Post on 21-Jan-2018
Leveraging OER to Empower Students
Definition
• "OER are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge.“ (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2008)
Definition
• “Digitized materials, offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners, to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research. OER includes open access to both the content and the technology such as: Open Software, Open Standards and Open licenses to distribute the material.”
topicsdevelopmentgateway.org/openeducation
Open Educational Resources – 5R’s
• Retain – Make, own and control copies
• Reuse – Right to copy and use verbatim copies
• Revise – Right to adapt, rework, and improve
• Remix - Right to combine into new OERs
• Redistribute – Right to share copies
How Can We Use OER?• To enhance an existing course or offering
by adding OER
• To improve existing materials by replacing it with OER
• To create new materials by using or re-purposing OER
• To create new courses by using, re-using and repurposing OER
• Students show learning by using or generating OER
Pathways To Knowledge Sculpture, University of Sunderland, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Empowering Learning
• UDL
• Tutorial/Review
• Constructive Learning
CollegeDegrees 360 CC BY-SA 2.0
OER & UDL
Giulia Forsythe CC BY-SA 2.0
OER & UDL
• Principle I: Provide Multiple Means of Representation (the “what” of learning)
• Principle II: Provide Multiple Means of Action and Expression (the “how” of learning)
• Principle III: Provide Multiple Means of Engagement (the “why” of learning)
OER & UDL
• Principle I: Provide Multiple Means of Representation (the “what” of learning)
• Principle II: Provide Multiple Means of Action and Expression (the “how” of learning)
• Principle III: Provide Multiple Means of Engagement (the “why” of learning)
OER & UDL
Merlot II
https://www.merlot.org
OER Commons
https://www.oercommons.org
OER for Tutorial & Review
CC0
OER for Tutorial & Review
HippoCampus
http://www.hippocampus.org
OpenStax
https://cc.openstax.org
OWL – Online Writing Lab
http://owl.excelsior.edu/
OER for Constructive Learning
OER for Constructive Learning
Student as Content Scavenger: Students research & create collaborative OER material
OER Commons
Project Based Learning & Assessment
OER Commons, Merlot II