Missouri OER Professional Learning Academy
Overview
This Academy will highlight the resources and tools on OER Commons and how the Missouri OER Hub can support collaboration amongst districts to build and share collections. The series will focus on:
Developing a knowledge of OER characteristics - especially related to local Missouri needs and resources
Exploring Liberty Public School’s Collections and Curation strategies
Locating, remixing and adding resources to develop collections responsive to the curricular needs of Missouri districts and initiatives
Aligning resources to Missouri Learning Standards, with a focus on priority standards
Session 1: Introduction to OER Characteristics and Curation
This session explores of the what, why, and how of high-quality OER, clarifying the differences between “free” and “open” and giving participants time to examine specific resources that Missouri educators are using or might benefit from using. This session is also an introduction to effective search strategies to identify resources that meet specific OER need areas and priorities.
Goals:
- Create an account on OER Commons and join a group
- Identify different licensing conditions and types of Creative Commons licenses
- Explore resources on the OER Commons platform
- Save resources to a group
Slides: https://bit.ly/MO-OER-Webinar-One
Practice Activities: Please see the Discussion Board for the two prompts from Webinar One.
Record your engagement using this Attendance document
Session 2: Introduction to OER Evaluation and Remixing
This session explores how educators can examine resources using different evaluation tools (star rating, comment and rubrics) to identify strengths and opportunities in the resource. Then participants had time to identify ways that educators might adapt or remix a resource to better meet content area and specific location needs.
Goals:
- Participate in our OER Missouri community by engaging in discussion boards
- Review different licensing conditions and examine resources to identify types of Creative Commons licenses
- Evaluate resources on the OER Commons platform by leaving star ratings, comments and rubric evaluations
- Evaluate the resources that you saved to a folder
Slides: https://bit.ly/MO-OER-Webinar-Two
Practice Activities: Please see the Discussion Board for the prompt from Webinar Two.
Record your engagement using this Attendance document
Session 3: Introduction to OER Evaluation and Remixing
This session explores how educators can examine resources using different evaluation tools (star rating, comment and rubrics) to identify strengths and opportunities in the resource. Then participants had time to identify ways that educators might adapt or remix a resource to better meet content area and specific location needs.
Goals:
- Participate in our OER Missouri community by engaging in discussion boards
- Create OER using Open Author
- Plan for inviting other educators to the Missouri OER Community
- Practice Activities: Please see the Discussion Board for the prompt from Webinar Three.
- Consider using this email template to reach out to others about MO OER
Dear _______________,
I hope that you are doing well. I’ve been collaborating with the MOREnet and Missouri OER Commons, a library of open educational resources that promotes exploration, creation, and collaboration with the goal of enriching teaching and learning in Missouri and around the world.
We’ve been exploring and evaluating Open Education Resources (OER) and curating them into our group's shared folders. I found a few resources that I think would be really valuable for your work, and I saved them to a folder that you can access. Here are the steps that you would take to connect with our group and engage with the resources.
Visit OER Commons and create an account
Join our OER Community of Practice
View the folders on the left and look for the folder I created named “___________________”
I’d love to follow up with you later to see if these resources are helpful and discuss other ways we might collaborate with OER. Please let me know what days and times work best for you. Thank you!
- Record your engagement using this Attendance document