{"id":2590,"date":"2015-06-13T10:16:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2015-06-15T15:24:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T22:24:49","slug":"engaging-students-with-oer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/2015\/06\/13\/engaging-students-with-oer\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging students with OER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Near the end of May I worked with <a href=\"http:\/\/videogame.law.ubc.ca\/author\/jfestinger\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Festinger<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/open\/\" target=\"_blank\">Will Engle<\/a> to do a 1.5 hour workshop on how using and creating Open Educational Resources (OER) can have pedagogical value in courses (beyond saving students money, which is also important). You can see the basic abstract for the session in the wiki page embedded below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1XM3wWaKIcpf0uhB3-iQUAHrcF2-lVMAq4by0IMmliWU\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to see our slides for the workshop, on Google Slides (or see below).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1XM3wWaKIcpf0uhB3-iQUAHrcF2-lVMAq4by0IMmliWU\/embed?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000\" width=\"480\" height=\"299\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We also created a wiki page for the event, which has numerous link to resources. We also tried to get small groups to post answers to discussion questions on the wiki, but as the event was held in the late afternoon, a bunch of people left when it was time to do the small group activity (I guess many instructors, like many students, think the &#8220;real action&#8221; is in the presentation rather than the group discussion!).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/sandbox:Student_Engagement_Through_OER\" target=\"_blank\">wiki page for the workshop<\/a> is embedded below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='wiki-embed  wiki-target-url-not-set' rel='http:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/sandbox:Student_Engagement_Through_OER'>\n<div class=\"mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"wiki-embed-shell wiki-embed-fragment-count-3\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-ea00c0a17adf0856d620c9ea426ad4aa-0\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"About_this_session\">About this session<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<p><br><\/p><p>\"Increasing Student Engagement through Open Educational Resources\" is a workshop held during the <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/institute.ctlt.ubc.ca\/\">CTLT Institute<\/a> in May 2015.<br><\/p><p><br><b>Abstract<\/b>\n<\/p><p>Open educational resources are educational materials (text, video, audio, and more) that are licensed to allow others to reuse, revise, remix, redistribute, and retain them free of cost. There are numerous pedagogical benefits to both using OER and creating OER in courses; this workshop will focus on a few of them, including the following.\n<\/p><p>Asking students to create OER in courses means, in part, asking them to create things that are available to and of use by other students in the course (both past, present and future) and by people beyond the course. Assignments that are read only by an instructor and\/or teaching assistant can seem to be what David Wiley calls in a blog post &ldquo;disposable&rdquo;: &ldquo;assignments that add no value to the world &ndash; after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away&rdquo; (Resource here). If, instead, student work is adding value to the world, contributing to a larger body of knowledge that can be used by others, it is much more likely that they will be engaged in working on it and try to make it as good as possible. Examples of such assignments could be student blog posts, student-created web pages or wiki pages, videos, and more that others can see\/hear\/interact with and learn from. Another example that will be discussed in the session is having students edit an open textbook and share their edits openly.\n<\/p><p>Using OER in courses means asking students to read\/watch\/listen to\/interact with educational materials for the course that are publicly available and licensed for reuse and (often) revision. Finding and assigning OER can allow for presentation of material in different ways: e.g., a textual resource can be augmented through finding and using a diagram, an image, a video, another text that explains things differently, etc. This can help both engage students and improve their understanding of course material. Further, if the OER are licensed to allow revision, students can edit them or mix them with other resources to create something new, both helping their own leaning and contributing OER for others to learn from.\n<\/p><p>In this session we will all discuss together the various kinds of open educational resources, including open textbooks, how to find OER for your courses, and several of the pedagogical benefits of creating and using OER.<br><\/p><p><br><b>Facilitators<\/b><br><\/p><p><br><b>Will Engle<\/b> is a strategist for open education resources at UBC's Center for Teaching, Learning &amp; Technology. He engaged with projects that are leveraging emerging technologies, approaches, and pedagogies to support open learning. With a background in library science, Will is interested in understanding and supporting the removal of barriers that limit access to education, information, and knowledge.