Open Education #h817open

 Dear Lifelong Learning Friends

I enrolled in a free course Open Education via OpenLearn, offered through The Open University. 

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• understand the issues in open education
• critically appraise the evidence around open education
• experience what it is like to participate in an open course.

If you are interested to take this course, click on this link: Free Course: Open Education

Indesign Manual

Could you kindly forward your university’s manual on Indesign that you shared with us during the last days of the training for the benefit of our CoP.   Would appreciate any other higher learning institution's manual on Indesign as well.

How to locate relevant OER

We are closely following innovations around OER based academic or open learning practices. Thanks to the Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC) Project which has not only gently initiated us into OER but has also driven capacity building activities at institutional level. Please find A Basic Guide to OER (2015)
Notable references as follows:

• Open Schooling initiatives p. 81
•  Appendix 6: Catalogue of OER related websites
•  Appendix 7: Some OER policy issues in ODL

Reflection points for us:
1. How helpful is the guide to you in locating resources that are relevant to your course?
2. Which resources are you now better able to locate with the help of the guide?


Resource: Handbook on In-house Style for Course Development
We have re-purposed the Handbook to be responsive to our professional development needs.

• Which of your professional development needs are adequately addressed in the Handbook?
• Which gaps can you identify in the Handbook?

Thank you Thula

Reflections

Welcome to this reflection space, now that we are at a happy ending point and we are ushered into new beginnings. Please find slides on Evaluation

Open Educational Resources

We've learnt that open educational resources open up access to education.  I have a question on how to use OERs:

Making use of multiple OERs published under different CC licences, under which CC licence should my modified material be published?

How can we use OERs published under different licence in one OER resource?

OER Copyright and Licensing Toolkit: A guide for higher education institutions interested in creating and using open educational resources

• Part 2 deals with Creative Commons Licences and makes reference to a licence compatibility wizard to assist in providing guidance for the most suitable licence to be used because not all licences are compatible with one another. 

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