Are you interested in creating your own open educational resources? This free course, Creating open educational resources, will help you to write a learning course and provide you with links to various resources for open-learning materials. You will learn about the different purposes of self-instruction and receive advice about the techniques and strategies to help the learner.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- Quiz
- Round 1: Images
- Round 2: Acronyms
- Round 3: Facts and figures
- Round 4: Proprietary or open source?
- Round 5: Odd one out
- 1 What is open learning and why OERs?
- 1 What is open learning and why OERs?
- 2 What makes a good OER?
- 2 What makes a good OER?
- 3 Finding and evaluating OERs
- 3 Finding and evaluating OERs
- 3.1 Finding OERs
- 3.2 Evaluating open learning
- 4 Copyright and OER
- 4 Copyright and OER
- 4.1 Creative Commons licensing
- 4.2 Exercises from video
- 4.3 OpenLearn
- 5 The pedagogy of open learning
- 5 The pedagogy of open learning
- 5.1 How do people learn?
- 5.2 Behaviorism, Piagetianism and social constructivism
- 6 Tools for creating an OER
- 6 Tools for creating an OER
- 6.1 What are aims and objectives/outcomes?
- 6.2 Creating your OER
- Sources of material
- Content
- Formats
- Tools
- 7 Making the case for OER
- 7 Making the case for OER
- 7.1 How does learning take place in the open?
- 7.2 Organisational benefits
- 7.3 Benefits for you
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
