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 2 – Finding OERS suitable for Virtual Mobility

Aim of the assignment
Having completed this assignment, you will be able to search, select and adapt an OER.

Task
[11:00-11:45] Part 1 – Institutional (national) group work

  1. Establish with your colleagues a check list with features that resources should comply with in order to be suitable for use in a virtual mobility context.
  2. Search on the internet resources that comply with your VM check list and your definition of OER.
  3. Select one big resource and one little resource.
  4. [11:45-12:00] Part 2 – Presentation of institutional group work

The result expected
After undertaking these tasks, you will have developed skills to find, select and assess  OERs suited to be used in a virtual mobility context.