leveraging open educational resources to empower students

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