tools and practices for developing open educational resources

Tools and practices for developing open educational resources

Hans Põldoja, Tallinn University

Hans Põldoja!!Lecturer of educational technology Tallinn University, Institute of Informatics !Doctoral student Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture !hans.poldoja@tlu.ee http://www.hanspoldoja.net

What are open educational resources?

What are OER’s?

Open Educational Resources (OER) are digital materials that can be re-used for teaching, learning, research and more, made available free through open licenses, which allow uses of the materials that would not be easily permitted under copyright alone.

(Wikipedia, 2012)

Creative Commons

https://creativecommons.org

Creative Commons licenses

• Attribution (CC BY)

• Attribution-Share Alike (CC BY-SA)

• Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND)

• Attribution-Noncommercial (CC BY-NC)

• Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)

• Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

License conditions

bAttribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor

aShare Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one

nNoncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes

dNo Derivative Works — You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work

Rights

s Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work

r Remix — to adapt the work

Three “Layers” of licenses

(Creative Commons, n.d.)

Localized in 70+ countries

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Affiliate_Network

Creative Commons Serbia

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Serbia

Creative Commons Serbia

http://creativecommons.org.rs

How to recognize CC licensed works?

Marking licenses

• If no license information is included with the work, then users must assume that all rights are reserved

• Title of the license, icon and link are added to openly licensed content

Creative Commons icons

Where to find OER’s?

MIT OpenCourseWare

http://ocw.mit.edu

The Open Education Consortium

http://www.oeconsortium.org/courses/

OER Commons

https://www.oercommons.org

OpenStax CNX

http://cnx.org

Khan Academy

https://www.khanacademy.org

Tools for developing OER

Tools for developing OER’s

• Content package authoring tools

• Online communities for creating learning resources

• Personal Web 2.0 content management tools

eXe Learning

eXe Learning

http://forja.cenatic.es/projects/iteexe/

udutu

udutu

http://www.myudutu.com

Xerte Online Toolkits

Xerte Online Toolkits

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/toolkits.aspx

Xerte Online Toolkits

Online communities for creating OER’s

OpenStax CNX

http://cnx.org

Wikiversity

https://en.wikiversity.org

Wikiversity

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/School:Computer_Science

Wikibooks

http://en.wikibooks.org

Wikibooks

http://en.wikibooks.org

Wikibooks

http://en.wikibooks.org

WikiEducator

http://wikieducator.org/Content

LeMill

http://lemill.net

Finnish open textbooks

http://avoinoppikirja.fi

GitHub

https://github.com/avoimet-oppimateriaalit-ry

Personal Web 2.0 tools

Personal Web 2.0 tools

• Blogs

• Wikis

• Simple web content management systems

WordPress

https://wordpress.com

WordPress course example

https://foundationsofhci.wordpress.com

WordPress course example

http://ifi7156.wordpress.com

Weebly

http://www.weebly.com

Weebly learning resource example

OER and new pedagogical scenarios

Pedagogical scenarios

• Flipped classroom

• Inquiry-based learning

• Project-based learning

• Problem-solving activity

• Game-based learning

(Väljataga, 2014)

Student blog as a learning resource

Course content co-authored by students

http://www.cs.tlu.ee/IFI6023_oppematerjal/

References• Creative Commons (n.d.). About The Licenses. Loetud aadressil http://

creativecommons.org/licenses/

• Wikipedia (2012). Open educational resources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources

• Väljataga, T. (2014). Learnmix intervening into current teaching and learning practices. http://learnmix.tlu.ee/WP/en/2014/05/16/learnmix-sekkumas-opetamis-ja-oppimispraktikatesse/

Used images• Jonathas Mello, Global OER logo: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/

communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/global-oer-logo/

Thank You!

• hans.poldoja@tlu.ee

• http://www.slideshare.net/hanspoldoja