scholarly journals OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN UNDERGRADUATE OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN UNDERGRADUATE CHALLENGES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant McSorley ◽  
Agnes D'Entremont ◽  
Johnathan Verrett ◽  
Nadine Ibrahim ◽  
John Dickinson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Education Material ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Education Association ◽  
Open Education Resources ◽  
The Moment

Open Education Resources are pedagogical resources which are available under open licences for reuse and remixing. These resources support collaborative development of education material, the ongoing evolution and improvement of the material and easy access to both educators and students. Several initiatives exist for OER in Canada, and resources specifically targeting engineering are beginning to emerge. At the moment, those efforts are fragmented. In line with the mission to the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) OER SIG, this paper presents an overview of current Canadian and international Engineering OER initiatives. Based on the findings, several challenges and opportunities pertaining to engineering OER are identified and recommendations are provided for engineering instructors and institutions who wish to increase the use of OER in engineering programs. For instructors, this could be adapting OER where available. For those looking to develop OER, there may be grants and resources at the institutional and provincial levels to support this. For institutions, this may be supporting instructors in using or developing OER through grants or recognition.

scholarly journals Comparing quantitative and comment-based ratings for recommending open educational resources

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Hanna ◽  
Abdolreza Abhari ◽  
Alexander Ferworn
Keyword(s):  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Open Education ◽  
User Comments ◽  
E Learning ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Open Education Resources

The recent application of recommender systems for educational resources and e-learning has facilitated online and accessible education on social networks. However, there are currently few studies about the methods for evaluation and performance measurement of these recommender systems in the complicated environment of educational and social networking platforms. The purpose of this research paper is to investigate the effectiveness of using sentiment analysis methods for educational resources based on user comments and compare it with the quantitative approach based on user rating to recommend best open learning resources (OER) available through online OER repositories. The quality of the OER will be justified by comparing the user rating and the users' reviews. The quality of users' reviews is based on calculating the term frequency for selected positive and negative terms, then determining the similarity among the comments. Comments with positive or negative words confirm the high and low ratings respectively. Keywords: Open Education Resources, OER, Recommender Systems, Sentiment Analysis.

scholarly journals Comparing quantitative and comment-based ratings for recommending open educational resources

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Hanna ◽  
Abdolreza Abhari ◽  
Alexander Ferworn
Keyword(s):  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Open Education ◽  
User Comments ◽  
E Learning ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Open Education Resources

The recent application of recommender systems for educational resources and e-learning has facilitated online and accessible education on social networks. However, there are currently few studies about the methods for evaluation and performance measurement of these recommender systems in the complicated environment of educational and social networking platforms. The purpose of this research paper is to investigate the effectiveness of using sentiment analysis methods for educational resources based on user comments and compare it with the quantitative approach based on user rating to recommend best open learning resources (OER) available through online OER repositories. The quality of the OER will be justified by comparing the user rating and the users' reviews. The quality of users' reviews is based on calculating the term frequency for selected positive and negative terms, then determining the similarity among the comments. Comments with positive or negative words confirm the high and low ratings respectively. Keywords: Open Education Resources, OER, Recommender Systems, Sentiment Analysis.

scholarly journals Formation of technological university students’ readiness to the use of open educational resources

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-127
Author(s):  
Gulnara F. Khasanova ◽  
Lidiya A. Semenova
Keyword(s):  
Open Source Software ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Education Resources ◽  
Network Communications ◽  
Open Education Resources ◽  
Technological University

The paper presents the analysis of the “Open education resources” (OER ) concept and peculiarities of their use in teaching psychological and pedagogical disciplines to future bachelors of the IT sector. The structure and content of future IT-sector bachelors’ readiness to the use of open educational resources are described. It includes cognitive (understanding of prospects for the OER use at workplaces; knowledge of main algorithms of OER search in the network; familiarity with the ways of obtaining new knowledge through critical analysis and creative reproduction of OER; knowledge of issues concerning copyright and licensing requirements during the use of OER and software), motivation and value (interest in the use of OER; understanding the importance of OER use at future workplaces; wishing to obtain competence in technologies of OER use; understanding responsibility for the following of ethical and legal rules in the information environment), and technological (skills to implement search for OER in the network; being acquainted with technology of development, recording, copying, storage, sharing and exchange of OER; experience of work with open source software; being able to use technologies of network communications during solving problems) components. Pedagogical conditions for the formation of future IT-sector bachelors’ readiness to the use of open educational resources are characterized, including design and implementation of optional course aimed at the formation of students’ intention to use open educational resources; engaging students into implementation of interdisciplinary quasi-professional authentic assignments; faculty’s adoption of competencies in evaluation of open education resources, psychometrics, and pedagogical communications with the use of web-technology.

