Curating OER with Social Media

Jed Duggan

Miley Grandjean

New Mexico State University

Today’s Session

• Part 1-What are Open Educational Resources?

• Part 2-What are the benefits of using Social Media?

• Part 3-What does it mean to curate?

• For interaction:

• Twitter-#OERet4online

• Facebook-Curating OER with Social Media-SLOAN C

Open Educational Resources

“Open educational resources provide a learner-centered platform that authentically marries technology with education and provides access and equity to education resources for all.”

-Lisa Petrides from Web Computing

• How do we integrate resources into higher education?

• Moocs?

• Open Textbooks?

• Open repositories?

MOOCs

• Massive Open Online Courses

• 2 types: cMOOCs vs. xMOOCs

• Connectivist models of MOOCs

• Traditional models of learning (xMOOCs)

• Should the effectiveness of MOOCs be evaluated by outcomes (passing rates)?

• Twitter #OERSLOANC

Connectivism

• “Learning can reside outside of ourselves, is focused on connected specialized information sets, and the connections that enable us to learn more are more important than our current state of knowing.”

George Siemens, A Learning Theory for the Digital Age

• Connectivist MOOCs

• Focus on challenging the traditional learning structure

• Function on the premise that learning can be crowd-sourced and networked

xMOOCs

• Coursera

• Udemy

• Traditional course set up and outcomes

• Offer flexible pacing and subjects for the learners

• Is it important for universities to offer MOOCs? Why or Why not?

• Facebook-Curating OER with Social Media-SLOAN C

Open Textbooks

• “Taming the textbook monster”

• Free online textbooks and resources

• Open Stax

• Open Consortium

• Open SUNY

Open Stax College

• Initiative of Rice University

• Offers fully sourced textbooks

• Variety of subjects

• Peer reviewed

• Established partnerships with several universities

• http://openstaxcollege.org/

• What are some ideas for taming the textbook monster? (Twitter #OERSLOANC)

More Open Textbooks options

Open Consortium• Peer Reviewed

• Creative Commons Licensed

• User Friendly

• Good selection

• http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/

Open SUNY• Peer reviewed

• SUNY faculty

• Creative Commons Licensed

• Undergraduate and Graduate focus

• Aim to reduce costs of education

• http://opensuny.org/omp/index.php/SUNYOpenTextbooks/index

Open Repositories

• MERLOT

• Open Courseware

• OER Commons

• Khan

• OCW Search

• Open Learning Initiative

MERLOT II http://www.merlot.org

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MERLOT Details

• Online learning materials in different disciplines

• Peer review opportunities – can review, create, and add to the content collection

• Awards – submitted content is review and can be recognized by consortium

• Translation variety languages

• Guest Speakers – content specialists are available for guest speaking to your students

Open Culture http://www.openculture.com

OC Details

• Use resources to enhance your courses

• Materials are vetted and added to regularly

• You can mail@openculture.com and suggest content to add.

• Easy to search and integrated content

• Mobile friendly

• No registration! Subscribe or Follow

• Ads a ‘Con’ but funds resource

OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/

OER Commons Details

Across all subject areas

Lots of different resource types

Flexible search features

Quality rating system

Clearly labeled ‘Conditions of Use’

Short abstract

Review resource

Variety of actions

Easy to curate resources in account

Creative Commons

• Creative Commons licensing provides a framework to provide guidelines for the “4 Rs” of sharing resources:

• Reuse: copying verbatim with attribution

• Redistribution: sharing with others

• Revision: adapting and reusing

• Remixing: combining with other resources

• What are the benefits and disadvantages of integrating open resources into education? (Facebook-Curating OER with Social Media-SLOAN C)

Creative Commons

Why Social Media?

Advantages• Networking

• Information

• Engagement

• Access/Time

• Context

• Ideas

Disadvantages• Misleading

• Unregulated

• Overwhelming

• My LinkedIn conundrum

Curation

• To pull together, sift through, and select for presentation- Dictionary.com

• Sifting

• Organizing

Tools for Sifting

Twitter• Use of hashtags

• Links to blogs

• Size of the community

• Convenience of the user

Facebook• Pages and Groups

• Control the security settings

• Intimacy of the community

• Authenticity of interactions

Tools for Organizing

• Diigo

• Pinterest

• Learnist

• Symbaloo

• Flipboard

Diigo

• Social Bookmarking

• Links

• Tags

• Basics

• Share with others

Pinterest

• Digital scrapbooking

• Visual links (pins)

• Can take from others

• Can share with others

• Edit together (with another)

Learnist

• Crowd-sourcing

• Visual presentation

• Allows texts and descriptions