oer collaborators beyond borders: the case of brazil 2010_06_29
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Presentation by Andreia Inamorato dos Santos at the "OER and LabSpace: from OER content to OER community" workshop on 29th June 2010 organised by The Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE)TRANSCRIPT
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Andreia Inamorato dos SantosSCORE 29th June 2010
OER collaborators beyond borders:The case of Brazil
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From user to provider
• MOVE 1: invite (under)graduate programme coordinators to browse OL for courses of potential interest to their students as complementary study material, to be translated into Portuguese. OER USER
• MOVE 2: invite coordinators to suggest Unisul courses of potential interest to external communities for upload and sharing on the Unisul Collaborations Area inside the LabSpace of OpenLearn. OER PROVIDER
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Unisul motivations
• To use, provide, promote uptake. Then...• Make the collaboration formal! Commitmet!
1. Encourage DE faculty and technical staff to participate (innovation).
2. Encourage students to use OpenLearn (quality)3. Publish, repurpose, translate material (8 Portuguese-
speaking countries = 223 million people (opportunity)4. Share their own intellectual production (cross-cultural
studies).5. Build on existing reputation (opportunity)6. Visit the collaborator relate with them (relationships)
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Towards OER acculturation
• “+ in June” Programme 2009:• The Concept of Innovation (215 students)• Designing the User Interface (136 students)• TOTAL = 351 students enrolled.• Steps involved:• Translation.• Adaptation.• Hiring tutor.• Double interface: UnisulVirtual VLS and OpenLearn
website
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Taking OER beyond the universityProgramme + June 2010
• Digital literacy initiave: basic computer skills + “Information on the Web” (taken from OL).
• Aimed at UnisulVirtual students’ friends and/or relatives (30,853 students at UV).
• Tutor + friend/relative support widening participation participatory culture.
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Collaboration cycle
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Researching UnisulVirtual
Addressing the following research questions: ✔ 4 a/b. How can we support (in)formal learning communities? ✔ 5 a. Are OER being reused by teachers? ✔ 5 d. What does a collaborative framework for learners with OER mean?✔1 a . How can web 2.0 technologies support
community work? ✔ How can we understand the user-provider-user continuum? (imperialism or opportunity?)
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Thank you!
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Blog: Open Content Online
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