Open education resources (oer)

Open Education Resources (OER)BCIT PART-TIME STUDIES PD DAYJUNE 4, 2016

Welcome! Rosario Passos BCcampus Advisor, Open Education rosario.passos@bccampus.ca 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

Learn About Open

The School of Open

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

open.bccampus.ca

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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