scholarly journals Panel Discussion: Challenges of Open Educational Resources

10.28945/3050 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Koohang ◽  
Tom Seymour ◽  
Robert Skovira ◽  
Gary DeLorenzo
Keyword(s):  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Course Development ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Education Resources ◽  
Lecture Material ◽  
Open Education Resources

Open Education Resources (OERs) are defined as “technology-enabled, open provision of educational resources for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for noncommercial purposes. They are typically made freely available over the Web or the Internet. Their principal use is by teachers and educational institutions to support course development, but they can also be used directly by students. Open Educational Resources include learning objects such as lecture material, references and readings, simulations, experiments and demonstrations, as well as syllabi, curricula and teachers' guides.” UNESCO (2002, paragraph 3)

scholarly journals OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Mokhamad Syaifudin
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Education Resources ◽  
Open Education Resources ◽  
Teaching Learning

In this article a brief exposition of what open education resources is presented. The article begins by presenting the general idea of what OER is then move to the possible benefits and challenges to the OER for teaching and learning. Efforts to address the possible challenges in OER are also presented as well as the places where OER can be sought. In the end of the article samples of possible scenario of how to use the OER for teaching learning process are also detailed.

scholarly journals Eine Frage der Qualität – Qualitätsforderungen an Open Educational Resources in Schule und Hochschule

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (Offenheit in Lehre und Forschung) ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Jane Brückner
Keyword(s):  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Open Education

Die Nutzung und Bereitstellung von Open Educational Resources (OER) sind mit vergleichsweise hohen Unsicherheiten und Herausforderungen verbunden, die in der deutschen Bildungslandschaft zu einem erhöhten Bedarf an Qualitätsausweis für freie Bildungsmaterialien führen. Die Debatte um diese vermeintlich geringer-wertigen Unterrichtsmaterialien reisst nicht ab und qualitätssuggerierende Entwicklungen begleiten die Nutzung von OER in der Schulpraxis: Verlage und Hochschulen geben cc-lizenziertes Material an die Lehrkräfte in allen Bildungsbereichen, Plattformen für OER versuchen Qualitätsnachweise über Nutzerbewertungen, Bildungsinstitutionen entwerfen Qualitätskriterienmodelle für OER. Bei allen Unternehmungen dem Bedarf an Qualitätssicherung und Qualitätsausweisen nachzukommen, wird vernachlässigt, dass gerade OER und die konsequente Praxis von Open Education die Nutzer als autonome, kreative und kompetente Lehrenden und Lernenden versteht. Vor diesem Hintergrund steht ein kritisches Hinterfragen der aktuellen Implikationen des verwendeten Qualitätsbegriffes aus, sowie des Beteiligtenkreises für den Aushandlungsprozess von OER-Qualität.

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 Open Education for a Better World: A Mentoring Programme Fostering Design and Reuse of Open Educational Resources for Sustainable Development Goals

Open Praxis ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Urbančič ◽  
Anja Polajnar ◽  
Mitja Jermol
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Online Mentoring ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Development Goals

An international online mentoring programme Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) has been developed to unlock the potential of open education in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The programme provides an innovative approach to building Open Educational Resources, connecting developers of educational materials with experts volunteering as mentors. The model of the programme has been carefully designed and tested in two subsequent implementations in years 2018 and 2019. Results have proved the model to be useful for building capacities in open education, while producing concrete educational materials with great potential for social impact. Analysis of results has been used to suggest further improvements needed for enabling the program to be used on an even larger scale. The paper presents the development of the OE4BW model, its main characteristics, implementation results and guidelines for the future.

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