505 Open Educational Resources
Students will explore the underlying philosophy, possibilities, and challenges of the open movement and will identify quality open educational resources (OERs), including a variety of media, software, and platforms for use in their particular contexts. Participants will investigate platforms and methods for creating and collaborating on OER resource developments. Additionally, students will move toward becoming open educators: those who possess a great deal of knowledge around open/networked learning and who demonstrate emerging forms of sharing and collaboration.
Course Outcomes Spring 2015 Instructor: Alec Couros
Through course activities, online discussions, readings, and activities, it is expected that students will:
- Demonstrate familiarity with common terms, definitions, and elements related to OERs and, more generally, open education.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the history and foundations of open education, including conflicting viewpoints around the ownership of knowledge, copyright, and copyleft licenses.
- Identify, critically assess, and evaluate existing OERs, OER platforms, and repositories.
- Examine current research around best and emerging practices in OER design, development, and implementation.
- Articulate a summary of personal learning in the course in a multimedia, online format.
- Share course-related learning with members of the course and greater educational community.
- Support the learning of classmates through discussion postings, blog comments, and social sharing activities.
Prezi with Voice and Video
OER Explained
OLTD Program Learning Outcomes Addressed:
Demonstrate familiarity with common terms, definitions, and elements related to OERs and, more generally, open education.
Demonstrate knowledge of the history and foundations of open education, including conflicting viewpoints around the ownership of knowledge, copyright, and copyleft licenses.
Assignment Summary and Reflection:
This was the first time I worked in a face-to-face collaboration with another OLTD student and was reminded about how important it is for me to have experiences where am learning with others. I was also reminded about how important it will be for me to think of ways to have students connect more personally, and to demonstrate a "connected online presence" if I am ever teaching in a strictly online environment!
As for our project, we honed our Prezi skills by using the recently added "voice-over" feature and found that it was less cumbersome than doing a screencast and YouTube upload but, there was a compromise in the sense of "flow" with the audio component of the presentation. We also risked to embed "selfie-screen-casted" videos which were fun to do but both Nadine and I realized how difficult it is to be a news anchor performing live! Not only did we advance our ability to work in a more digitally communicated style, we were able to demonstrate our knowledge about Open Educational Resources in a relatively succinct manner.
Demonstrate familiarity with common terms, definitions, and elements related to OERs and, more generally, open education.
Demonstrate knowledge of the history and foundations of open education, including conflicting viewpoints around the ownership of knowledge, copyright, and copyleft licenses.
Assignment Summary and Reflection:
This was the first time I worked in a face-to-face collaboration with another OLTD student and was reminded about how important it is for me to have experiences where am learning with others. I was also reminded about how important it will be for me to think of ways to have students connect more personally, and to demonstrate a "connected online presence" if I am ever teaching in a strictly online environment!
As for our project, we honed our Prezi skills by using the recently added "voice-over" feature and found that it was less cumbersome than doing a screencast and YouTube upload but, there was a compromise in the sense of "flow" with the audio component of the presentation. We also risked to embed "selfie-screen-casted" videos which were fun to do but both Nadine and I realized how difficult it is to be a news anchor performing live! Not only did we advance our ability to work in a more digitally communicated style, we were able to demonstrate our knowledge about Open Educational Resources in a relatively succinct manner.
Google+ Community Posts
Click here to see Google+ contributions for OLTD 505
OLTD Program Learning Outcomes Addressed:
Share course-related learning with members of the course and greater educational community and support the learning of classmates through discussion postings, blog comments, and social sharing activities.
Assignment Summary and Reflection:
Although this was not the first time I contributed to a Google+ community, this was the first time where I felt utterly overwhelmed by the sheer volumes of materials that the collective group found. Sifting through all the posts felt like the actualization of Randy Labonte's "drinking from the firehose" metaphor introduced to us in OLTD502! Nonetheless, I was astonished by how many OER's are available and the experience in this course has given me both pause and inspiration: pause as to why my school and district are not seeming to gravitate to this kind of resource and inspiration to find appropriate OER's and use them more frequently in my practice!
Share course-related learning with members of the course and greater educational community and support the learning of classmates through discussion postings, blog comments, and social sharing activities.
Assignment Summary and Reflection:
Although this was not the first time I contributed to a Google+ community, this was the first time where I felt utterly overwhelmed by the sheer volumes of materials that the collective group found. Sifting through all the posts felt like the actualization of Randy Labonte's "drinking from the firehose" metaphor introduced to us in OLTD502! Nonetheless, I was astonished by how many OER's are available and the experience in this course has given me both pause and inspiration: pause as to why my school and district are not seeming to gravitate to this kind of resource and inspiration to find appropriate OER's and use them more frequently in my practice!