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Open Educational Resources (OER)
Open Educational Resources (OER)
reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property
license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open
educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules,
textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or
techniques used to support access to knowledge .
As part of my assembly of a module for a hybrid course on reading skills on
Moodle, I actually created 3 weeks or modules for that course. And this is what
my instructional design plan is:
However, as soon as all these pieces were put together is when, our instructor had
us reflect on the OERs that were used for the assembling of the three weeks I
produced. Here you have the OERs I utilized, the plan will tell you how they will
be used, and you also had here the reason why they were chosen.
Resource used in the platform
http://www.scribd.com
http://www.myquizcreator.com
http://www.blogger.com
http://www.youtube.com
http://www.glogster.com
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It is a website that allows
users to create quizzes that
can also be embedded and
displayed in Moodle or
other sites.
It is an extension part of
the Google family that
allows users to publish
content on the web for
free.
It is an extension of the
Google family that allows
users to spot tutorial that
can be easily embedded in
Moodle or wikis.
It is a site where users can
create interactive posters
that can be shown in class
or embedded in blogs,
Moodle, etc.
In brief, Prof. Aguilar had a very clear point in having us course participants
to reflect upon the choice of OERs. If a resource is going to be used, there must
be a good reason for doing so since it will contribute to the course success and
the fostering of deep learning among students. Web 2.0 tools can indeed help the
delivery of a course if used properly; the wrong and unscrupulous usage of OERs
can lead course participants to failure if not planned thoroughly bearing in mind
the plans objective to be accomplished.