Utilizing unit assignment into Open Education Resources (OER)

Mais Fatayer, PhD candidateSCEM, University of Western Sydney

August 1st , 2013Designed for Foundations of statistical modeling

and decision making

Outline

1. Awareness of OER2. OER Development 3. Plan for this semester4. What is next5. Summary

Awareness of OER

• At UWS students enrolled in Introduction to IT in the academic semesters Spring 2012 and Autumn 2013 reported fair awareness of Open Educational Resources

• Research show that academics internationally lack awareness of Open Educational Resources

What are Open

Educational

Resources?

creativecommons

Why is it important?

Access to good quality learning

Reducing costs for students Lifelong learning

Outreach to disadvantaged groups

Collaborating with wider groups

Raising awareness of openness in learning

How to create an OER

Repurpose your work in this unit from creating an assignment into OER!!!

Developing an open educational resource

Collect• OER, OCW, Public

domain

Reuse• As –is, modify, improve,

translate, different context

Design • learning

objectives,learning outcomes

Publish• Open Educational

Resources

License • Creative Commons

Package• Meta data and

interoperability

“Alma is a university student , she has been asked to create an assignment for her intro to IT unit. However, she is also looking for repurposing her work into learning resource, she wants to:”

Share

Publish

Broad audience Diverse

feedback

Continuous improvement

OER

Design

You need to make a few decisions:1. Learning Objectives• Learning objectives describe the intended result of the

learning resource.

2. Components • Granularity of the completed learning resource

3. Headings• Main headings• Sub-headings

Collect

Collect

Collect

Collect

Exercise (mix)Literature (modify)

Illustration (crop)Article (as-is)

Reuse

Forms of reusability

• Translation• Open source code • Web 2.0 tools• Use embed option

Make your resource reusable• Provide text, narration and

source code• Tag your work • Add authors details• Include names of content

authoring tools used

Reusability

Content Management SystemsWiki Blog Website Repository

Authoring ManyContribution Many

Authoring One individualContribution Many

Authoring One Contribution One

Authoring One organizationContribution Many

ComponentsMassive Big Medium Small Tiny

Learning examples

MOOC CourseBook

ModuleChapter

WorkshopTrainingTutorial

ActivityAssessmentSimulationExperiment

Report

DiagramChartTableMapEssay

Link /Message

Digital Components Web Page Storyline Portfolio Spreadsheet Animation Video Slideshow Screen

capturing

Song Infographics Maps (geographical) Flash cards Concept maps Timeline Word clouds MOOC

Book Course Simulation Report Chart Quiz Short messages Content curation

FormatText Image Audio

Content Authoring Toolkit (CAT)

Files

Component Tool Link Web site Windows Expression http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/

details.aspx?id=36179Storyline Capzles http://www.capzles.com

Song AudacityVimeo

audacity.sourceforge.net/https://vimeo.com/

Spreadsheet MS-Excelhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1k57VjvoILt6TF8AnJUR-rlNyvTu_hYe3ZY0S08wqPaw/edit

Infographics Easl.ly http://www.easel.ly/

Graphics Paint.NETpixlr

http://www.getpaint.net/http://pixlr.com

Map (geographical) ChartBin http://chartsbin.comAnimation Goanimate Use screen capturing with this application

VideoWindows MoviemakerYouTubeVimeoiMovie '11 (MAC)

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows7/products/features/movie-makerhttp://www.youtube.com/editorhttps://vimeo.com/http://apple-imovie-11.en.softonic.com/mac

Slideshow Prezi prezi.com/

Screen capturingCamstudioWinkEducreation (iPad)

camstudio.org/http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.htmhttp://www.educreations.com/about/ipad/

PhotosFoterFlickrPicasa

http://foter.com/Flickr.comPicasa.com

TimelineDipityTimeline which you can embed in a wiki.

http://www.dipity.com/

Diagram Gliffy www.gliffy.com

BooksiBook author (for Mac users)Yudu

http://www.apple.com/au/ibooks-author/http://free.yudu.com/

Link/Message Twitter http://twitter.com

Course CourseLabVersalGloMakereXe

http://www.courselab.com/view_doc.html?mode=doc&doc_id=5799960992579148556https://versal.com/http://www.glomaker.org/http://www.exelearning.org/

word clouds wordle http://www.wordle.net/

WikiWordpressWikiMediaWetpaintpbWorks

wordpress.comhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWikihttp://www.wetpaintcentral.com/https://plans.pbworks.com/signup/edubasic20

BlogBloggerEdublogsTumblrPintrest

https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=blogger&ltmpl=start&hl=en&passive=86400&continue=http://www.blogger.com/home#s01http://edublogs.org/

Portfolio Dunked http://dunked.com/

Content curationScoop.itPintrestGlogster

http://www.scoop.it/https://pinterest.com/http://www.glogster.com

Package

Exercise Literature

IllustrationArticle

=

+

License

oror

Publish

What are you going to do this semester?

Week 3: Complete online surveyStart your project

Week 1: Workshop

Week 10: Peer assessment (60% completion)

Week 13: Submit your assignment Complete online survey

Week 9: Learning evaluation

Week 11: Learning evaluation

How your work will be assessed?

Quality of Student-Constructed OER

Technical User

interface design

Reusability

Communal

Communities of practice

Pedagogical

Learning Design

Educational value

What is next?

Your work can be made available for UWS students via

vUWS

Your work can be made available for

learners around the world

Thank you