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OERu 2012 / 2013 Prototype Design and Development Project

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Course outline

Proposed course schedule

Learners will require approximately 10 hours of study for each week. The course incorporates a weekly blog post incorporating reflective learning components. Learners will select a specified number of their blog posts for formal assessment.

The course also includes an OER development project which incorporates a service learning component where learners are required to help fellow learners for a minimum of 1 hour per week during the project phase of the course.

Section	Primary course resources	Week	Formative assessment activities	Assignments
Unit 1: Introduction to course and learning pedagogy
Introduction and establishing a personal learning environment for the course	OERuOEP site & OERs	Week 1	E-learning activity
Unit 2: Open educational resources and open educational practices
Introduction to OER	OCL4Ed workshop	Week 2	E-Learning activity
Copyright and Creative Commons	OCL4Ed workshop	Week 3	E-learning activity	Commence work on Assignment 1
Open educational practices	OERuOEP site and OERs	Week 4	E-Learning activity
Unit 3: Related dimensions of openness in education
Part 1: Open learning, open scholarship and open policy	OERuOEP site & OERs	Week 5	E-Learning activity	Submit Assignment 1 by end of Week 5
Part 2: Open source, open teaching and open business models	OERuOEP site & OERs	Week 6	E-Learning activity	Commence work on Assignment 2
Unit 4: Digital skills for collaborative OER development
Finding and sharing OER for reuse (Images, rich media, learning resources and open access publications) (Including draft design blueprint and tentative content content outline and initial OER inventory for remix)	OERuOEP site & OERs	Week 7	E-Learning activity
Basic wiki editing	Learning4Content workshop	Week 8	Demonstration of skills in the wiki
Collaborative wiki editing and OER design blueprint	Learning4Content workshop OERuOEP site & OERs	Week 9	Demonstration of skills in the wiki E-learning activity	Submit assignment 2 by the end of week 9
Remix, redistribute and collaborate (Including detailed content outline, OER inventory and representative sample of learning materials)	OERuOEP site & OERs	Week 10	E-Learning activity	Commence work on Assignment 3
Unit 5: OER development project and service learning
OER project: Phase 1 Complete first draft of approximately 30% of the learning materials 1 hour of service learning on the course	OERuOEP site & OERs	Week 11	E-Learning activity (plus service learning report)
OER project: Phase 2 Design and complete assessment rubric First draft of the summative assessments Peer review of learner projects 60% of learning materials completed 1 hour of service learning on the course	OERuOEP site & OERs	Week 12	E-Learning activity (plus service learning report)
OER project: Phase 3 Complete OER development project 1 hour of service learning on the course		Week 13	Service learning report	Submit Assignment 3 by end of Week 14.

Assignments (Concept outlines)

OERu learners are required to submit 3 assignments for the course. Learners must achieve a minimum of 50% on each assignment and overall score above 50% to pass the course. Learners are required to complete 80% of the e-Learning activities and may choose which activities are submitted for assessment.

Assignment 1: Theory and practice of openness in education (Weighted 30%)

• Using the Copyright case study example from #OCL4Ed develop a case study illustrating copyright challenges in your own subject area with learner feedback on alternative responses.
• Select an open policy example and review the advantages and disadvantages from the perspective of the individual, institution, society and describe economic / sustainability issues. Suggest refinements / improvements to the existing open policy.
• Research and prepare a proposal to improve open education practices at your department or institution, or third party institution of your choice.
• Learner selection of 4 of the 5 E-learning activities from Unit 2 for submission.

Assignment 2: Digital skills to create, revise, remix and redistribute digital OERs and design blueprint. (Weighted 20%)

• Wiki skills are demonstrated in the wiki and are evaluated according to a WikiMaster competency badges and learners are required to achieve a minimum of the Wikibuddy level.
• Prepare a mini-portfolio demonstrating digital skills including:
  • Collection of images found from at least 3 different repositories with appropriate licenses for reuse in the prospective OER project. At least one image must be a remix from different source images.
  • Provide a rich media file (audio or video) for use in the prospective learning materials project. The rich media file must contain at least one source that is remixed into the rich media file.
• Submit a completed design blueprint, content outline, and inventory of OERs identified for reuse for the development project.
• Learner selection of 1 e-Learning activity from Unit 3 for submission.
• Learner selection of 1 e-Learning activity from Unit 4 for submission.
• Learner selection of 2 personal reflections one each from Unit 3 and Unit 4.

Assignment 3: OER development project (Weighted 50%)

• Submit completed OER teaching resource
• Submit final e-Learning activity for Unit 5: Self evaluation of OER development project
• Provide summary of learning service evidence and reflection
• Provide reflection of the OEP course.

Section outlines

Unit 1: Introduction to course and learning pedagogy

• Welcome and course objectives
• Video signpost summarising the pedagogy of the course
• Setting up a personal blog for an open reflective journal and E-learning activities
• E-Learning activity: Establish a personal learning environment and open learning contract
  • Note: This activity will be designed to incorporate a hands on orientation of the OERuOEP learning environment using the digital tools (Blog, microblogs, Ask OERu, Webliography, discussion posts to compile a personal learning contract.)

