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Utilising found content and

• pen resources

Chris Pegler, Institute of Educational Technology The Open University

20 May 2013 : Camden, London

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 and varied approaches this session provides practical knowledge on how to find, evaluate and incorporate open resources to meet specific technical and pedagogic requirements.

Found and open content?

Lots to cover in little time Some multitasking required

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Take a card that interests you and pass on the pack

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

about reuse

Found and open content?

CC-BY-SA

By sflaw

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfllaw/222795 669/ 20th May 2013 Chris Pegler : Camden, London 3

• Jorum, HUMBOX, LORO
• Xpert
• JISC collections
• OERCommons, OCWC
• Flickr
• YouTube

but note the terms of the loan …

Search in all the right places

CC-BY-NC

By Naughty Architect

http://www.flickr.com/ph

• tos/james_lumb/39219

68993/

See these URLS (and more) on last slide

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‘You're welcome to download whatever you wish from this site for personal use. However, making your own art or merchandise and passing it

• ff as ‘official’ or authentic

Banksy artwork is bad and very wrong.’

Terms of using the Banksy Shop

http://www.banksy.co.uk

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Creative Commons is not only open license but is popular in education

Know your open licenses

Which means? Which means?

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Read the small print

Read the small print

Read the small print

Read the small print (and know what it means)

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CC-BY Chris Pegler (taken at Birmingham Airport, Oct 2012 – could not resist)

Why do you want to reuse content?

Right content for the job #1

Pragmatic/Practical? Pedagogic? Philosophical? Policy?

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Technical considerations?

Right content for the job #2

Technological? Licensing? Limits? Systems? Support?

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Quality concerns?

Right content for the job #3

Fit for purpose? Confident in quality? Subjective reviews?

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This is highly context-dependant:

• Depends on what ‘the job’ is
• Resources and timescale
• Reputation and style
• Your learners
• Your teachers
• Your systems
• Your objectives

The right content for the job

For ‘homework’ you can download the reuse cards as

• pen content from the

ORIOLE project ‘shop’. Also gives ideas for using these with teams.

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FACT: Links will go down/change

Strategies and advice …

#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.

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FACT: Links go down/change

Strategies and advice …

#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.

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FACT: Lack of suitable content available?

Strategies and advice …

#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?

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FACT: Lack of suitable content available

Strategies and advice …

#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.

Shared CC:BY NC SA on Flickr by uonottingham Photographer: Kate Ilyushyna

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FACT: Lack of suitable content available

Strategies and advice …

#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.

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Also commonly known as 'citizen journalism', 'social media' or 'participatory media', refers to a wide variety of media content that is produced by

• ur 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 audiences/users which is submitted to or shared with the BBC either directly or indirectly.

User-generated content?

Taken from BBC website FAQs, May 2013

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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

• f 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 (1018) 1 exabyte = quintillion bytes (the unit symbol is EB)

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Examples from H818 (not a MOOC)

Oct 2013: OU module in MA in Online and Distance Education

Use OpenStudio so students can share items in progress (Seeley-Brown, undated) Online conference open to MA ODE alumni and invited others (restricted-open) Emphasis on sharing throughout the module and making artefact open and persistent Publication of significant UGC posters + artefacts (papers/cases, multimedia presentation/ demonstration, activity/workshop) Using Cloudworks to extend conference deivery & discussion into asynch and open mode – and create a persistent record H818: The Networked Practitioner

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A word on open etiquette

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Questions?

chris.pegler@open.ac.uk http://orioleproject.blogspot.com See also links on next page …

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References & Links

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Creative commons site DS106, PHONAR, H817 Flickr and YouTube HUMBOX and LORO JISC Collections and Bailii Jorum OCWC and OpenLearn OER13 Xpert

search.creativecommons.org/ Search for cc licensed resources ds106.us phonar.covmedia.co.uk/ ‎ h817open.net/ Courses with some parts open and some conventional www.flickr.com www.youtube.com Use Advanced Search or Filters to find cc humbox.ac.uk/ loro.open.ac.uk/ Examples of subject specific repository communities www.jisc-collections.ac.uk www.bailii.org Established specialist collections (Bailii is a Law example) www.jorum.ac.uk National FE and HE repository linked to JISC www.ocwconsortium.org www.open.edu/openlearn/ Learner-ready open content http://oer.org Recent conference – worth checking papers www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/ Tool for finding open content and adding license information