PPODL/Course outline

Proposed course title

 * Digital skills for OER sharing (Code: DS4OERS)

Target audience

 * School teachers in the Pacific region

Scope

 * The course will be offered in a cohort-based format over 4 weeks requiring approximately 3 hours per week for learners that have knowledge of basic computer operations, i.e browsing, editing and saving files etc.
 * Future editions will be available for open registration.

Requirements

 * Access to a computer for approximately 3 - 5 hours per week, with permissions to install selected open source authoring tools. (Can be a computer in a computer lab.)
 * Temporary internet connection when submitting forum posts, interactions, online quizzes and publishing the resource in an online repository for approximately 1 hour per week.
 * Permission to share the educational resources developed during this course under a Creative Commons license.

General aims
The overall goal is to foster the growth of thriving Communities of Practice of teachers and OER Collection administrators at the national and regional levels. Teachers will collaborate on building an inventory of reusable OERs at the school level to support learners in the Pacific region. The aims of this course focus on establishing the building blocks for teachers to use the open source online resource collection platform customized for each of the nine Commonwealth countries in the Pacific by the Commonwealth of Learning under the Pacific Partnership for Open Distance and Flexible Learning with funding support from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Specifically, this course aims:


 * To develop digital skills of teachers for OER development and sharing using an open resource collection platform.
 * To seed and promote growth of national OER resource collections for use in Pacific schools.
 * To motivate and foster the development of communities of practice in sharing OER for teaching.
 * To develop skills in using the Internet in finding open access resources for support with new technologies.

Learning outcome
On successful completion of this micro-course, learners will be able to:


 * Use digital tools to interact with a learning community while developing a printable teaching resource, remixed from existing OER and modified to suit the local learning context including an audio-visual resource providing guidelines for usage and uploaded with appropriate metadata in an online resource collection (repository) adhering to minimum legal and technical requirements.

Learning output

 * Minimum of four OER resources developed by each learner for sharing on the repository.

Pedagogical approach and design context

 * 1) Why open matters for my teaching - Situate the context to establish rationale and motivation for engaging in the course.
 * 2) Adopt an activity based, experiential learning model comprising a series of mini learning challenges where teachers work on actual teaching resources for use in the classroom.
 * 3) Promote open source tools and platforms to avoid expensive licensing costs of proprietary software and minimize vendor dependencies for digital technology.
 * 4) Where possible, generate captions for videos to provide downloadable scripts for offline study.
 * 5) Incorporate a short quiz for each learning pathway. Use the same questions to issue a digital badge and certificates of participation.
 * 6) Design activities to facilitate community building. Eg posting polls to evaluate OERs developed.
 * 7) This course will not specifically focus on pedagogical design as this is covered in the OER for online learning short course.
 * 8) Encourage digital messaging to build community. Recommended app: Signal
 * 9) Pilot launch will include a facilitated synchronous webinar for each week. Will be recorded for publishing in the course materials for later editions.
 * 10) Automated email instructions to be delivered via Mautic. Copies of course email instructions will be published on the course site.
 * 11) Course will be designed to scale for any number of learners and will also be available as an open registration course.
 * 12) While focusing on the Pacific region, the course will be designed to optimise reuse for other regions.
 * 13) The course does not presume an ODL delivery modality, however high quality learning resources could be integrated into an ODL or blended learning course. This will have a far greater target audience.
 * 14) The course will only reference instructions for the open source tools, however, respecting user choice, learners will be free to use proprietary software alternatives for completion of activities.

