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 3 – Planning Learning Experience with OERs

Aim of the assignment
Having completed this assignment, you will be able to assess the quality of OERs for use in a virtual mobility context.

Task
[12:15-13:00] Part 1 – International group work

  1. Based on the criteria for assessment of OERs suggested by Teixeira (2015), build a rubric for evaluation of resources.
  2. Assess four of the eight big and little OERs pre-selected in the framework of Assignment 2 by the institutional groups using the rubric built in nº 1.
  3. Select the two OERs best suited for use in a virtual mobility course or module.
  4. [14:00-14:45] Part 2 – Presentation of international group work

The result expected
After undertaking these tasks, you will have developed skills to assess the use of OERs in the framework of a virtual mobility course or module.