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Time: 15 hours
Level: Introductory
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 Introduction Resource- This unit looks at the pedagogical issues involved in the creation and selection of self-study educational resources for a set of intended learning outcomes as exemplified here on OpenLearn. It is a unit...
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| | 1 What is open learning and why OERs?
- 1.1 Open educational resources
- Names quickly become loaded: distance learning, supported self study, computer-based training/computer-aided instruction, home study and flexistudy, to name but a few, have all been used to describe self...
- 1.2 Copyright and OER Resource
- I assume that you are reading this unit because you would like to create a unit similar to the materials that you can find on the OpenLearn website. You therefore have a teaching purpose and are particularly...
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| | 2 Online learning – What does the research tell us?
- 2 Online learning – What does the research tell us? Resource
- Marion Coomey and John Stephenson review a range of research to try to set out what designers of online learning should learn from experience.
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- 3.1 Introduction Resource
- In planning your unit you need to keep four questions in mind.
- 3.2 What are aims and objectives/outcomes? Resource
- It is best to start to settle on the aims and objectives/outcomes (these terms are variously used around the world but are largely interchangeable) of your study unit as soon as possible. You looked at...
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- 4.1 Sources of material Resource
- You will probably be making an OER in an area in which you have some expertise so you are likely to already have lesson plans and resources that you use in your face-to-face work that will be invaluable...
- 4.2 Content Resource
- The content on OpenLearn comprises both the unit (structured self-study resources) as well as the individual assets which make up a unit.
- 4.3 Formats Resource
- OpenLearn units can be downloaded or taken away in several formats:
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| | 5 The pedagogy of open learning
- 5.1 Introduction Resource
- One of the key differences between Open Learning, where the ‘student’ is remote from the teacher, and a learner just reading a text book or looking up information for themselves on the internet, is the...
- 5.2 How do people learn? Resource
- That seems a straightforward question, but you will already know from your work in producing teaching materials elsewhere that an answer is far from obvious.
- 5.3 Behaviorism, Piagetianism and social constructivism Resource
- How do the well-known ideas of behaviorism, Piagetianism and social constructivism relate to what you actually do as a teacher in a face-to-face context? Are you able to ‘sign up’ to any one of the theories...
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| | 6 Communicating and OpenLearn
- 6 Communicating and OpenLearn Resource
- A variety of software tools are available from OpenLearn to help you communicate with others to rework content and to enable your learners to work with each other. As well as Compendium, the mind mapping...
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| | 7 Evaluating open learning
- 7 Evaluating open learning Resource
- I mentioned the term ‘Open University Classic’ to describe the original print-based materials with audio-visual elements and face-to-face support that has been the University's principal method of teaching...
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- 8 Conclusion Resource
- This study unit has tried to emphasise the issues to consider when constructing self-study Open Educational Resources for your intended learners. My objectives or learning outcomes were that, after studying...
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