Research Cases about Open Educational Practices – Open Educational Resources

at Universidade Aberta (Lisboa, Portugal) & Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil)

Elena Maria Mallmann elena.ufsm@gmail.com

Apoio Financeiro:

Capes - Bolsa Estágio Pós-Doutoral Capes – Processo BEX 1566-14.Capes/CNPq - Chamada 43/2013 - Ciências Humanas, Sociais e

Sociais Aplicadas;

Geographical Context

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Brasil

- Population: 202 million;- 1988 Constitution;- 26 states and the Federal District;- Five regions;- Portuguese Language

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Image Fount: http://www.suapesquisa.com/uploads/site/regioes_brasil.gif

About the Educational Context in Brasil: higher education

numbers

Law of Education Guidelines and Bases - 1996

Fount: Censo da educação superior 2012: resumo técnico. – Brasília : Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira, 2014.

The number of institutions is increasing in recent years

Fount: Censo da educação superior 2012: resumo técnico. – Brasília : Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira, 2014.

Difference between Regions

Fount: Censo da educação superior 2012: resumo técnico. – Brasília : Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira, 2014.

Difference between Face to Face and Distance Education

Context at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

29901 students10934 teachers

Multicampi: higher education,high school, technical and technological

courses

http://site.ufsm.br/

Fount: http://coral.ufsm.br/docsie/indicadores/apresentacao_executiva_UFSM_2012.pdf

Educational Technology: Moodle

http://nte.ufsm.br/moodle2_UAB/

Multidisciplinary Team - Núcleo de Tecnologia Educacional (NTE): teacher training, technological support and creation of didatic

resources

System Universidade Aberta do Brasil: estrategy to improve and increase the acess at

the public university in Brasil

Distance learning courses at UFSM: 23

Context at Universidade Aberta – Portugal

http://www.uab.pt

Research groups in distance education and e-learning

http://lead.uab.pt/

MOOChttp://eco.imooc.uab.pt/elgg/

Image Fount: Google Maps

Research Questions at UFSM and UAb

OER: what is, how it works and how can we use it in our teaching practices? MOOC are good ways to implement OER?

Research Strategies:

- Bibliographic study;

- Participation in Mooc;

- Collaborative production in Curricular Units;

- Resources and activities for teacher training.

I - Firts Strategy:

Participation in MOOC.

Principle: being a student to understand the functioning

Example of MOOC

MOOC “Innovación Educativa com Recursos Abiertos”

plataform Courseralanguage: Spanish4 weeks – september/201415.000 subscribers2.500 Teacher Assistant (TA)Teachers: Dra. María Soledad Ramírez Montoya and Mtro. José Vladimir Burgos Aguilar - Tecnológico de Monterrey

Focus: identification of strategies for integrating OER, in view of the development of innovative practices

Content:I. Movimiento educativo abierto;II. Búsqueda y uso de recursos educativos abiertos (REA);III. Visibilidad y diseminación abierta del conocimiento;IV. Movilización de prácticas educativas abiertas en ambientes de aprendizaje

Exemple - weekly schedule of resources and activities

Fount: Mooc Innovación Educativa com Recursos

Abiertos

https://class.coursera.org/innovacionrea-002/wiki/agenda

Exemple: resources - week 1

Fount: Mooc Innovación Educativa com Recursos Abiertos

https://class.coursera.org/innovacionrea-002/wiki/lecturas

Guidance for weekly activities

Fount: Mooc Innovación Educativa com Recursos Abiertos

https://class.coursera.org/innovacionrea-002/human_grading

Comments:1) Interaction - forum tool:

a) organization of participants in study groups (15 groups during the 4 weeks);b) nationalities and related sub-themes;c) interaction and sharing on social networks such as Facebook.

2) Interaction and guidance of TA group:

a) group had no prior access to course materials - difficult to target more accurately on the theoretical framework;b) many TA have no previous experience with Coursera platform. Consequently, little fluency with many of the tools.

3) Teaching resources - pedagogical design MOOC:

- Lots of resources (texts, videos, live sessions);- Short time to carry out the activities;- Lots of weekly surveys.

4) Co-authoring:- Peer review – good strategy from the perspective of Open Educational Practices;- Access, evaluation and feedback among peers.

5) Technological fluency:- External publication on social networks creates challenges to improve our open practices;- Practice in publishing and upload platforms is necessary to improve our fluency with educational technologies.

II - Second Strategy:

a) create resources and activities (survey and forum) in an topic in Curricular Unit;

Mestrado em Pedagogia do Elearning

Open Educational Resources at UAb

l Institutional document: Teaching Virtual Model provides resource utilization under license Creative Commons;

l Open content created at the curricular unit: “Psicologia da Comunicação online” - Mestrado Pedagogia do Elearning - 2014/2015

http://elearning.uab.pt/

Content CC created by using the tool “Book” in Moodle and online shared in Slideshare:

http://pt.slideshare.net/ElenaMariaMallmann/md-pea

After studying the open content created at the curricular unit by the teachers, the students created their own resources in open wikis;

The basis of the work was to use and recreate the resources created by students in open wikis during the semester 2013/2014;

The content of both semesters was based on Howard Rheingold's book “Net Smart”

Image fount: https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/net-smart

Comparison between wikis 2013-14 and 2014-15

Wiki 2013-14 about the content “Multitasking”

Wiki 2014-15 about the content “Multitasking”

Second Strategy:

b) create resources in Curricular Units

PHD in Distance Education – UC – Comunicação Online e Sociedade em Rede

Co-authoring between students and teachers using open tools like Wikibooks – content avaliable at:

https://pt.wikibooks.org/wiki/Aprendizagem_e_Medias_Sociais

III - Third Strategy:

- resources and activities for teacher training

Creation and open availability of a Course-Example in Moodle like a content of a MOOC.

Site of a Research Group at UFSM:

http://laveala.proj.ufsm.br/

Conceptual Synthesis: are licenses enough?

Conceptual Synthesis: access and (re)use are only the first step