Using OERs and MOOCs during School Closures
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Carmen Holotescu discusses the importance of Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in enhancing access to education, particularly during school closures. OERs consist of various educational materials released under open licenses, while MOOCs allow large audiences to engage in online learning experiences. The document emphasizes the need for open educators who leverage these resources to remove barriers to learning and foster collaboration.
Using OERs and MOOCs during School Closures
- 1. Carmen Holotescu Professor PhD, Dean Faculty of Engineering Director Center for Open Education and Blockchain University "Ioan Slavici" of Timisoara, Romania Using OERs and MOOCs during School Closures
- 2. Open Education Open Education is a way of carrying out education, often using digital technologies. Its aim is to widen access and participation to everyone by removing barriers and making learning accessible, abundant, and customisable for all. It offers multiple ways of teaching and learning, building and sharing knowledge. It also provides a variety of access routes to formal and non-formal education, and connects the two. Source: OpenEdu Project: JRC Report "Opening up Education: a support framework for HE institutions", 2016 https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/open-education Core and Transversal Dimensions ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research- reports/opening-education-support-framework-higher-education-institutions
- 3. Open Educational Resources (OERs) OERs are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium that may be composed of copyrightable materials released under an open license, materials not protected by copyright, materials for which copyright protection has expired, or a combination of the foregoing. UNESCO (2002, 2019) https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge- societies/oer Recommendation on OER https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000370936 2001 – MIT - open access to courses http://ocw.mit.edu Wayback Machine http://web.archive.org/ https://oeconsortium.org/ OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation. Big and Little OERs – on dedicated repositories or on social networks. (Weller, 2010)
- 5. Open Licenses – Creative Commons (CC) creativecommons.org, Lawrence Lessig, 2001 https://creativecommons.org/tag/cc-romania/, 2008
- 6. Searching OERs https://merlot.org https://poerup.info https://padlet.com/joerdis/repositories
- 7. Creating OERs https://oercommons.org https://c4lpt.co.uk https://toptools4learning.com
- 8. OER Projects in response to Covid-19 (1) https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse
- 9. https://oer4covid.oeru.org https://ec.europa.eu/education/resources-and-tools/coronavirus-online-learning-resources_en https://teachfromhome.google OER Projects in response to Covid-19 (2)
- 10. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) 2008 – 1st MOOC: George Siemens and Stephen Downes co-taught “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge” - 25 tuition-paying students at the University of Manitoba, Canada plus ~2300 participants worldwide, became co-creators of the course; content distributed on social networks. web.archive.org/web/20080629220943/http://ltc.umanitoba.ca:83/connectivism/
- 11. MOOC directories class-central.com mooc-list.com edx.org/verified-certificate edx.org/xseries edx.org/micromasters udacity.com/nanodegree coursera.org/specializations futurelearn.com/programs In May 2015 - the largest MOOC ever: 440,000 participants in English Language Learning MOOC http://tinyurl.com/largestMOOC MOOC Platforms and directories
- 12. openuped.eu home.eadtu.eu Higher Education Online: MOOCs the European way Fostering international Higher Education collaboration though ICT and open education menon.org/projects/emundus The European Multiple MOOC Aggregator platform.europeanmoocs.eu home.eadtu.eu The European Association of Distance Teaching Universities ecolearning.eu bizmooc.eu movemeproject.eu “MOOCs are online courses designed for large numbers of participants (>148, Dunbar number), that can be accessed by anyone anywhere as long as they have an internet connection, are open to everyone without entry qualifications, and offer a full/complete course experience online for free””. eadtu.eu/documents/Publications/OEenM/Institutional_MOOC_strategies_in_Europe.pdf langmooc.com moocknowledge.eu European MOOC Projects October 2017 https://emc.eadtu.eu/ - Microcredentials on Blockchain
- 13. Design •Open Designer: •Shares and validates his/her course design ideas and curriculum openly through social media. Content •OER Expert: •Uses open educational content, open licenses, by facilitating sharing of her resources, and using OERs produced by others in his/her teaching. Teaching •Open Teacher: •Adopts open pedagogies fostering co-creation of knowledge and OERs by students through online and offline collaboration. Assessment •Open Evaluator: •Implements open assessment practices such as peer and collaborative evaluation, open badges, and e- portfolios. Nascimbeni, F., & Burgos, D. (2016). In search for the Open Educator: proposal of a definition and a framework to increase openness adoption among university educators. IRRODL, 17(6). irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2736 Open Educator An Open Educator is fluent with open approaches and is an activist for openness in (higher) education. A possible Definition: An Open Educator choses to use open approaches, when possible and appropriate, with the aim to remove all unnecessary barriers to learning. He/she works through an open online identity and relies on online social networking to enrich and implement his/her work, understanding that collaboration bears a responsibility towards the work of others.
- 14. MOOCs for Open Educators https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/teach-online https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/storytelling https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being Curated quality MOOCs as learning paths and journeys towards openness; starting points in a life long learning journey of learning; useful for individuals, but also for institutions tailoring their training programs and policies. https://www.classcentral.com/report/free-online-learning-coronavirus
- 16. Carmen Holotescu Twitter: @cami13 Research: tinyurl.com/cholotescu Thank you!