YouTube as a repository : the creative practice of students as producers of Open Educational Resources Keegan, H and Bell, F Title YouTube as a repository : the creative practice of students as producers of Open Educational Resources Authors Keegan, H and Bell, F Type Article URL This version is available at: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/19282/ Published Date 2011 USIR is a digital collection of the research output of the University of Salford. Where copyright permits, full text material held in the repository is made freely available online and can be read, downloaded and copied for non-commercial private study or research purposes. Please check the manuscript for any further copyright restrictions. For more information, including our policy and submission procedure, please contact the Repository Team at:
[email protected]. YouTube as a repository: the creative practice of students as producers of Open Educational Resources Helen Keegan [
[email protected]] Computing, Science and Engineering, University of Salford Frances Bell [
[email protected]] Salford Business School, University of Salford M5 4WT University of Salford, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, UK, M50 2HE [http://www.salford.ac.uk] Abstract In this paper we present an alternative view of Open Educational Resources (OERs). Rather than focusing on open media resources produced by expert practitioners for use by peers and learners, we examine the practice of learners as active agents, producing open media resources using the devices in their pockets: their mobile phones. In this study, students are the producers and operate simultaneously as legitimate members of the YouTube community and producers of educational content for future cohorts.