big oer v little oer; a comparison of the 'granularity' of open education resources
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Comparison of big and little open education resources; identifies benefits and drawbacks of each. Based on ideas by Martin Weller.TRANSCRIPT
BIG OER v little oerComparing the ‘granularity’ of Open
Education Resources
BIG OER
• Institutionally generated• MIT Open Courseware • OpenLearn• USU Open Courseware• Rice Connexions
Benefits
High Quality Explicit teaching aims Meet specific learning aims Uniformed Structured Large choice of content
Drawbacks
Cost Not suitable for repurposing Discourages creativity Discourages social interaction Discourages innovation
Little oer
• Individually produced• “Frictionless by-product”• Blog posts• Articles• Presentations
Benefits
Low cost Bottom-up production Supports sharing Supports staff development Supports creativity & innovation Supports participation Transferrable to different contexts
Drawbacks
Low quality No explicit aim Unpredictable use and audience No framework for dissemination Greater effort
Acknowledgements
Weller, M. (2011b) ‘Public engagement as collateral damage’ in The Digital Scholar, London, Bloomsbury Academic. Also available online at http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/ view/ DigitalScholar_9781849666275/ chapter-ba-9781849666275-chapter-007.xmll
Weller, M. (2012) ‘The openness–creativity cycle in education’, Special issue on Open Educational Resources, JIME, Spring 2012 [online]. Available at http://jime.open.ac.uk/ jime/ article/ view/ 2012-02