OER collaborators beyond borders: The case of Brazil 2010_06_29

Andreia Inamorato dos Santos SCORE 29th June 2010 OER collaborators beyond borders: The case of Brazil

From user to provider
MOVE 1: invite (under)graduate programme coordinators to browse OL for courses of potential interest to their students as complementary study material, to be translated into Portuguese.  OER USER
MOVE 2: invite coordinators to suggest Unisul courses of potential interest to external communities for upload and sharing on the Unisul Collaborations Area inside the LabSpace of OpenLearn.  OER PROVIDER

Unisul motivations
To use , provide , promote uptake . Then...
Make the collaboration formal! Commitmet!
Encourage DE faculty and technical staff to participate ( innovation ).
Encourage students to use OpenLearn ( quality )
Publish, repurpose, translate material (8 Portuguese-speaking countries = 223 million people ( opportunity )
Share their own intellectual production ( cross-cultural studies ).
Build on existing reputation ( opportunity )
Visit the collaborator  relate with them ( relationships )

Towards OER acculturation
“ + in June” Programme 2009:
The Concept of Innovation (215 students)
Designing the User Interface (136 students)
TOTAL = 351 students enrolled.
Steps involved:
Translation.
Adaptation.
Hiring tutor.
Double interface: UnisulVirtual VLS and OpenLearn website

Taking OER beyond the university Programme + June 2010
Digital literacy initiave: basic computer skills + “Information on the Web” (taken from OL).
Aimed at UnisulVirtual students’ friends and/or relatives (30,853 students at UV).
Tutor + friend/relative support  widening participation  participatory culture.

What is it about collaboration? Andreia Santos – opened2007 – a.i.santos@open.ac.uk

Collaboration cycle

Researching UnisulVirtual
Addressing the following research questions :
✔ 4 a/b. How can we support (in) formal learning communities?
✔ 5 a. Are OER being reused by teachers?
✔ 5 d. What does a collaborative framework for learners with OER mean?
✔ 1 a . How can web 2.0 technologies support community work?
✔ How can we understand the user-provider-user continuum? (imperialism or opportunity?)

Thank you!
Andreia Santos
[email_address]
Blog: Open Content Online
aisantos.wordpress.com

OER collaborators beyond borders: The case of Brazil 2010_06_29

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