Student Reflection

“In a field constantly striving for innovation, Open Education Resources provide a tangible record of content and pedagogy that allows us as educators to continue to reform and improve, providing better education to students around the world for years to come.”

Definition

Identify the desired learning outcomes of a specified teaching scenario. For each outcome, curate an intentional and strategic collection of OERs that are most relevant to to the goals for learning.

Essential Understanding(s)

The OER integration process is nonlineariterative, and strategic. A preliminary scan can spark ideas for teaching. Selection involves winnowing and adapting resources in relation to goals.

Sample Assignment: Mini-MOOC

  • Individual choice of topic, selected during the same week when course participants explore OERs for the COOL Collection assignment
  • Curation: Mini-MOOC content must include at least three forms of high-quality open learning resources that were created by another entity (e.g., materials, videos, tools).
  • Learning Experience Design: Mini-MOOC process guided by a multi-week planner, adapted from the Backward Design planner developed by Wiggins & McTighe (2005)
  • Education Technology: Stage the learning experience in a learning management system, set to self-enroll, or in another platform that is available to the public.
  • Open Pedagogy: Mini-MOOC should model open pedagogy by fostering interaction between min-MOOC participants and actively engaging them in the development of authentic work products that can be shared beyond the course. Original materials authored for the Mini-MOOC should be assigned a Creative Commons license of the course author’s choosing.

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