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Randy Hansen
Professor and Program Chair, Learning Design and Technology
University of Maryland Global Campus
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Frequently asked questions
1.What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
2.How does OER help educators and learners?
Open educational resources give educators the ability to adapt instructional resources to the individual needs of their learners, to ensure that resources are up-to-date, and to ensure that cost is not a barrier to accessing high-quality standards-aligned resources.
3. Will I be finding OER or developing OER?
Both. We begin by identifying an instructional need for the OER, looking at current repositories with OER, selecting and evaluating an OER. The second part of the course is around modifying and, or developing OER to meet your specific instructional need.
4. What types of OER will I learn to develop?
During the Designing OER MOOC, we will create multiple modes of OER, from text based for both digital and print, to images, videos and animations.
5. Will I need to purchase any software or subscriptions for this course?
No, all course projects and activities utilize free or shareware based online resources and applications
FAQ statement #1 and #2 were adapted from "#GoOpen: OER for K-12 Educators" by Doug Levin and "Frequently Asked Questions: OER for K-12 Educators", both of which are licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
2.How does OER help educators and learners?
Open educational resources give educators the ability to adapt instructional resources to the individual needs of their learners, to ensure that resources are up-to-date, and to ensure that cost is not a barrier to accessing high-quality standards-aligned resources.
3. Will I be finding OER or developing OER?
Both. We begin by identifying an instructional need for the OER, looking at current repositories with OER, selecting and evaluating an OER. The second part of the course is around modifying and, or developing OER to meet your specific instructional need.
4. What types of OER will I learn to develop?
During the Designing OER MOOC, we will create multiple modes of OER, from text based for both digital and print, to images, videos and animations.
5. Will I need to purchase any software or subscriptions for this course?
No, all course projects and activities utilize free or shareware based online resources and applications
FAQ statement #1 and #2 were adapted from "#GoOpen: OER for K-12 Educators" by Doug Levin and "Frequently Asked Questions: OER for K-12 Educators", both of which are licensed under CC BY 4.0.