Infokus: The OER Workshop at eLi3!

Thursday, February 26, 2015

The OER Workshop at eLi3!

THE OER WORKSHOP

This 1-day workshop on Open Educational Resources (OER) will (Insya-Allah) be facilitated at the Third International Conference of e-Learning and Distance Education (eLi13) in Saudi Arabia on the 3rd February, 2013. It will equip participants with the necessary knowledge to find, reuse, remix, create and strategize OER for their institution. During the first two sessions, we will explore and discuss together the concept of OER, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Creative Commons (CC), business models, and variety of OpenCourseWare (OCW) case studies and content development tools. In the third session, participants will be required to work in groups (hands-on) to conceptualize an OER strategy. In the final session, we will discuss how to move forward with OER at our institutions.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After completing this workshop, you will be able to:

Discuss the benefits and challenges of reusing/remixing/creating OER.
Select the appropriate Creative Commons license (6 types) for your content development needs.
Find OER and OCW using a variety of search tools.
Identify a variety of web 2.0 and Social Media tools to develop OER with; and
Conceptualize an OER strategy for your institution.

PRESENTATION SLIDES

The OER Workshop at #eLi3! from Zaid Alsagoff

CHALLENGE

Your group OER Strategy should (at least) cover the following aspects:

- Paul Stacey (2006)

Good luck!

RESOURCES

Here is easy access to all the links (URLs) discussed and explored during the OER workshop:

1. Open Educational Resources (OER)

OER Commons
History of OER (Infographic)

OER Videos

Why Open Education Matters!
Password: OER
Why is it Important to Share Content?

Open Courseware (Examples)

OpenCourseWare Consortium
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Open Yale Courses
JHSPH OpenCourseWare (OCW)
OpenLearn (The Open University)
USQ OpenCourseWare
SJTU Open Courseware
Saudi Arabia?

National Centre for e-Learning & Disctance Learning
KFUPM Open Courseware
King Khalid University OCW
Qassim College of Medicine OCW

Pakistan?

Virtual University of Pakistan

Iran?

Farabi Institute of Higher Education OCW

Indonesia?

The University Indonesia
University of Sumatera Utara
UG OCW

Malaysia?

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia OCW
Open University Malaysia OER
OER Symposium (Wawasan Open University)

All Open CourseWare (OCW)?OCW Master List of courses (260+)

Open Textbooks (e-books)

Project Gutenberg
Open Textbook Catalog
Flat World Knowledge
College Open Textbooks
Community College Consortium of OER
CK-12 FlexBooks
Wikibooks
ManyBooks.net
20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks

Learning Repositories

iTunes U
EDU - YouTube
MERLOT
Khan Academy
Knowmia
TED-Ed
Academic Earth
GCF LearnFree.org
CMU OpenLearningInitiative
Connexions
WikiEducator
Wikiversity
Extreme Learning
Siyavula
Curriki
Internet Archive
OER Africa
P2PU
University of the People
MEDtube
Quora
Wolfram Alpha
101 OER Resources
MORE OER (250+)

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)

MOOC Guide
What is a MOOC?
Three Kinds of MOOCs
UDACITY
Coursera
Udemy
edX
What are we Learning from Online Education? (Daphne Koller)
Four Barriers That MOOCs Must Overcome To Build a Sustainable Model
The March of the MOOCs: Monstrous Open Online Courses
MOOCs: Learning Points
Sharing to Connect, Interact and Learn!

(Online Talk by Zaid Ali Alsagoff)

2. Copyright & OER

Creative Commons Video
Creative Commons (CC) Licenses
CC Comparison Table
Open Educational Resources Licensing Continuum
Article: http://edtechfrontier.com/tag/connexions/
CC License Selection Tool
If license used incorrectly will I be sued?
Open Content Licensing Course for Educators
OER Risk Management Calculator

3. Finding OER

Google Custom Search
How to Search for OER (Infographic)
2 Great Starting Points!

OER COMMONS
OCW Consortium

CC Search
Open Tapestry
Other Good OER Search Engines?

OCW Finder
Xpert
OER Recommender
Temoa
Curriki Search
University Learning = OCW+OER = Free
Knowledge Finder
Jorum
OER Dynamic Search Engine
Discover Ed
Folksemantic

OER Glue
Einztein
iBerry
Social Curation Tools
Pinterest
http://www.delicious.com/zaidlearn/
Create Your Own Customized OER Search!: Google Custom Search
Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/01/google-custom-search-for-openfree.html

4. OER Case Studies

New Initiative: MITx (Article)
Salman Khan talk at TED 2011
Tools Salman Khan Used to Create the Videos?
Introduction Video: Coursera
OER Case Studies
Flickr Creative Commons
OER Funding Models

5. Creating & Sharing OER

Creating OER and Combining Licenses (Video)
OER Development Cycle? (Source 1 and 2)
OER Educator Handbook
Collection of institutions with OER policy
OER Policy Development Toolkit
Wawasan Open University OER Policy (Slide 13)
Framework Guiding Selection and Use of OERs and Non-OERs Source (Page 178)
Alternative to University LMS:

Edmodo
Schoology

Wiki tools:

Google Sites
Google Docs
Wikispaces
Wetpaint

Blogging Tools:

Blogger
WordPress
Tumblr
Posterous

eBook Tools
Authoring Tools:

Slideshare (slidecast example)
Prezi
Create Online Crossword Puzzles!
WizIQ (web conferencing)

Create Cartoons, Movies & Animations:

Xtranormal
Go Animate
Toondoo

Desktop Authoring Tools:

Courselab
Exe

Use your iPad to Create OER On-The-Fly:

Educreations
Explain Everything
ScreenChomp

Social Media Tools and tips
200+ Learning Tools
Just in Time Training To You (JiT2U) on Social media and Web 2.0
Quick Reference Guides (Web 2.0/Social Media)
OER Gurus

Stephen Downes
Home: http://www.downes.ca/
Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/presentations
George Siemens
Home: http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/
Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/gsiemens
David Wiley
Home: http://davidwiley.org/
Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/presentations
Stian Håklev
Home: http://reganmian.net/blog
Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/houshuang/presentations
Curt Bonk
Home: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/
Presentations: http://www.trainingshare.com/workshop.php

Recommended OER resources (starting points):

Open Educational Resources - Educator Handbook
A Basic Guide to OER
UNESCO-COL Guidelines for OER in Higher Education
Open Educational Resources: The value of reuse in higher education
Guidelines for OER in Higher Education
OER Dossier: OER and Higher Education
OER & Change in Higher Education

REFLECTION POINTS

This workshop is usually facilitated over two days, so it will be interesting to see whether it can be done effectively over one day. The presentation slides have been slimmed down from 214 to 164 (minus 50 slides), so that should help a bit.

However, what really matters is not what we slide through, but what participants learn, can do, and how inspired they are to explore OER further after the workshop that really matters. Soon, we will find out, Insya-Allah :)

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