OER4Ed/Activities

OER4Ed Activities

OER or How to engage learners and educators without reinventing the wheel

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Summary of Workshop Activities

Activity

Let's explore: How educators are Defining OER and arrive at our own definition; What are the OER Benefits and myths and how we can benefit from using OER in our own teaching practice. Where and how can we Find OER that we can use: use effectively Search engines; for general subjects look in General OER repositories; for science search in Science repositories; if working in social sciences and humanities check out social science and humanities repositories; here is an Exemplary Collection of Open eLearning Content Repositories that you may want to explore; textbooks are also a growing part of OER so worth exploring open textbooks. Why use OER in your teaching practice? What are the benefits for you and your learners? How do we integrate OER into our teaching and learning practice.

Discussion

Barriers, opportunities and the way to move forward This is a discussion activity to share thoughts and ideas relevant to the mainstream adoption of OER in the formal education sector. This discussion can be facilitated face to face in a workshop or in a online forum. Check some of the barriers listed below to start you thinking. Identify a barrier to the mainstream adoption of OER in your own organization which has not already been listed and share it with the group. Look at the enablers listed below and identify if any of them or may be a new one that you can identify can be leveraged to facilitate the mainstream adoption of OER in your organization. Identify actions for the way forward to achieving mainstream adoption of OER in your organization that you can take.