1 Dr. Sherri Restauri [email protected] March 2016OERs in OL Resources, Concerns, and Tips for Best Usage Dr. Sherri Restauri March 2016 @sherrirestauri Google doc on UAH OER research: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IZ0R4XtTCZAj0ikgvnVu-sgykSzmXlA6JzGM3KGJudA/edit#heading=h.gbsvhxvmr6ha
2 OERs According to LOAZ, "There are many characteristics of learning objects, the common ones are: accessibility, interoperability, adaptability, reusability, durability, and granularity." What? What are OERs?
3 OERs identified Open & Educationalterm used to describe educational materials that are free to use, re-use, and share. The term OER has been used to refer to learning materials such as: Audio lectures Video micro-lectures Images Sounds and music Entire course content/Texts/MOOCS Collections of journal articles and institutional repositories ILE/Simulations Open & Educational Open Educational Resources (OER) is a term used to describe educational materials that are free to use, re-use, and share. The term OER has been used to refer to learning materials such as: Learning objects Audio lectures Video micro-lectures Images Sounds and music Entire course content Collections of journal articles and institutional repositories Textbooks
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5 T-P-S Problems in Higher EdTPS—what do you believe are the top 3 stressors for college students today? A new report from Student Monitor asked college students to identify the biggest problems on campus, and their top three answers were cost of education, stress, and alcohol abuse. The student market research company spoke to 1,200 full-time four-year college students this semester about a range of topics, including what they saw as the biggest problems on campus. Students were asked to list the top three problems from a list of 21 options — 63% of the students included "cost of education" in their responses, the most cited problem by far. Additionally, 66% of the students surveyed agreed with the statement that the "cost of college is too expensive." However, another recent report from the Brookings Institutefound that college isn't actually getting more expensive, despite what is popularly believed. Rather, although the sticker price for college has steeply increased over the last decade, the net price — what students are actually paying — has stayed fairly steady. Expenses are not the only thing colleges students have to worry about, though. More than a third of the students surveyed — 38% — named stress as a major problem, and 32% said that alcohol abuse and binge drinking was also one of the biggest problems on campus. According to a 2008 survey from the Associated Press and mtvU, 80% of American college students say they "frequently or sometimes experience daily stress." The National Institute of Health reports that of the college students who do consume alcohol, about half binge drink — defined as drinking around 4-5 drinks in two hours. oblems-on-college-campuses
6 OERs Why? Why would we use OERs?
7 New Paradigms in Educationguiding, motivating, and facilitating valuing working together many rich sources of immediate knowledge learning using a vast variety of media including the Internet learning now occurs globally lecturing on factual information working as an individual teacher was the primary source of knowledge teacher and print media served as the primary means of communication learning was separated from the rest of the community VS. Dr. Steven G. Lesh, Southwest Baptist University (Gubbins, Clay, & Perkins, 1999) Anya Kamenetz: https://youtu.be/i6MLLkmXee0 https://youtu.be/i6MLLkmXee0 7:23 Academe, February Dr. Sherri Restauri
8 Moocs in the OER movement
9 We use oers because: Student needs Faculty needs Institutional needsStandards of good practice BECP com/resources/catalys t- awards/bbexemplaryco urserubric_rebrand_j uly2015.pdf SREC PGP OLC’s Quality Scorecard Regional accrediting bodies Promotion & outreach Service to community We use oers because: Student needs Faculty needs Institutional needs
10 OERs, LORs, & MOOCs, Oh, My! MERLOT (search by type/rating/peer review): https://merlot.org (Links to an external site.) ION: http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/otai/ (Links to an external site.) 60 Great Recommendations: http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2010/10/teaching -online-courses-60-great.html (Links to an external site.) Brown: http://www.brown.edu/about/administration/sheridan- center/teaching-learning/course-design/learning- technology/resources-online-assignments (Links to an external site.) Canvas Commons: https://guides.instructure.com/m/38287/l/ what- is-canvas-commons & CanvasNet: https://www.canvas.net/ Bb open education: https://openeducation.blackboard.com/home?tab_tab_group_id=_12_1
11 Academic Earth http://academicearth.org/universities/+Playlists w/ combos +Supplements +Embedding/Shareability The nature of evil playlist example: -Advertisements
12 Khan Academy WATCH-PRACTICE-COACH-CONTRIBUTE ABOUT WATCH-PRACTICE-COACH-CONTRIBUTE ABOUT Sex linked characteristics—4:04 Punnett Squares—2:00 fun?playlist=Biology Normal Distribution— 0:50 problems--qualitative-sense-of-normal- distributions?playlist=Statistics + Growing, multi-contributors +Tracking & interactivity
13 +Shareable & downloadable Ze Frank's web playroomTed Talks (Ted Ed) Technology, Entertainment & Design TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It began in 1984 as an annual conference devoted to Technology, Entertainment & Design. +Shareable & downloadable Ze Frank's web playroom
14 Innovative OERs Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) could take one or more courses that utilize free and/or open courses materials to deliver a high quality learning experience without requiring the purchase of textbooks or other course materials. The OER courses lead to the General Studies Certificate and satisfy the first year of the Associate of Science Degree. The OER-Based General Education Project was funded through a College Innovation Fund grant received from the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) in early Dr. Wm Preston Davis, Director of Instruction at Northern Virginia Community College’s Extended Learning Institute, and his staff of faculty, librarians, and instructional designers set out to create a program where students at Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) could take one or more courses that utilize free and/or open courses materials to deliver a high quality learning experience without requiring the purchase of textbooks or other course materials. The OER courses lead to the General Studies Certificate and satisfy the first year of the Associate of Science Degree.
15 Institutional & System-Level OCW InitiativesThe four main objectives for having an institutional LOR are: to provide open access to institutional research output by self-archiving it; to create global visibility for an institution's scholarly research; To collect content in a single location; to store and preserve other institutional digital assets, including unpublished or otherwise easily lost materials.
16 Available options: Institutional & Public Domain Repositories An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating - in digital form - the intellectual output of an institution… Available options: CMS/LMS/VLE: College-, Dept-, and Discipline-specific LORs FEDORA MERLOT The four main objectives for having an institutional repository are: to provide open access to institutional research output by self-archiving it; to create global visibility for an institution's scholarly research; To collect content in a single location; to store and preserve other institutional digital assets, including unpublished or otherwise easily lost materials.
17 Best practices relating to oersInitial adoption in course development Use in-house tools and free oer resources to aggregate Templates for modules, courses, support tools, graphics, etc. Identify items that can be repurposed easily Branding/standardization/guidelines in production outside of campus, CSU ex- Informal or formal peer review; submit to merlot directly for review; BECP? Promotions of full oer materials (i.e., texts & courses) w/ surveys to students to solicit feedback, particularly moocs
18 March 7-11, OER for 2016: http://www.openeducationweek.org/ March 7-11, OER for 2016:
19 In Closing Start small Make a broader impact & save your own time & costs Consider creating LORs internally first
20 Questions?