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Open Educational Resources Creating, Sharing and Using OER

Courses and Learning Objects

CIT Workshop October 2008

Ruth Rominger, Director of Learning Design

Monterey Institute for Technology and Education

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Open Educational Resources (OER)

•To benefit society by increasing access to quality educational resources at little or no cost to anyone seeking to learn.

•There is a variety in open educational resources projects

•OER has come to mean freely accessible at no cost to teachers and learners.

•Variations on how OER can be accessed and reused, depending on the source of the content.

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The Value of Sharing

• Provide high-quality and diverse content

• Leverage resources of all participants

• Professional development opportunities

• Showcase faculty and institutional expertise

• Provide multi-modal learning experiences and

options for students

• Save time and money

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© Copyright…

Educators need to understand the options

• Copyright: property of creator, registered or not

• Fair Use: personal use to teach your students

• Attribution: acknowledge and cite author, source

• Permission: request/granting reuse from copyright holder

• Public Domain: material freely useable e.g., very old

or created by government agencies, cite source.

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“Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.”

Creative Commons

© All Rights Reserved

You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

CC

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Finding OER Content

Sources of Reusable Content

• Educational non-profit developers

• Open Education Resources (OER)

• Peers - other institutions, individuals

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NROC Network: a learning network for faculty and administrators using online content to teach. Institutional members have access high-quality multimedia courses to reuse and adapt for their own use.

Hippocampus: free multimedia lessons and course materials for students and instructors, searchable by topic, textbook and state standards for member organizations.

MERLOT: (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) a searchable directory of open educational learning objects developed and submitted by faculty to share.

Creative Commons: an organization that specializes in open intellectual property licenses which allow creators to share their content under various types of use agreements.

OER Commons: a portal to a world of information and links to sources of open education resources.

Open Courseware Consortium: a global network of universities putting faculty lecture materials online under Creative Commons licenses.

Gotoweb20: a list of the abundance of Web 2.0 tools you and your students might use for creating and interacting with learning content.

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A Check List

What to look for to reuse content . . .

curricular

complete

quality

easy to use

teaching tool

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Identify quality guidelines to use consistently to evaluate and guide development…

Guidelines• NACOL/SREB• Quality Matters• NROC Guidelines• Online Course Evaluation Project

Online Tools• Learning Object Attribute Metrics • Design Principles Database

Evaluating Content

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Guidelines

1. Course Overview 2. Learning Objectives3. Assessment and Measurement4. Resources and Materials5. Learning Engagement6. Course Technology7. Learner Support8. Accessibility

1. Technology2. Content3. Media4. Design5. Pedagogy6. Interaction7. Assignments8. Assessments9. Accessibility10. Support

Quality Matters

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Guidelines

1. Content2. Instructional Design3. Student Assessment4. Technology5. Course Evaluation and Management6. 21st Century Skills

1. Course Developer and Distribution Models

2. Scope and Scholarship3. User Interface4. Course Features and Media Values5. Assessments and Support Materials6. Support materials for the instructor7. Communication Tools and Interaction8. Course environment9. Technology Requirements and

Interoperability10. Course format11. Server-side requirements12. Interoperability standards13. Accessibility

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Online Tools

Design Principle Database

Learning Object Attribute Metrics

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Evaluation Resources

OCEP Guidelines http://www.montereyinstitute.org/ocep

NACOL/SREB http://www.nacol.org

Quality Matters http://www.qualitymatters.org/Rubric.htm

Learning Object Attribution Metricshttp://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/projects/loam/tool/index.html

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Building, Reusing Content

Editorial

Design

Engineering

Delivery Managed

Development Team

Speeding up the process with swapping and co-development

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“An assembly of learning media, including text,

graphics, animation, video, audio, simulations,

hyperlinks, and assessments, to present a specific

concept(s) and achieve defined learning objectives.”

A Learning Object

Graphics

Interactive Exercise

Documentary Video

Text

Documents

Newsreel

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One semester course

Learning Objects

Building Blocks for Courses

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Advanced or Remedial Study

Lower-Level Course

Flexible

InstructorPresentation

To use Learning Objects for Different Purposes

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Course = set of LOs

Learning Objects assembled in a “player” providing user navigation

Learning ObjectWith narration, And movies

Topics in the LO

Activities with the LO

Text of narrationNavigation

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Transparent Organization

Uniform

course

structure

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Eases Re-Use

Transparent folder structure enables easier installation, customization and use

Reuse by removal or integration of components

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---- General1.1 Catalog Number (a product ID number)1.3 Language 1.5 Keywords 1.6 Coverage (time, culture, geography LO applies) 1.7 Structure (hierarchical)1.8 Aggregation level (4, course)---- Version2.1 Version (latest version)2.2 Status (completed or revised)---- Technical4.1 format4.2 size4.3 location4.4 requirement4.5 installation remarks4.6 other platform requirements---- Educational5.1 inter-activity type (mixed)5.2 learning resource type (a list of types)5.3 interactivity level (low medium or high)5.4 semantic density (high)5.5 intended end-user role (learner)----6.1 cost (to users)6.2 copyright (actual copyright notice)6.3 description (short text description)

Metadata

Example: NROC’s metadata criteria based on IEEE’s Learning Object Metadata

(LOM) Standards

Chose and use metadata standards so that learning objects can be cataloged and searched in various systems

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Metadata Resources

IEEE Learning Object Metadata Standards (LOM)http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12

“Relevant attributes of learning objects to be described include: type of object; author; owner; terms of distribution; format; and pedagogical attributes, such as teaching or interaction style.” (wikipedia)

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NROC PD Resources

NROC Network http://nrocnetwork.org

NROC Professional Development

List of webinar recordings, articles, documents about

learning and media

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Organize semi-annual live online meetings within your field, state, system or institution

• Structure online session for people to discuss

what courses they need, what they offer, and what they may like to co-develop

• Showcase some of the courses that are available for swapping

• Give update and previews of new courses in development

OER Webinars

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Co-development and co-reviewing

Co-Develop: You can mash up existing materials to create new or more complete course, add investment to improve, or develop from scratch

Vocational/Career TechHigh School versions of AP courses Professional

Development modules for online teachers Credit Recovery “packaged solutions” for math

Co-reviews: Post a list of courses you would like others to review for your institution in exchange for reviewing some of theirs

Collaboration Suggestions