The Proficiencies
Proficiency 1: Origins and Context
Identify the diverse roots of Open Learning that are most relevant to your interests and needs as an educator.
Proficiency 2: Information Fluency
Locate and evaluate high quality open education resources that are most relevant to a given teaching scenario.
Proficiency 3: Curation
Curate an intentional, strategic collection of OERs that are most relevant to to the goals for learning in a given teaching scenario.
Proficiency 4: Learning Experience Design
(Re)design an online learning experience, integrating/adapting OERs that support and further the learning outcomes. Author/refine original collateral materials.
Proficiency 5: Education Technology
Stage an OER-integrated learning experience in an online learning platform, making effective use of tools and media. Decide and assign CC license attributes.
Proficiency 6: Open Pedagogy
Facilitate an online mini-course you developed that engages learners in authentic, collaborative work. Participate and provide feedback on an online learning experience developed and facilitated by a peer.
The Assignments
Course Welcome Message
This message is posted as an announcement the first day of the course, explaining how the course structure models the open learning process.
Timeline Assignment
Open learning has diverse roots and its history is still in the making. There are no definitive texts. In this assignment you will construct a multimedia timeline of key concepts, figures, events, and projects.
COOL Collection Assignment
Find and evaluate OERs relevant to your interests. Use an online form to pool resources in a spreadsheet. The acronym stands for Crowdsourced Open Online Learning Collection.
Mini-MOOC Assignment
Develop and facilitate a two-week, fully online learning experience that includes OERs, original materials, and authentic assignments. Assign CC to the mini-course.
Proficiency Definitions
P1: Origins and Context: Identify the diverse roots of Open Learning that are most relevant to your interests and needs as an educator.
P2: Information Fluency: Locate, evaluate, and select high quality open education resources that are most relevant to a given teaching scenario (preferably something that you or a constituent currently teach, or an offering your program would like to develop).
P3: Curation: 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.
P4: Learning Experience Design: (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.
P5: Education Technology: Stage an OER-integrated learning experience in an online learning platform. Make effective use of media and interactive technologies to deepen and further the learning experience. Assign CC license to original materials developed.
P6: Open Pedagogy: Facilitate a two-week, active, online participatory learning experience that incorporates OERs and engages learners in the development of authentic products that can be shared with others (have value beyond the class).
CC Licensing
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