How can the Open Source community better support educators to create, use and share OER? Since march 2017, our project edulabs.de organized meetups with teachers and volunteers from civic tech initiatives. In the workshop I want to discuss experiences and the further potential of community-based event formats to foster a culture of sharing.
key points
Common obstacles for OER creation and what to do instead
Open Educational Resources and / or Open Education ?
Education and Open Culture
How to organize edusprint events
Co-creative approaches to OER quality
Collaboration formats to discover/create/share OER
Why we had to build a candy machine
2. edulabs.de
• Project started 03/2017 by
Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V.
& mediale pfade e.V. (pedagogical support)
• Funded via OERInfo by BMBF
(German ministry of education)
• Network of 25 OERInfo projects
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4. What we do
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Support & develop
the Open Education
Community
Organize
networking events,
outreach
Workshops with
Teachers
Support OER
creation
and discovery
• regional edulabs
• Public calls
• Blog
• Social media
• Workshops at
edu-events
• Presenting
community
projects
• Focus on media
literacy and
digital tools
• 15 partner
schools
• Editorial support
• Developing OER
Tools
• Edusprints
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licenses are not the most important factor.
OER continues to grow, but…
Source: KCNA (edited)
7. For most teachers in
Germany, open
licenses in education
are less exciting than
the mechanics of a
copy machine.
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edulabs-learning #1
via giphy, https://gph.is/1FLyaQr
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Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-10873 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, Bundesarchiv Bild 102-10873, Reichsbahnzentralschule, Unterricht, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
Questions that teachers do care about
How can digital
tools contribute
to education
* #zeitgemäßeBildung
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Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-10873 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, Bundesarchiv Bild 102-10873, Reichsbahnzentralschule, Unterricht, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
New tools,
old methods.
12. Bild: Edutopia 2013: How Building Robots Captivates Kids' Imaginations (Is School Enough? Series),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL-SrNJ0ZPg
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For self-directed
learning,
good materials
are a neccessity
edulabs-learning #2
13. Empowerment through
education?
Ongoing discussion about digital skills:
• 4Cs of 21st century learning
• Collaboration
• Creativity
• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Media and Information literacy (UNESCO) as a cross-sectoral
theme
• KMK-Strategie „Bildung in der digitalen Welt“ (Germany)
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17. inspiration: hackathons
• Limited time (1/2 - 3 days)
• Online Collaboration
• Development in small teams
• Supported by facilitator(s)
• Welcoming, playful and
productive atmosphere
• Differences:
• Many resources already
exist
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Image: Candy Machine, by Maximilian Voigt (CC-BY). Source:
https://www.instructables.com/id/S%C3%BC%C3%9Figkeitenautomat-Candy-Vending-Machine/
(A candy machine is optional)
25. Support for OER Creation
• Warm-up: Personal relevance
• Track progress on Kanban board
• Clear criteria for quality
• Structured form for OER recommendations
• Regular breaks to facilitate changes in teams
• „Recipes“ for peer interviews and other guided
formats of OER creation
• Examples for good OER
• Templates for teaching materials
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26. Criteria for Quality
• Is the recommended / created resource open (according to
opendefinition.org ) = CC0 / CC-BY / CC-BY-SA ?
• Does the recommended material foster participation and
selfdirected learning?
• Is the material compatible to the curriculum for digital
education?
• Is it well enough designed to be ready to use for teachers?
• Are contents and pedagogy on the level of current
standards?
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