Sharing practice sessions for ASCILITE 2014

1. The OER universitas (#OERu)
Flipping the OERu plan:
Crowdsourcing solutions for sustainable education
futures worldwide
Wayne Mackintosh, Phil Ker, Mark Nichols,
Irwin DeVries, Rory McGreal
Anthony Mackintosh

2. The OERu concept
Adapted from Taylor 2007
Free learning
opportunities for
all students
worldwide

3. Phil Ker
Chief Executive
Otago Polytechnic

8. Mark Nichols
Executive Director
Education Design Services
Open Polytechnic

9. Opening up courses for OERu
• Open Polytechnic is a dedicated ODL provider
• Capital investment, IP as asset, high development costs
• Programme design focus for consistency
• Pedagogical approach and tools
• Look and feel
• Formal editing process
• Matching the design with the infrastructure (and vice-versa!)
• Curriculum fit for OER courses
• Formal qualifications and learning outcomes; programme
metanarrative
• Programme vs course emphasis

10. Open Design: OER courseware
development
• The relationship across time, quality, and cost: broken?
• Developing ‘content’ vs preparing a ‘learning journey’
• Development and maintenance; granularity of revision
• Customisation and internationalisation
• IP and OER: all or nothing? Does OER need to be ‘pure’?
• The need for a consistent learning experience across a
programme of study
• Pedagogical approach and tools
• Look and feel
• Anyone edits?

11. Irwin DeVries
Director
Curriculum Development
Thompson Rivers University

12. Open course design and
development
• TRU Online Psychology
• BC Open Textbook Initiative –
Research Methods in Psychology
• UMN Open Textbook Library
• Open Textbook adopted for
OERu version of course
• Open Psychology Exam Sprint
• Credit through course transfer or
RPL/PLAR

13. Open course design and
development
• TRU Online Psychology
• BC Open Textbook Initiative –
Research Methods in Psychology
• UMN Open Textbook Library
• Open Textbook adopted for OERu version of course
• Open Psychology Exam Sprint
• Credit through course transfer or RPL/PLAR

14. Rory McGreal
UNESCO/COL/ICDE Chair in OER
Athabasca University