Presentation
Who Designed This Course?!: The Trouble with Being Open to Online and Closed to Content
The 15th Annual Open Education Conference (OpenEd18)
(2018)
Abstract
Requiring students to purchase traditional textbooks or even ebooks for online classes seems at odds with the aims and best practices of online education. Online learning is about expanding access to educational opportunities and its contexts encourage us to redevelop our instruction to engage learners in innovative and often transformative ways. So why do we stick with the closed, commercial, and/or unwieldy course materials of old? The integration and unbundling of open content into online courses is a learner-centered practice that few conventional forms of materials can support. Yet this online strategy for teaching and learning is but one of the affordances that institutions should be pursuing as part of online course design. In this panel, faculty, instructional designers, and administrators from Boise State University will discuss some of the challenges and lessons learned in integrating OER into online education. This panel seeks to answer the following questions that still seem to haunt e-learning in 2018: - What are the real and perceived barriers to the creation of dedicated OER texts for existing online classes and how can those difficulties be overcome? - What is it about the textbooks and publishers that keep us from wresting full control of our course materials from them? - What is needed for OER to become the new normal for course materials in online learning? - How can we appropriately use technology to deliver OER content to online students?
Disciplines
Publication Date
October 12, 2018
Location
Niagara Falls, NY
Citation Information
Jonathan Lashley, Laurel Traynowicz, Muffet Jones and Rob Nyland. "Who Designed This Course?!: The Trouble with Being Open to Online and Closed to Content" The 15th Annual Open Education Conference (OpenEd18) (2018) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rob-nyland/30/