\n<\/p><p><b>Jon Festinger,<\/b> Q.C. (LL.B., B.C.L. 1980 McGill University) is a Vancouver, British Columbia based counsel and educator. He is an SFU Professor of Professional Practice and a faculty member of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/thecdm.ca\/\">Centre for Digital Media<\/a>. Jon has taught media, entertainment and communications law topics at the UBC Faculty of Law for over two decades, as well as teaching at various times at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, the Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law and the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. He is the author of the first edition of &ldquo;Video Game Law&rdquo; published by LexisNexis in 2005, co-author of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/store.lexisnexis.ca\/store\/ca\/catalog\/booktemplate\/productdetail.jsp?prodId=prd-cad-01004\">2nd Edition published in 2012<\/a>. The open and on-line components of his courses can be found <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/videogame.law.ubc.ca\/\">here<\/a> &amp; <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/videogame.law.ubc.ca\/\">here<\/a>. Jon was named a member of <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/teamopen.cc\/jon\/\">Creative Commons&rsquo; &ldquo;Team Open&rdquo;<\/a> in 2014.\n<\/p><p><b>Christina Hendricks<\/b> is a Sr. Instructor in Philosophy at UBC, and she also regularly teaches in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/artsone.arts.ubc.ca\">Arts One program<\/a>. She has been a proponent of open education for several years, having participated in and few open online courses and been part of the design and facilitation team for others, including one with Peer 2 Peer University called <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/p2pu.org\/en\/courses\/2314\/why-open\/\">Why Open?<\/a>, and a course on <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachwordpress\">Teaching with WordPress<\/a>. She uses as many open educational resources in her teaching as she can, and posts many of her teaching materials as open educational resources herself.\n<\/p><p><br><\/p>\n<!-- end of content wiki-embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-ea00c0a17adf0856d620c9ea426ad4aa-1\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Agenda_and_session_outcomes\">Agenda and session outcomes<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<p><b>Agenda<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ol><li>Introductions--to us, to you<\/li>\n<li>Defining openness and open educational resources (OER) in groups<\/li>\n<li>Discussion of openness and OER<\/li>\n<li>Presentation on pedagogical benefits of OER and open courses<\/li>\n<li>Groups: take a \"traditional\" assignment and discuss how you might use what we've talked about today to transform it (and why)<\/li>\n<li>Conclusion<\/li><\/ol><p><br><b>Session outcomes<\/b>\n<\/p><p>By the end of the session, you should be able to:\n<\/p>\n<ul><li>Give a definition of &ldquo;open&rdquo; and\/or open educational resources<\/li>\n<li>Explain at least two pedagogical benefits to using and\/or creating OER in teaching &amp; learning<\/li>\n<li>Explain one or more courses\/projects at UBC using\/creating OER<\/li>\n<li>Say how you might adapt an activity or assignment to make it more \"open,\" and why this would be pedagogically a good thing to do<\/li><\/ul><!-- end of content wiki-embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-ea00c0a17adf0856d620c9ea426ad4aa-2\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Group_activities\">Group activities<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<p>Click on your group number to go to the page where you can type in your answers to the questions in the group activities during the session.\n<\/p><p>To see all the groups' notes from the activities, click here: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Sandbox:Student_Engagement_Through_OER\/Group_Resource\">http:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Sandbox:Student_Engagement_Through_OER\/Group_Resource<\/a>\n<\/p><p>You can also see how the group wiki pages look when embedded into a WordPress site, here:  <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/willdev.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/\">http:\/\/willdev.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/<\/a>\n<\/p><p><br><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Sandbox:Student_Engagement_Through_OER\/Group1\" title=\"Sandbox:Student Engagement Through OER\/Group1\">Group 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Sandbox:Student_Engagement_Through_OER\/Group2\" title=\"Sandbox:Student Engagement Through OER\/Group2\">Group 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Sandbox:Student_Engagement_Through_OER\/Group3\" title=\"Sandbox:Student Engagement Through OER\/Group3\">Group 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Sandbox:Student_Engagement_Through_OER\/Group4\" title=\"Sandbox:Student Engagement Through OER\/Group4\">Group 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Sandbox:Student_Engagement_Through_OER\/Group5\" title=\"Sandbox:Student Engagement Through OER\/Group5\">Group 5<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Sandbox:Student_Engagement_Through_OER\/Group6\" title=\"Sandbox:Student Engagement Through OER\/Group6\">Group 6<\/a><\/li><\/ul><!-- end of content wiki-embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fragment-ea00c0a17adf0856d620c9ea426ad4aa-3\" class=\"wikiembed-fragment wikiembed-fragment-counter-3 wikiembed-fragment-last\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span id=\"Resources.2C_links_from_the_session_or_relevant_to_the_session\"><\/span><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Resources,_links_from_the_session_or_relevant_to_the_session\">Resources, links from the session or relevant to the session<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- start of content wiki-embed -->\n<p><br><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Slides_from_the_session\">Slides from the session<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The slides used during the session <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1XM3wWaKIcpf0uhB3-iQUAHrcF2-lVMAq4by0IMmliWU\/edit?usp=sharing\">can be found here<\/a> (on Google Slides).<br><\/p><p><br><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Examples_of_open_courses_or_OER\">Examples of open courses or OER<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A list of some examples can be found on the open.ubc.ca website, here: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/open.ubc.ca\/learning\/\">http:\/\/open.ubc.ca\/learning\/<\/a>\n<\/p><p>Please add other examples that you know of, below!\n<\/p><p><br><b>At UBC<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/artsone-open.arts.ubc.ca\">Arts One Open<\/a> at UBC<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/videogame.law.ubc.ca\/\">Video Game Law<\/a> at UBC<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Science:Math_Exam_Resources\" title=\"Science:Math Exam Resources\">Math Exam\/Education Resources<\/a> on the UBC Wiki<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Course:FNH200\" title=\"Course:FNH200\">Judy Chan's Food Nutrition and Health course site<\/a> on the UBC Wiki<\/li>\n<li>Jon Beasley-Murray's course assignments to create Wikipedia articles: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem\">Murder, Madness and Mayhem<\/a><\/li>\n<li>LFS350 asks students to create wiki pages rather than papers:  <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Course:LFS350\">http:\/\/wiki.ubc.ca\/Course:LFS350<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Physics course adds student-created learning objects into course curriculum: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phys101\/\">https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phys101\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p><br><b>Elsewhere<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/chemwiki.ucdavis.edu\/\">Chemwiki<\/a>: the dynamic chemistry e-textbook, housed at University of California, Davis<\/li>\n<li>Digital Storytelling 106 (DS106) at the University of Mary Washington (Virginia, USA) (facilitated by lots of people)<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/eci831.ca\/\">An \"open boundary\" course on Social Media and Open Education<\/a> at the University of Regina, facilitated by <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/about.me\/couros\/\">Alec Couros<\/a> (EC&amp;I 831)<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/mslocopen.wordpress.com\/\">Open Boundary course at Northwestern University<\/a> (Illinois, USA) on networked work and learning (MSLOC 430), facilitated by <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/about.me\/jeffmerrell\">Jeff Merrell<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sesp.northwestern.edu\/profile\/?p=787&amp;\/KimberlyScott\/\">Kimberly Scott<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/philosophy.talons43.ca\/\">Talons Philosophy<\/a>, an open online high school course in philosophy run by <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/bryanjack.ca\/\">Bryan Jackson<\/a> in Coquitlam, BC (see further information <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/philosophy.talons43.ca\/2014\/09\/23\/open-online-participant-invite-for-2014-15\/\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/thoughtvectors.net\/\">Thought Vectors in Concept Space<\/a> at Virginia Commonwealth University<\/li><\/ul><p><br><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Open_Education\">Open Education<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/guides.library.ubc.ca\/content.php?pid=659422&amp;sid=5461485\">Library guide on open education<\/a>, including open access, open educational resources, open textbooks, open data<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/education.okfn.org\/handbook\/\">The open education handbook<\/a>, a collaboratively authored and edited book about open education<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/copyright.ubc.ca\/guidelines-and-resources\/support-guides\/open-course-educational-resource-guidelines\/\">UBC Copyright Guide for Open Courses and OER<\/a> UBC Copyright Office guide to copyright questions for open courses and open resources.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/learn.canvas.net\/courses\/4\">Introduction to Openness in Education<\/a> - An open course from David Wiley that provides a broad overview of the ways in which openness impacts many areas of education &ndash; curriculum, instruction, learning, policy, technology, research, and finance, among others.<\/li><\/ul><h3><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Creative_Commons_licenses\">Creative Commons licenses<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/copyright.ubc.ca\/guidelines-and-resources\/support-guides\/creative-commons\/\">UBC Copyright guide to Creative Commons<\/a>, including where\/how to search for CC-licensed content<\/li>\n<li>Creative Commons website overview of the licenses: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Creative Commons license chooser that adds helpful metadata for those attributing you, if you add the code generated to your webpage(s), blog, etc.: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/choose\/\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/choose\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A video that explains the basics of the licenses, and some of the specific differences between them (it's focused on New Zealand, but the rules apply elsewhere too!): <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/videos\/creative-commons-kiwi\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/videos\/creative-commons-kiwi<\/a><\/li><\/ul><h3><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"True_Stories_of_Open_Sharing\">True Stories of Open Sharing<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Watch some amazingly true stories of open sharing--the great stuff that can happen when we share our work openly: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/stories.cogdogblog.com\/\">http:\/\/stories.cogdogblog.com\/<\/a><br><\/p>\n<!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20260419104011\nCache expiry: 86400\nReduced expiry: false\nComplications: [show&#8208;toc]\nCPU time usage: 0.013 seconds\nReal time 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