Design Thinking for Education Session 3
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The document discusses open educational resources (OER) and provides several examples of OER projects. It begins with an agenda for a workshop on OER that includes advancing a group project, learning about OER, and an guest speaker. It then provides definitions and examples of OER including free online courses from various organizations. The remainder of the document describes three case studies of OER projects: 1) Using MOOC videos in a flipped classroom on research methods, 2) An open textbook on local government that includes multimedia formats, and 3) A badges program to award micro-credits online. Key lessons from the cases include using OER for active learning, updating materials for sustainability, and considering authoring tools.
Design Thinking for Education Session 3
- 2. Today’s Structure • Advance your group project (5:15-6:30) • Present your group topic, personas, customer journeys • Provide feedback to each other on additional questions, perspectives, data points • Learn about the open educational practices (7:00- 8:00) • Consider how OER can increase sustainability in your group project • Explore MOOCs, OER Tools, Badges • Engage with today’s guest speaker (8:15-end)
- 3. Open Educational Resources (OER) • Term coined in 2002 during a forum held by the UNESCO. • Open materials in the public domain with an open license • anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share
- 4. Open Educational Resources You can learn anything. For free. For everyone. Forever. (Khan Academy) Free online education, open to anyone, anywhere in the world (OpenLearn) Turning the digital divide into digital dividends using free content and open networks (WikiEducator) towards free learning for all students worldwide (OER university) ask, answer, understand (OpenStudy). learn anything, anytime, anywhere (iTun What’s not to love? tuition-free. top-tier faculty from leading institutions. rigorous academic courses. (University of the People)
- 5. A World of Learning at Your Fingertips Leveraging OER productively: Not easy Not obvious Not effortless You need: o Personal ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ Approach o Seamless Learning Strategies for Students
- 6. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Reduce the time you spend on repetitive topics and tasks oSelect your OER quest strategically (What are you telling over and over? Which topics are very basic?) oDevote more time on assignments and feedback, less on lecture content Reuse material purposefully to activate students oUse OER in assignments oUse Augmented Reality and QR codes to bridge your material and other sources oAsks students to repurpose OER: rewrite, redesign, transfer to different medium Recycle outstanding student material and ideas to demonstrate excellence
- 7. Ideas for Engaging Students in OER: Mindmap Draw a mindmap of your personal learning learning environment. Where do open learning materials fit in? https://cmap.ihmc.us/
- 8. Ideas for Engaging Teachers in OER: What’s on Your Plate Right Now? Take 5 minutes to reflect: o What are you currently teaching that is particularly challenging? o Are there specific instructional problems you want to address? o Are there materials you would like to provide, but do not have the time to create? (How) can OER help?
- 9. OER Case Study 1: Empirical Methods Course, TH Cologne, 2019 Computational science bachelor students 3-day in person class on empirical methods (introduction to scientific method, qualitative and quantitative methods, evaluation design) Use of MOOCs to teach concepts Learning through teaching
- 10. Empirical Methods Course, TH Cologne, 2019 Students worked in groups through the following steps: 1. Watch relevant OER videos from two Coursera MOOCs 2. Summarize content and design learning game to convey the content 3. Present / play game with peers 4. Design evaluation to test effectiveness of learning
- 11. Takeaway Lessons o MOOCs /lecture videos can be used in flipped classroom settings o Using OER materal allowed for less lecturing, more generative learning practices o Incredibly positive student feedback o MOOC content / OER material still predominantly English - language barriers can hinder student learning
- 12. OER Case Study 2: Local Government in North Carolina Updated periodically (every 5- 10 years) since 1993 Textbook audiences are 9-12 school classes, informal learners, citizen academies. The philosophy of contributing to a common good that underlies the open educational resources movement is a fitting match for contributing to civic literacy and digital citizenship.
- 13. Local Government in North Carolina 2020 E-Book with multiple formats that support reading online, downloading / printing PDF, and e-reader access Podcasts Case Studies, study questions ‘Action steps’ (follow-up transfer learning activities) Augmented Reality elements Interactive data charts (tableau public) Licensing as OER (creative commons)
- 14. Local Government in North Carolina: E- Book Local Government in North Carolina is produced with PressBooks, a WordPress based platform that allows us to publish e-books in multiple formats (epub, mobi, html, pdf) from one single source document. https://localgovernment.pressbooks.com/
- 15. Local Government in North Carolina: Tableau Public https://public.tableau.com/profile/local.government.in.north.carolina.textbook#!/
- 16. Local Government in North Carolina: Augmented Reality Metaverse is an app and studio that allows users to create experiences, polls, and media walls. Each ‘experience’ has a unique QR code. Through the metaverse mobile app, users can scan the QR codes to activate the augmented reality experience. Users can clone experiences https://studio.gometa.io
- 17. Local Government in North Carolina: Podcast Audio episodes with a specific RSS feed that allows listeners to capture the content on mobile devices. The LGNC podcast extends the book with interviews and stories about everyday activities in local government. Platform: WordPress https://podcast.sog.unc.edu/
- 18. Takeaway Lessons o Open is more than just free o Consider your authoring tools and routines o Building for reuse means building for sustainability (i.e. easy to update by various and varying stakeholders)
- 19. OER Example 3: LELA Badges Badges are a mechanism to award ‘micro-credits’ online. They are awarded by an organization for an individual user, and can be either internal to a website or online community, or use open standards and shared repositories. Badgr as an open source platform offers unlimited digital badges for free. https://badgr.io
Editor's Notes
- #3: Purposefully reduce the time you spend on writing your Powerpoints and lecture notes, and instead increase the time you think about assignments, group work, classroom activities. Don’t discard or disregard everything that’s not a 100% match, Even though it may not be a great fit at first glance, it has the potential to improve your instruction.
- #4: The term open educational resources (OER) was coined in 2002 during a forum held by the UNESCO. UNESCO defines Open Educational Resources as open materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license, which means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation.
- #5: There are many well known, established platforms, repositories and providers for open learning content. They all make rather bold statements about the power of openness. Here are a few examples. So what’s not to love? Well just because material is available, and it is clicked on, and maybe even downloaded, this does not necessarily equate to actual learning.
- #6: OER offer a world of learning at your fingertips. However, it is not easy, effortless or obvious how to productively leverage OER for teachers and learners. Instructors need to develop an individual approach - and I will offer my personal ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ strategy. At the same time, it’s an important byproduct of open learning to empower students to become independent, lifelong learners who can effectively self-regulate and use learning strategies. Even though this is an online talk, I have included several workshop-activities that allow me to engage in conversations with my co-hosts and will hopefully encourage you to develop an actionable plan for leveraging Open Educational Resources.
- #7: Purposefully reduce the time you spend on writing your Powerpoints and lecture notes, and instead increase the time you think about assignments, group work, classroom activities. Don’t discard or disregard everything that’s not a 100% match, Even though it may not be a great fit at first glance, it has the potential to improve your instruction.
- #9: One thing I find particularly helpful is to reflect ‘What’s on your plate right now?’ What classes are you teaching right now? Is there anything that is particularly challenging? Are there specific instructional challenges, for examples any topics that your students your students just don’t seem to get, prerequisites that not everybody comes prepared with, or aspects that you find particularly laborious and tedious to prepare.