[Oer-community] Building OCW

[Paul Silva]

Dear Terri,
 
I appreciate your response and the links you provide in “Building OCW”. After my initial browse of the web links, I realise I’m interested in the Pedagogy group and the Services for the lifelong learners to which I’ll subscribe shortly.
 
The broader point in view of our current OER discussion in my thinking pertains to increasing and training our global membership, and you’re spot on in asking that as a first step, we need to identify our interests.
 
In line with identifying members’ interests could be added members’ skills, knowledge and expertise levels and a meta data may be created to facilitate the matching of members to their interest groups and their required training to update, develop and master the necessary learning tools that will make them literate members of the OCW/OER communities thereby grow the skills levels in our communities.
 
The breadth and diverse nature of the OCW/OER Movement requests that there must be a system within our various communities by which members are in cognisant of the work other groups are doing and are also able to share in any new positive development; I’m certain, there are many systems experts and developers in this group who would be able to advise on how this flexibility and inter-working can be maintained and enhanced.
 
Because of the various OER discussions in the last five years, the International University-Universidad Internacional Euroamericana www.uie.edu.es using the Moodle platform launched a free virtual university where students especially from economically challenged backgrounds can study for free. The problem for me with this initiative is that I am yet to fully marshal the available quality OER repositories to the courses I currently offer in the areas of World Literature and Culture (Literary and Cultural Studies); I’ll appreciate any further pointer in these directions.
 
Paul

--- On Wed, 6/10/10, Terri Bays <tbays at ocwconsortium.org> wrote:


From: Terri Bays <tbays at ocwconsortium.org>
Subject: Re: [Oer-community] Building OCW
To: "Paul Silva" <professorpaulsilva at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: oer-community at athabascau.ca
Date: Wednesday, 6 October, 2010, 18:40


I would like to take Paul Silva's remarks below about R&D budgets as a way of introducing today's focus on:

Building OCW – How and why to create OCW and OER, lessons learned and ways to effectively use OER to support educational policy.


Working with desire Paul articulates below, namely to use OER as both an educational and cultural platform, how can we best go about designing our courses and sites so as to demonstrate their potential in this regard?  At the conference, a number of options were presented in addition to the Educational Policy question to which we will devote a separate day:


Pedagogy and OER was, not surprisingly, a topic of considerable interest.  Out of breakfast meetings and the discussions following a number of talks, a community of interest arose and has now taken up residence at 


http://communities.ocwconsortium.org/groups/pedagogy-and-ocw/

One of the projects this community is working on is the development of a section of the OCW Toolkit that focuses on pedagogically informed course design and provision of pedagogical guidelines for independent users.


OER for Literacy Development was another area of interest, represented by a presentation by a team from the University of Tokyo.  You can view this presentation at:


http://www.ocwconsortium.org/community/documents/doc_download/139-self-navigation-web-based-literacy-learning-system-and-ocw-utilization


OER for Life-Long Learning interested another group from the Open University of Japan you can view their presentation at:


http://www.slideshare.net/OCWConsortium/ocw-search-services-for-lifelong-learners-4135554


The whole set of presentations on Building OCW is available at


http://www.ocwconsortium.org/community/documents/cat_view/69-ocwc-global-conferences/56-ocwc-global-conference-2010/57-building-ocw


But what are your interests?  How can we model the creation of OCW/OER in ways that increase our efficacy in sustainable pursuit of the common good?


Terri





Terri Bays
tbays at ocwconsortium.org

On Oct 6, 2010, at 8:06 AM, Paul Silva wrote:


Since the OER is global so is the OER Movement and it is now for our UNESCO OER Community to join with the users and producers of OER in advocating for Open Educational Resources forming part of the R&D budgets of Education and Training, globally. This in my view is the first step towards the advocacy of the OER as both educational and cultural platform, a platform to bridge inequality of access to qualitative and quantitative educational materials, knowledge skills and expertise within education and training and a most useful trans-national cultural tool that can help reduce poverty and illnesses in the world.









      
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