Creating open educational resources

Are you interested in creating your own open educational resources? This free course, Creating open educational resources, will help you to write a learning course and provide you with links to various resources for open-learning materials. You will learn about the different purposes of self-instruction and receive advice about the techniques and strategies to help the learner.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• Quiz
• Round 1: Images
• Round 2: Acronyms
• Round 3: Facts and figures
• Round 4: Proprietary or open source?
• Round 5: Odd one out
• 1 What is open learning and why OERs?
• 1 What is open learning and why OERs?
• 2 What makes a good OER?
• 2 What makes a good OER?
• 3 Finding and evaluating OERs
• 3 Finding and evaluating OERs
• 3.1 Finding OERs
• 3.2 Evaluating open learning
• 4 Copyright and OER
• 4 Copyright and OER
• 4.1 Creative Commons licensing
• 4.2 Exercises from video
• 4.3 OpenLearn
• 5 The pedagogy of open learning
• 5 The pedagogy of open learning
• 5.1 How do people learn?
• 5.2 Behaviorism, Piagetianism and social constructivism
• 6 Tools for creating an OER
• 6 Tools for creating an OER
• 6.1 What are aims and objectives/outcomes?
• 6.2 Creating your OER
• Sources of material
• Content
• Formats
• Tools
• 7 Making the case for OER
• 7 Making the case for OER
• 7.1 How does learning take place in the open?
• 7.2 Organisational benefits
• 7.3 Benefits for you
• Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgements