Open Educational Resources (OER) development, adaptation and use
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 1. OER/OEP concept, history and contexts
Assignment 1 – Defining OERs
Aim of the assignment
Having completed this assignment, you will be able to produce a definition of OER.
Task
[10:00-10:30] – Institutional (national) group work
- Search on the internet information and resources on the concept of open educational resources (OER). We suggest to use the following source:
- A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER) by Neil Butcher
(http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002158/215804e.pdf)
- Identify a number of typical characteristics of OERs
- Discuss with your colleagues the findings and produce a possible definition of OER
The result expected
After undertaking these tasks, you will have developed skills to define what are OERs.