Week 4 : Open Educational Resources 'OERs'

Seession 2: OER

In Summary

Learning about OERs this week have been very interesting and also doing the short course through COL allowed for us learners to better understand a little history of how OERs has become a fundamental tool for teaching, learning and research. There are various mediums used for OERs for example Open Textbooks, Open Access Journal, YouTube, etc. In addition to this they come with license that allows for open access or limiting access and uses. Depending on the licenses they permit access, use, re purposing, reuse and redistribution by others either with no or limited restrictions.

The You Tube video below gives us more insight on OERS

Source:  https://youtu.be/NtJmakm1-zc

References

Introduction to Technology-Enabled Learning: Course Materials. Mishra, Sanjaya; Cleveland-Innes, Martha; Ostashewski, Nathaniel (Commonwealth of Learning (COL);Athabasca University, 2017-01)

The U.S. Department of Education identified evidence of the value of blended learning in its report, Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning. Available in the course Resources section or at https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf

Hatzipanagos S and Gregson J “The Role of Open Access and Open Educational Resources: A
Distance Learning Perspective” The Electronic Journal of e-Learning Volume 13 Issue 2 2015, (pp97-105) available online at www.ejel.org