1 Oct 2008Using CIT Open Educational Resources Creating, Sharing and Using OER Courses and Learning Objects CIT Workshop October 2008 Ruth Rominger, Director of Learning Design Monterey Institute for Technology and Education

2 Oct 2008Using CIT Open Educational Resources (OER) To benefit society by increasing access to quality educational resources at little or no cost to anyone seeking to learn. There is a variety in open educational resources projects OER has come to mean freely accessible at no cost to teachers and learners. Variations on how OER can be accessed and reused, depending on the source of the content.

3 Oct 2008Using CIT The Value of Sharing Provide high-quality and diverse content Leverage resources of all participants Professional development opportunities Showcase faculty and institutional expertise Provide multi-modal learning experiences and options for students Save time and money

4 Oct 2008Using CIT © Copyright… Educators need to understand the options Copyright: property of creator, registered or not Fair Use: personal use to teach your students Attribution: acknowledge and cite author, source Permission: request/granting reuse from copyright holder Public Domain: material freely useable e.g., very old or created by government agencies, cite source.

5 Oct 2008Using CIT “Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.” Creative Commons © All Rights Reserved You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." CC

6 Oct 2008Using CIT Finding OER Content Sources of Reusable Content Educational non-profit developers Open Education Resources (OER) Peers - other institutions, individuals

7 Oct 2008Using CIT NROC NetworkNROC Network: a learning network for faculty and administrators using online content to teach. Institutional members have access high-quality multimedia courses to reuse and adapt for their own use. Hippocampus: Hippocampus: free multimedia lessons and course materials for students and instructors, searchable by topic, textbook and state standards for member organizations. MERLOTMERLOT: (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) a searchable directory of open educational learning objects developed and submitted by faculty to share. Creative CommonsCreative Commons: an organization that specializes in open intellectual property licenses which allow creators to share their content under various types of use agreements. OER CommonsOER Commons: a portal to a world of information and links to sources of open education resources. Open Courseware ConsortiumOpen Courseware Consortium: a global network of universities putting faculty lecture materials online under Creative Commons licenses. Gotoweb20Gotoweb20: a list of the abundance of Web 2.0 tools you and your students might use for creating and interacting with learning content.

8 Oct 2008Using CIT A Check List What to look for to reuse content...  curricular  complete  quality  easy to use  teaching tool

9 Oct 2008Using CIT Identify quality guidelines to use consistently to evaluate and guide development… Guidelines NACOL/SREB Quality Matters NROC Guidelines Online Course Evaluation Project Online Tools Learning Object Attribute Metrics Design Principles Database Evaluating Content

Oct 2008Using CIT Guidelines 1.Course Overview 2.Learning Objectives 3.Assessment and Measurement 4.Resources and Materials 5.Learning Engagement 6.Course Technology 7.Learner Support 8.Accessibility 1.Technology 2.Content 3.Media 4.Design 5.Pedagogy 6.Interaction 7.Assignments 8.Assessments 9.Accessibility 10.Support Quality Matters

Oct 2008Using CIT Guidelines 1.Content 2.Instructional Design 3.Student Assessment 4.Technology 5.Course Evaluation and Management 6.21st Century Skills 1. Course Developer and Distribution Models 2. Scope and Scholarship 3. User Interface 4. Course Features and Media Values 5. Assessments and Support Materials 6. Support materials for the instructor 7. Communication Tools and Interaction 8. Course environment 9. Technology Requirements and Interoperability 10. Course format 11. Server-side requirements 12. Interoperability standards 13. Accessibility

Oct 2008Using CIT Online Tools Design Principle Database Learning Object Attribute Metrics

Oct 2008Using CIT Evaluation Resources OCEP Guidelines NACOL/SREB Quality Matters Learning Object Attribution Metrics

Oct 2008Using CIT Building, Reusing Content Editorial Design Engineering Delivery Managed Development Team Speeding up the process with swapping and co-development

Oct 2008Using CIT “An assembly of learning media, including text, graphics, animation, video, audio, simulations, hyperlinks, and assessments, to present a specific concept(s) and achieve defined learning objectives.” A Learning Object Graphics Interactive Exercise Documentary Video Text Documents Newsreel

Oct 2008Using CIT One semester course Learning Objects Building Blocks for Courses

Oct 2008Using CIT Advanced or Remedial Study Lower-Level Course Flexible Instructor Presentation To use Learning Objects for Different Purposes

Oct 2008Using CIT Course = set of LOs Learning Objects assembled in a “player” providing user navigation Learning Object With narration, And movies Topics in the LO Activities with the LO Text of narration Navigation

Oct 2008Using CIT Transparent Organization Uniform course structure

Oct 2008Using CIT Eases Re-Use Transparent folder structure enables easier installation, customization and use Reuse by removal or integration of components

Oct 2008Using CIT General 1.1Catalog Number (a product ID number) 1.3Language 1.5Keywords 1.6Coverage (time, culture, geography LO applies) 1.7Structure (hierarchical) 1.8Aggregation level (4, course) ---- Version 2.1Version (latest version) 2.2Status (completed or revised) ---- Technical 4.1format 4.2size 4.3location 4.4requirement 4.5installation remarks 4.6other platform requirements ---- Educational 5.1inter-activity type (mixed) 5.2learning resource type (a list of types) 5.3interactivity level (low medium or high) 5.4semantic density (high) 5.5intended end-user role (learner) cost (to users) 6.2copyright (actual copyright notice) 6.3description (short text description) Metadata Example: NROC’s metadata criteria based on IEEE’s Learning Object Metadata (LOM) Standards Chose and use metadata standards so that learning objects can be cataloged and searched in various systems

Oct 2008Using CIT Metadata Resources IEEE Learning Object Metadata Standards (LOM) “ Relevant attributes of learning objects to be described include: type of object; author; owner; terms of distribution; format; and pedagogical attributes, such as teaching or interaction style.” (wikipedia)

Oct 2008Using CIT NROC PD Resources NROC Network NROC Professional Development List of webinar recordings, articles, documents about learning and media

Oct 2008Using CIT Organize semi-annual live online meetings within your field, state, system or institution Structure online session for people to discuss what courses they need, what they offer, and what they may like to co-develop Showcase some of the courses that are available for swapping Give update and previews of new courses in development OER Webinars

Oct 2008Using CIT Co-development and co-reviewing Co-Develop: You can mash up existing materials to create new or more complete course, add investment to improve, or develop from scratch Vocational/Career Tech High School versions of AP courses Professional Development modules for online teachers Credit Recovery “packaged solutions” for math Co-reviews: Post a list of courses you would like others to review for your institution in exchange for reviewing some of theirs Collaboration Suggestions