Open Educational Resources (OER) Pedagogy and Practices

Open Educational Resources (OER) Pedagogy and Practices
Author: Molly Y. Zhou
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Educational technology
ISBN: 9781799812005

""This book examines open educational resources in education with a focus on pedagogical discussion and practices in teaching and learning in higher education and in K-12 schools"--Provided by publisher"--

Open Educational Resources (OER) Pedagogy and Practices

Open Educational Resources (OER) Pedagogy and Practices
Author: Zhou, Molly Y.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-11-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799812022

Access to learning materials has been an issue within education that has had a profound impact on student outcomes and equality among students. New strategies for promoting more equal access to these materials began within institutions of higher learning and can be adapted at lower levels to facilitate equity within educational systems. Open Educational Resources (OER) Pedagogy and Practices is a comprehensive research publication that explores open access to educational materials and its impact on educational cost, educational equity, and poverty. Featuring a range of topics such as instructional design, pedagogy, and gamification, this book is essential for teachers, curriculum developers, instructional designers, principals, school boards, educational professionals, academicians, professors, administrators, educational policymakers, researchers, and educational agencies.

Contextualised open educational practices

Contextualised open educational practices
Author: Jako Olivier
Publisher: AOSIS
Total Pages: 292
Release:
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1779952651

This book covers original research on the implementation of open educational practices through the use of open educational resources at the university level. The emphasis on open education in this book is on contextualising resources, supporting student agency and fostering self-directed learning specifically within a South African milieu. The envisaged chapters cover conceptual and review research and empirical work focussing on open educational practices and the use of renewable assessments. The work starts off with an overview of an institutional-wide open education project that prompted the research followed by research on open education in terms of various modules in the health science, music education, law, philosophy, dietetics, anthropology, French language learning, journalism and political science. There is a clear gap in the literature on open education in terms of open educational practices, specifically in terms of contextualising resources, supporting student agency and fostering self-directed learning in a South African context. Despite the existence of some general works on open education in terms of policy, social justice and open textbooks, this book will be unique in exploring the intersections of openness, specifically with contextualisation, student agency and self-directedness.

Open

Open
Author: Rajiv S. Jhangiani
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1911529013

Affordable education. Transparent science. Accessible scholarship. These ideals are slowly becoming a reality thanks to the open education, open science, and open access movements. Running separate—if parallel—courses, they all share a philosophy of equity, progress, and justice. This book shares the stories, motives, insights, and practical tips from global leaders in the open movement.

Best Practices in Designing Courses with Open Educational Resources

Best Practices in Designing Courses with Open Educational Resources
Author: Olena Zhadko
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2019-12-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429638817

Best Practices in Designing Courses with Open Educational Resources is a practical guide that assists faculty and institutions looking to adopt and implement open educational resources (OER) and to foster meaningful, effective learning experiences through the course design process. Chapters loaded with tips, case examples, and guidance from practitioners advise readers through each step necessary for sustainable OER initiatives, from preliminary planning and course redesign through teaching, learning, and faculty development. Written by two authors with direct experience in training higher education professionals to use OER, this is a comprehensive resource for faculty, instructional designers, course developers, librarians, information technologists, and administrators hoping to rethink and refresh their curricula by moving beyond traditional textbooks. An authors’ website expands the book with resources, templates, and examples of implementation models, including faculty development workshop OER materials that can be adopted by readers.

