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Challenges
Use Open Resources
Combine multiple OERs from multiple sources and create a “new” OER from them This Challenge was created July 11, 2015 by Brian Lamb (@brlamb) Type: Creating With Media, Openness Difficulty: 4 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
- Combine (or “remix”) multiple OERs from multiple sources, of multiple media types (text, image, audio, video) and create a “new” OER from them.
- For example: http://trusoundcamp.net/ uses tutorials on recording from NSpireD2, editing from WikiEducator, and activity challenges from the DS106 assignment bank. And the site itself is shared back openly using a Creative Commons license.
Identify OER and build a learning activity around them
This Challenge was created July 11, 2015 by Brian Lamb (@brlamb) Type: Creating With Media, Openness Difficulty: 3 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
- Identify one or more OER from the suggested OER collections or elsewhere, and build a simple learning activity around them. Then share a description of that activity as a response to this challenge.
Find an open online resource you can use
This Challenge was created July 11, 2015 by Brian Lamb (@brlamb) Difficulty: 1 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
- Use one of the suggested OER collections or open search tools below, and identify some open online resources that you might use in your teaching. Are they ready for you to use already? If not, what would you need to do to use them? Share them back via responses to this challenge.
- Creative Commons Search – Allows you to search from sites such as Google, Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud and filter them for resources licensed for legal reuse. It also searches open sites such as the Wikimedia Commons, which contains media for sites such as Wikipedia.
- OER Commons: supports browsing and searching of dedicated open educational resources
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Evaluate an open online respository
This Challenge was created on November 15, 2105 (Erin Fields) Difficulty: 2 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
- Find or use one of the open education respositories listed here, and evaluate the quality of the resource based on the OER rubric from BCOER Librarians. Consider the repositories authority, audience, accessibility, subject coverage, search functionality, and licensing. Is the repository a good resource according to the rubric? What makes the repository a quality resource?
Evaluate an open education resource
This Challenge was created on November 15, 2015 (Erin Fields) Difficulty: 2 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
- Using one of the open education respositories listed below, find a open education resource and evaluate it based on one or more of the open education resource rubrics provided.
Open Education Resource Repository
Open Education Resource Rubrics
Open teaching and learning
Make a renewable assignment
This Challenge was created on November 29, 2015 by Christina Hendricks Difficulty: 3 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Consider an assignment you already have in your course and discuss how you might make it into a "renewable assignment." For the purpose of this challenge, think of a renewable assignment as one that:
- has an audience that is wider than just the instructor or teaching assistant
- somehow contributes to a wider body of knowledge that can be used by others
- can be reused and revised by others
Explain what your new assignment would require students to do, what benefits you think making this assignment into a renewable one might have, and what challenges you can foresee in doing so.
Why do teaching and learning in the open?
This Challenge was created on November 29, 2015 by Christina Hendricks Difficulty: 2 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
What reasons could you give to someone who asked questions such as: "Why do teaching and learning in the open? Why not keep what goes on inside the class, inside the class rather than making it more widely accessible? What's the value of students' sharing their work with the world?"
Consider carefully both why doing such things might be valuable (in what ways? valuable for students, for the public, or otherwise?) and what realistic challenges people might face in doing open education. Then write a response to a skeptic about open teaching and learning that considers both benefits and possible challenges. If someone else has already responded to this challenge, consider building off of or otherwise responding to what they have said.
Showcase examples of open teaching and/or open pedagogy
This Challenge was created on November 29, 2015 by Christina Hendricks Difficulty: 1 (rated by author; 1=easy <--> 5=difficult)
Open teaching can range from openly licensing teaching materials to revising and remixing those of others (and giving them an open license), to ask students to do some of their assignments openly and publicly, to making entire courses open to anyone to participate in (such as with MOOCs). It can also involve engaging in open pedagogy; see here See here for a post by David Wiley on open pedagogy, where he states that the crucial aspect of open pedagogy is that what you are asking students to do wouldn't be possible without materials being openly licensed.
See also this post from BCcampus that explains what open pedagogical practice could be.
Do you know of a great example of open teaching and/or open pedagogy? Provide it as a response to this challenge, explaining what you think is effective about it and why. Provide a link where possible.