Peralta
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Peralta Community College OER Training August 18, 2011 2:00-5:00 pm
Participants: Peralta Community College District’s faculty, tutors, and students.
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Overall Goals:
- Improve participants’ awareness of OER through an innovative training program
- Improve participants’ professional skills so they can integrate digital resources into their course
- Encourage participant collaboration, leadership and development of OER
- Support participants’ OER needs
- Empower participants to take an active role in educational resource reform
Pre-training activities: each participant will create a visual representation of their teaching process from idea to implementation (resources they use, who they collaborate with, etc.). Each participant will also bring in a lesson they created and would like to share during the OER Training.
OER Training Themes and Activities:
- Reflect on current teaching processes
- Introduce the OER Process and online collaboration
- Explore OER Commons: Finding, Remixing, Collaborating, Creating, and Sharing OER
- Choose an open license and share online
- Create new curriculum using design thinking*
Tentative Training Schedule:
2:00-2:30 Intro to tools and resources and Improv Warm Up: Yellow Ball Vacations
2:30-3:00 Teaching Process Reflections
3:00-4:00 Intro to OER Process: Finding, Remixing, & Sharing Resources
- Open Educational Resources on OER Commons - access over 30,000 freely available open educational resources (OER) and contribute to OER by tagging, rating, and reviewing resources.
- How do we define Open Educational Resources (OER)?
- High quality content and tools
- Freely available from the internet, anytime, anywhere
- Available in multiple languages
- Shareable
- Usable and re-usable
- Finding OER: Browse OER, View Content Providers, and Search OER Commons.
- Browse OER Materials
- Browse Content Providers
- Advanced Search
- Contribute Content
- Conditions of Use: No Strings Attached, Remix and Share, Share Only, Read the Fine Print
- Resource Highlights: Examples of Open Textbooks tagged on OER Commons: http://www.oercommons.org/browse/keyword/peraltacc
- Search and Explore
- OER Commons
- Wikis in Plain English Common Craft
- Remixing OER: Find an OER to Remix.
- Creating OER: Use authoring tool to create OER
4:00-4:30 Sharing OER: How to license and share OER
- Choose a Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/choose/
4:30-5:00 Reflections and next steps for collaboratively creating an open textbook
Follow Up Training: Design Challenge Activity
Design Challenge: How might we design a collaborative online open Developmental English textbook project that meets the following design principles:
- The design must meet a need for their school community.
- The design must use collaboration between Professors, Tutors, and Students.
- The design must use OER.
Outcomes: Support student needs and meet the learning goals of the College.