Unit 2: Open educational resources and open educational practices

Introduction to OER

Learners register and participate in Open Content Licensing Workshop (OCL4Ed) hosted by the OER Foundation.

• Introduction and section objectives
• OCL4Ed Session 1: Educators care: Why open matters (Part 1)
• OCL4Ed Session 2: Educators care: Why open matters (Part 2)
• E-Learning activity: Evaluate a number of OER initiatives using different rubrics, eg 4R framework, ALMS framework and selected definitions

Copyright and Creative Commons licenses

Learners continue participation in the Open Content Licensing Workshop (OCL4Ed) hosted by the OER Foundation.

• Introduction and section objectives
• Session 3: Copyright: Your educational right to copy
• Session 4: Creative Commons unplugged
• Session 5: The right license
• E-Learning Activity: Compare and contrast a "closed" institutional intellectual property policy with a creative commons policy from a selected institution.

Unit 3: Related dimensions of openness in education

Learners will be introduced to related dimensions of openness and then conduct further research to develop a proposal for action for improved integration of at least one of these dimensions at an institution of their choice.

Part 1: Open learning, open scholarship and open policy

• Introduction and section objectives
• Video signpost
• Discovering dimensions of openness in education, including:
  • Open learning
  • Open scholarship (including open access)
  • Open policy
• E-learning activity: Select 1 dimension of openness above and research the adoption thereof in a country of your choice including history and lessons learned.

Part 2: Open source, open teaching and open business models

• Introduction and section objectives
• Video signpost
• Discovering dimensions of openness in education, including:
  • Open source
  • Open teaching (MOOCs)
  • Open business models (including open governance)
• E-learning activity: Select 1 dimension of openness above and research the adoption thereof in a country of your choice including history and lessons learned.

Unit 4: Digital skills for collaborative OER development

Finding and sharing OER for reuse

• Introduction and section objectives
• Mini design blueprint for OER project and draft table of contents for learning materials
• Searching for openly licensed images (for use in OER project)
• Generate a graphic or take a photo and upload to repository for sharing
• Search for rich media for reuse in OER project
• Search for OERs and / or open access materials for use in OER project
• Challenges and challenges regarding OER reuse
• E-Learning activity: Post summary of draft design blueprint and record of reusable OER for project.

Introduction to wiki editing

Learners register and participate in a Learning4Content workshop hosted by the OER Foundation.

• Introduction and section objectives
• Introduction and creating a wiki account on WikiEducator
• Basic wiki editing
• New pages and links
• Transferring draft design blueprint to the wiki and extending OER inventory search and evaluation
• E-learning activity: Search for design ideas from existing open courses on the internet and post an evaluation of findings and ideas for reuse.

Collaborative wiki editing and OER design blueprint

Learners continue to participate in a Learning4Content workshop hosted by the OER Foundation.

• Uploading images
• Deciphering edit history and collaborative editing
• Communication and interaction in a collaborative wiki editing environment
• Pedagogical templates
• Demonstration of two intermediate wiki skills (eg navigation template, quiz widget, embedded video.)
• Help a friend - Assist a fellow learner to improve their representative sample of materials.
• E-learning Activity: Peer review of design blueprints plus representative sample of learning materials.

Remix, redistribute and collaborate

• Introduction and section objectives
• Video signpost
• Image remix - Create image reusing a number of existing resources
• Video and audio remix - Create video vignette using a number of video, image and audio sources
• E-learning activity: Documenting remix exercise.

Unit 5: OER development project and service learning

Drawing on the principles of work based learning, OERuOEP learners are required to develop a teaching resource of approximately 5 notional learning hours inclusive of the time required for summative assessment. The course aims to simulate real-world design and collaborative development and therefore includes a service learning requirement where participants are required to assist fellow learners and provide evidence of their service learning in the final assignment.

The OER development project is divided into three phases.

Phase 1: Getting started with project development

• Introduction and OER project objectives
• Video signpost
• Developing a teaching resource in WikiEducator (Will be improved and refined for the purposes of this course)
• Complete first draft of approximately 30% of the teaching materials for the project
• E-learning activity: Reflection on design blueprint and refinements implemented
• Learning service report: Documenting and providing evidence of a minimum of 1 hour's service to fellow learners.

Phase 2: Assessment design and summative assessment rubric

• Introduction and section objectives
• E-learning Activity: Developing summative assessment model and corresponding assessment rubric
• Ongoing development of teaching materials aiming to complete 60% of the resource
• Learning service report: Documenting and providing evidence of a minimum of 1 hour's service to fellow learners.

Phase 3: Completing the OER project

• Introduction and section objectives
• Checklist / criteria for completed teaching resource
• Learning service report: Documenting and providing evidence of a minimum of 1 hour's service to fellow learners.
• E-learning activity: Self-evaluation of completed project

Credit transfer and local credential options

OERu partners are invited to list options for local credit transfer, PLAR and / or assessing the course locally towards a Bachelor of General Studies (or equivalent). (Note that Open Education Practice is a 3rd-year Bachelor degree course.)

• Approved by the NZ Qualifications authority, the course will be accredited towards the Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education and recorded on the student transcript at Otago Polytechnic. --Mackiwg 00:10, 1 February 2013 (UTC)