INCORPORATING OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCES INTO YOUR CLASS

Karen H. Morin , PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN

Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

The Plan• Explain what

constitutes OERs

• Distinguish between

faculty and student

perspectives about

OERs

• Describe the impact of

OERs on student

learning outcomes

WHAT ARE OERS?

WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY

ARE ?

“Free, digital, easily shared learning materials” (Derosa & Robison, 2017, p. 116)

Must carry an open license

Can be reused, remixed, redistributed, retained

Flexible, help faculty & students customize learning materials

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OER-Enabled Pedagogy(Wiley & Hilton, 2018)

• “Materials are licensed

with copyright licenses

that provide

permission for

everyone to

participate in the 5R

activities – retain,

reuse, revise, remix,

and redistribute” (p. 134)

Same

• Experts write and review them

• May have support materials

• Quality not an issue

Different

• “Legally shared, copied, and

distributed at little or no cost” (Christensen, Magna20Minute Mentor, 2018)

• Can be legally adapted

Kinds of OERs

• Textbooks

• Videos

• Images

• Tests

• Lessons Plans

• Courseware

• Software

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Why OERs?

Decrease cost to students

Increase access to

materials

Provide learning materials

specific to your courses

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FACULTY AND STUDENT PERSPECTIVES

WHAT KIND OF EXPERIENCE HAVE YOU HAD WITH OERS?

Think, pair, share

Faculty

Clements & Pawlowski

(2012)

Babson Survey Research

Group (2014)

Thomas, Arshavskay, &

Poole (2018)

Clements and

Pawlowski (2012)

• Barriers to re-use

– Material from own country (35 %)

– Takes too much time (25 %)

– Don’t know where to find

international material ( 24 %)

– Can’t be certain of the quality

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http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthecurriculum2014.pdf

RESULTS

file:///C:/Users/morin/Documents/ATI%202019%20Conference/openingthecurriculum2014.pdf

Thoms, Arshavskya,

& Poole (2018)

N=299,

US Educators

• Younger teachers, K-12 settings

more likely to use OERs

• Easier to use and adapt

• Easy to find

• Videos used the most

• Issues: not comprehensive, hard

to find, not high quality, not

certain I have permission

Students

Vojtech & Grissett (2017)

Verkuyl, Lapum, St-Amant,

Tan, & Garcia (2018)

Vojtech & Grissett

(2017)

• Student perceptions of faculty who use OERs

• Read 2 passages

• Rated hypothetical faculty on 6 attributes

• Were more kind, encouraging, and creative

• Were more likely to take a course from a faculty using open textbook

Verkuyl, Lapum,

St-Amant, Tan &

Garcia (2018)

• “Students’ perceptions of being

involved with faculty in the production

of a computer-based OER textbook” (p. 75)

• Vital Sign Measurement Across the

Lifespan

• Student advisory committee

• Collaboration underpinned experience

– Socialization

– Learner-centered pedagogy

– Crystalizing learning

STUDENT OUTCOMES

RETENTION

ACHIEVEMENT

ENGAGEMENT

WHERE TO START

KEY UNDERSTANDING

Creative Commons:

▪ Global nonprofit organization

▪ Enables sharing and reuse of

creativity and knowledge

▪ Through provision of free legal

tools

https://creativecommons.org/faq/#what-is-creative-commons-and-what-do-you-do

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSING

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Attribution [CC BY]

Attribution –Share Alike [CC BY-SA]

Attribution –NoDerivs [CC BY-ND]

Attribution – NonCommercial [CC BY-NC]

Attribution –NonCommerical-ShareAlike[CC BY-NC-SA]

Attribution– NonCommercial-NoDerivs[CC BY NC-ND]

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

https://www.oercommons.org/curated-collections

Where Can You Find OER?

Websites

https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

1

https://www.khanacademy.org/

2

https://open.bccampus.ca/

3

https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

4

https://teachonline.ca/tools-trends/california-open-online-library-education-cool4ed-california-state-university-california-community

5

https://openstax.org/

6

MERLOT KHANAcademy

BCcampus MIT COOL4Ed OpenStax

Things to Consider

• Human resources

– Librarians

– Colleagues

– Technicians

• Types of activities (DeRosa & Robison, 2017)

– Wikipedia Assignment

– Student video

– Class created textbook

– Crowd-sourced syllabus

Karen H. Morin, PhD, RN,

ANEF, FAAN

Professor Emerita

University of Wisconsin-

Milwaukee

morin@uwm.edu

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Christensen, E. (2017). How will OER benefit the 21st century student?Magna20MinuteMentor.Clements, K. I., & Pawlowski, J. M. (2011). User-oriented quality for OER: Understanding teachers’ views on re-use, quality, and trust. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 28, 4-14.

DeRosa, R. & Robison, S. (2017). From OER to open pedagogy: Harnessing the power of open. In: Jhangiani, R. S., and Biswas-Diener, R. (Eds.) Open: The philosophy and practices that are revolutionizing education and science. P. 115-124. London, Eng.: Ubiquity Press Doi:https://doi.org/10.5334/bbc.i.License: CC-BY

Seaman, J. E., & Seaman, J. (2017). Opening the textbook: Educational resources in U. S. higher education. Babson Survey research Group. Accessed February 3, 2019 from https://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthetextbook2017.pdf

Thoms, J. J., Arshavskaya, E., & Poole, F. J. (2018). Open educational resources and ESL education: Insights from US educators. The Electronic Journal for English as a second language. 22 (2), 1-24.

Verkuyl, M., Lapum, J., St-Amant, O., Tan, A., & Garcia, W. (2018). Engaging nursing students in the production of open educational resources. Nurse Education Today, 71, 75-77. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2018.09.012

Vojtech, G., & Grissett, J. (2017). Student perceptions of college faculty who use OER. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18, 155-171

Wiley, D., & Hilton, J. (2018). Defining OER-enabled pedagogy. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 19, 134-147.