OER 11 June 7, 2011
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , 1 comment so farThis has taken me a bit of time to get around to this, but I wanted to congratulate the organisers of OER11 which took place 11th -13th May in Manchester. I found this a particularly rewarding event with respect to seeing examples of practice, strategy and pedagogy in the context OER – in fact it led me to think that things had moved on quite considerably since OER10 in Cambridge.
The particular highlights for me were the discussions on:
- open curriculum design and integrating subject aspects
- repurposing OER
- navigating the OER landscape and strategies for doing this such as concept maps and discipline/subject communities
- integrating OER into learning and teaching strategy and learning and teaching in general e.g. students on PGCHE’s producing OER as part of their assessment
I concluded from the event
- we still need guidance on how to repurpose OER e.g. in Jorum what is the best way to export a content package and import it into your particular VLE
- OER should not be treated as a separate issue it should be integrated into practice
- when adopting an open approach to curriculum re-design we need to identify which elements are generic and which are subject specific and the subject context is still important
- there may be other ways to navigate the OER messy landscape other than a search box e.g. concept maps
For me the following presentations were the most useful for my practice:
- MIT Core Concepts Catalog
- Where technophile meets technophobe: creating an OER repository for the social policy and social work teaching community
- Keynote 2: Sustainable National OER Provision: “All that glisters is not gold”
- Symposium Short Papers (5): – Social Sciences
- The importance of OERs in delivering a flexible continuing professional development (CPD) degree framework
- Towards crossing over the digital divide: the use of OER to promote digital literacy
- Why develop OER? Analysis of pedagogical imperatives for OER design and alignment with learners’ needs
- Designing culture specific and portable RLO-based OERs: an Indian experiment
- The art of sustainable OERs – symposium
