OLTD Learning Outcomes:
- Become familiar with common terms, definitions and elements related to online environments
- Understand, design and commit to student success in online learning environments
- Share engagement strategies and tips
- Engage in mentoring and coaching with educational partners
- Scaffold digital citizenship from K-12 to professional level of educators
- Consider responsibility, accountability and civility in online environments
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate familiarity with common terms, definitions, and elements related to Open Educational Resources (OERs) and, more generally, Open Education.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the history and foundations of open education, including conflicting viewpoints around the ownership of knowledge, copyright, and copyleft licenses.
- Share course-related learning with members of the course and greater educational community.
Evidence to Support Outcome:
Reflection to Support Evidence:
My chosen piece of evidence is my multimedia summary of learning artefact from OLTD 505. This video was created to summarize my learning from OLTD 505, and contains clips of video and audio resources, as well as selected writing from many of my classmates. The video was created using a purposeful mix of creative commons licensed materials and copyrighted materials.
By creating this summary of learning I was able to revisit many of the posts and comments made by the others in my cohort throughout the course of OLTD 505. This allowed me to develop strong links between our discussions, our readings and my personal learnings. It also made it very obvious the degree to which we were able to share personal experiences and reflections, and how in many cases we were able to mentor each other throughout parts of the course. Much of my summary of learning focuses on issues of copyright, as they were a key new learning for me in this course. When these concepts are applied to education it is obvious how they feed into issues of social justice and access in education today.
Understanding the relationship between education and copyright is important for educators because it can help them to create a more equitable classroom. When an educator makes an effort to use OERs and open textbooks, costs associated with copyrighted material are not passed on to students. It is also critical for educators to be able to take part in conversations about open educational resources so they can advocate for what is best for not just their students, but all students. Educators should also contribute high-quality resources to OER repositories so they can be part of the growing online OER communities and be able to bring the best materials available into their own classrooms.