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Open Education: Courses

Digital Literacies for Online Learning
In this micro-course you will:

- Gain insights into what digital and academic literacies mean for learning in a digital age.
- Develop digital skills to establish and maintain an online personal learning environment.
- Apply advanced online search strategies to locate open access resources in support of your learning.
- Learn how to evaluate the legitimacy, credibility and reliability of online resources for academic study.
- Learn how to use a range of digital tools and corresponding literacies to support tertiary learning in a digital age.
- Apply your digital and academic literacies to publish an academic essay on a topic of your choice.
Texas Learn OER
From the site: "Welcome to Texas Learn OER! Your learning includes a series of self-paced online learning modules. The first nine modules will serve as an introduction to open educational resources (OER) and as an opportunity for further exploration and discovery of open education practices. The tenth module serves as a final assessment of your learning. Throughout the modules there are opportunities for you to test your knowledge and further explore a concept. The modules allow you to learn at your own pace. While you can follow the modules in any order, it is recommended that you start with Module 1 and progress through in order. Many of the modules conclude with a Concept Review section. The Concept Review is an opportunity for you to review significant points discussed in a module. The answers to these Concept Review questions can be found in Module 10."
OER Community Course Experience
These SUNY OER Community Courses will introduce you to the fundamental principles and effective practices related to Open Educational Resources. Throughout this learning space, you will have the opportunity to explore and discuss methods and approaches to finding, adopting, customizing, integrating, creating, publishing, and licensing OER. You will also have opportunities to connect in conversation with your peers, and work with OER advocates from the SUNY community who can help you along your learning journey.

Introduction to Open Education

Introduction to Open Education
The course Introduction to Open Education at Brigham Young University, is taught by David Wiley and Olga Belikov. Because it’s published openly, it contains all the information you need to participate informally in the class. You can read the readings, watch the videos, create and share the artifacts, and participate in the course discussions on Twitter, blogs, and elsewhere.

Open education, copyright and open licensing in a digital world

Open education, copyright and open licensing in a digital world
Harness the potential of open education in pursuit of your own learning goals while adhering to the requirements of copyright in a digital world.

Adopting Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practices

Adopting Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practices
From the course description:

This is an initiative of The Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL), supported by the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA). The goal of this initiative is to raise awareness on the potentials of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) among practitioners from any field of study.

This whole initiative comprises four CPD MOOCs to support participants solve authentic and real-world problems and issues that they are likely to be facing in their workplaces in relation to adopting OER and OEP.

A defining characteristic of these MOOCs is their unique design, which is, scenario-based learning. Learning scenarios have been carefully crafted to reflect the kind of problems, issues and challenges that practitioners are likely to be confronting in their environments.

We expect that your journey through these CPD MOOCs will be a productive one, and one that is effective, efficient and engaging!

Searching for Open and Affordable Resources

Searching for Open and Affordable Resources
A set of slides created by Amanda Larson, Affordable Learning Instructional Consultant at Ohio State University