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 [email protected]
Apoio Financeiro:
Capes - Bolsa Estágio Pós-Doutoral Capes – Processo BEX 1566-14.Capes/CNPq - Chamada 43/2013 - Ciências Humanas, Sociais e
Sociais Aplicadas;
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/
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/
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.
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
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/