Building and Communicating Evidence of Effectiveness in OER through Collective Intelligence

Editor's Notes

1. Show evidence hub and information from flowers
2. Highlights of the organisation node page designed to show how the different data types fit together
3. This slide attempts to give a simple explanation of the data model used and to get from the idea of mapping organisations to the idea of mapping more ephemeral data and views on OER
4. Now looking at an individual theme... I would note the related organisations & possibility of following a theme. Themes provide the ‘glue’ for sticking together different kinds of data. I’ve added a link to the live page at the bottom so that you can just explore straight from here. Lots of the entries relating to copyright also relate to access. I suggest that you find a pathway to the access theme page and then cut back to use the next slide.
5. Again, a link to live site provided for convenience. At this point I would talk about how the themes provide ways of identifying challenges & associating them with possible solutions... So, moving on to the more practical aspects of the site.
6. Complex thematic map shows how these simple connections can capture the complexity of the OER world
7. Overview of the purpose of challenge and solution categories within EH
8. Example of challenge. Note url link to original identification of challenge. Two potential solutions have been proposed. These can be explored through the tinyurl link.
9. Example of solution. Formally proposed a link to an existing challenge (copyright) by proposing the use of an open web tool. Again, can be explored through tinyurl.
10. So far, we haven’t really spoken about evidence. But that’s got to be the main thrust of this.
11. NB Claims Garden entry. Example of a claim with links to nine pieces of evidence that have been cited in support of the claim. Note similar number of pieces of counter-evidence. It’s up to the OER community to decide for themselves. This is an illustration of the ‘storyteller’ or anecdotal evidence that is distilled within the hub.
12. Here is an evidence node. In this case, it’s a very recent JISC report which could be considered cutting edge research at the other end of the spectrum from anecdotal evidence. It shows the way that the EH can distill the different claims made in different discourses and bring them together in a way that doesn’t happen anywhere else. Tinyurl if you want to explore the ‘related claims’ which are supported by this piece of evidence. It might be worth pointing out at this stage that we’re just dealing with the metadata and not hosting (or deciding upon) the evidence ourselves.
13. Another example of an evidence node. This was a major UNESCO OER policy forum which produced a number of practical solutions... (leads into discussion of advocacy)
14. Show evidence hub and url, YouTube video guide