open education resources (oer)
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Open Education Resources (OER)BCIT PART-TIME STUDIES PD DAYJUNE 4, 2016
Welcome! Rosario Passos BCcampus Advisor, Open Education [email protected] Twitter: @PW_Passos
About This WorkshopExplore issues around Open EducationLocate Open Educational Resources (OER) in repositories, assess them and integrate them into your teaching, online and in the classroom, to promote learner engagement and create meaningful learning experiences for your students
What Is Open Education?
What Is Open Education? Open Education encompasses resources, tools and practices that are free of legal, financial and technical barriers and can be fully used, shared and adapted in the digital environment.
- SPARC, http://sparcopen.org/open-education/
The 5 Rs of Open• Make and own a copyRetain• Use in a wide range of waysReuse• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise• Combine two or moreRemix• Share with othersRedistribute
What are OER?
"freely accessible, openly formatted and openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, education, assessment and research purposes.“ Wikipedia
Examples of OER• Open textbooks• Videos• Course materials• Lesson plans• Software• Games• Simulations• Wikis• Blogs• Adaptive tests
OER and Student Achievement
http://openedgroup.org/
11 Peer Reviewed Studies
48,623 Students
http://openedgroup.org/
93% Same or Better Outcomeshttp://openedgroup.org/
Student Achievement: No Significant Difference
“In three key measures of student success—course completion, final grade of C- or higher, course grade– students whose faculty chose OER generally performed as well or better than students
whose faculty assigned commercial textbooks.”
A multi-institutional study of the impact of open textbook adoption on the learning outcomes of post-secondary students
in Journal of Computing in Higher Education
OER Quality: Myth or Reality?
9 Peer Reviewed Studies of Perceptions of OER Quality
http://openedgroup.org/
4,510 Professors and Students
http://openedgroup.org/
50% as good as35% superior15% inferior
Quality? Evaluating OERAchieve Rubrics◦ Rubric I. Degree of Alignment to Standards◦ Rubric II. Quality of Explanation of the Subject Matter◦ Rubric III. Utility of Materials Designed to Support Teaching◦ Rubric IV. Quality of Assessment◦ Rubric V. Quality of Technological Interactivity◦ Rubric VI. Quality of Instructional Tasks and Practice Exercises◦ Rubric VII. Opportunities for Deeper Learning◦ Rubric VIII. Assurance of Accessibility
Pedagogy Behind OER Mind-as-a-container status quo (Freire, 1970) vs. socially constructed knowledge
(negotiated vision)
Transformative pedagogy (critical and analytical thinking) (Giroux, 1997, Freire, 1970)
Social constructivism though dialogical method (meaningful dialogue)
Collaboration, co-creation, enquiry
Lifelong learning
Constructionism
Licensing: Creative Commons (CC)
Licensing Combination Attribution (CC BY)
Attribution — Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)
Attribution — No Derivatives (CC BY-ND)
Attribution — Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC)
Attribution — Non-Commercial — Share-Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Attribution — Non-Commercial — No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) To license an OER – P2PU
Creative Commons logo by Creative Commons used under a CC-BY 3.0 LicenseCC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license
The Spectrum of Open
Source: https://creativecommons.org/examples/
OER Commons
BC Campus Open Ed – open textbooks
MIT Open Courseware
Connexions
OpenStax College - textbooks
SOL*R - shareable resources from BC Campus
Merlot - learning objects repository
Saylor
Open Learn
Khan Academy
HippoCampus
Curriki
P2PU
EdX- Free courses from a consortium of universities
Open Courseware Consortium
Free Images:
Flickr – CC, Wikimedia Commons
Free e-texts:
Flat World Knowledge, Bookboon,
College Open Textbooks
OER Repositories
How Could You Use OER in Your Classes?
Group Work
Image: CC BY SA 2.0
Adopting OER in the Classroom
Use independently of other resourcesIntegrate them with other resourcesUse them “as is”Adapt OER to your needs/contextIntegrate OER in your teaching and learning
Adapting OERFind OER
Check the license
Adaptation: content-based, context, relevance
Check attribution requirements
Re-release it under Commons
Go to Creative Commons
Integrating OERFind OER
Check the license
Look for content alignment
Scaffold the resource
Build on the resource, if appropriate
Integrate activities in the resource
Need for attribution?
The BCcampus Open Textbook Collection
HOW do I adopt an Open Textbook for my course?
4 Easy Steps
1.Find2.Review3.(Supplement)4.Distribute
1. Find
2. Review
3. (Supplement)
4. Distribute to Students Provide the link to the textbook to your students.
OR Download copies of the book and put them on another site, e.g. LMS,
Dropbox Google Documents (and share that link) OR
If you have a faculty website put copies of the files on your faculty site and send students to your website to download the copy.
OR Connect with your bookstore or print to make print copies available for
your students.
Why OER Matter
By Ashashyou (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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