Introducing Open Educational Resources in a private, for-profit Brazilian university: a case study

Introducing Open Educational Resources in a private, for-profit Brazilian

university

Presentation to the OERRH

Dr. Giselle Ferreira

University Estácio de Sá

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

January 2014

Context Umbrella project Aims and Objectives Methodology So far…

Overview

•  HE in Brazil: widening participation through positive action; exponential growth of HE, particularly private HEIs, eligible for numerous public funding streams

•  Public vs. Private

•  Growth of OER movement nationally •  Estácio de Sá: second largest HEI in BR; >280k

students; >50k DL; UNESA (5 PG programmes, inc. Education)

Context (1/2)

•  New Teaching and Learning Model •  Centrally selected and produced resources, for centrally-

determined curricula; unified assessment

•  Distance Education •  Knowledge Factory

•  ‘Open courses’ •  Post-graduate training in Education

Context (2/2)

(with Dr. Laélia Moreira)

Introducing OER in a for-profit university: between the atelier and the factory

(proposed as a 2-year project, started in January 2013)

Umbrella project

Aims and objectives

•  Integration of OER practices into research training in Education (action research)

•  Exploration of institutional impact of ‘openness’ values

Sendo livre você aprende mais (Being free you learn more): http://www.voceaprendemais.com.br/

Ateliê de Pesquisa (Research Atelier):

http://ateliedepesquisa.wordpress.com

Related initiatives

Methodology

•  Participant observation •  AR

•  Interviews and focus groups •  March 2014 – May 2014 •  Stakeholder groups: senior management; teaching

staff (post-graduate)

•  Institutional survey

•  Literature review (in Portuguese) •  Atelier site launched

•  Integration plan – in development

•  Institutional survey – in preparation

So far…

•  Conceptualisations of ‘open’ •  Relationships with (awareness/knowledge of)

IP-related issues •  Clashing cultures/discourses: academic

requirements – corporate management – governmental regulation

•  (local idiosyncrasies?)

Emerging themes