User:Vtaylor/Locating and adopting OER content

2020.4.20 revisited - from 2008-2009 document

• open learning - search, recommend, share
• terminology and concepts - content, educational resources, courseware
• who's who - Facilitating Online Communities, CCCOER, OCW Blog, Free Learning

• what's in it for me - learning outcomes, student-centered, project-based
• finding the good stuff - repositories, rating, referring
• using it in your courses - reuse, remix, redistribute

• present and future
  • content creation - students as researchers and publishers
  • adoption - collection, repurpose
  • shifting metaphor - sage / guide / host

For an educational practitioner (and a student) there is more usable content than we could possibly need for education, more is good and more will come. Most of the good stuff is already openly accessible and in many instances copy-able! The communication channels around it all are open too --Leigh Blackall

Locating and adopting OER content

• planning - learning objectives, lesson or course outline
• content requirements - selection criteria
• repositories
• trusted sources, recommendations
• searches, selection - rating, reviews
• develop framework - course management system, lesson template
• weeding and pruning - include, extraneous, missing
• modify, re-mix, create
• use - feedback, critique
• quality review
  • Course Evaluation Checklist
• knowledge building, sharing

Case studies

• Case 1 - Technology Supported Learning

• Case 2 - Creative Typography using an existing full course OER

Other issues and learning opportunities

Directories and repositories

• Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ see some titles are under Creative Commons License, others under restrictive copyright licenses

• Directory of Open Access Repositories OpenDoar http://www.opendoar.org

• LAMS Central Repository http://www.lamscommunity.org/lamscentral/

• Free Software Directory http://directory.fsf.org/

• OER Africa - recommended by Tony Bates

• Open Textbooks

Communities, leadership

• Community Empowerment - training materials

Learn more...

• http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/MindsonFireOpenEducationt/45823?time=1201580368 Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0] EDUCAUSE Librarian © 2008 John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler

• http://www.goldenswamp.com/findableWhitePaper/findable_Education_Page1.html Findability]

• Using other people's content

• Integrating OERs into teaching and learning

• OER Handbook

Content repositories

• Zaid Ali Alsagoff gathered all his University learning related OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Open Educational Resources (OER) - an all-in-one (sounds like shampoo!) quick-to-access/find juicy compilation

• OER Commons Teaching & Learning Materials - good source, categorized, search by rating, includes content from most primary repositories

• Rice University's Connexions - large collection of courses

• Introduction to Open Educational Resources - A self-paced tutorial about open educational resources as alternatives to textbooks for college teachers. Visitors are invited to actively participate by posting Activity Reflection entries to the course Discussion area. This tutorial has 9 Lessons

Content finding and filtering

• collaborative filtering
• recommender systems requires account
• reputation systems required acm account to access published version
• PICS system - access control without censorship

Find, refer and connect

• community of practice - trust, membership, literacy
• tutorials, workshops - alternatives, innovation
• practice - tools, repositories, connections

moved back...

--Valerie Taylor 01:07, 26 June 2009 (UTC) "User:Vtaylor/Open learning" has been moved to "User:Vtaylor/Locating and adopting OER content"

• The page User:Vtaylor/Open learning/Case 1 - Technology Supported Learning has been moved to User:Vtaylor/Locating and adopting OER content/Case 1 - Technology Supported Learning.
• The page User:Vtaylor/Open learning/Case 2 - Creative Typography has been moved to User:Vtaylor/Locating and adopting OER content/Case 2 - Creative Typography.
• The page User:Vtaylor/Open learning/Course Evaluation Checklist has been moved to User:Vtaylor/Locating and adopting OER content/Course Evaluation Checklist.