| DISCUSSION INPUT: How to foster learning with OER? [message #9] |
Mon, 26 March 2007 09:46  |
 mdeimann
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Dear all,
As you all know Open Educational Resources (OER) (such as open software and development tools or open content) are conceived of as being of enormous benefit for virtually all levels of education. However, there remains a lack of knowledge or strategies how to unfold the power of OER.
Regarding from your personal standpoint what do you think needs to be done in order to bring about the benefits of learning with OER?
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| Re: DISCUSSION INPUT: How to foster learning with OER? [message #10 is a reply to message #9 ] |
Mon, 26 March 2007 10:57  |
blanka
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Registered: March 2007
Location: Poland |
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| mdeimann wrote on Mon, 26 March 2007 09:46 |
Dear all,
As you all know Open Educational Resources (OER) (such as open software and development tools or open content) are conceived of as being of enormous benefit for virtually all levels of education. However, there remains a lack of knowledge or strategies how to unfold the power of OER.
Regarding from your personal standpoint what do you think needs to be done in order to bring about the benefits of learning with OER?
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In Poland open software (e.g. moodle) is more and more popular and widely used (schools, universities, private sector).The most difficult is to solve the problem with open content. Not very many good examples could be find in this matter. In my opinion the major obstacle is "copyrights".
I think that European Social Founds should bring alot of possibilities for building open content.
In Polish case good examples are located at: http://wazniak.mimuw.edu.pl/index.php?title=Strona_g%C5%82%C 3%B3wna
http://parp.eduportal.pl/
Anna Grabowska
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| Re: DISCUSSION INPUT: How to foster learning with OER? [message #12 is a reply to message #9 ] |
Tue, 27 March 2007 14:43 |
Cordula
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Registered: March 2007 |
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Dear all,
as the very essence of teaching is the sharing of knowledge it is somewhat sad to see how few teachers in Germany are prepared to openly share their educational materials.
In the context of the development of the multimedia-based learning environment „Interactive Whiteboards – authentic learning“, from the Department of Instructional Technology and Media, FernUniversität Hagen, research has been conducted into the usage of interactive whiteboards. As this new medium can only be as good as the teachers that integrate it into their lessons and the materials that are prepared for it, the efficiency of developing high-quality content has come under the spotlight once again.
Great Britain leads the world in the introduction of interactive whiteboards into schools and is experiencing the need of teachers to share lesson materials in order to maximise the use of common resources. Teachers have spoken about the need of filing systems that enable easy recall and the classification of materials for example by topic to make the exchange feasible. In a response to this need file sharing system such as the Scottish Teacher Resource Exchange , a moderated database of resources and activities has been created by teachers. Contributions can vary in those systems from simple ideas and questions, to complete lesson plans, which enable other teachers to use these resources within their own lessons.
Although ICT in schools might have been the first trigger for German teachers to share their ideas online, it is still a minority of teachers who have overcome old habits. School networks, for example file sharing systems in each individual school might help to take another hurdle as some teacher would prefer to share resources only in a somewhat limited and sheltered environment.
Open Content initiatives such as this one might help teachers to wake up and smell the coffee as materials they are paid to develop are not their private property but a valuable common resource and should be reused and distributed for colleagues and students alike. In my opinion, the participation should not be compulsory, but it should be made clear that the sharing of educational resources would make the teachers’ lives easier and the preparation of lessons more efficient.
Cordula Orth
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| Re: DISCUSSION INPUT: How to foster learning with OER? [message #15 is a reply to message #9 ] |
Wed, 28 March 2007 12:15 |
tpfeffer
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Registered: March 2007
Location: Austria |
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Dear colleagues,
How to foster learning with OER? I would have one argument, how to promote the idea, and one recommendation, how to promote action:
1) publishing OER as empowerment and eLiteracy
To publish OER should be regarded as a form of empowerment for the producer, as a way to allow for contribution to web-based communication. Virtual media constitute an entirely new form of communication, comparable to script (reading/writing). It is a question of literacy, if actors are able not only to passively consume, but also are empowered to contribute.
2) publishing OER has to become much easier
Current practices in publishing OER often require 2nd storage of educational resources, their transfer from a learning management system to a content management system. This is inefficient and cumbersome. It would be better to open learning management systems for publication, e.g. to distinguish between public and private elements of a course.
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