{"id":714,"date":"2010-04-20T12:39:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T11:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=714"},"modified":"2010-04-20T12:59:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T11:59:10","slug":"openspires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2010\/04\/openspires\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenSpires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OpenSpires project (<a href=\"http:\/\/openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk\">http:\/\/openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk<\/a>) at Oxford is about making recordings of talks and lectures available for free <em>in a sustainable way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now 280 recordings &#8211; approximately 160 hours &#8211; with over 130 academics contributing lectures and items. OpenSpires built on the success of using iTunesU (<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.ox.ac.uk\">http:\/\/itunes.ox.ac.uk<\/a>) to make podcasts available &#8211; over 1630 items, with &gt;3 million downloads &#8211; licensed for personal use only &#8211; so not OERs in terms of institutional perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Nice quote from a contributor noting with amazement that their lecture on philosophy being downloaded 18,000 times per week &#8211; my paraphrasing: &#8220;so I knew being &#8216;number one&#8217; meant more than 20 downloads a week, but I&#8217;d no idea beyond that&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve supported a &#8216;devolved&#8217; model for contributions &#8211; departments can provide audio\/video recordings to the central service &#8211; who can deal with legal stuff etc. Then the central service can &#8216;gap fill&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Creative Commons gave a way of licensing material.<\/p>\n<p>Benefits to the institution:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accessibility<\/li>\n<li>Outreach<\/li>\n<li>Use of technology that reflects what is unique about Oxford<\/li>\n<li>High calibre material of global importance<\/li>\n<li>Fits with institutional strategic mission<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tried to make sure that the amount of extra time needed from academic\/lecturer is minimal &#8211; shouldn&#8217;t be more effort than giving the talk in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Syndication using RSS &#8211; makes it very easy to distribute and enables reuse. (potential) types of reuse:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Website widge<\/li>\n<li>Institutional portal<\/li>\n<li>National portal<\/li>\n<li>VLE\/CLE<\/li>\n<li>Subject centres<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Communities add value &#8211; e.g. translating content into different languages.<\/p>\n<p>Now getting academics to share experience &#8211; interesting to note the experience is about individuals appreciating it &#8211; fanmail etc. &#8211; not other institutions\/academics using it? Does this matter?<\/p>\n<p>One academic suggested a change to iTunesU contract &#8211; and got it accepted &#8211; the part in brackets below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2.1 <strong>The Content. <\/strong>University hereby grants to Apple a nonexclusive, royalty-free right and license to use, reproduce, modify the format and display of Content (not the substance of any Content) &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He says &#8211; read contracts before you sign them, and make amendments if necessary! (parallels to the need for academics to look at the rights they sign away to publishers of research)<\/p>\n<p>Q &amp; A and comments from floor:<\/p>\n<p>Q: What about institutional reuse as opposed to individual consumption &#8211; and also use of non-commercial for licensing<\/p>\n<p>A: Early days &#8211; proved interest, excited to see how others may join together content into &#8216;courses&#8217;. Despite licensing people don&#8217;t really seem to have yet realised that the licenses really really mean that you can use this stuff!<\/p>\n<p>Comment: Sustainability will only come as we change our attitudes towards teaching and value it as it should be.<\/p>\n<p>Comment: In medicine a lot of content can&#8217;t be published as patients involved and they are happy for material to be used in medical education but not more generally.<\/p>\n<p>Comment: Making available as a podcast allows students to &#8216;timeshift&#8217; lectures &#8211; some worry that this will lead to students not coming to lectures (although commenter not convinced this is a problem)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OpenSpires project (http:\/\/openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk) at Oxford is about making recordings of talks and lectures available for free in a sustainable way. Now 280 recordings &#8211; approximately 160 hours &#8211; with over 130 academics contributing lectures and items. 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