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:

• Summary of Learning Multimedia Artefact – 10 minute video

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.

OLTD Learning Outcomes:

• Become familiar with common terms, definitions and elements related to online environments
• Undertake engagement with environments through online facilitation for effective learning
  • Understand how to build rapport and manage groups
    • Engage in building learning communities and communities of practice
• Critically assess and evaluate resources for best practice in online learning

Evidence to Support Outcome: Weekly Reflective Blog Posts

• Disruption and Cultural Content – Week 1 Blog Post
• Remix of “RIP: A Remixer’s Manifesto” – Week 2 Blog Post
• MERLOT Review – Week 3 Blog Post
• Why I’m Not Good At Sharing (And How I’m Trying To Get Better) – Week 4 Blog Post
• Diigo List – Week 5 Blog Post

Reflection to Support Evidence:

The evidence I have chosen are a series of blog posts made throughout the course of OLTD 505. The blog posts represent my reactions to the various readings and experiences that I had during this course. They also represent a collection of resources related to open educational resources.

Throughout the course of OLTD 505 these blog posts required that I critically and thoughtful engage with concepts related to open education – both open content and thoughtful sharing of materials and experiences with other educators. Although my own personal engagement with the materials developed some of my understanding, reading and replying to the posts of my peers was the most transformative part of this exercise. Creation of the weekly blog posts and replying to my peers also allowed me to develop a keen understanding of the necessary effort to create a community of practice online. Without our previously established group rapport this assignment would have been highly challenging, and throughout this assignment the dynamic within our cohort changed to develop the necessary supports along with the professional dialogue.

Having a strong understanding of copyright issues, creative commons, OERs and sharing is critical for online educators today. Many of the copyright, fair use and creative commons issues discussed during this course will likely continue to be major parts of using and creating online content for years to come. It is also important for educators to be able to “talk the talk” in order to appropriately assess the use of materials in their classrooms, and support appropriate student use of materials as well. Knowing the language of copyright and creative commons also helps educators understand a multitude of related issues, and allows them to engage in conversations about this issues with administrators and co-workers.