This document describes an open educational resources (OER) massive open online course (MOOC) called "The OER MOOC". The 4-week course aims to enhance knowledge about OERs and equip learners to effectively use and create OERs. It will use various online platforms and social media to deliver content, encourage collaboration and discussion. Learners will develop skills in searching, including, and creating OERs that align with specified learning outcomes. The course structure includes modules on the OER movement, learning from OERs, teaching with OERs, and how education providers can use OERs.

1. OER: Disruptive Innovation Solution
to the Challenges of Education
MMPant, Madhulika Kaushik, Sanjay Jasola, Ramesh Sharma

2. Challenges in Education…
• of numbers
• of relevance
• of Quality
• of access
• of costs and
• of speed
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3. The OER MOOC

4. The OER MOOC
• 4 week online program
designed to enhance
knowledge about OERs
• To equip for effective use
and adopt OERs in ones
programs as well as to be
able to create their own
OERs and contribute to the
pool of OER resources.

5. Selecting the topic “The OER MOOC”
• Need based topic
• Can attract right kind of learners in large
numbers
• OERs are being adopted by many in
government, non-government, private,
business and educational sectors

6. Learning Outcomes
• LO1: Become informed of the various OERs, their
different sources and the skills of searching and
inclusion of OERs in educational programs.
• LO2: Able to search for open licensed materials
and create OERs.
• LO3: Appreciate the significance of OERs Open
Licenses in the evolution of copyright law and
how new licensing regimes such as 'creative
commons' become a game changer in education.
• LO4: Will be able to develop a sample OER
related to his/her field of expertise.

7. Expectations from learners…
• dedicate focused time towards learning
• participate in discussions
• be active learners
• share their ideas and experiences via blogging
and microblogging, in addition to live chats
during synchronous sessions

8. Course Structure…
• Module 1 - The OER movement
• Module 2 - Learning from OERs
• Module 3 - Effective Teaching with OERs
• Module 4 - OERs and Education Providers

9. Learners' Activities Area
Informationbase

10. Experts / Instructors

27. Ramesh Sharma and Prof Sanjay Jasola

28. Choice of Platform
• Variety
• WizIQ for live sessions and recording
• WikiEductor for collaborative content creation
• Flipped Classroom
• Mobile Learning

29. Social Media

30. http://oer-mooc.blogspot.in/2013_08_01_archive.html

31. Storify

32. ONLINE SESSION + TWITTER MEET-UP
Online interactive course module permanent URL :
http://oermlearning.classroom-aid.com/ with Twitter meet-up hashtag #oermooc

39. Row Labels Count of Gender
Female 581
Male 850
Null 74
(blank)
Grand Total 1505

41. OERTemplate
• Name
• Objective / Learning Outcomes
• Target Group
• Resources
• Video/Audio/Animation/ Text/Image
• Interaction
• Test / Quiz
• Additional Resources
• Created by
• CC [Creatice Commons] License

43. LESSON LEARNED AND SUGGESTIONS
• Adequate publicity in advance for awareness about
programme
• Social media for publicity and for feedback later on
• Live sessions useful for interactions with experts
• An introductory session on how to use platform or how the
course will progress
• Assignment at the end of module or session
• Response on blog or microblogging: community feedback
and reflection
• Examining chat communication during live sessions
• Recording for later viewing
• Internet bandwidth

44. Thank you!