Staff and Students Attitudes to Open Educational Resources

Jan MarkovićKarolina Grodecka

Centre of e-Learning AGH - University of Science and Technology

Online Educa Berlin, 03.12.2010

Centre of e-Learning

AGH - University of Science and TechnologyKrakow, Poland

Open AGH

First university OER repository in Poland

opened: January 8th, 2010

Set on:

Default licenceCC: By – NC – SA

(Creative Commons: Attribution – Non-Commercial – Share Alike)

Language:

Resources in polish language, plans for more

Started with:65 courses(~1500 hours of work through all)

Some reaources created by students as part of the „Notes on the Internet” competition

Help and support from:

• University authorities: green light• NGOs: Coalition for Open Education (KOED),

Open Courseware Consortium (OCWC)• Government: very little

• Creating an OER repository a bottom-up approach

But...

Question:

What about the regular people?

(regular people = potential authors)

SURVEY

Goal:

Do you know about OERs?

Goal:

How do you feel about OERs?

Goal:

Please, learn about OERs!

Or...

Specifically:

What do you know about... open licences?

Specifically:

What do you know about... open educational resources?

Specifically:

What do you know about... Open AGH?

Even more specifically:

How comfortable are you using Internet?Do you use Internet for teaching? How?How much do you know about copyright law?

About open and free licences? About Open Educational Resources?

How can OERs help you?Have you ever used Open AGH?Do you intend to use OERs?

Results

460 started the survey360 completed the survey

62% teach less than 6 years (no found interactions

between experience and other measured factors)

85% of respondents come from 6 (out of 16) departments of the AGH University (those we aaproached „personally” instead of just giving a message about

survey – bottom-up approach again)

Using Internet for teaching:68% regularly, 31% sometimes

How they use it:look for resources & communication with students

31% upload their resources to webpage, blog

Knowledge about copyright: moderate (self-assessment)

Open and free licences:46% heard of any

OERs: 71% never heard of or heard of but did not use

Open AGH: 65% never heard of or heard of but did not use

List of potential advantages of using OERs.

Question: Do you agree?

40-53% of „I can’t tell” answers

(next slide =>)

31% upload their resources to webpage, blog

Of these: 60% use open licences, 40% copyright

Future plans:• 50% will not use OERs,• 19% will use OERs created by others,• 19% will use & create OERs,• 11% will use, create and encourage others to

create OERs.within next academic year.

Conclusions / Action plan

1. Create repository

2. Educate (potential authors)

3. Promote (among potential users)

4. Find „champions” a.k.a. authors who will lead the way

4b. Find benefits for teachers (rather than for students or

institutions)

After conclusions / Open AGH now

Working on educatingWorking on promotingWorking on technologyWorking on new ideasWorking on getting new OERs...

...closing on 100 courses

jan.markovic@agh.edu.pl

cel.agh.edu.pl

open.agh.edu.pl