Status: This module is currently in development
Rationale
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are freely accessible, openly licensed materials for teaching and learning, and represent a paradigm shift compared to traditional methods of education. They are intrinsically related to developments in Open Science, due to the wider implications of access to knowledge in education in our global societies. This module will provide an understanding of the motivations behind OERs and how to develop your own.
Learning outcomes
- The researcher will be able to convey the motivations behind the OER movement, and the relationship that this has with Open Science.
- The researcher will be able to identify and implement the steps to either prepare content for educational re-use purposes, or be able to design their own OER.
- The researcher will be able to either identify relevant places where their research can be integrated into Wikipedia, or integrate it themselves if they are a user.
Resources
- GO-GN: Openness and education - a-beginner’s guide/ ,
- Open Education Handbook, CC BY 4.0
- Open Education Handsheet, SPARC
- OER World Map
- OER Commons, a public digital library of Open Educational Resources
- OER Hub, researching the impact of Open Educational Resources
- Open education course directories:
- NovoEd
- Class Central
- OpenLearn
- OpenHPI
- OpenMed
- Classpert
- OpenClassrooms
Research Articles and Reports
- Open Educational Resources: Opportunities and challenges, Hylen, 2005
- Models for sustainable Open Educational Resources, Downes, 2007
- Giving knowledge for free: The emergence of Open Educational Resources, OECD, 2007
- Open content and Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education, Caswell et al., 2008
- Linking open course wares and open education resources: creating an effective search and recommendation system, Shelton et al., 2010
- Evaluating Open Educational Resources: Lessons learned, DeVries, 2013
- Effects of Open Textbook Adoption on Teachersâ Open Practices Mason, Kimmons, 2018
- Open Educational Resources, Marcus-Quinn and Diggins, 2013
- State of the art review of quality issues related to Open Educational Resources (OER), Camilleri et al., 2014
- Open Data as Open Educational Resources: Case studies of emerging practice, Atenas and Havemann, 2015
- Open data as Open Educational Resources: Towards transversal skills and global citizenship, Atenas et al., 2015
- Openness and Praxis: Exploring the Use of Open Educational Practices in Higher Education, Cronin, 2017
- Multimedia resources as examples of polymorphic educational hypertexts in the post-literacy era, Goodova et al., 2015
- The Power of the Three Words and One Acronym: OER vs OER: Subtitle: I’m not an Ogre of the Enchanted Realm (of cyberspace). I’m an Omnipresent Educational Rescuer (because I use the OER!), Holotescu et al., 2015
- Open Educational Resources development model for an inquiring cultural skill of Higher Education students, Kaosaiyaporn et al., 2015
- The use of Open Educational Resources in online learning: A study of students’ perception, Meirani, 2015
- The global information educational resources: Methodological issues, Nail et al., 2015
- From vision to action – A strategic planning process model for Open Educational Resources, Shu-Hsiang et al., 2015
- Open Educational Resources: American ideals, global questions, Weiland, 2015
- Not all rubrics are equal: A review of rubrics for evaluating the quality of Open Educational Resources, Yuan and Recker, 2015
- A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources, Commonwealth of Learning, 2015
- MOOCs as disruptive technologies: Strategies for enhancing the learner experience and quality of MOOCs, Conole, 2016
- Use of Open Educational Resources: How, why and why not?, Islim et al., 2016
- Open Educational Resources: Policy, costs and transformation, Miao et al., 2016
- OER in and as MOOCs, Czerniewicz et al., 2017
- Policy Approaches to Open Education – Case Studies from 28 EU Member States (OpenEdu Policies), European Commission, 2017
- Open Educational Resources as a diver for manufacturing-related education for learning of sustainable development, Roeder et al., 2017
- Open pathways to student success: Academic library partnerships for Open Educational Resource and affordable content creation adoption. Salem Jr., 2017
- Conceptualising OEP: A review of theoretical and empirical literature in Open Educational Practices, Cronin, MacLaren, 2018
Key posts
- Foundations for OER Strategy Development, Allen et al., 2015
- What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?, UNESCO
- Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons, Eliademy
Other
- Introduction to OER, University of Pittsburgh
- BC Campus OpenEd
- Wikimedia, a global movement whose mission is to bring free educational content to the world
- Discovering Open Educational Resources (OER), Temple University
- Open Educational Practice (OEP): collection of scenarios, Steiner, 2018
- The Cape Town Open Education Declaration ,Unlocking the promise of Open Educational Resources
- The 2012 Paris OER Declaration
- Open Educational Resources ,Hewlett Foundation
- Open Educational Resources, Commonwealth of Learning
- Global Report ,2017
- Definition of OER, OpenContent
- MERLOT, Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
- OASIS meta search, search engine filtering through a huge collection of OER repositories (see https://oasis.geneseo.edu/sources.php)
- Temoa, Open Educational Resources Portal
- Open textbook initiatives:
- Making Open Textbooks with Students @ rebus.foundation
- Unglue it
- FreeBooks4Doctors
- InTech Open
- Bookboon
- BC Campus OpenEd
- E-books Directory
- Directory of Open Access Books
- Wikibooks
- UCL Press Bbooks
- Saylor Academy Open Textbooks
- Potto Project
- Open Library, Internet Archive
- Openstax
- Open Textbooks, SUNY
- Open Textbook Library
- LibreTexts
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Geosciences
- Mathematics