OpenShare Block for Moodle (2008)

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Open Educational Resources

with the Open Mod for MoodleJared M. Stein

Ken WoodwardUtah Valley University

Backchannel: http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org

open


Biosphere 2 photo by Ryan Thomas: http://flickr.com/photos/ryanthomas/297717379/


“Rusty Cage” photo by Pietroizzo: http://flickr.com/photos/pietroizzo/327485958/


Leigh Blackall’s “There Is Another Way” slidehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/leighblackall/64955399


Hoodia gordonii photo by M. Heigan: http://flickr.com/photos/martin_heigan/423391945/


• Teaching/learning materials

• Online

• Freely available

• For everyoneOpen Educational Resources Commonsoercommons.org/help/learn-more-about/oer


OCW = OpenCourseWare

•Free and open

•Digital publications

•High quality

•Organized as coursesOpenCourseWare Consortiumocwconsortium.org/about/


Open Education

“…educational opportunity to everyone”

David Wiley, PhDCenter for Open and Sustainable Learning

Utah State University

Utah Open High Schoolhttp://opencontent.org/blog/archives/499


Advantages of Being Open

• Faculty pride / “reputation economy”• Institutional PR• Student preparedness• Value of pre-existing content• Remix/reuse; share & share-alike• “Teaching is sharing” – David Wiley

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/HowTo/MakingTheCase.htm


http://creativecommons.org/license/


OCW & OER Platforms

Publish and Forget


• Download: http://mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

• Example: http://wikieducator.org


• Download: http://educommons.org• Example: http://open.usu.edu

http://educommons.org/

http://open.usu.edu/


• Download: http://wordpress.org• Example:

http://opencontentdiy.wordpress.com/


http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/


Leigh Blackall’s “There Is Another Way” slidehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/leighblackall/64955399


LMS and OCW

• 2 Birds, 1 Stone• Low cost• Currency• Pick and choose• Open educational activities• Faculty responsibility


Technical Needs

1.Open/Closed

2. IP metadata

3.Workflow4.Usability


Mechanics of Moodle

Roles Groupings


UI and Workflow

1. Enable / Install2. Course “Open”3. Workflow Resources or Activities

a. Creative Commons/Copyright Cleared1)Pick a CC license

b. Closed (Private) or Shared/OpenOne-at-a-time or en masse


Technical Needs

1. Open/Closed2. IP metadata3. Workflow4. Usability5. Findability6. Interoperabilit

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?Jared M. Stein

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OpenShare Block for Moodle (2008)

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