Utilising found content and open resources Chris Pegler, Institute of Educational Technology The Open University 20 May 2013 : Camden, London
Found and open content? This session will provide strategies, advice and ideas on finding, repurposing and designing learning resources which utilise found materials. Using a range of authentic examples Lots to cover in little time and varied approaches this session Some provides practical knowledge on how to multitasking required find, evaluate and incorporate open resources to meet specific technical Take a card that interests you and and pedagogic requirements. pass on the pack 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 2
Found and open content? Just because you can find it does not mean you can reuse it. It helps if you: • Search in all the right places • Know your open licenses • Choose the right open content for the job • Have realistic expectations CC-BY-SA about reuse By sflaw http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfllaw/222795 669/ 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 3
Search in all the right places • Jorum, HUMBOX, LORO • Xpert • JISC collections • OERCommons, OCWC • Flickr • YouTube b ut note the terms of the loan … CC-BY-NC By Naughty Architect http://www.flickr.com/ph See these URLS (and more) on last slide otos/james_lumb/39219 68993/ 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 4
‘You're welcome to download whatever you wish from this site for personal use. However, making your own art or merchandise and passing it off as ‘official’ or authentic Banksy artwork is bad and very wrong .’ Terms of using the Banksy Shop http://www.banksy.co.uk 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 5
Know your open licenses Creative Commons is not only open license but is popular in education Which means? Which means? 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 6
Read the small print Read the small print Read the small print Read the small print (and know what it means) CC-BY Chris Pegler (taken at Birmingham Airport, Oct 2012 – could not resist) 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 7
Right content for the job #1 Why do you want to reuse content? Pragmatic/Practical? Pedagogic? Philosophical? Policy? 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 8
Right content for the job #2 Technical considerations? Technological? Licensing? Limits? Systems? Support? 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 9
Right content for the job #3 Quality concerns? Fit for purpose? Confident in quality? Subjective reviews? 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 10
The right content for the job This is highly context-dependant: • Depends on what ‘the job’ is • Resources and timescale • Reputation and style For ‘homework’ you can download the reuse cards as • Your learners open content from the • Your teachers ORIOLE project ‘shop’. Also gives • Your systems ideas for using • Your objectives these with teams. 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 11
Strategies and advice … FACT: Links will go down/change #1 Decide what is core and ‘insure’ it Consider hosting resources which you NEED to on your own platform. You may need to ask/pay for this, but it ensures you will have the resource (and version) required when needed. 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 12
Strategies and advice … FACT: Links go down/change #2 Design in redundancy ‘in case’ If its not a core resource and is one of several ensure you have more links than you need. Instead of asking students to look at a single resource or all the resources ask them to select from a list. If one link fails there will be alternatives. 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 13
Strategies and advice … FACT: Lack of suitable content available? #3 Keep resource, change the activity The wraparound activity is something you control and can easily change. It is all too easy to tweak parts of a resource (repeatedly), perhaps to make it look more like one of ‘yours’. Is that necessarily a good thing? 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 14
Strategies and advice … FACT: Lack of suitable content available #4 Consider making your own and then sharing Make your own (and share). Make a resource with a FutureLearn friend (and share). Set up a competition to create resources (and share). Reward sharing. 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 15 Shared CC:BY NC SA on Flickr by uonottingham Photographer: Kate Ilyushyna
Strategies and advice … FACT: Lack of suitable content available #5 Living with User Generated Content Online learners generate copious persistent content. This can be very usable and context-specific content. Reusable now and for future cohorts if you plan ahead. Use peer review and ratings to help control quality. Set activities to improve quality. 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 16
User-generated content? Also commonly known as 'citizen journalism', 'social media' or 'participatory media', refers to a wide variety of media content that is produced by our audiences as opposed to content made by the BBC, independent production companies or individual contributors commissioned by BBC. In recent years UGC has expanded due to developing technologies that are now readily available, including digital video and images, mobile text messages, blogging, message boards, emails and audio submissions. 'UGC' includes any content produced by our Taken from BBC audiences/users which is submitted to or shared website FAQs, with the BBC either directly or indirectly. May 2013 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 17
Exabytes of UGC ‘… there has often been little or no charge for uploading user-generated content. As a result, the world's data centers are now replete with exabytes of UGC that, in addition to creating a corporate asset, may also contain data that can be regarded as a liability’ (Wikipedia entry, May 2013) MOOCs are hives/rich harvests of UGC The prefix exa indicates the sixth power of 1000 (10 18 ) 1 exabyte = quintillion bytes (the unit symbol is EB ) 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 18
Examples from H818 (not a MOOC) Oct 2013: OU module in MA in Online and Use OpenStudio so Online conference open Distance Education students can share to MA ODE alumni and items in progress invited others (Seeley-Brown, undated) (restricted-open) H818: The Networked Practitioner Publication of Using Cloudworks to significant UGC extend conference posters + artefacts deivery & discussion (papers/cases, Emphasis on sharing into asynch and open multimedia throughout the mode – and create a presentation/ module and making persistent demonstration, artefact open and record activity/workshop) persistent 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 19
A word on open etiquette 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 20
Questions? chris.pegler@open.ac.uk http://orioleproject.blogspot.com See also links on next page … 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 21
References & Links Creative commons site search.creativecommons.org/ Search for cc licensed resources ds106.us phonar.covmedia.co.uk/ DS106, PHONAR, H817 h817open.net/ Courses with some parts open and some conventional Flickr and YouTube www.flickr.com www.youtube.com Use Advanced Search or Filters to find cc HUMBOX and LORO humbox.ac.uk/ loro.open.ac.uk/ Examples of subject specific repository communities JISC Collections and Bailii www.jisc-collections.ac.uk www.bailii.org Established specialist collections (Bailii is a Law example) Jorum www.jorum.ac.uk National FE and HE repository linked to JISC OCWC and OpenLearn www.ocwconsortium.org www.open.edu/openlearn/ Learner-ready open content OER13 http://oer.org Recent conference – worth checking papers Xpert www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/ Tool for finding open content and adding license information 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 22
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