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Opening Up the U of S: From Open Resources to Open Pedagogy
This document discusses open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy at the University of Saskatchewan. It defines OER as educational materials that are freely available such as textbooks, courses, videos, and images. The document outlines benefits of OER such as being adaptable, free to use, and shareable. It provides examples of open textbooks being used at the university and saving students money. Barriers to adopting OER like time and technical issues are addressed. The document promotes finding and reviewing OER, collaborating with others, and having students create OER. Various supports for using OER at the university are also mentioned.
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- 1. Opening Up theU of S: From Open Resources to Open Pedagogy Heather M. Ross October 28, 2016
- 2. Overview • What isOER • Creative Commons Licensing • Why Use OER • Open Textbooks at USask • Finding Resources • Open Pedagogy • Supports
- 3. What is OER? OpenEducational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation.” - UNESCO
- 5. Why Use OER? •Adaptable • “Free” • Sharable
- 6. Adaptable • Minor tomajor changes • Combine with existing materials • Photographs • Music • Assignments • Textbooks
- 7. “Free” • Replace expensivecommercial texts • Funding from: • Governments (SK, AB, BC) • Foundations (Hewlett, Gates) • Institutions (including “in-kind”)
- 8. Sharable • Students, othereducators, and public • Repositories • Open websites
- 9. Open Textbooks atUsask • At least 13 being used in 2016-17 • Saving students $275,000+ • Agriculture, Arts & Science, ESB, Nursing, VetMed • Four in production • Arts & Science and Engineering • Funding available to support adaptations & adoptions
- 10. Finding Resources • open.usask.ca •Me • Library • Distance Education Unit (DEU)
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- 14. Barriers • Knowing aboutopen textbooks • Time • To find • To review • To update other course materials • To revise / remix book if needed • Technical assistance • Concerns about need for print • Recognition
- 15. Barriers – SomeSolutions • Knowing – sessions like this one and word of mouth • Time • Assistance finding materials • Assistance with production • Funding for release time • Technical assistance (DEU) • Concerns about need for print – print-on-demand (Bookstore) • Recognition?
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- 17. Integration • Find aresource –open.usask.ca • Review an open textbook • Talk with educational developers about open resources and pedagogy • Talk with colleagues about collaboration • Think about: • Can I use this resource as is? • What would I need to / get to change about my course? • How much change can I do to start? • Who could I work with on this?
- 18. Open Pedagogy • Studentscreate / adapt OER • Move away from “disposable” assignments • Examples • Chemistry • *Geography • *Law • Literature • Session on November 8 through GMCTE
- 19. Supports • People: • GMCTE •Library • Distance Education Unit (DEU) • open.usask.ca • Funding
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