Learning challenges and Pathways

 * 1) Orientation pathway
 * 2) * Set up a personal learning environment (usually a week before the course starts)
 * 3) * OERu has a full learner support site to assist learners.
 * 4) * New participant survey (Published on Limesurvey).
 * 5) Why does open matter?
 * 6) * Construct a learning pathway designed to motivate learners and promote the value of OER.
 * 7) * Integrate the introduction forum into this pathway where learners are asked to share why they chose teaching as a profession, challenges they face with resources and how OER can potentially help.
 * 8) The OER development process based on this video: https://vimeo.com/561097140 (Captioned the video today).
 * 9) * Overview of the process - creating, mixing and combining licenses
 * 10) * Practical example of finding OER using site license search features
 * 11) * Attribution - TASL activity
 * 12) * Knowledge Quiz
 * 13)  Interactive remix game (To refine knowledge on license compatibility).
 * 14) * Reuse of six interactive remix scenarios using combinations of different open licenses.
 * 15) Find, design, upload and share image activity
 * 16) * A low demand activity using a word processor to generate a pdf resource for sharing on the repository.
 * 17) * Incorporate Creative Commons license compatibility
 * 18) * Include attribution best practices for images
 * 19) * Peer review - simple social media poll on Mastodon
 * 20) * Knowledge Quiz
 * 21) * Recommended software: LibreOffice, Mastodon.oeru.org
 * 22) Repository basics
 * 23) * Overview of the main functions of the EPrints repository system for teachers
 * 24) * Activity to upload and apply metadata using the previous image activity
 * 25) * Deposit must be correctly licensed.
 * 26) * Learners are required to produce an accessible PDF plus editable file version for the deposit.
 * 27) * Software: EPrints repository hosted by COL.
 * 28) Chart or diagram remix
 * 29) * Remixing images using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
 * 30) * Basic skills in using graphics software
 * 31) * Creative Commons license compatibility
 * 32) * Attribution best practices for images
 * 33) * Deposit in repository.
 * 34) * Peer review - PDF annotation using Hypothes.is
 * 35) * Knowledge Quiz
 * 36) * Recommended software: Inkscape or LibreOffice Draw
 * 37) Audio remix for static graphic
 * 38) * Learners record an audio track explaining a complex graphic from their subject area.
 * 39) * Remix and fade in an open music track with introduction voice over.
 * 40) * Creative Commons license compatibility
 * 41) * Attribution best practices for audio and images.
 * 42) * Deposit image together with audio explanation.
 * 43) * Knowledge Quiz
 * 44) * Recommended software: Audacity, Inkscape or LibreOffice Draw
 * 45) Design, develop and share a printable worksheet, lesson plan or project outline including audio slide guidelines published as video.
 * 46) * The learning resource must include an
 * 47) ** image, remix image or chart
 * 48) ** relevant learning resource content
 * 49) ** learner activity or activities
 * 50) * Develop slideshow with audio (with or without video insert) providing guidelines on how to use the resource, and published as a video file.
 * 51) * Deposit the learning resource, guidelines and editable versions or links to the digital assets used to assemble the resource.
 * 52) * Creative Commons license compatibility
 * 53) * Attribution best practices for audio and images.
 * 54) * Knowledge Quiz
 * 55) * Recommended software: OpenShot video editor or OBS Studio (for sceencasts) Audacity, Inkscape or LibreOffice Draw Audacity, Inkscape or LibreOffice Draw
 * 56) Building and sustaining an OER community of practice
 * 57) * What is a Community of Practice (COP)
 * 58) * How does a COP differ from a project team or community of interest
 * 59) * Cultivating an effective COP
 * 60) * Scenarios for sharing
 * 61) * Forum activities using an open platform for brainstorming and shaping a COP.
 * 62) * Call to action - what can you do to contribute to a COP for your country
 * 63) * Knowledge quiz
 * 64) * Recommended software: Discourse
 * 65) Assessment
 * 66) * Knowledge quiz for optional participation badge and participation certificate (Administered via Moodle)
 * 67) * Assessment rubric (to be used for self-evaluation or assessed learning depending on course delivery model.)
 * 68) * Short personal reflection / self evaluation to be submitted as final assignment with URL links to repository deposits (Administered via Moodle using questions from the pathway quizzes)
 * 69) * Course evaluation (Limesurvey)

Questions for COL

 * 1) Does COL still host a Discourse instance for public use? If so, we can build the forums on COL's site, alternatively we are happy for the course to use the OERu instance.
 * 2) If COL would like to host their own Mastodon instance as preferred social media site, we can provide instructions and support for setting up your own Mastodon.
 * 3) Would COL like to have a dedicated #coursedev channel on your Rocket.Chat instance for teams working on resource development?
 * 4) For a course based on digital skills and requirement to have connectivity to upload to the repository, I do not recommend the creation of "downloadable" versions of the course content. It is better, imo, to teach learners how to save a web-page for offline viewing, i.e. saving a page as HTML on the computer and opening the file offline. Videos and other file downloads won't be available, but that's a valuable digital skills for teachers to learn to remember what they must download ;-). We will, however,  provide downloadable transcripts of video audio.
 * 5) Is COL able to support graphic design input for digital badges and background master PDF image for automated issue of certificates? The OERF does not have access to resident graphic design expertise.