Diversity, Social Justice, and Accessibility in Grenzenlos Deutsch: Reflections on Digital Curation

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-309
Author(s):  
Amy D. Young ◽  
Louann Terveer ◽  
Faye Stewart ◽  
Simone Pfleger ◽  
Maureen O. Gallagher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Instructional Goals ◽  
Digital Curation ◽  
Inform Decision Making

Grenzenlos Deutsch ( GD) is an open educational resource (OER) that functions as a digital archive. Considerations of equity, social justice, and accessibility inform decision-making and workflow at all stages of fashioning the GD curriculum as a no-cost alternative to traditional beginning German textbooks. In this essay, six members of the GD team reflect on digital curation, considering how the team’s collective identities, values, and instructional goals intersect with the processes of creating and curating the curriculum, particularly the production and preservation of audiovisual material such as images, interviews, and videos as learning objects. Although these learning objects constitute a public archive, they also mark events of personal and collaborative significance in the private and professional lives of the GD collective, whose members played varying roles in producing these instructional materials.

Barriers, incentives, and benefits of the open educational resources (OER) movement: An exploration into instructor perspectives

First Monday ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serena Henderson ◽  
Nathaniel Ostashewski
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Replication Study ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Institutional Policy ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Major Benefit

Open educational resource (OER) barriers, incentives, and benefits are at the forefront of educator and institution interests as global use of OER evolves. Research into OER use, perceptions, costs, and outcomes is becoming more prevalent; however, it is still in its infancy. Understanding barriers to full adoption, administration, and acceptance of OER is paramount to fully supporting its growth and success in education worldwide. The purpose of this research was to replicate and extend Kursun, Cagiltay, and Can’s (2014) Turkish study to include international participants. Kursun, et al. surveyed OpenCourseWare (OCW) faculty on their perceptions of OER barriers, incentives, and benefits. Through replication, these findings provide a glimpse into the reality of the international educators’ perceptions of barriers, incentives, and benefits of OER use to assist in the creation of practical solutions and actions for both policy makers and educators alike. The results of this replication study indicate that barriers to OER include institutional policy, lack of incentives, and a need for more support and education in the creating, using, and sharing of instructional materials. A major benefit to OER identified by educators is the continued collegial atmosphere of sharing and lifelong learning.

cMOOCs and Global Learning: An Authentic Alternative

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Yeager ◽  
Betty Hurley-Dasgupta ◽  
Catherine A. Bliss
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Research Review ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Definition Of

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) continue to attract press coverage as they change almost daily in their format, number of registrations and potential for credentialing. An enticing aspect of the MOOC is its global reach. In this paper, we will focus on a type of MOOC called a cMOOC, because it is based on the theory of connectivism and fits the definition of an Open Educational Resource (OER) identified for this special edition of JALN. We begin with a definition of the cMOOC and a discussion of the connectivism on which it is based. Definitions and a research review are followed with a description of two MOOCs offered by two of the authors. Research on one of these MOOCs completed by a third author is presented as well. Student comments that demonstrate the intercultural connections are shared. We end with reflections, lessons learned and recommendations.

Support for Study: Online Educational Environments and the Rights to Education

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Lin ◽  
Karen Swan
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Collaborative Inquiry ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
The Self ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Online Learners ◽  
Educational Environments ◽  
Independent Inquiry

This paper uses an online learning conceptual framework to examine the “rights to education” that the current online educational environments could provide. The conceptual framework is composed of three inquiries or three spaces for inquiries, namely, independent inquiry, collaborative inquiry, and formative inquiry towards expert knowledge [42] that online learners pursue and undertake in the process of their learning. Our examinations reveal that most online open educational resource environments (OERs) can incorporate more Web2.0 or Web3.0 technologies so as to provide the self-directed learners, who are the main audience of OERs, with more opportunities to participate, collaborate, and co-create knowledge, and accordingly, to achieve their full rights to education.

Engaging Undergraduate Public Health Students Through a Textbook Creation Project

2020 ◽  
pp. 237337992096241
Author(s):  
Jessica Sloan Kruger ◽  
Christopher Hollister
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Final Version ◽  
Primary Motivation ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Health Course ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Undergraduate Public Health

This study examines students’ perceptions of an open pedagogy experiment in which they created their own textbook for an undergraduate public health course. The lead author’s primary motivation for developing this assignment was the high cost associated with the traditional textbooks that were otherwise needed to cover the breadth of subject matter in the course. The resulting open textbook included 19 chapters, covering all the required components of the course, and the final version was published in a statewide open educational resource repository. Students provided feedback about this undertaking by way of an end-of-term survey. The results showed high percentages of students who associated the textbook creation project with greater engagement and satisfaction than the passive use of traditional textbooks. Students also reported their perception of a learning benefit related to the creation of course content. Pedagogical implications of this study are discussed, and future research questions are proposed.

Enhancing Student Learning Through an Open Educational Resource Competition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry C. B. Chan ◽  
Isabel M. Kemp ◽  
Winnie C. L. Leung ◽  
Edmundo Tovar ◽  
Sorel Reisman
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Resource Competition ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Educational Resource

scholarly journals Design of an Intelligent Educational Resource Production System

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brahim Faqihi ◽  
Najima Daoudi ◽  
Rachida Ajhoun
Keyword(s):  
Production System ◽  
Target System ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Case Based Reasoning ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Massive Online Open Course ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
Case Based

In the field of learning, we are witnessing more and more the introduction of new environments in order to better meet the specific needs of the main actors of the process. The shift from face-to-face learning to distance learning or e-learning has overcome some of the challenges of availability, location, prerequisites, but has been rapidly impacted by the development of mobile technology. As a result, m-learning appeared and quickly evolved into p-learning. The arrival of the "Open Software" concept has given birth to several "open-something" initiatives, among which are the Open Educational Resource (OER) and the Massive Online Open Course (MOOC). These learning resources have also made progress, although they are fairly recent. Admittedly, this diversity of environments offers a wealth and a multitude of pedagogical resources. However, the question of the capitalization of contents, knowledge and know-how of each of these environments is necessary. How can the exchange and reuse of pedagogical resources be guaranteed between these different learning environ-ments? otherwise-said how to guarantee the interoperability of these resources? In order to contribute to the creation of an pedagogical heritage, we propose to design a case-based system allowing the author, when creating a course in a particular context and environment, to exploit the resources that are already available. The goal is to put in place an intelligent production system based on case-based reasoning. It is based on four phases ranging from indexing to reuse, through the similarity measurement and the evaluation. In the first part, we will detail the evolution of learning environments. In the second part, we will review the existing course production platforms, their prin-ciples and their challenges. In the third part, we will present case-based reasoning systems, and then we will introduce our target system.

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