Authors: A.Texeira, L.Morgado, Universidade Aberta, Portugal; A.A.Fuente, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Having successfully completed all training material, you will be able to:
- understand the Open Educational Resources and Open education Practices
- describe/identify specific characteristics of OER
- describe the evolution of the OER movement
- find, select, assess an OER
- use an OER in a VM context
- produce/reuse an OER for a VM context
Unit 2. Finding and Selecting Open Educational Resource (OER) for a virtual mobility course
This Unit focuses on find, select, use and assess OER. Having successfully completed this Unit, you will be able to:
- find, select and assess an OER for a virtual mobility course
With Assignment 4 you will be able to apply some guidelines to find, select and use/reuse/make an OER and integrate it in a learning situation
In this unit you will find several examples of Repositories of OER where a countless abundance of OER that could be used are deposited, as well as other online sources and initiatives that are important for searching OER for use or re-use. There are also several initiatives and projects throughout the world that work as repositories of OER. It´s possible to find and select OERs employing different methods: 1) browsing on topics and subjects; 2) recommendations from colleagues and/or personal friends; 3) searches within organizations with reputation; 4) searches through well ranked resources (Clements & Pawlowski , 2012).