Utilizing Open Education Resources in

Blended Learning for Higher Education

Blended learning forum

Mais Fatayer, PhD candidateSCEM, University of Western Sydney

July 16th , 2013

Outline

• WWW.OER• Get involved • What is going on in UWS?• Summary

What are Open

Educational

Resources?

1. WWW.OER : What?

creativecommons

Who is involved?1. WWW.OER : Who?

Physics I: Classical Mechanics at MIT: Video lecture

Lewin, Walter. Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 2005. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology:mit on iTunes U), http://web.mit.edu/itunesu/ (Accessed 1 Oct, 2011). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

1. WWW.OER : Who? Examples

The Future of the Internet, 2007. (Stanford University: Stanford on iTunes U), http://itunes.stanford.edu/ / (Accessed 18 Oct, 2011). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

The Future of the Internet at Stanford on iTune: Audio lecture

1. WWW.OER : Who?1. WWW.OER : Who? Examples

Richards, Ian. CSC2402 ,Object oriented programming in C++, 2008 : (University of Southern Queensland: USQ OpenCourseWare),http://ocw.usq.edu.au (Accessed 17 Oct, 2011). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

Object oriented programming in C++ at USQ: Presentation1. WWW.OER : Who?1. WWW.OER : Who? Examples

Image collections in different topics from JHSPH-OCW: Images

Image collection 2011 : (The Johns Hopkins University http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ (Accessed 9 July,2013). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

1. WWW.OER : Who?1. WWW.OER : Who? Examples

NobelPrize.org, Blood Typing, 2011. (MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching)http://www.merlot.org (Accessed 17 Oct, 2011). License: Creative Commons

Blood Typing at MERLOT: Interactive Games

1. WWW.OER : Who?1. WWW.OER : Who? Examples

Why

• Why would HEI around the world share their courses in via OER and OCW?

• Why would MIT spend USD 5-10K on creating a learning resource and then open it up online for free?

1. WWW.OER : Why?

Get involved

This always starts with a desire to teachhttp://www.onlineuniversities-weblog.com/50226711/why_do_professors_choose_to_teach_online.php

2. Get involved

Developing an open educational resource

Collect• OER, OCW, Public

domain

Reuse• As –is, modify, improve,

translate, different context

Design • learning

objectives,learning outcomes

Publish• OERCommon,

UWS?

License • Creative Commons

2. Get involved: (1) Design

2. Get involved: (2) Collect

Collect

2. Get involved: (2) Collect

Collect

2. Get involved: (2) Collect

Collect

2. Get involved: (2) Collect

Collect

2. Get involved: (3) Reuse

Exercise (mix)Literature (modify)

Illustration (crop)Article (as-is)

Reuse

Tools (open and free)

Category Tool Screen capturing Camstudio , Wink

Presentations Prezi

Photo and infographics

Paint.NET, infogr.am

Audio Audacity

Video Moviemaker

Complete course CourseLab, Adobe Captivate (UWS license available for educational purposes)

Social media learning

Blogger, WordPress, Edublogs, Pintrest, MediaWiki.org, dunked, tumblr, Scoop.it

Books iBook author (for Mac users)

2. Get involved: (3) Reuse

Exercise Literature

IllustrationArticle

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2. Get involved: (4 ) License

License

oror

!

2. Get involved: (5) Publish

Publish

Why would you care?

1. Maximize the impact and reach ofyour scholarly work through opensharing.

2. Opportunity for your work to be improved.3. Cost saving of learning resources development.4. Efficient utilization of technology in blended

learning environments.

2. Get involved

Who else can do this?

Engage students

3. What is going on in UWS?

How to engage students?3. What is going on in UWS?

Research aims

• Develop and evaluate a sustainable OER development model

• Tapping into student-generated content • Advance learning through engagement and technology• Provide a practical evidence for other universities

3. What is going on in UWS?

4. Summary

1. For over a decade OER movement has opened up quality education opportunities for different types of learners around the world.

2. OER has many benefits for blended learning environments including building content, provide learners with diversity of learning resource, and expand their knowledge base.

3. Majority of OER users are from HEI.4. Students and teachers can play a

significant role in OER movement.

Summary