Open Resource, or Open Sewer? Evaluating Open Educational ResourcesErin Owens
Open educational resources (OER) continue to become more available and more popular, but the quality of open content can range from terrific to terrible. This session will explore potential issues with OER quality and share key tools and strategies to more efficiently evaluate open teaching materials.
Open Resource, or Open Sewer? Evaluating Open Educational ResourcesErin Owens
Open educational resources (OER) continue to become more available and more popular, but the quality of open content can range from terrific to terrible. This session will explore potential issues with OER quality and share key tools and strategies to more efficiently evaluate open teaching materials.
Slides from a presentation given 9 March 2017 at the Digital Education Summit at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX. Session description: "Open Educational Resources (OER) can be great tools to enhance online courses. But what exactly are they, and how do you find them and put them to use? This session will define and illustrate OER broadly (and open textbooks in particular), highlight key tools for discovering OER, and share examples of how the integration of OER can benefit you and your students."
As the world becomes more connected, we have greater access to information than we could have thought possible only a few years ago. This has had a tremendous impact on education, and English teaching is no exception. From greater education and training requirements to a growing emphasis on the use of technology both in and outside the classroom, how can teachers keep up with the pace of change? This talk will discuss current and future trends in teaching and give teachers ideas about how they can stay informed and professionally up-to-date in today’s fast-paced world.
What are the benefits and challenges of using Open Educational Resources (OER)? This presentation will outline five benefits and five challenges and provide a quick glimpse into the possible future of OER.
These slides are from my portion of a panel titled "Opening up Open Access: Open Access is not just an Academic Library Issue." This presentation was given at the Florida Library Association's 2012 annual conference.
SITE 2012 - Virtual Learning in New Zealand: Achieving MaturityMichael Barbour
Barbour, M. K., Wenmoth, D., & Davis, N. (2012, March). Virtual learning in New Zealand: Achieving maturity. A paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, Austin, TX.
This proposal describes a study into the development of virtual learning in New Zealand, specifically the obstacles that e-learning clusters face or have faced in their journey to sustainability and maturity through the lens of the Learning Communities Online Handbook. Using a variety of data collection methods, the researchers identified three common barriers, including a lack of a coherent vision, difficulty in securing the necessary funding and resources, and a lack of collaboration and cooperation within and between clusters. Based on these findings, it is recommended that individual e-learning clusters develop specific strategies to encourage greater collaboration between clusters and work towards greater consistency between their activities, including professional and organizational development and also of the approaches to virtual learning.
Boundless Goes to Washington: CEO Ariel Diaz Speaks at White House Education ...goboundless
Ariel Diaz, the CEO of Boundless, a company creating affordable and effective online textbooks and learning tools that improve education for millions of students, presented at The White House’s second annual Education Datapalooza. The event will highlighted innovations in postsecondary education, including Diaz’s presentation on how Boundless uses open content to provide effective learning tools for millions of students.
Implementing a New Digital Literacy Initiativetweisz
This was a presentation for the Alaska School Leadership Conference as part of the Festival of Ideas. I discuss the how we came to the decision to create and implement our technology class as part of a larger digital literacy initiative.
Slides from a presentation given 9 March 2017 at the Digital Education Summit at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX. Session description: "Open Educational Resources (OER) can be great tools to enhance online courses. But what exactly are they, and how do you find them and put them to use? This session will define and illustrate OER broadly (and open textbooks in particular), highlight key tools for discovering OER, and share examples of how the integration of OER can benefit you and your students."
As the world becomes more connected, we have greater access to information than we could have thought possible only a few years ago. This has had a tremendous impact on education, and English teaching is no exception. From greater education and training requirements to a growing emphasis on the use of technology both in and outside the classroom, how can teachers keep up with the pace of change? This talk will discuss current and future trends in teaching and give teachers ideas about how they can stay informed and professionally up-to-date in today’s fast-paced world.
What are the benefits and challenges of using Open Educational Resources (OER)? This presentation will outline five benefits and five challenges and provide a quick glimpse into the possible future of OER.
These slides are from my portion of a panel titled "Opening up Open Access: Open Access is not just an Academic Library Issue." This presentation was given at the Florida Library Association's 2012 annual conference.
SITE 2012 - Virtual Learning in New Zealand: Achieving MaturityMichael Barbour
Barbour, M. K., Wenmoth, D., & Davis, N. (2012, March). Virtual learning in New Zealand: Achieving maturity. A paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, Austin, TX.
This proposal describes a study into the development of virtual learning in New Zealand, specifically the obstacles that e-learning clusters face or have faced in their journey to sustainability and maturity through the lens of the Learning Communities Online Handbook. Using a variety of data collection methods, the researchers identified three common barriers, including a lack of a coherent vision, difficulty in securing the necessary funding and resources, and a lack of collaboration and cooperation within and between clusters. Based on these findings, it is recommended that individual e-learning clusters develop specific strategies to encourage greater collaboration between clusters and work towards greater consistency between their activities, including professional and organizational development and also of the approaches to virtual learning.
Boundless Goes to Washington: CEO Ariel Diaz Speaks at White House Education ...goboundless
Ariel Diaz, the CEO of Boundless, a company creating affordable and effective online textbooks and learning tools that improve education for millions of students, presented at The White House’s second annual Education Datapalooza. The event will highlighted innovations in postsecondary education, including Diaz’s presentation on how Boundless uses open content to provide effective learning tools for millions of students.
Implementing a New Digital Literacy Initiativetweisz
This was a presentation for the Alaska School Leadership Conference as part of the Festival of Ideas. I discuss the how we came to the decision to create and implement our technology class as part of a larger digital literacy initiative.
Open Educational Resources are a growing trend at colleges and universities. This short introduction will help you understand what these resources are and give you a window into some of the materials currently (2018) available.
Trying to think of ways to save your students money while still providing quality content? This session will provide an overview of OER (Open Educational Resources) and how to implement it in an accessible, user-friendly way. We’ll show multiple examples of OER and UDL (Universal Design for Learning) best practices.
1. S
The Key Benefits and Challenges of
Using Open Educational Resources:
One Person’s Opinion
Prepared By:
Dora Summers-Ewing
Olympic College
July 11, 2015
2. What is OER?
S According to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation -
S "OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that
reside in the public domain or have been released under an
intellectual property license that permits their free use and
re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include
full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks,
streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools,
materials, or techniques used to support access to
knowledge."
3. Key Benefits
S Saves students money because these are free materials!
S Provides students resources from a number of well known educational
institutions ( i.e., MIT, Yale, Harvard) without having to attend them.
S High quality materials! Increases student retention of material presented.
S Sources are potentially more timely and up to date than existing textbooks.
S Provides a wide variety of materials that will appeal to all types of learners:
visual, auditory, kinesthetic.
S Easy for teachers to gain access to these materials – both plentiful and easy to
use as a result of Creative Commons licenses.
S It’s the moral thing to do – give everyone access to free education.
4. Key Challenges
S Educating the world’s teachers, instructors and professors about the availability of
these resources.
S Requires teachers to learn something new or change the way they are teaching
today. Hence, not every teacher will choose this option.
S Sustainability of the archives currently storing OER (in case of funding cuts or lack of
grants).
S Finding cost effective ways to translate these sources into other needed languages.
S Creative Commons licenses are completely non-revocable.
S Quality – You don’t want to wade through garbage to get to a gem. Rather you
should be able to expect them all to be gems if they are being offered to the public.