Utilizing Open Education Resources (OER) and Introducing OER-enabled Pedagogies (OEP) in a First-year Composition Classroom at a Historically Black College Or University

Utilizing Open Education Resources (OER) and Introducing OER-enabled Pedagogies (OEP) in a First-year Composition Classroom at a Historically Black College Or University
Author: Mari-jo Ulbricht
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: Composition (Language arts)
ISBN:

In the context of a first-year composition course at an HBCU, I explored the potential of Open Educational Resources (OER) and OER-Enable Pedagogy (OEP) to better understand how the resources and the pedagogical practices surrounding their use might innovate teaching and learning. In this study conducted with 14 participants from online, hybrid, and face-to-face sections of the course, I obtained their perspectives on innovations made possible by OER/OEP. Using a qualitative action research approach, I collected data through syllabi analysis, interviews, digital artifacts, discussion posts, coding memos, and journals. Analysis of the data found that OER/OEP: highlights the social nature of writing, signifying the value of students' active engagement within a diverse and supportive community of peers; promotes culturally responsive pedagogy by actively motivating and challenging students through a culturally relevant curriculum that addresses social justice issues; supports the writing process by scaffolding with customizable materials and hands-on practice, including interactive multimodal activities, to build confidence; opens possibilities for a student-centered experience by providing accessible materials, differentiating learning, and empowering students with agency as they engage in co-creating and producing knowledge through alternative assessments. The findings revealed that incorporating OER/OEP is a compelling approach that innovates teaching and learning in the first-year composition course at an HBCU. The study demonstrates the transformative potential of OER/OEP and suggests further research to fully leverage this innovative pedagogical approach.

Open Pedagogy Resources

Open Pedagogy Resources
Author: Lauri Aesoph
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN:

"Open pedagogy, also known as open educational practices (OEP), are pedagogical strategies that use the affordances of open licences to get students involved in creative activities that often contribute back to the course materials - or have other real-world applications. David Wiley is credited with coining the term "open pedagogy" and contrasts this type of assignment with "disposable assignments" that have no value once a grade is assigned. Examples include students demonstrate mastery of weekly learning objectives by writing quiz questions that are added to the test bank for next term or students create or revise open educational resources (OER) for their course."--BC Campus website.

Open Educational Resources in Higher Education

Open Educational Resources in Higher Education
Author: Jako Olivier
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2023-02-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811985901

This book explores open educational resources and open education through research conducted on this topic globally. This book engages with intersections between open educational resources, social justice and equality, as well as policy in terms of open educational resources. Numerous examples of open praxis are also included, ranging from open educational resources courses to the affordances of artificial intelligence, data-driven learning, and open textbooks in this context. Furthermore, chapters range from providing a broad overview of open educational resources international and regional initiatives in Africa, to cases of work done in the United States, New Zealand, Israel, and Hong Kong. The role of Wikipedia and Wikidata is also prominent. Finally, this book includes unique contributions, focusing on open educational resources and feminist pedagogy, as well as disabled learners’ motivations for participating in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Academics and researchers working in the field of open education and higher education in general will understand the importance of this work.

Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice

Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice
Author: C. J. Ivory
Publisher: Assoc of College & Research Libraries
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-11-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780838936788

Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice explores the opportunities and challenges of moving the discussion about open educational resources (OER) beyond affordability to address structural inequities found throughout academia and scholarly publishing. OER have the potential to celebrate research done by marginalized populations in the context of their own communities, to amplify the voices of those who have the knowledge but have been excluded from formal prestige networks, and to engage students as co-creators of learning content that is relevant and respectful of their cultural contexts. Edited by academic librarians with experience advocating across campus, Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice takes a multidisciplinary approach and is filled with examples of the ways OER and open pedagogy can be used to support social justice in education. In five sections, it covers a wide range of topics from theoretical critiques to multidisciplinary examples of OER development in practice to examinations of institutional support for OER development. Section I: Theory and Problematizing Section II: Open Praxis Section III: Decolonizing Learning in the Global South Section IV: Scaling Up with Institutional Policies (Approaches) Section V: Building and Decolonizing OER Platforms Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice offers something for everyone who advocates for open pedagogy and OER across campus, from librarians to teaching faculty to centers for teaching and learning. It demonstrates ways that open pedagogy--and especially practices that encourage students to participate in building or localizing OER--can provide a way to incorporate a wider range of perspectives into original research projects and add these crucial perspectives into the scholarly discourse. This book is also available as an open access edition at https://bit.ly/ACRLOERSJ.