Student Reflection
“I really didn’t know what to expect. When I found out about the final assignment, which was to create a two-week online learning experience, I thought ‘I can’t do that. That’s too much.’
I’d call it a guided creativity. It wasn’t, ‘These are the five learning resources that you’re supposed to put in your MOOC and put them in a certain order.’ … It was just so much more than that. There are parameters that you gave … but they were broad enough that I had free rein.
As I continued to develop my plans, I realized that OERs give meatiness to the course.”
Definition
(Re)design a two-week online learning experience (i.e., unit or module), integrating/adapting OERs that support and further the learning outcomes. Author/refine original collateral materials such as assignments.
Essential Understanding(s)
Active learning is engaging, but it needs to be purposeful to accomplish goals. A good experience is a gratifying journey in which each part contributes to the whole.
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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