3.0 Module 3 Overview

What You Will Learn

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

• Define OER and the 5 Rs (retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute)
• Describe why educators and students use OER
• Identify how you can find and evaluate OER
• Describe the elements of attribution

Overview

In this module, you'll learn about Open Educational Resources, teaching and learning materials that are free and legal to share, use, and re-mix. Known as OER, these resources are increasingly demonstrated to lower barriers to student learning. Those who use OER decisively enact academic freedom, by breaking away from conventional and traditional ways of packaging and providing textbooks to students. In other words, you'll learn about ethical and transparent ways to create and/or select instructional materials.

More specifically, in this module you'll learn what OER are and why teachers and students use OER. You'll also look at scholarly research around the efficacy of OER. Finally, you'll have the opportunity to look at collections of OER.

What You Will Do

To meet the objectives of this module, you should complete the following activities and assessments:

• View all module materials
• Participate in the "OER - What Do You Think?" Discussion
• Submit the "OER Reviews" Assignment (post to 2 wiki pages)
• Submit the "Module 3 Take-Away" Reflection
• Optional: Share a Module 3 resource or concept using our Twitter hashtag #CCCDigCiz

Attribution:

Most of this module was inspired by and adapted from the course "Introduction to OER Links to an external site." by Rachel Arteaga and Suzanne Wakim Links to an external site. (Butte College), licensed under CC BY 4.0 Links to an external site.