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Pedagogical aspects - practical resources and guides

Includes quality, trust, curriculum needs and development

This aspect is linked closely to how people use, reuse and repurpose materials. See also pages within the infokit that discuss these issues: Learning and Teaching considerations ; OER Use and Reuse ; Stakeholders and benefits ; Cultural considerations

Issues of granularity of resources (whether to develop packages of smaller items such as photographs, videos, podcasts, etc. or to package these up with an appropriate educational context) were discussed throughout the three year programme and were managed in many different ways. Some chose to add 'educational wrappers' whilst others felt that the potential wide range of different educational contexts should be left to the users to decide.

Quality

• Quality criteria for OERs (OTTER Project, University of Leicester)

• Quality matters in OERs (OTTER Project, University of Leicester) 

• Guidelines for evaluating value of materials for use in the OER Project (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University)

• public peer review:  ChemistryFM poster analysing YouTube rankings and student survey results (Chemistry FM Project)
• a community-based approach : "Teaching in Public framework"  (Chemistry FM Project)

• Usability evaluation of U-now by OER Africa (BERLIN Project - University of Nottingham)

• OER11 conference in Manchester UK presentation on using OER engagement as a driver to improve teaching quality and manage learning resources more effectively. (ALTO Project)
• A TIGER pedagogical model that will enable other IPE and health and social care professionals to benefit - TIGER has developed a quality framework which allows professionals to clearly understand how the OERs have been developed. https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24838164/Quality-considerations (TIGER Project)
• Inter Professional Education Principles used to shape Strategy - Reflection of our guiding principles and use of competence in assessment. (TIGER Project)

Types of OER

• Using podcasting in learning and teaching - series of podcasts (OpenSpires Project - University of Oxford)
• Downloading and using the re-packaged interactive Flash content from CORE-Materials (CORE-Materials Project)
• Panopto Lecture Capture guide and guidance on pedagogy for lecture capture (OSTRICH Project)

Pedagogical context (guidance within OER)

• Mindmap facility for navigating a course and related OERs (Chemistry.FM Project)
• Guidance on how to engage with openSpace sessions and units  (openSpace Project, University College Falmouth)
• Guidance on how to engage with, re-use and share openSpace OERs   (openSpace Project, University College Falmouth)
• Improved understanding for academics providing learning materials of the importance of organisation, structure, clarity of expression and variety of media used to present them
  
• Guidance for Tutors: Preparing Learning Packages 
• Guide for Learners: Using Learning Packages (ORBEE Project)

Surveys of OER

• OER user satisfaction survey - (OTTER Project, University of Leicester)
• Stakeholder views on Open Educational Resources: research report (OTTER Project, University of Leicester)

Curriculum design

• Curriculum design and delivery (CSAP CASCADE Project)
• Pedagogy  (CSAP CASCADE Project)
• Planning technology enhanced teaching learning using OERs (CSAP CASCADE Project)
• Research looking at whether multimedia resources are effective educational tools (SCOOTER Project)
• OER Learning Design for Work Place, Work Based and Distance Learning: Construction and Built Environment flyer (ORBEE Project)
• Learning Design video (SWAPBox Project)

Open courses

• Open Classes introductory  ‘How to’ videos  and walk-throughs, as well as orientation posts on how to access the material on the project front page 
• Picbod Open Class lectures
• Picbod Visiting practitioner talks online   
• Picbod Student work and the curated highlights
• Picbod tweets

• Creative Activism  Podcasts 
• Creative Activism  weekly tasks 
• Creative Activism  community/network  directly and via the peer-to-peer university 
• Creative Activism  sources and inspiration 
• Creative Activism iTunes U Course Materials

• Living in Digital World class schedule 
• Living in Digital World class detailed task briefs 
• Living in Digital World archives of student generated project content  
• Living in Digital World research outcomes of staff and student collaboration 

• work with Open photography Classes is a JISC case study

• COMC was featured in a JISC Radio Interview

Subject-discipline needs

• Towards understanding and future policy in art, design and media higher education: focus group report - (ADM-OER Project)
  
• Cascading social science open educational resource(CSAP CASCADE Project)
• Developing an OER resource for research methods teaching(CSAP CASCADE Project)
• Obstacles to creating and finding OER: the case of research methods in the social sciences. Journal of Interactive Media in Education. 05/12) (CSAP CASCADE Project)
• Subject briefing on issues relating to the teaching of social science methods (CSAP CASCADE Project)  
• Social-research-methods-and-open-educational-resources-a-literature-review (CSAP CASCADE Project) 
• Developing an OER Resource for Methods Teaching, delivered at OER2011 (CSAP CASCADE Project) 
• Bringing together open resources for fieldwork education OER11, Manchester, UK. (Open Fieldwork GEES Project)
• Fieldwork practicalities and pedagogy: the use of technology enhanced learning and open educational resources (OER). GEES Subject Centre Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK (Open Fieldwork GEES Project) 
• The importance of OER in delivering a flexible CPD framework Presentation to OER 11, May 2011 (Learning from WOeRK Project)
• The challenges of supporting learning in the workplace: the use of OERs Joint conference SW Library Service and JISC Regional Support Centre Workshop: resource sheet - Presentation and workshop, Learn to Share to Learn, March 2011 (Learning from WOeRK Project)
• Employer-focused workshop :’(Free) Open Education Resources to support Continuing Professional Development’. University of Plymouth Technology Enhanced Learning Showcase, July 2011 (Learning from WOeRK Project)
• Where Technophile meets Technophobe: Creating an OER Repository for the Social Policy and Social Work Teaching Community Paper delivered at OER conference 2011. (SWAPBox Project)
• Paper on ‘Open Educational Resources in the Digital Humanities’ on the OER11 conference in Manchester (11–13 May 2011), conference strand on ‘Academic practice and digital scholarship’. The presentation and book of abstracts have been published on the conference website (DHOER Project)
•  OCW 2011 conference at MIT in Boston USA with a workshop session on arts OERs and rich media (ALTO Project)
• Open educational resources - using and creating sharable teaching materials in health care (PORSHE Project)
• The Three Strand Model - Interprofessional education as a thematic trajectory from pre-to-post registration (TIGER Project)
• Assessment of Interprofessional Competance

• Our Assessment Model - Using a Portfolio to access the Three Strand Model. 

• Our Descriptor of Professional Practice - Local agreement about the range of elements for professional assessment. 

• Designing a Portfolio - Examples of our Professional Portfolio and Interprofessional Portfolio. (TIGER Project)

• A report on comparison of ontologies and development of domain ontology for classifying built environment educational content (ORBEE Project)