ICDE 2015

Workshop 12: ICDE 2015

Venue: Sun City Conference Centre, Sable room
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Title: Open design sprint: OER as (r)evolution changing higher education institutions one step at a time.

Agenda

1. Introductions
2. The OERu innovation partnership
3. Copyright in a digital world
   • Copying is not theft
   • Copyright taster quiz
   • Copyright case study
   • Creative Commons Kiwi
   • CC Licenses
4. Technology considerations and requirements for an international OER collaboration platform.
5. The OERu technology model.
   • OERu course planning page
   • OERu design blueprint
   • Wiki course outline
   • OERu published course site
   • WordPress dashboard
6. Learning challenges
   • Wiki skills challenge
   • Finding OER
   • Image challenge
   • Pedagogical template challenge

Discussion notes Technology considerations and requirements - group discussions

1. Keep in mind sustainability - cost of access to internet (e.g. WiFi) - political will - design courses for low bandwidth
2. Multiple delivery platforms - design to support delivery though mobile, LMSs, print etc. - OERu network was polled and requested (a) ability to be able to reuse content in the local institutional LMS; (b) ability to have strong version control of content (LMSs not good for this); (c) open source development and collaboration platform (OERu has ability to transform course content from wiki to Wordpress site by means of a snapshot
3. Access
4. OER policy
5. Peer review/quality?
6. Summative assessments ( in OERu by partner institutions)
7. Accreditation of courses - by accredited institutions in their respective courses
8. Measured against learning outcomes