Introduction to OERs (Open Educational Resources) Neil Butcher OER Africa
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Introducing OERs
Neil Butcher
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Free sharing of educational
content is not really a question of choice
The wave is building, and really
the key question is: how do we
ride it rather than being drowned
by it?
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Shift question from
why should I share myeducational content?
to how can I stay in control of the
process of my educational
content being shared?
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OER denotes a very simple concept,first legal, but then largelyeconomic, in concept
It describes educational resourcesthat are freely available for use by
educators and learners, without anaccompanying need to pay royaltiesor licence fees
Several emerging licensingframeworks to govern this sharing
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If we understand OER as just
another mechanism to cut costs,this time by providing free
content, its potential to
contribute to improving
education will be lost
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Deliberate openness acknowledges that
± Investment in designing effective educational
environments is critically important to goodeducation;
± A key to productive systems is to build oncommon intellectual capital, rather thanduplicating similar efforts;
± All things being equal, collaboration will improvequality; and,
± As education is a contextualized practice, it isimportant to make it easy to adapt materialsimported from different settings where this is
required and this should be encouraged ratherthan restricted.
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I have a vision for education systems globallywherein teachers, schools, and institutions, cometogether in some common online space to startsharing the materials they have produced in an effortultimately to ensure all the material that learners willneed to complete their studies successfully can beaccessed legally without any costs of licensing.
There are vast quantities of such material alreadyavailable across the world, from which no-one isgenerating any meaningful commercial return andmany more being produced every week.
These represent a common intellectual capital thatshould be unlocked to drive and support educationrather than kept hidden away from sight.
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The initial results will be messy and there will be
many problems to solve, such as how to createappropriate curriculum frameworks for storingcontent and mechanisms to help with assessingquality.
But online communities have demonstrated the now
indisputable power and value of lots of peopleworking collaboratively towards a common cause.
And doing this in education has the potential to re-focus education systems, restoring the core values of building and sharing knowledge that underpin good
education, and systematically encouraging us to workwith and learn from each other.
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