scholarly journals Caring for students in postsecondary open educational resource (OER) and open education initiatives: inviting student participation and voice

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-487
Author(s):  
Merinda McLure ◽  
Caroline Sinkinson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Voice ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Education Movement ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Open Education Movement

Purpose This paper aims to examine librarians’ professional motivations and theoretical perspectives to attend to care and student voice, as they pursue open educational resource (OER) initiatives in higher education. Design/methodology/approach The authors examine OER initiatives that serve as models for their work at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder), describe how they have attended to care and student voice in their work to date and reflect on how they hope to continue to do so in their future OER initiatives. Findings The authors find connections between theoretical perspectives for care in education and the values and ethics of both the open education movement and librarianship. They propose that these connections provide a foundation for librarians to align their professional motivations and practices in support of learning. The authors provide examples of OER programming that attend to care and student voice and offer related strategies for practitioners to consider. Originality/value Librarians at many post-secondary institutions provide critical advocacy and support the adoption, adaptation and creation of OER in higher education. Theories of care, values and ethics in the open education movement and librarianship provide a foundation for librarians to attend to care and elevate student voice as they undertake OER advocacy and initiatives.

scholarly journals The VLE versus Open Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Angelica Risquez ◽  
Claire McAvinia
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Education Movement ◽  
The Future ◽  
Open Education Movement

In this paper we consider the position of the VLE in the context of the open education movement. This paper gathers data from the #VLEIreland survey in order to explore further whether open education was a concern of the academics involved, and if so, how it shaped their use of the local VLE. We will explore the nature of open education and open educational resources (OER), and whether there are interactions between these resources and the VLE. Open educational resources are materials shared online for educators to use and adapt, including full courses, modules, textbooks, and assets such as video clips, images or teaching methods. Data from our staff survey indicates a range of responses to the sharing and use of OERs and a spectrum of understanding (or lack of understanding) of copyright issues. We explore these findings and discuss their implications for OER in the future, and suggest that the ideals of “openness” are challenged by institutional VLEs and other mechanisms for resource sharing in higher education.

scholarly journals Web Strategies for the Curation and Discovery of Open Educational Resources

Open Praxis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivien Rolfe
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
The Uk

For those receiving funding from the UK HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resource Programme (2009–2012), the sustainability of project outputs was one of a number of essential goals. Our approach for the hosting and distribution of health and life science open educational resources (OER) was based on the utilisation of the WordPress.org blogging platform and search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques to curate content and widen discovery.This paper outlines the approaches taken and tools used at the time, and reflects upon the effectiveness of web strategies several years post-funding. The paper concludes that using WordPress.org as a platform for sharing and curating OER, and the adoption of a pragmatic approach to SEO, offers cheap and simple ways for small-scale open education projects to be effective and sustainable.

scholarly journals The Battle for Open by Martin Weller

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Good Place ◽  
Education Movement ◽  
Current State ◽  
Worth Reading ◽  
Open Education Movement

“The Battle for Open” by Martin Weller was published on 28 November 2014 and is available in a number of formats from Ubiquity Press.  Following the principles of openness, it has been made available under the CC-BY licence which allows one to share the book or even adapt its contents as long as the book is correctly cited.To the reader who is familiar with the discussions promoting open education, the book provides a clear, concise history leading up to the current state of play and the issues that are presently to the fore.   If you are a newcomer to the debate, this book would be a good place to start.Weller calls advocates for open access to education to become active in the battle to ensure that the original principles of “openness” are not lost and looks at ways an educational institution might handle the changes brought about by the open education movement.   This is an interesting book which looks at the issues of open access in education in depth, is thought-provoking and well worth reading.

