Open Educational Resources, Policy, LRMI

1. Institutional Policy of Open
Educational Resources: Fact and
Trivia
Barnali Roy Choudhury
Assistant Professor, Library & Information Science
Netaji Subhas Open University

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3. What we need?
Develop OER
material
Provide
access to
OER
repository
Facilitate
system and
infrastructure
to support
OER
Continuous
update of
OER by
academics

5. Creative Commons Definition
Creative Commons defines OER policies as legislation,
institutional policies, and/or funder mandates that lead to
the creation, increased use, and/or support for improving
OER.

6. 2012 Paris OER Declaration
Foster awareness and use of OER
Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety
of languages and cultural contexts
Encourage the open licensing of educational materials produced
with public funds.
Facilitate enabling environments for use of Information and
Communications Technologies (ICT)
Facilitate finding, retrieving and sharing of OER

7. Cape Town Open Education Declaration:
Unlocking the promise of open educational resources
Educators and learners to actively participate (creating, using, adapting
and improving open educational resources) in the emerging open
education movement.
Open educational resources: we call on educators, authors, publishers
and institutions to release their resources openly. These open educational
resources should be freely shared through open licences which facilitate
use, revision, translation, improvement and sharing by anyone. Resources
should be published in formats that facilitate both use and editing, and
that accommodate a diversity of technical platforms. Whenever possible,
they should also be available in formats that are accessible to people with
disabilities and people who do not yet have access to the Internet.

8. Need of OER Policy
OER policies (at provincial, state and/or national levels) are
needed in order to advance mainstreaming and uptake of
OER practices (openness in education agenda)
(Mulder, 2013; Bossu et al., 2012)

9. Issues….
• Development/ adaptation of quality learning
materials
• Flexible Copyright Policy
• ICT Supports for Staff & Students
• To store & Access
• Integration of OER

10. Development/ adaptation of quality learning materials
T:Teaching and learning processes
I: Information and material content
P: Presentation product and format
S: System technical and technology
Quality guidelines for OER using the TIPS framework

11. Flexible Copyright Policy
All rights reserved Some rights reserved Public Domain

13. ICT Supports for Staff & Students
ICT Infrastructure
Software
Connectivity to access Internet

14. To store & Access
• (Organisation & Searching )

15. Organisation in content level…
Organisation of OER
Descriptive
metadata
Discovery
Identification
Selection
Collocation
Obtain
Evaluation
Linkages
Usability

16. Latest schema
http://www.lrmi.net/

17. • The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative is a project co-led
by the Association of Educational Publishers and Creative
Commons to build a common metadata vocabulary for educational
resources. (https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/LRMI)
• LRMI vocabulary can help increase the discoverability and value of
your educational resources.
• learners, publishers, schools, governments, and the general public.
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI)

18. Schema.org
Schema.org is a collaboration among the largest search engines to curate a collection
of vocabularies that can be used to add structured data to web pages and enhance web
search results.

19. LRMI Specification Version 1.1
Table 1. LRMI Additions to Schema.org/CreativeWork
Property Expected Type
EducationalAlignment An alignment to an established educational framework.
EducationalUse The purpose of the work in the context of education.
Ex: “assignment” / “group work”
TimeRequired Approximate or typical time it takes to work with or through
this learning resource for the typical intended target audience.
TypicalAgeRange The typical range of ages the content’s intended end user.
InteractivityType The predominant mode of learning supported by the
learning resource. Acceptable values are active, expositive,
or mixed.
LearningResourceType The predominant type or kind characterizing the
learning resource. Ex: “presentation”/ “handout”
UseRightsUrl The URL where the owner specifies permissions for using the
resource. Ex: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
IsBasedOnUrl A resource that was used in the creation of this resource. This
term can be repeated for multiple sources.

20. Property Description
Name The title of the resource.
About The subject of the content.
Date created The date on which the resource was created.
Author The individual credited with the creation of the resource.
Publisher The organization credited with publishing the resource.
Inlanguage The primary language of the resource.
Accessibilityapi
Indicates that the resource is compatible with the referenced accessibility API. (WebSchemas wiki
lists possible values).
Accessibilitycontrol
Identifies input methods that are sufficient to fully control the described resource. (WebSchemas wiki
lists possible values).
Accessibilityfeature
Content features of the resource, such as accessible media, alternatives and supported
enhancements for accessibility. (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values).
Accessibilityhazard
A characteristic of the described resource that is physiologically dangerous to some users. Related
to WCAG 2.0 guideline 2.3. (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values).
License A license document that applies to this content, typically indicated by URL.
Other important characteristics of learning resources that are covered
by Schema.org properties of CreativeWork

21. Property Description
AlignmentType
A category of alignment between the learning resource and the framework node.
Recommended values include: ‘assesses’, ‘teaches’, ‘requires’, ‘textComplexity’,
‘readingLevel’, ‘educationalSubject’, and ‘educationLevel’.
EducationalFramework The framework to which the resource being described is aligned.
TargetDescription The description of a node in an established educational framework.
TargetName The name of a node in an established educational framework.
TargetUrl The URL of a node in an established educational framework.
Alignment object is an intangible item that describes an alignment between a learning
resource and a node in an educational framework.

22. Property Description
educationalRole The role that describes the target audience of the content.
Table 4. LRMI properties of EducationalAudience
http://www.lrmi.net/the-specification

23. Digital Library environment

24. Gather OER

25. Properties of Metadata

26. Collection Building

27. End-Users Interface…

28. Search Facility

29. Search Term…

30. Retrieval of Search query…

31. Text…

32. Image…

33. Integration of OER (FOSS platform)
 Operating System: Linux (Ubuntu 12.04)
 Web Server: Apache
 Database Management Systems: MySQL (SQL YOG community)
 Programming Language: PHP (5.X)
 Education based software: Moodle (2.X)

34. Sl.
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Steps Tasks
1. Design of course structure including its all units-sections-
subsections
Develop a topic based course on Information Technology
including four modules.
2. Identification of resources– related to target courses Text, Audio, Video, class lecture note, wikis, etc on IT
application
3. Parameters of selection for resource inclusion As per learners readability status;
Ease of accessibility and affordability;
CC-BY licensed materials
4. Selection of objects – audio, video and text CC-By licensed materials
5. Organization (tagging with existing curricula course-paper-
module-unit-section-subsection)
NSOU MLIS Study material structure Organization of Module
1: Library Automation; Module 2: Database Management;
Module 3: Operating System and Programming1 and Module
4: Operating System and Programming 2 consisting lessons,
files, folders, links etc.
6. Development of online learning portal Open Educational Resources
Integration of OER based learning environment

35. Moodle Home (http://localhost/moodle)

36. Available Courses

37. Topic based course

38. Enlisted tentative activities & Resources…

39. OER available in pdf format

40. Evaluation

41. Learners to be producers rather than
consumers of content

42. OER Policy Registry

43. Cont…

44. OER Policy Template 1

45. OER Policy Template 2

46. Thanks for your Kind attention….