CORE-Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment - for Materials CORE-Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials “The UK must have a core of open access learning resources organised in a coherent way, to support on-line and blended learning by all higher education institutions, and to make it more widely available in non-HE environments.” (Sir Ron Cooke, 2008)
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CORE-Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment - for Materials
CORE-Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials
“The UK must have a core of open access learning resources organised in a coherent way, to supporton-line and blended learning by all higher education institutions, and to make it more widely available in non-HE environments.”
(Sir Ron Cooke, 2008)
• Contributors have/are making their teaching and training resources available (images, videos, presentations, etc) in collaboration with the CORE-Materials team
• Over 1,200 learning and teaching resources now for use, sharing and re-purposing – with strategies for expansion
• Value-added to existing resources, which are promoted worldwide and available via:• the CORE-Materials website• Web 2.0 file-sharing sites• JorumOpen national repository
CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials
Introduction
…provide e-Learning resources: videos,
images, case studies, lectures, etc.
Legal (IPR) and technical input from
CORE-Materials project team…
…enables release of OERs via a range of services
under Creative Commons licenses
CORE-Materials COLLABORATIVE OPEN RESOURCES - FOR MATERIALS
20 project partners from HE, FE, industry and
professional body…
CORECOREMaterialsMaterials
CORE-MaterialsWebsite
OPENThese resources
are subject to Copyright
CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials
Sustainability (1)
‘Sustainability’ as a discussion topic running constantly throughout the lifetime of CORE-Materials– This helped identify early barriers to OER release / use, and informed planning of project impact and development
Promotion of CORE-Materials through the national Subject Centre: UKCME – Drawing on UKCME’s identified community of users; Incorporating awareness of OER issues into UKCME events and training courses (targeted at New Lecturers, Student Representatives, Post-Graduate Demonstrators, Programme Leaders)
CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials
Discipline-specific CORE-Materials repository –includes a user-interface with a faceted search facility
Sustainability (2)
Sharing lessons learned; e.g. technical, legal, institutional, evaluative
“TMS [in March 2010] suggest that, at the least, all U.S. materials departments and societies should be aware of the products of CORE-Materials and learn from their concept and processes. At the best, there may be ways of collaborating that could benefit all parties."
CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials
Resources shared via Web 2.0 file-sharing sites –providing enhanced functionality and tracking of OERs
Portability of OERs – multi-file FlashTM resources can be run independently on a user’s own system
Sustainability (3)
Promotion of added-value functions gained from developing and using ‘open’ resources:
Curriculum content – existing courses enhanced and modules / programmes developed with OERs
CORE-Materials COLLABORATIVE OPEN RESOURCES - FOR MATERIALSSubject Strand
CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials
Resource Guides – developed in collaboration with the subject community and institutional senior managers
Personal Learning Environments – demonstrating resource collections and OERs for learners
Sustainability (4)
Highlighting benefits to both ‘communities of practice’ and the HE sector / industry:
“Don’t start by asking who will pay for your content, but ask who will pay attention, who will trust you, who will follow you – and work with all involved parties to convert that attention into income.” (Leonard, 2009)
CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials
In Summary
Focus on sustainability from the start (seeing it similar to project dissemination and evaluation)
Look to share lessons learned – e.g. project successes, outputs and outcomes – with others
Actively promote added-value features emerging from the project to both existing and new users
Look to support communities of practice, and partner institutions, in their OER release strategies