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OER Collaboratories
A collaboratory is a place online to practice "doing science" and a mindset about sharing. OER Collaboratories make a problem space, a new Open Educational Resource.
What does open mean for learning?
- Recast teachers as curriculum creators
- See students, teachers, and scientist mentors as makers of learning
- Develops the field of active participants and social learners
- Encourages focus on real-world problems and use of real-world data
The Pollen Project
An example of an OER Collaboratory that teaches faculty and students to model scientific research. Real discovery inspires The Pollen Project's scientific pedagogy.
Question/Problem Space:
What is the relationship between climate change and plant science?
Resources:
- Scientific Data Sets and Simulations:
- Japanese Weather Site uses pollen monitoring robots as part of a remote sensing system in Japan. The robots collect current pollen counts in Japan.
- Pollen Viewer, an interactive animation tool that shows pollen counts over the past 21,000 years in North America.
- Open Educational Resources
- Pollen Bots Activity investigates pollen monitoring in Japan.
- Pollen Viewer Activity investigates how grass pollen counts have changed over time.
- Pollen Puzzle allow students to use online tools to investigate characteristics of pollen such as its relationship to temperature, how it travels, and its effect on humans.
- Phenology: The Effects of Climate Change on Ecosystem Health, an article that gives an introduction to how scientists are using plant data to study the effects of climate change.
- Citizen Science Resources: Research how plants in your area can be used to indicate climate change.
- Project BudBurst, a U.S. field study campaign that engages citizen scientists in making careful observations of the phenological events such as first leafing, first flower, and first fruit ripening of a diversity of trees, shrubs, flowers and grasses in their local area.
Scientific Inquiry Process:
- BioQuest's 3 P's Approach to Science Education:Problem-posing, Problem-solving and Peer Persuasion
- Understanding Science: How science really works, an interactive flowchart representing the process of scientific inquiry, through which we build reliable knowledge of the natural world. You can use it to trace the development of different scientific ideas and/or the research efforts of individual scientists. Most ideas take a circuitous path through the process, shaped by unique people and events.
OER Collaborative: Communities of Educators
BioQuest Curriculum Experts, Scientists, Palynologists, Teachers, Students, and ISKME Team meet, present, and discuss using The Pollen Project Ning site.
More information on The Pollen Project available here To join The Pollen Project please email Megan Simmons, ISKME's Education Program Manager
Collaborative Group Projects
Inspired by ISKME's example of an OER Collaborative, participants are encouraged to think of a theme for an OER Collaborative that they can do at their institutions. To get you started, consider the following:
- Pose a question/problem space: What would you like to investigate? Something current, relevant, and interesting to your students.
- Search OER Commons for resources to use: You can access an online OER Tutorial on Finding OER Materials You Can Start Using Now
- Develop an OER Collaborative: Who would you include? (scientists? health professionals? farmers?)
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