Digital skills for collaborative OER development/Learning console

Course schedule

Participants in the DS4OER course reside in different time zones. We recommend that you follow the course in your own time zone. For example, Monday means your Monday and not the time zone where the lead facilitator is located.

Session 1

Orientation

Establish your personal learning environment, familiarise yourself with the course site and introduce yourself to course participants using your course blog.

• Dates: Mon 7 and Tue 8 March
• Learning materials:
  1. Start here and
  2. Orientation
• Learning challenges
  1. OERu survey
  2. Declare yourself

Session 2

Developing wiki skills

Find out about wiki's and the WikiEducator community. Learn and demonstrate basic wiki skills on your user page in WikiEducator

• Dates: Wed 9 and Thu 10 March
• Learning materials: Developing wiki skills
• Learning challenge: Wiki skills challenge

Session 3

Designing a blueprint

Develop and publish a course description and design blueprint for the resources you will be developing for this course.

• Dates: Fri 11 & Mon 14 March
• Learning materials: Designing a blueprint
• Learning challenges:
  1. Course description challenge
  2. Design blueprint challenge

Session 4

Designing a storyboard

Publish a storyboard to provide a high level visualisation to support the design of your online learning sequence.

• Dates: Tue 15 March
• Learning materials: Designing a storyboard
• Learning challenge: Storyboarding challenge

Session 5

Outlining a course

Sequence and chunk the individual pages for the two learning pathways and publish a course outline in the wiki which is used for generating a course site.

• Dates: Wed 16 March
• Learning materials: Outlining a course
• Learning challenge: Course outline challenge

Session 6

Improving digital skills for OER

Preknowledge associated with the compatibility of Creative Commons licenses for reuse and remix, and guidelines for finding OER. Overview of the digital skills learning challenges.

• Dates: Thu 17 March
• Learning materials: Improving digital skills for OER

Session 7

Completing the digital skills challenges

Series of learning challenges designed to improve your digital skills in collaborative OER development while producing resources for reuse in the learning pathways you will be developing on this course.

• Dates: Thu 17 to Tue 22 March
• Learning materials: Completing the digital skills challenges
• Learning challenges:
  1. Image challenge
  2. Diagram remix challenge
  3. Video remix challenge
  4. Pedagogical template challenge

Session 8

Developing learning pathways

• Dates: Wed 16 and Thu 17 March
• Learning materials: Developing learning pathways
• Learning challenge: Learning pathway challenge

Session 9

Publishing a course site

• Dates: Fri 25 March
• Learning materials: Publishing a course site
• Learning challenge: Course site challenge