Digital skills for collaborative OER development/Design blueprint/Example

Example of a blueprint

Getting ready for design

Below we provide a worked example of the design blueprint for this course. The design blueprint is not intended to prescribe, but rather serve as an example for your own blueprints which you can tweak and refine. Openly licensed, you are free to reuse and emulate the structure.

Design blueprint for Digital skills for collaborative OER development

Metadata

• Level: 3rd year Bachelor Degree Level
• Discipline(s): Learning design, open education and digital skills
• Notional learning hours 40 hours
• Credits 4 credits of a 15 credit course towards a 120 credit credential
• Credential(s): Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education at Otago Polytechnic
• Hashtag: DS4OER

Intended target audience

This course is designed for existing or future educational practitioners. The intended target audience for this course includes:

• Teachers working in the school sector,
• Lecturers working in community colleges, polytechnics and universities,
• Trainers working in the vocational education and corporate training sectors,
• Pre-service teachers, lecturers and trainers.
• OERu course developers and volunteers

Prerequisite knowledge

• Knowledge of open educational resources and creative commons licenses is recommended. However, learners without detailed knowledge of OER or Creative Commons licenses will be able to successfully complete the course with self-study of these concepts.
• The course is recommended for learners who have completed the OERu Open Content Licensing for Educators course.
• Working knowledge of office software, file management and web browsing skills.

Course aims

1. To acquire and demonstrate digital skills including social media skills for open and cooperative design, development and publishing of an OER course site on the open web.
2. To establish and build professional networks.

Outcomes

1. Design and publish a storyboard using online digital tools for OER learning pathways
2. Design and publish an open design course blueprint
3. Develop a course description suitable for publishing information about a prospective course on the web
4. Develop basic wiki skills for cooperative development of OER
5. Search, find, adapt, remix and legally share openly licensed images
6. Search, find, adapt, remix and legally share openly licensed rich media (for example audio and video)
7. Sequence and chunk information for publishing an OER learning pathway
8. Integrate pedagogical features into OER course materials
9. Use social media tools for peer learning and support
10. Publish two learning pathways as part of a course website on the open web.

Development and delivery approach

This is the third of four micro courses for the Open Education Practice elective of the Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education at Otago Polytechnic. The four micro courses are:

1. Open content licensing for educators: Which focuses on copyright, OER and Creative Commons Licenses
2. Dimensions of openness in education': Which covers the concepts of open education, open learning, open educational practices, open policy, open source software and open scholarship.
3. Digital skills for collaborative OER development: Which focuses on the digital and social media skills used for open design and development of OER learning materials.
4. OER development project: Builds on the resource developed in the digital skills for collaborative OER development with greater emphasis on pedagogical design elements and community service learning.