DS4OERS NUS/Guide/Syllabus

The syllabus page provides a recommended schedule for completing the course. You should aim to spend between 3 to 5 hours each week to complete the learning challenges at times which are convenient for your own schedule. The time you spend completing the challenges will vary according to your existing digital skills and experience. You are free to study at your own pace and access to the materials will remain open.

The Digital skills for OER sharing (DS4OERS) course comprises a number of learning challenges. You will start with the enabler challenges during the first week which provide the preknowledge you will need to develop open educational resources (OER). You will then proceed to complete a series of digital skills challenges to produce three reusable teaching resources for inclusion in a lesson plan of your choice.

Week 1

Session	Details
Getting started	Orientation before course starts
Session 0	Establish your PLE (Enabler challenge)
Session 1	Why does open matter (Enabler challenge)
Session 2	The OER development process (Enabler challenge)
Session 3	Interactive remix game (Enabler challenge)

Week 2

Session	Details
Session 4	Open image (Digital skills challenge)
Session 5	Vector chart or diagram remix (Digital skills challenge)

Week 3

Session	Details
Session 6	Static audio graphic remix (Digital skills challenge)
Session 7	Lesson plan (Digital skills challenge)
Session 8	Open consultation - The way forward

Getting started

Course overview

Familiarise yourself with the course site and course guide.

• Date: Before the course starts
• Resources
  1. About DS4OERS
  2. Start here
  3. Course guide (Click on the "Next" button at the bottom of each screen of the course guide or use the site navigation to proceed.)
• Key activities
  1. Complete the Fair and reasonable practice survey
  2. Complete the 3 things you should do before starting the course.

Session 0

Establish a Personal Learning Environment (PLE)

Create accounts on websites to establish your digital Personal Learning Environment (PLE) to connect with your community during and after the course.

• Date: Week 1
• Learning materials:
  1. Establish your PLE by creating the website accounts you will need
• Key activities
  1. Familiarise yourself with the DS4OERS platform
  2. Create Moodle account and enrol in the DS4OERS course
  3. Create Forums account and complete spot poll
  4. Create account on DS4OERS social media site and post first mention
  5. Complete the scavenger hunt activity

Session 1

Why does open matter?

Personal reflection on why we teach and how open can support our work.

• Date: Week 1
• Learning materials:
  1. Why does open matter (Click on the "Next" arrow at the bottom of the screen of each page, or use the site navigation via the "Learning challenges" option in the menu at the top of your screen.)
• Key activities:
  1. Discussion on why you teach
  2. Fair and reasonable practice survey (if you haven't completed this already)
  3. Social media thought experiment

Session 2

What is the OER process?

Gain an overview of the OER development process and confirm preknowledge to legally reuse, revise, remix and redistribute open teaching resources.

• Date: Week 1
• Learning materials:
  1. The OER development process
• Key activities
  1. WEnote post and mini-quiz on Creative Commons licences
  2. Social media reflection on OER
  3. Searching for CC images using site filters
  4. Searching for CC images using internet search engines
  5. Image attribution challenge
  6. Knowledge quiz

Session 3

Remix compatibility among open licenses

Apply knowledge of the legal remix compatibility of open licenses when determining permissible licenses for derivative works.

• Date: Week 1
• Learning materials
  1. Remix compatibility of CC licenses for derivative works.
• Key activity
  1. Complete the remix game

Session 4

Open image challenge

Develop a printable teaching resource in PDF format in a curriculum area of your choice to be used in a classroom incorporating openly licensed images you have found on the internet.

• Date: Week 2
• Recommended software: LibreOffice Writer
• Badge: OER image badge
• Learning materials:
  1. Develop a teaching resource including an open image
• Key activities:
  1. Choose a lesson for development
  2. Download and install LibreOffice
  3. Find an image for teaching resource
  4. Complete the image resource challenge
  5. Knowledge quiz

Session 5

Vector image remix challenge

Develop a chart, diagram, or graphic organiser in a curriculum area of your choice, that you can use as a single page printable resource in a classroom. Include SVG graphics you have sourced on the internet and deposit in an online OER repository.

• Date: Week 2
• Recommended software: LibreOffice Draw
• Badge: OER Diagram Remix Badge
• Learning materials:
  1. Vector chart or diagram remix
• Key activities
  1. Distinguish between raster and vector graphics
  2. Import and manipulate a SVG image file
  3. Review case study on remixing a graphic organiser
  4. Complete diagram remix challenge
  5. Knowledge quiz

Session 6

Static audiographic challenge

Assemble a static image audiographic with music introduction in a subject area of your choice, for use by students in a lesson and deposit in an online OER repository.

• Date: Week 3
• Recommended software: Audacity and OpenShot
• Badge: OER Audiographic Badge
• Learning materials
  1. Produce static audiographic incorporating sound and still images.
• Key activities:
  1. Record audio
  2. Fade in and fade out open music track
  3. Prepare script and record audio
  4. Complete audio graphic challenge
  5. Knowledge quiz

Session 7

Lesson plan challenge

Design a lesson plan in a subject area of your choice that incorporates:

• Printable image resource
• Vector-based diagram, chart or learning aid
• Static audiographic

• Date: Week 3
• Recommended software: LibreOffice Writer
• Badge: OER Lesson Plan Badge
• Learning materials:
  1. Lesson plan incorporating OER teaching resources
• Key activities
  1. Recap teaching and learning strategies
  2. Review forms of assessment
  3. Complete lesson plan challenge
  4. Knowledge quiz

Session 8

OER consultation

Participate in an open consultation on recommendations for building national and regional communities of OER practitioners.

• Date: Week 3
• Learning materials:
  1. Open consultation to plan the way forward for OER in your country
• Key activities
  1. Consider communities of practice including Ontario Open Rangers (Canada) and the Wisdom Community of Pasifika Teachers
  2. Discuss appropriate name for community leaders
  3. Provide recommendations to establish a thriving community of practice