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Using, Reusing, and Sharing Educational Resources

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Using, Reusing, and Sharing Ed Resources 1 Apr 2012
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Using, Reusing, and Sharing Ed Resources 2 Sep 2012
Track: 
Design and Delivery
Level: 
Level 1 - Beginner
Sloan-C Certificate Program Eligibility: 

This online workshop can be counted toward the Sloan-C Certificate.

Workshop Description
Introduction: 

Formerly titled: Open Educational Resources: Use, Reuse, Share

Open educational resources (OER) is a term that was first adopted by UNESCO, defining OER as “digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.” In this course we’ll discuss how best to find high quality content for use in teaching and learning and hear from those who have found effective and creative ways to incorporate these resources in a variety of settings - online, blended, and traditional courses. The workshop covers a variety of OER issues including where to find materials, quality assurance, licensing, and use. We’ll also discuss how OER repositories, referatories, and consortia have been organized to help teachers and learners find, adapt, and incorporate OER into their experiences. Additionally, we will explore the issues of using OER to help lower student costs, through providing alternatives to traditional textbooks.

Resources Provided: 
  • Presentations, readings, web links, discussion threads and other materials, viewable online for 1 year
  • 1-Hour Live Workshop Orientation - Learn about Moodle 2.2 and BlackBoard Collaborate. Navigate the workshop space
  • 1-Hour Live Panel Discussion - Participation in Live Q&A
  • Viewing of Live Sessions available for 1 year
Learning Objectives: 
  • Understand Open Educational Resources (OER) definitions and issues
  • Identify and compare OER organizations, collections, repositories
  • Learn how to find and use OER, and understand standards and quality assurance mechanisms
  • Plan how to effectively integrate OER into your courses and programs
  • Discover how OER may be used to lower student costs
Outcomes: 

Determine helpful strategies/approaches to ensure quality OER issues

Facilitators
Facilitator(s): 

Sorel Reisman

Sorel Reisman is Managing Director of the international, higher education consortium MERLOT at the California State University Office of the Chancellor (CO), and Professor of Information Systems at California State University Fullerton (CSUF).   Sorel served as Director of System wide Academic Technology (SWAT) Services at the CO, and Academic Technology Coordinator at CSUF.
Sorel was the 2011 President of the IEEE Computer Society and is currently a member of the IEEE Education Activities Board. He has held senior management positions at IBM (Canada and US), Toshiba (US), and EMI (UK). 
Reisman has presented/published 50+ articles related to educational technology as well as the books Multimedia Computing: Preparing for the 21st Century, and Electronic Learning Communities – Current Issues and Best Practices.  He received his electrical engineering degree, and MA and PhD in Computer Applications in Education from the University of Toronto.

Pricing and Cancellation Policy

Price: $345 Each
Sloan-C Member price: $195 w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)
College Pass Member Pricing: No Cost w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)
*Members receive unlimited discounts with membership and College Pass holders receive 100 (50 or 25) "free" seats in the entire Sloan-C Workshop series.

Cancellation Policy: 

If you register and pay for a Sloan-C workshop and are unable to attend or if Sloan-C reschedules/cancels a workshop, we will be happy to apply your payment to another Sloan-C workshop/seminar at your request. However, no refunds will be given. This offer is good for one year.

Technical Requirements/Minimum System Requirements

Combining the capabilities of industry leaders Wimba and Elluminate, Blackboard Collaborate provides a comprehensive learning platform designed specifically for education. It is helping thousands of higher education, K-12, professional, corporate, and government organizations worldwide deliver a more effective learning experience through online, blended, and mobile learning.

System Requirements:

  • Click here to check the system requirements and support browsers for using Elluminate
  • Click here to find out if your computer has the right Operating System and Java version installed to run Elluminate and to configure your system.

     
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Moodle: Sloan-C uses an open-source LMS called Moodle for the asynchronous component of workshops. Moodle provides a flexible and user-friendly set of asynchronous collaboration and learning tools. As with most open-source technologies, the Moodle software is free, making it a very cost-effective software package for any institution or company, without sacrificing quality. Moodle is a robust environment that is dynamic, interactive, and provides cross-platform learner access through a standard web browser.

System Requirements

Moodle will work in any modern web browser, however, moodle works best in a range of specific browser types (see below). Your browser should also have both cookies and javascript enabled. These are typically enabled by default, but if you think these settings might need enabling, check the documentation for your particular browser for how to do these.

To make best use of what moodle has to offer, it is recommended that users choose a browser that supports moodle's in-line HTML editor. This is a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor with an interface much like you would see in most word processing packages.

This in-line HTML editor will only appear if you use one of a specific range of browser types that knows how to start the editor. If you do not use one of these browser types, you can still use moodle just fine, but without the luxury of a WYSIWYG editor. Luckily, there is a supported browser that will work on all major operating system types. The list of supported and not supported browsers is shown below:

Browsers that support the HTML editor Browsers that do not support the HTML editor
Recent versions of: 

Internet Explorer (v5.5 or later) 
Firefox (all versions) 
Mozilla (v1.7 or later) 
SeaMonkey (all versions) 
Netscape (v7 or later) 		 Any versions of: 

Opera 
Safari 
Camino 

 
Register now for session: 
Using, Reusing, and Sharing Ed Resources 1 Apr 2012
Register now for session: 
Using, Reusing, and Sharing Ed Resources 2 Sep 2012
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