Experiences about open knowledge mobilization and the TEMOA initiative

Javier Giese & Vladimir Burgos, Universidad Virtual del Sistema Tecnolgico de Monterrey (UVTM), Mexico

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Frame of reference

Open Educational Resources (OER)

OER are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge

Atkins, D; Brown, J; Hammond, A (2007). Report to The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (February 2007); pp.4, http://www.hewlett.org/oer Smith, Marshall S.; Casserly, Catherine M. (2006). The Promise of Open Educational Resources; Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning; Sep-Oct 2006; 38(5); p. 8 (EJ772126)

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Frame of reference

Open Educational Practices (OEP)

Open Educational Practices (OEP) are a set of activities around instructional design and implementation of events and processes intended to support learning. They also include the creation, use and repurposing of Open Educational Resources (OER) and their adaptation to the contextual setting

The OPAL Report 2011 Beyond OER: Shifting Focus to Open Educational Practices, The "Open Educational Quality Initiative", retrieved at 23 February, 2011 from http://oer-quality.org/

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Academic knowledge mobilization

To move forward in the creation and sharing of knowledge represented as open educational resources (OER), it is important to recognize and properly document the use and the type of knowledge being generated in educational institutions (i.e. courses, articles, lectures, documentation, research, etc).

Open educational practices (OEP) may help us make evident the use we are giving to OER, this through the documentation of teaching methodologies and strategies, learning activities, study cases and any other forms of presenting evidences of use of OER through the socialization of educational experiences.
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Academic knowledge mobilization

The idea with open educational practices (OEP) is to identify (document) the activities of how educators are using OER in their daily practice for education or research.

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Academic knowledge mobilization

We need to foster the value of use of existing knowledge in the process of sharing, assimilation and application of focused knowledge to specific needs.
Sharing Selection Dissemination
Academy

Mobilization

University

Government
INTERNET

Infomediary

--------------Catalog of OER

Industry

NGO

Communities

People

Burgos, J.V., y Ramrez, M.S. (2011). Movilizacin de Recursos Educativos Abiertos: Enriqueciendo la Prctica Educativa, Revista Digital "La Educacin"; No.146; Diciembre, 2011. http://educoas.org/portal/la_educacion_digital/146/pdf/EXPR_vladimirburgos_ES.pdf

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Study case: Tecnolgico de Monterrey

Sharing
OCW Consortium
www.ocwconsortium.org OER content lists

Selection & Dissemination

Mobilization

EXAMPLES
OER Communities of Practice

Anthologies (course)
http://www.temoa.info/node/45210

Inter-institutional research projects & training of faculty

www.cudi.edu.mx

OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.itesm.mx

Knowledge Hub
temoa.info

iTunes U
http://itunes.itesm.mx

OER eBooks

OER Networks

Educational methodologies OER Catalog

Inter-institutional research
https://sites.google.com/site/redclarise/

www.redclara.net

OER content repository

http://catedra.ruv.itesm.mx

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temoa

.info

A portal that selects OER from the Internet so that educators everywhere may improve their courses and educational practices. Selection of OER is done by an Academic Community, so they could be easy to find and easy to adopt by other educators.

Knowledge distribution hub

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Why

temoa.info?

The catalog was conceived in 2007 at the initiative of Dr. Rafael Rangel Sostmann, President of Tecnolgico de Monterrey (1985-2010), who proposed at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland in the Global University Leaders Forum (GULF) the creation of an international knowledge base to ease the discoverability for Open Educational Resources (OER) available on the Internet.
Technology and Education: Search engine to look for Open Educational Resources (OER). TECNOLGICO DE MONTERREY www.itesm.mx/technologyeducation

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Why

temoa.info?

There are many higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model (i.e. OCWC, iTunes U) and there is a need for effective mechanisms to give visibility to this OERs. It is very time consuming for educators to find valuable educational resources by navigating through full courses or web sites in a completely different navigation experience. Professors tend to design their own courses using their resources enriched with resources from others.
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Benefits of

temoa.info?

Allows Faculty to enrich their courses with OER in a more efficient way
Cost reduction during course design. Selected resources by educators.

Present to learners a variety of educational resources.

Experience different cultures, regions, points of view. Experience different learning styles. Experience different media types.

Enable sharing of teaching practices.

Users can participate and share their experiences with others.

