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Open Educational Resources

Policy, Technology and Practice

Definition

teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. Open licensing is built within the existing framework of intellectual property rights as defined by relevant international conventions and respects the authorship of the work

History and Developments

MIT OpenCourseWare, 2001 UNESCO Forum on the Impact of Open

Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries, 2002

OLI-CMU, 2002 OER Paris Declaration 2012 COMOSA OER Policy

What is “Open”?

It’s about open license used to share educational material

Reuse Revise Remix Redistribute No permission required as long as the

open license is respected

Benefits of OER

Promote lifelong learning Contribute to social inclusion, gender

equity and education for the special needs

Improve cost-efficiency and quality of teaching and learning

Major issues

Understanding open license Developing OER OER Policy development

Open Licenses

Creative Commons CC-BY CC-BY-SA CC-BY-NC CC-BY-NC-SA CC-BY-ND CC-BY-NC-ND

Concepts Attribution Share Alike Non-Commercial Non-Derivative

Technology and Platforms

Wikipedia, Wikieducator, Wikivarsity Wikispaces, etc. Connexions MIT OpenCourseware OLI-CMU FlexiLearn OpenLearn

Searching OER

Activity to search OER– Search one video on OER under CC license– Search a course in OER on a subject of your

interest

Wiki-approach to content development and teaching

Meaning quick, quick is a Hawaiian word, coined by Ward Cunningham in 2005

Popular example is Wikipedia User can edit the pages History of the page created can be

checked and reverted back Courses are open to all Provides a collaborative learning

platform to the learners

OER Use Case Study 1

• Open Education, 2007

• David Wiley taught a 3 credit course using Wiki

• Used weekly reading and blogging

• Assignments and grading

• Over 50 learners took this course

OER use Case Study 2• SLM Development,

2008• Sanjaya Mishra

trained 20 individuals to write self-learning materials

• Used weekly reading and GoogleGroup

• Wiki-based Tasks to develop SLM using wiki

• Learning contract, certification, online activities, visible outputs

OER use Case Study 3

• Bangladesh Open School, SLM Training

• F2F and Online training

• Development of Units

• Collaborative course Development

Wiki in Course Development

MediaWiki Server can be configured to have two iteration of the same course content

One for the Course Team, and the other for learners' access

Course Team member work to prepare the materials that may require content expertise, media expertise (graphics, audio, video, animation), interaction expertise, and instructional design expertise

Quality benchmarks can be developed to see that the material has reached certain level of maturity, and can be transported to the open access platform for the learners' use

Advantages of Wiki-based OER

Updating and revision of courses become easy Learner participation in course, and their

engagement will improve Some of the user generated content may be useful

in revision Courses will become live and dynamic rather than

static and outdated Quality of the course would improve as it will

adhere to copyright regulations (as it will be open) Open content licensing policy can be adopted Courses can be developed fast using OER

Advantages of Wiki-based OER

Print copies can be developed automatically using PediaPress PDF server

Print-on-demand facility can be used Less paper use, and digital preservation of content

with each editing recored Resources other than main text can also be

integrated including Slideshare, YouTube, MindMap, Google Calender, etc.

Online quiz, and self-assessment activities can be in-built within the learning material

Discussion Forum can be built around lessons

Myths about Wikis

Wikis are not reliable Anyone can edit wiki pages Using Wiki will make courses

constructivist Wiki Courses does not need

management Wikis promote plagiarism

Any one can teach

WikiEducator Demonstration and practice

Creating user page Cheat Sheet

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