What does OERu mean for a blended university?
Professor Sandra WillsUOW Executive Director, Learning & Teaching
Wollongong
main campus one hour drive from Sydney airport
seven smaller locations along the coast
UOW Dubai Campus
UOW Wollongong Campus
plus teaching partnerships in ten international locations
• 26,000 students - 30% international off-shore and on-shore• Top 200 Times Higher Ed Rankings 2009, 2006 & 2007• #1 for Student Satisfaction Sweeney Research Group 2009 • Top 500 - Shanghai Jiao Tong Index 2006• decade of 5 stars in Good Universities Guide• #1 for 3 years of National Teaching & Learning Performance Fund• # 1 for 4 years of Citations for Outstanding Contribution to
Teaching & Learning• inaugural Commonwealth University of the Year Award for
Community Engagement - The Times Higher Ed & Commonwealth Association of Universities 2006
• University of Year for Research Partnerships 2000• University of Year for Preparing Graduates for e-World 1999
Not sandstone however 60 years old research intensive & international
Why call Wollongong a blended university?Why call Wollongong a blended university?
• High satisfaction scores derive from personal contact
• Not a distance education university• However online is a given – 80% of subjects
use learning management system, lecture capture, videoconference etc
• Because we are multi-location
1994 PAGE post grad distance ed via TV & print2004 Shared Teaching Resources2011 Content Beyond Borders &
Creative Commons
2000 Learning Designs2006 Project EnROLE
What’s our experience with OERs?
about 100 items so far…
What is the OERu?
What is the OERu?
Challenges for UOW in OERuni
What does a subject look like as an OER
vs composed of OERs?
Is it sustainable? Is it cost-effective?
Maths ALIVE: Access Live Interactive Virtual Environments
Dr Caz Sandison
Access Grid
Pathway to becoming a Uni studentOER ALIVE Watch recording in own time
Open ALIVE Participate, no credit
UOW ALIVE Enrol for credit
Why Mathematics?Essential for a digital economyShortage of maths teachers especially in rural & regional Australia
Teaching the teachers Improve the education of our childrenTwo subjects for primary teachers to improve skills & confidenceTwo subjects for secondary maths teachers
Parents tooPrimary level subjects suit general audience
OERu is a charitable trustnot a business venturedoes not change UOW’s core business
OERu@UOW is a social inclusion strategya taste of university study
Why is UOW an OERu anchor partner?
Open UOW
resources
activities supports
= UOW experience
taster
UOW quality open resources
Articulation to enrolment @ UOW
?subject degree
subjects
UOW Social inclusion
oSchool studentsoPeople up skillingoMature age peopleoRegional peopleoPeople in developing nations
UOW open practices
Draft eLearning Strategic Draft eLearning Strategic Plan 2012Plan 2012
integrated/collaborative/engaged
Mission: maintain UOW’s position as Australia’s
#1 university for teaching & learning through creative & sustainable
eLearning practices
eLearning used to achieve excellent learning outcomes
eLearning used to enhance public & professional networking
open educational practices used to transform university access
quality planning & review processes used to support innovative teaching
DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT
From our early work in distance education by TV & print, interested in disaggregation of:
ContentSupportAssessmentAccreditation
Why is UOW an OERu anchor partner?
Why OERu?
Now digital revolution & CC licensing enables variety of open educational practices:– Open delivery– Open support– Open design– Open evaluation– Open research
Learning Design has a dual impact on OER:
• learning designs provide good practice models for stitching together OERs
• learning designs spell out how an OER is an exemplar of good practice
learning designs as OERs themselves?