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Open Educational Resources Portal

Academic community in the campuses of the Tecnolgico de Monterrey (academic involvement at various stages in the initiative)
Mar-Jul 2008 Phases I-II Documentation process (suggestions of new resources) made by professors Audit process (peer review) made by professors Cataloging process (review of metadata) made by librarians Aug-Dec 2008 Phase III Mar-Jul 2009 Phase IV TOTAL Aug 2009-present Phase V (permanent)

265

238

127

630

5 1

80 9

51 12

More than 7,300 students, professors 136 and librarians enrich the catalog every day. 22

TOTAL collaborations (two years) 788

** Information as of March, 2012

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Open Educational Resources Portal

More than 31,162 selected OER available

2010-2012

5,867 peer-reviewed 4,359 used in class lectures 1,195 courses, topics and activities** 14,513 reviews (ratings) 13,106 in individual educational resources 826 in topics (anthologies of OER) 31 in learning activities 550 in courses 7,324 members

Visitors

(**since 2010)

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Hierarchical classification of knowledge based on the Library of Congress (LC)

Arts, Architecture & Applied Arts Business & Economics Engineering & Applied Sciences

Knowledge Areas
General Health Sciences

History & Archaeology

Hierarchical Interface to LC Classification (HILCC), from Columbia University

Journalism &
Communications

Languages & Literatures

Law, Politics & Government

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Philosophy & Religion

Sciences

Social Sciences
Columbia HILCC: A Hierarchical Interface to LC Classification, Columbia University Libraries Digital Program. Retrieved from http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/metadata/classify/

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OER Crosswalk Metadata

With the purpose to ease the task to learners and educators the discoverability process of OER (search and adoption)

OER Metadata

Learning Object Metadata

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What is

temoa
Manual (human)

.info?

a HUB of academic open knowledge

Searching , Identification, Selection & Categorization of OER

INTERNET

Webpages

Socialize and share

Semiautomatic (technology/human)

Repositories

Reuse, diffusion, sharing discovery and evaluation.

Metadata harvesting process

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Browse by media

Filters by media type

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Mobile learning (m-Learning)

Download some APPs Subscribe to feeds RSS

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Rubrics to evaluate OER

Rubrics to evaluate an Open Educational Resource:
Rubric I. Content quality Rubric II. Motivation Rubric III. Presentation design Rubric IV. Usability Rubric V. Accessibility Rubric VI. Educational value Rubric VII. Overall rating

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The reviews allow students and faculty to share their experience and opinion in a more specific way, adding value to OER and the community.
Also has been enabled the option of vote if the review was useful or not, allowing to know the opinion of the user.

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Compare, evaluate and select

Compare OERs like topics and courses

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OER Content Playlists to promote and facilitate remixing of core components of courses share new ideas for teaching by creating new topics and course subjects with OER from the catalog
Create new content: Course Topic

Index subjects

Examples of playlists: 1. OER as textbook alternatives (anthologies of resources) 2. OER as reusable resource 3. OER as learner generated/ modified content

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Course:

Introduction to Physics- Mechanics

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Topics

Subscribe to RSS feeds

Share with friends and colleagues through social networks Legal terms of use

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Course: Introduction to Physics- Mechanics

Bibliographic references for OER Syllabus (Educational context)
Learning objectives Subject general Basic information Teacher information Institutional information

Instructional metadata
Basic information OER from several content providers Authorship Educational level Student information Lecture hours Teacher information Instructor's academic profile Recommended academic experience Evaluation policy Institutional information Course type Type of academic term Course identifier
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Course: Introduction to Physics- Mechanics

How to cite the OER with the help of the playlist

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Course: Introduction to Physics- Mechanics

The community may discuss or debate in the lowest level of granularity:

An individual resource A topic (anthology of resources) A course (several topics)

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Proposed adoption process of OER at the Tecnolgico de Monterrey

1
DIAGNOSIS Search, Selection and Index of resources Selection of OER sources
i.e: OCWC

DESIGN PROCESS
Alignment
Availability of resources OER
Selected courses

Selection of knowledge areas to enrich courses

In example: Management Computer science

Course Design
Professor Instructional Design OER

Adoption and use of OER

3 IMPROVEMENT
Sharing experiences of use of the OER

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Further information
Contact us www.temoa.info/contact Follow us

Research and difussion www.temoa.info/research

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This project is funded by the European Union

This project is implemented by USGM

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