educational Resources
by Veronica Mitchell is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 South Africa License
Veronica Mitchell
Education Development Unit, Health Sciences Faculty
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Notas do Editor
Breaking through the classroom walls
Taking our share vs building knowledge and empowering Knowledge shared is knowledge doubled
Students are sharing their information
Recognizing abundance of information
Open Educational Resources (OER) OER are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open licence that permits their free use and, in some instances, re-purposing by others. The use of open file formats improves access and reuse potential of OERs which are developed and published digitally. Open educational resources can include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, research articles, videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. OER is not synonymous with online learning or eLearning. Rather, many OER – while shareable in a digital format – are also printable. Given the bandwidth and connectivity challenges common in some developing countries, a high percentage of resources will be shared as printable resources, rather than being designed solely for use in online learning.
Philosophy of OER
Open Educational Resources (OER) OER are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open licence that permits their free use and, in some instances, re-purposing by others. The use of open file formats improves access and reuse potential of OERs which are developed and published digitally. Open educational resources can include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, research articles, videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. OER is not synonymous with online learning or eLearning. Rather, many OER – while shareable in a digital format – are also printable. Given the bandwidth and connectivity challenges common in some developing countries, a high percentage of resources will be shared as printable resources, rather than being designed solely for use in online learning.
There are 2 layers of legal protection surrounding academics – the first overarching layer is the SA copyright law. Copyright applies automatically to original works that has been reduced to a tangible format – this means that by default everything that is on the internet falls under copyright protection unless specified otherwise. The default position therefore means that copying is not allowed unless permission has been granted or the copying falls under one of the exceptions. Copyright is essentially a set of rights granted to an author of an original work, including a bundle of the following exclusive rights: right to reproduce the work right to adapt the work right to distribute or sell the work right to publish the work perform in public or broadcast the work moral rights in the work freedom to transfer rights in work freedom to grant permission to use work in specified manner The second layer is the UCT Intellectual Property Policy which gives specific protection and freedoms to academics. To read the new policy: http://www.uct.ac.za/downloads/uct.ac.za/about/policies/intellect_property.pdf Creative Commons works in conjunction with both by providing a way to manage rights. Other: Copyright management in teaching: http://education-copyright.org/copyright-mngmnt-teaching/
One of the key initiatives enabling the legal sharing and re-working of materials has been the development of alternative licensing systems. Previously copyright was binary: All rights retained or public domain. Now alternative licensing options such as the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) and Creative Commons provide a range of options where some rights are reserved.
Student workshops
First time
Workshops on social media
We take ownership of what we do and say – there’s an open digital space for each individual unlike before