Introduction to OER
Overview
The objective of the Open Educational Resource (OER) tutorial is to provide learners with the knowledge and skills to effectively access, use, and contribute to freely available educational materials to enhance learning and teaching.
Part I: Theory
The objective of the Open Educational Resource (OER) tutorial is to provide learners with the knowledge and skills to effectively access, use, and contribute to freely available educational materials to enhance learning and teaching.
Part II: Practice
STEP TO DEPLOY A RESOURCE
1. Create a resource
You can start to create your resource by using, MS Word, MS Power Point and start developing what you what to share such as course, tutorial, guideline, planning, according to your objective.
2. Search for image and video, cite all the copyrights
There are many open and or free resource that you can use online
For example:
After choosing an image we should mentioned about the [Title, Author, License] which we could found on the meta data related to the image like below:
The 2019 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER): supporting universal access to information through quality open learning materials - UNESCO License CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Let's try another image:
Open Science Pillars by Geyslein License CC BY-SA
We can also add a video too, there are two ways to include video into your document:
1. Download the video and put it directly into your material
- Advantage: Not losing the resource
- Disadvantage: Big Size, Difficult to share and download
2. Reference to the video link at the original source
- Advantage: flight weight
- Disadvantage: Might lose the resource and link broken
UNESCO, License CC BY-SA
3. Choose your own copyrights license
The easy way to choose the copyrights for your document is to sort all the copyrights resources that you have used in your materials and choose similar to the most restrict one.
In our case, we will used CC BY-SA, and if you are not sure of how to choose the copyrights license under creative common you can use the this website to support by just answering the question:
https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/
4. Create account in a platform
To deploy your material and share to public you can create account on the OER platform such as:
- https://hal.science/
- https://oercommons.org/
- https://www.merlot.org/
- https://www.open.edu/
5. Insert Meta data and upload your resource
Each platform will have it own meta data that you need to complete in order for your material to be an open resource. Some platform need a bit moderation before accepting your material to be public on their platform.
6. Add Pedagogy activity
But to make your open resource become, open eduational resource you need to attach the pedagogy activity to the resource, like what we are doing now. Not only provide the open resource to student but also set up the course, teaching material and activity around it.
So, Finally you have learned:
- What is OER?
- How to create one of your own?
- How to cite other resource?
- How to set up creative common to your material?
- How to make your resource become OER?
- How to deploy it in OER platform.
So, now it is your turn to deploy your own.
Part III. Quiz
In order to assess your understanding, let's do some quiz.
1. What does "OER" stand for?
A) Open Educational Resources
B) Open Enterprise Resources
C) Online Educational Resources
D) Open Environment Resources
2. What is the primary benefit of using Open Educational Resources (OER)?
A) They are more expensive than traditional textbooks
B) They are freely available for anyone to use, modify, and share
C) They require a subscription to access
D) They are only available to universities and large institutions
3. Which of the following is a common format for OER materials?
A) Video games
B) Academic journals
C) Textbooks, courseware, and multimedia
D) Corporate reports
4. What type of license is commonly used for Open Educational Resources?
A) Creative Commons licenses
B) Copyrighted protection
C) All rights reserved
D) Public domain only
5. Which organization defines and promotes the use of OER worldwide?
A) UNESCO
B) World Bank
C) World Health Organization (WHO)
D) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
6. How can educators benefit from OER?
A) By having access to free resources for teaching and learning
B) By receiving paid royalties for using the materials
C) By gaining exclusive access to high-priced research papers
D) By limiting their content to a specific region or country
7. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of OER?
A) Free and open to use
B) Requires special software to access
C) Can be adapted and modified
D) Can be redistributed
8. OER can contribute to which of the following educational goals?
A) Reducing the cost of education
B) Limiting access to educational resources
C) Increasing barriers to educational equity
D) Preventing collaboration between students and teachers
9. Which of the following is an example of an OER?
A) A university textbook available for purchase
B) A video tutorial uploaded on YouTube under a Creative Commons license
C) A proprietary online course with a subscription fee
D) A lecture recording available only to enrolled students
10. Which of the following is a common challenge faced by educators when using OER?
A) Lack of access to the internet
B) Incompatibility with proprietary learning management systems
C) Lack of teacher training to use and modify the resources
D) OERs are too expensive for students to use