Finding and Using Open Educational Resources

Facilitator: Paul Stacey, BCcampus

Date: February 3, 2011

Time: 1:00 – 3:00pm

Room: 5-154

This session takes concepts and ideas from the first presentation and moves them into a practical and applied context. It is structured as a guided exploration of how to find and use open educational resources. Using web-based open educational resource aggregators and repositories participants will be invited to find and select resources pertinent to their academic field of study and instruction. Searching, previewing and downloading resources will all be demonstrated. The potential to use open education resources for everything from a course supplement, to a course component, to a complete course, to curricula for an entire credential will be explored. Benefits associated with open education resource use from student, instructor and institution perspectives will be discussed. Open education resource license obligations such as attribution, and share-alike will be described. Open educational resource technical format, instructional design, and quality aspects will be considered. This session will conclude with an overview of current trends and directions associated with open education resource development and use around the world.

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About Paul Stacey, BCcampus

With over 25 years as an educator in adult learning, Paul Stacey has delivered high-tech educational programs in the private and public sector around the world. Paul is one of the founding Directors of BCcampus where he is currently responsible for communications, curriculum development and academic growth. Paul has been instrumental in ensuring BCcampus initiatives connect, collaborate, and innovate by generating partnerships among BC’s public post-secondary institutions.

In addition to leading development of services to enhance online learning in BC’s public post-secondary system Paul is himself an active online learner and online instructor. Paul completed a 100% online graduate program in Adult Learning and Global Change and, as an associate faculty member, co-developed and taught an online International and Global Distance Education course for the Master of Arts in Learning and Technology program at Royal Roads University.

Paul writes about the emerging frontier of higher education technology at http://edtechfrontier.com

For more information, please contact the CTLT at 250-960-6509 or ctlt@unbc.ca.

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