Cases about Open Educational Resources and Open Practices at universities

1. Research Cases about Open Educational
Practices – Open Educational Resources
at Universidade Aberta (Lisboa, Portugal) & Universidade
Federal de Santa Maria (Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil)
Elena Maria Mallmann
elena.ufsm@gmail.com
Apoio Financeiro:
Capes - Bolsa Estágio Pós-Doutoral Capes – Processo BEX 1566-14.
Capes/CNPq - Chamada 43/2013 - Ciências Humanas, Sociais e
Sociais Aplicadas;

3. Geographical Context
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Image Fount: Google Maps

4. Image Fount: Google Maps

5. Image Fount: Google Maps

6. Brasil
- Population: 202 million;
- 1988 Constitution;
- 26 states and the Federal District;
- Five regions;
- Portuguese Language
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Image Fount: http://www.suapesquisa.com/uploads/site/regioes_brasil.gif

7. About the Educational Context
in Brasil: higher education
numbers
Law of Education Guidelines
and Bases - 1996

8. Fount: Censo da educação superior 2012: resumo técnico. – Brasília : Instituto Nacional de Estudos
e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira, 2014.
The number of institutions is increasing in recent years

9. Fount: Censo da educação superior 2012: resumo técnico. – Brasília : Instituto Nacional de Estudos
e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira, 2014.
Difference between Regions

10. Fount: Censo da educação superior 2012: resumo técnico. – Brasília : Instituto Nacional de Estudos
e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira, 2014.
Difference between Face to Face and Distance Education

11. Context at Universidade Federal de
Santa Maria
29901 students
10934 teachers
Multicampi: higher education,
high school, technical and technological
courses
http://site.ufsm.br/

12. Fount: http://coral.ufsm.br/docsie/indicadores/apresentacao_executiva_UFSM_2012.pdf

14. Educational Technology: Moodle
http://nte.ufsm.br/moodle2_UAB/
Multidisciplinary Team - Núcleo de
Tecnologia Educacional (NTE):
teacher training, technological
support and creation of didatic
resources

16. System Universidade Aberta do Brasil:
estrategy to improve and increase the acess at
the public university in Brasil
Distance learning courses at UFSM: 23

18. Context at Universidade Aberta –
Portugal
http://www.uab.pt
Research groups in distance education
and e-learning
http://lead.uab.pt/
MOOC
http://eco.imooc.uab.pt/elgg/

19. Image Fount: Google Maps

23. Research Questions at UFSM and UAb
OER: what is, how it works and how can we use it in our
teaching practices? MOOC are good ways to implement
OER?
Research Strategies:
- Bibliographic study;
- Participation in Mooc;
- Collaborative production in Curricular Units;
- Resources and activities for teacher training.

24. I - Firts Strategy:
Participation in MOOC.
Principle: being a student to understand the functioning

25. Example of MOOC
MOOC “Innovación Educativa com Recursos Abiertos”
plataform Coursera
language: Spanish
4 weeks – september/2014
15.000 subscribers
2.500 Teacher Assistant (TA)
Teachers: Dra. María Soledad Ramírez Montoya and Mtro. José
Vladimir Burgos Aguilar - Tecnológico de Monterrey
Focus: identification of strategies for integrating OER, in view of the
development of innovative practices
Content:
I. Movimiento educativo abierto;
II. Búsqueda y uso de recursos educativos abiertos (REA);
III. Visibilidad y diseminación abierta del conocimiento;
IV. Movilización de prácticas educativas abiertas en ambientes de
aprendizaje

26. Exemple - weekly schedule of resources and
activities
Fount: Mooc Innovación Educativa com Recursos
Abiertos
https://class.coursera.org/innovacionrea-
002/wiki/agenda

28. Exemple: resources - week 1
Fount: Mooc Innovación Educativa com Recursos
Abiertos
https://class.coursera.org/innovacionrea-
002/wiki/lecturas

30. Guidance for weekly activities
Fount: Mooc Innovación Educativa com Recursos
Abiertos
https://class.coursera.org/innovacionrea-
002/human_grading

32. Comments:
1) Interaction - forum tool:
a) organization of participants in study groups (15
groups during the 4 weeks);
b) nationalities and related sub-themes;
c) interaction and sharing on social networks such as
Facebook.
2) Interaction and guidance of TA group:
a) group had no prior access to course materials -
difficult to target more accurately on the theoretical
framework;
b) many TA have no previous experience with
Coursera platform. Consequently, little fluency with
many of the tools.

33. 3) Teaching resources - pedagogical design MOOC:
- Lots of resources (texts, videos, live sessions);
- Short time to carry out the activities;
- Lots of weekly surveys.
4) Co-authoring:
- Peer review – good strategy from the perspective of Open
Educational Practices;
- Access, evaluation and feedback among peers.
5) Technological fluency:
- External publication on social networks creates challenges
to improve our open practices;
- Practice in publishing and upload platforms is necessary to
improve our fluency with educational technologies.

34. II - Second Strategy:
a) create resources and activities (survey and
forum) in an topic in Curricular Unit;
Mestrado em Pedagogia do Elearning

35. Open Educational Resources at UAb
l
Institutional document: Teaching Virtual Model
provides resource utilization under license Creative
Commons;
l
Open content created at the curricular unit:
“Psicologia da Comunicação online” - Mestrado
Pedagogia do Elearning - 2014/2015
http://elearning.uab.pt/

39. Content CC created by using the tool “Book” in
Moodle and online shared in Slideshare:
http://pt.slideshare.net/ElenaMariaMallmann/md-pea

40. After studying the open content
created at the curricular unit by the
teachers, the students created their
own resources in open wikis;
The basis of the work was to use and
recreate the resources created by
students in open wikis during the
semester 2013/2014;
The content of both semesters was
based on Howard Rheingold's book
“Net Smart”
Image fount: https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/net-smart

41. Comparison between wikis 2013-14 and 2014-15

42. Wiki 2013-14 about the content “Multitasking”

43. Wiki 2014-15 about the content “Multitasking”

44. Second Strategy:
b) create resources in Curricular Units
PHD in Distance Education – UC –
Comunicação Online e Sociedade em Rede
Co-authoring between students and teachers using
open tools like Wikibooks – content avaliable at:
https://pt.wikibooks.org/wiki/Aprendizagem_e_Medias_Sociais

46. III - Third Strategy:
- resources and activities for teacher training
Creation and open availability of a Course-Example
in Moodle like a content of a MOOC.
Site of a Research Group at UFSM:
http://laveala.proj.ufsm.br/

50. Conceptual Synthesis: are licenses enough?

51. Conceptual Synthesis: access and (re)use are only the first step