Intro to SCoPE OER Seminar
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The document outlines a seminar led by Scott Leslie on Open Educational Resources (OER), highlighting the concept's significance, history, and challenges. It proposes a three-week discussion structure focused on finding, creating, and sharing OER, along with questions to stimulate participant engagement. The seminar aims to explore the meaning of openness in education and how to enhance the sustainability and usability of OER in diverse contexts.
Intro to SCoPE OER Seminar
- 1. Intro to SCoPE OER Seminar Scott Leslie Manager, Shareable Online Learning Resources BCcampus January 19, 2009
- 2. Outline OER – They’re Everywhere! Really! The Challenges I See Proposed Structure for 3 weeks Discussions What do YOU want?
- 3. What’s an OER? Isn’t that kind of like asking “What’s a Learning Object?” Nooooo!!!!!! ( that means, “yes, exactly” ) OER refers to “educational resources (lesson plans, quizzes, syllabi, instructional modules, simulations, etc) that are freely available for use, reuse, adaption and sharing” “ OER Handbook for Educators” http://www.wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator_version_one/Introduction/Defining_OER
- 4. OER “Movement” 10 Years Old Wiley’s “Open Content” – later “Open Publication License” - 1998 Term ‘officially’ originated in 2002 at UNESCO 's Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries
- 5. Clearly, it’s even older than that
- 6. Let’s try that again…
- 7. HUGE Amount (and Growing) of ‘Formal’ OER
- 14. Hundreds of Smaller Projects
- 15. As well as MANY ways to find them
- 18. There’s an Even Larger Pool of ‘Informal’ Open Content
- 24. BUT… Often the “formal/institutional” OER projects were done on “soft” money that is drying up Often adopted a “publishing” model in which content was made open after the course, as a supplementary (and thus less sustainable) act Maybe overly focused on “content” which is clearly only a portion of what education involves No one is sure what’s getting used, what effect it is having …
- 25. What I’m hoping we can discuss in the next 3 weeks
- 26. Week 1 – Finding/Reusing OER Some questions I’d love to discuss What are OER's? What does ‘Openness’ mean to you? Where do you currently go to find OER? Problems and Advantages? How much time do you spend looking for appropriate OERs? When you find them, where do you store them? Have you ever modified someone else's work for your own use? If not, why not? If so, how did it work out? Were there things that made it easier?
- 27. Week 2 – Creating OER Questions I’d love to discuss Why create and share OER? How do you currently author your course content? Would it be easy to share your course content now without a lot of additional work? Why is creating your own course content in a way that is easily shareable and reusable a worthwhile goal for your own purposes ? How to sustain OER efforts?
- 28. Week 3 – Sharing/Sustaining OER Questions I’d love to discuss Where have you tried to share your OE Resource? What's been your experience in trying to share an OER? What's stopping you from sharing? How can we change so our educational practices (not just the content) to become more open? Licensing - which license would you consider, and why? How to make OERs more useful to people of different languages and cultural situations? What is your ideal future for OER?
- 29. But what is it about OERs that YOU want to talk about or learn?