SKSI/Project documents and communications/Samoan DS4OERs online course

Overview
Host a cohort instance of the Digital Skills for OER Sharing (DS4OERS) open online course using MESC cloud services for school-based IT Adminstrators.

This train-the-trainer initiative aims to widen the number of potential facilitators and/or school-based resource people to provide support for Samoan teachers taking the OER course in the futur.

About the course
Digital Skills for OER Sharing is an open online course for Samoan teachers to improve digital skills using Free and Open Source Software to develop teaching materials for the classroom and to share these as Open Educational Resources (OER.

In this short online course, participants will:


 * Discuss and reflect on why open matters in education with Pacific teachers
 * Review what constitutes an Open Educational Resource (OER)
 * Apply knowledge of the six Creative Commons open licenses including legal remix compatibility for derivative works and requirements for attribution.
 * Search for openly licensed images and audio for reuse.
 * Gain hands-on experience in using Free and Open Source Software packages to remix content, images and produce audio graphics for use in your classroom.

Successful participants can earn up to six digital badges by completing practical digital skills challenges to develop OER resources culminating in a Certificate of Completion.

MESC cloud services
The following FOSS applications selected by MESC for the SKSI project will be implemented for this demonstrator project:

OERF donated technology services
The OERF will donate the following cloud services for the DS4OERS demonstrator. (As FOSS technologies, MESC could adopt any of these technologies in the future.)

Planning and implementation questions

 * When should we target the start of the facilitated cohort of this three week online course?
 * How do we recruit participants targeting IT admins at schools?
 * How will the course be positioned? Informal, non-formal or formal professional development?
 * Local F-T-F options? Weekly F-T-F workshops offered in conjunction with online course improves retention and success for candidates. Will we incorporate weekly F-t-F sessions or use virtual BBB sessions?
 * Should we include Samoan-based online moderators for the inaugural instance?
 * What is the optimal time for scheduling weekly support webinars?

OERF tasks

 * 1) Build Samoan wiki outline for publishing the DS4OERS course incorporating MESC cloud services for learner interactions.
 * 2) Build course Multisite for SKSI initiative (see for example pacificopencourses.col site
 * 3) Establish Forums on MESC instance of Discourse
 * 4) Develop course instructions for Bitwarden password manager.
 * 5) Build Samoan version of Moodle course instance including question bank and badges for the course.
 * 6) Build SKSI branded email campaigns in Mautic (see for example course announcements for PPODL version).

MESC tasks

 * 1) Assign (ideally two) Samoan moderators / facilitators to work with OERF in delivering the course
 * 2) Design MESC/SKSI branded digital badges (must be 400px X 400px PNG images with transparent background.)
 * 3) * PPODL examples for DS4OERS course
 * 4) * Alternate design examples used for CS4ODFL course.
 * 5) Design MESC/SKSI branded background for Certificate of Completion (watermark with logos, but no text)
 * 6) * See example certificate
 * 7) * Requirements
 * 8) ** The background image resolution must be 3510px x 2490px to facilitate printing A4 at 300dpi