Identifying the Strengths and Concerns of OpenCourseware Design

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia-Yu Chang ◽  
Huang-Yao Hong
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Institute Of Technology

This qualitative, exploratory study investigated the design strengths and concerns of OpenCourseware (OCW) for higher education based on user experience, using the translated Chinese website of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology OCW as a venue for exploration (http://www.myoops.org/twocw/mit/index.htm). Forty-two college students, professors, and e-learning experts in Taiwan were recruited to assess the usefulness of the OCW for learning and teaching on this website. Semi-structured, hour-long interviews were conducted. Fourteen factors – including nine strengths and five concerns – that influence the degree of effectiveness of the design and implementation of OCW were identified and discussed with reference to three major design aspects (technological, curricular, and pedagogical). The implications for better design and use of OCW as an open educational resource (OER) were discussed.

scholarly journals Open Education Co-Design as a Participatory Pedagogy in an Online Graduate Program

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Barbara Brown ◽  
Christie Hurrell ◽  
Verena Roberts ◽  
Michele Jacobsen ◽  
Nicole Neutzling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Team ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Small Grant ◽  
Open Learning Design

This paper builds on student-instructor partnerships by describing how an instructor, students, program coordinator, and members of a research team were involved in the co-design of an open educational resource in a graduate program in education. A four-part open learning design framework was used to guide the course design: (a) clarifying the co-design process; (b) buildingand sharing knowledge, and making thinkingvisible; (c) building relationships; and (d) sustaininglearning beyond the course. The framework, alongwith the collaborative team effort that was part of alarger research project, enabled the developmentof an openly licensed and accessible digital book.The project brought together a collaborative teamwho were passionate about learning more aboutopen education and a small grant supported theadditional expense of professional copyediting torefine the book.

scholarly journals Academic impact and perceived value of Wikipedia as a primary learning resource in higher education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoni Meseguer-Artola ◽  
Inma Rodríguez-Ardura ◽  
Gisela Ammetller ◽  
Eva Rimbau-Gilabert
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Academic Impact ◽  
Learning Resource ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

Wikipedia is an open educational resource whose frequency of use and importance in higher education are growing. However, empirical evidence about Wikipedia’s contribution to students’ academic performance is scant and many higher education actors express concern regarding its value. By applying a combined theoretical and empirical approach, we examine the impact of Wikipedia as a primary learning resource on both students’ academic performance and the perceived value of Wikipedia. Based on an experimental research design conducted with 2,330 university students, we show that the primary use of Wikipedia in combination with conventional learning resources has a positive effect on students’ academic performance, and that this effect is moderated by course discipline. Furthermore, the students’ perceived value of Wikipedia is positive and, generally, not influenced by individual academic performance.

scholarly journals Guidelines for leveraging university didactics centers to support OER uptake in German-speaking Europe

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Ebner ◽  
Sandra Schön ◽  
Swapna Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Learning Centers ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Copyright Laws ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Implementation Guidelines

Although less well established than in other parts of the world, higher education institutions in German-speaking countries have seen a marked increase in the number of open educational resource (OER) initiatives and in government-supported OER funding in recent years. OER implementation, however, brings with it a unique set of challenges in German-speaking higher education contexts, stemming in part from copyright laws and use permissions that have made sharing and reuse of educational materials less prevalent. The article discusses how instructional development centers, including university didactics centers (hochschuldidaktische Zentren) and e-learning centers, can play a key role in faculty uptake and adoption of OER, and concludes by proposing a set of OER implementation guidelines that leverage the expertise and interfacing role of these centers in German-speaking countries.

Awareness and Use of Open Education Resources (OER) Among PG Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-35
Author(s):  
K. R. Arunkumar ◽  
P. Kannan
Keyword(s):  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Education Resources ◽  
Open Education Resources ◽  
Rate Frequency

This chapter aims to present a brief overview of awareness and use of open education resources in PG students in Alagappa University. Analysis the areas for open education resources. The sample of the respondents had been drafted from the Alagappa University. A total of 200 questionnaires were distributed to the users from different categories and 144 were responded which amounts to 72% rate frequency of using of OER, it found that 51 (35.42%) respondents open educational resource daily, 69 (47.92%) respondents open educational resource weekly, 11 (7.64%) respondents open educational resource twice in a week, 13 (9.03%) respondents open educational resource monthly. This chapter presents the definition, challenges of open educational resource, advantages of open educational resource, awareness, and use of open education resources.

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