How to design a course using OER, a presentation for the Open Education Week 2015 at Delft University of Technology

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Willem van Valkenburg, Nelson Ribeiro Jorge & Leonie Meijerink . Delft Extension School
Cora Bijsterveld . New Media Centre
Create your Open Course Design
A practical workshop on using Open Education Resources in
designing a course
Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0.
Please attribute TU Delft /Leonie Meijerink, Nelson Jorge

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Goal: to design a course integrating OER, making use of the
OER life cycle. You will learn how to use OER:
1. as educational resources to prepare your course, providing
the content your students will need to complete the learning
activities and reach the course goals;
2. as artefacts produced by your students, as a product of a
learning activity, released as OER.

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Create your Open Course Design Workshop
15.00-15.20 C. The OER Life Cycle
14.15-14.40 A. Course Design & Activity
14.40-15.00 B. Overview of OER in engineering education
15.40-16.00 D. Creative Commons in the OER Life Cycle
16.10-16.40 Activity Design the Optimal Open Course Activity
Spark
BREAK
16.00-16.10 E. Artefacts published online
16.40-17.00 Closure and conclusions

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Open-air school in the freezing cold. The Netherlands, location unknown, 1918.Nationaal Archief / Spaarnestad Photo / Het Leven,
SFA022818969. The Commons, no copyright https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/3915530627

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spark

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Activity 1
Think, Group, Share:
• OER- Do you know what it is?
• Have you used OER?
• Have you produced your own OER?
• Have you produced an Open Course (released on OCW)?
spark

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A. Course Design
Learning objectives
By the end of
this course
students will
be able to…
Learning activities
What actions will
students perform to
meet the objectives?
Discussion, case-study,
exercises, group work,
quiz, peer-review, etc.
Resources
What can I reuse?
What do I need to
produce?
Textbook, video,
animation, article,
website, etc.
Assessment
How will
students be
assessed?

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A. Course Design
1. Define learning objectives
2. Explore OER
3. Plan open activities
4. Select & adapt OER 5. Publish OCW
& students’ artefacts

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A. Course Design
Activity 2: Think of one learning objective and
open activity
Step 1: Write down one idea for a topic for which you could use
an OER in your course.
Step 2: Write a learning objective
Step 3: Come up with an ‘open activity’ where you (as a teacher)
make use of OER for your own course
Step 4: Share your ideas in plenary

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B. Overview of OER in Engineering Education
Explore open educational materials to see what's available "out
there“
Which are the most common and relevant places to find OER in
engineering Higher Education institutions globally?

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Everything
contains
carbon
45%of carbon is in plants
Herbivores eat
plants
Carnivores eat
herbivores
Animals are
decomposed
Carbon returns
to the soil
Plants grow
from the soil
C. The OER Life Cycle
First let’s look at ….The Cycle of Life

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Search & find
OER
Compose (Piece
Together)
Adapt to Local
Contexts
Produce a
Learning
Resource
Deploy and
Use Resource
Refine Learning
Resource
Share and make
available for
reuse
C. The OER Life Cycle
From: OERAfrica, http://www.oerafrica.org/
and OER Educators Handbook, wikipedia.
Retrieved on March 1st 2015

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Search & find
OER
Compose (Piece
Together)
Adapt to Local
Contexts
Produce a
Learning
Resource
Deploy and
Use Resource
Refine Learning
Resource
Share and make
available for
reuse
C. The OER Life Cycle
From: OERAfrica, http://www.oerafrica.org/
and OER Educators Handbook, wikipedia.
Retrieved on March 1st 2015

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C. The OER Life Cycle: Compose
• Align the OER with your learning objectives
• Consider the language used
• Consider the level of your learners
• Chunk, structure and sequence
• Include methodology/pedagogy

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C. The OER Life Cycle - Adapt
Retain
Reuse
Revise
Remix
Redistribute
From: Wiley, David. "Open Content". OpenContent.org.
Retrieved from Wikipedia, Open Content, 2015-03-09

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Search & find
OER
Compose (Piece
Together)
Adapt to Local
Contexts
Produce a
Learning
Resource
Deploy and
Use Resource
Refine Learning
Resource
Share and make
available for
reuse
C. The OER Life Cycle
From: OERAfrica and OER
Educators Handbook, wikipedia

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C. The OER Life Cycle-
Produce, Deploy and use, Refine
Produce: paper, online, blended...(has implications for
distribution and access).
Produce: Quantity/ licenses needed, implications for cost.
Deploy: Who should have access to the OER and when?
(students on campus, outside campus)
Refine: After the first run the course needs to be refined/revised
based on ‘lessons learnt’ so that it is remains useful.

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Search & find
OER
Compose (Piece
Together)
Adapt to Local
Contexts
Produce a
Learning
Resource
Deploy and
Use Resource
Refine Learning
Resource
Share and make
available for
reuse
C. The OER Life Cycle- Share and make
available for reuse
From: OERAfrica and OER
Educators Handbook, wikipedia

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C. The OER Life Cycle- A good practice
ACE Maths OER project: contribution of the community helped to
improve the materials they first released themselves as OER. (from
COL OER Change in Higher Education).
They then shared the improved version back as OER. This means one
of the largest benefits of the project was Quality. (p. 75 -88)
International norm design time per notionable learning hour is
between 20 and 100 hours. However with the ACE Maths OER project
only 4 hours were spent on average!

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OER and copyright
Open Education
Cora Bijsterveld
Copyright Officer
Except when otherwise noted, this work is licensed CC-BY 4.0
Please attribute TU Delft / Delft Extension School
D. OER and Copyright

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E. Course Design- Artefacts published online

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Final Activity: Design the Optimal Open Course
Activity
Think of one idea for an activity that you could do with students
that would lead into the production of an OER. (e.g which
instructional strategy, method, tool could you use?)
Design the activity that will lead the students into the production
of an OER, that will meet your learning objectives (and
assessment requirements). The activity should be an optimal
example that we can share on the OCW website.

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Finally, The Big Question is….
Will we be able to find an
OER produced by you/
your team next year?

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Commons.wikimedia.org
Share your courses
and educational
resources on
http://ocw.tudelft.nl/