Yes that is it --- it was Sheila:-)
As for the question of the REF and Open Access and whether sharing out OER could add to one's REF-ability:
Peer review would be a consideration for REF, I am sure. And not all OER are peer-reviewed although some are, and some have interesting novel ways of review. So I think there would be some work to do there. But surely this issue could be brought to the table. (Not sure what table though!)
Cheers!
Terese Bird
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From: Open Education Special Interest Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mitchell, Ella R
Sent: 05 November 2014 15:10
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"Sheila MacNeill 13:36
that's a good one Terese - wondering now about upcycling"
Hi, I took a quick copy of the chat transcript.... Terese is this the snippet you are talking about?
It's been really interesting actually reading through the chat transcript afterwards. There was a lot of talk about Open Access and OERs and how the OA agenda being pushed by the REF requirements has meant academics are a little more interested/amenable to the OE agenda.... I wonder if the next step would be to get Educational resources as a REF'able commodity :)
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From: Open Education Special Interest Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bird, Terese M.
Sent: 05 November 2014 14:45
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Yeah, upcycled!
I must find who said it... the chat was scrolling by quickly at the end and I couldn't see who wrote it!
t
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From: Open Education Special Interest Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kelt, Marion
Sent: 05 November 2014 14:42
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Ooh upcycled! Genius! I'll be having that for my own workshop!
Marion K
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From: Open Education Special Interest Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mitchell, Ella R
Sent: 05 November 2014 14:08
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Leo- I like upcycled as an idea.... you always hope that OERs are released and reused and improved :) It's often the fear factor of copyright/ licence issues that can dominate workshops.
Thanks Teresa, I like the idea of Q&A session at the end, I don’t know why I didn’t think of it!! It was really interesting seeing all the chats afterwards actually, but was too nervous to try and look at the same time as presenting :) Its all a learning curve...
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From: Open Education Special Interest Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leo Havemann
Sent: 05 November 2014 13:58
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I think the term recycled (or even upcycled?!) is quite useful when marketing a workshop to staff - seems useful to use words that refer to the actual problem/solution or practice, rather than names of systems, obscure terminology or acronyms that may not mean a lot to people.
But having said that, once you get the staff members in the room I think you can explain to them what we mean by OER and this term is now so established in our communities and literature that I am not sure it is practical to think we could start calling it something else.
Cheers
Leo
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From: Open Education Special Interest Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bird, Terese M.
Sent: 05 November 2014 13:57
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Subject: Re: Writing an OER workshop
Hi Alistair --
Agree, webinar was excellent, thanks to all who spoke and organised it!
Recycled --- I suppose perhaps it may be seen as lower quality by some people although I don't think of it that way. Someone else in the chat box responded to my comment 'How about the term 'upcycled'?' I totally love that suggestion and wonder what other people think?
Maybe it's too soon to replace the term OER but supplementing it yes agree with that.
As for next time's webinar, perhaps we can have a bit of question-answer-discussion at the end?
Cheers all!
Terese Bird, Leicester Learning Institute
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From: Open Education Special Interest Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alastair Clark
Sent: 05 November 2014 13:51
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Subject: Writing an OER workshop
Thanks to Ella Mitchell and Alex Fenlon for running today's Webinar on Writing an OER Workshop.
The key 'take away' for me was importance of 'taking the temperature' of the participants in advance as the level of understanding (and commitment) cab vary very greatly. People who are already 'on board;' with Open Ed are obvious allies and may share the delivery.
I was interested in Terese Bird's chat window suggestion of adopting the Leeds Uni terminology of 'recycled' as a more accessible term.
I am still unsure whether there may a lingering association for some between recycled and lower quality?
Is this a good term to promote to supplement or replace OER in common parlace?
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