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This Module in a Nutshell
This Module in a Nutshell
- Search efficiently for existing resources on the Internet
- Capture and convert OER (Open Education Resources)
- Creating education resources (PPT; video tutorials, documents, websites)
- Retrieval practice for effective learning: (quizzes, tests….)
- Make the resources available on a cloud drive
Search efficiently on the Internet
Search efficiently on the Internet
How to search efficiently on the Internet
How to search efficiently on the Internet
We expect you to be quite skilful and experienced in searching the web. You might be surprised to find out that many of us can still improve their search strategies. Check the following links:
We expect you to be quite skilful and experienced in searching the web. You might be surprised to find out that many of us can still improve their search strategies. Check the following links:
A beginner’s guide to Google search Advanced Power Searching
A beginner’s guide to Google search Advanced Power Searching
Open Educational Resources OER
Open Educational Resources OER
What are OER
OER are teaching, learning and research materials that are intentionally created and licensed so that the end user can own, share and, in most cases, modify them free of charge.
Where to find Learning Resources
Where to find Learning Resources
OERs
OERs
OER Commons: https://oercommons.org/
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT): www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm (read more about MERLOT in Malloy & Hanley, 2001)
WikiEducator: https://wikieducator.org/Main_Page
Internet Archive: https://archive.org/
OpenLearn: www.open.edu/openlearn/
ibiblio: www.ibiblio.org/about/
Applied Math and Science Education Repository: https://amser.org/
OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum
EDUTOPIA: An educators’ guide to open educational resources with information about online repositories, curriculum-sharing websites, and sources for lesson plans and activities
FIND OER: Open Professional Education Network
The good, the bad and the ugly OERs - by Tony Bates
PDF Drive PDF Drive - Search and download PDF files for free.
Open Courseware
Open Courseware
Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative: https://oli.cmu.edu/
MIT Open Courseware: https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Open Education Consortium: www.oeconsortium.org/
Open Learning Initiative: Transforming higher education
Open Learn: Free courses
OERu University level courses https://oeru.org/
eBooks:
eBooks:
Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/
Wikibooks: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/WB:SUBJECT
Google Books: https://books.google.com /
Page by Page: www.pagebypagebooks.com/authorlist.html
Free E-Books Net https://www.free-ebooks.net/
PDF Books World https://www.pdfbooksworld.com/
Videos
Videos
TED talks: www.ted.com/
Khan Academy: www.khanacademy.org/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/ (read more in Berk, 2009)
YouTube educational videos: www.youtube.com/edu
Teach with Movies: www.teachwithmovies.org/
PBS Learning Media: https://rmpbs.pbslearningmedia.org/ Images:
Images
Images
Flickr: www.flickr.com/
Everystockphoto: www.everystockphoto.com
Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/
Free photos that promote diversity: www.pexels.com/search/diversity/
NIH Photo Galleries: www.flickr.com/photos/nihgov/albums
Sound:
Sound:
The Freesound Project: www.freesound.org
MERLOT Open Textbooks: www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm
OpenStax: https://openstax.org/
Open Book Project: https://openbookproject.net/
Capture and Convert Existing Resources
Capture and Convert Existing Resources
Screen Capture
Screen Capture
A great advantage of using learning resources in digital form is the ease with which you can capture and convert interesting material into a convenient form. In this section you will learn how easy this transformation is when you have appropriate tools at your disposal.
A great advantage of using learning resources in digital form is the ease with which you can capture and convert interesting material into a convenient form. In this section you will learn how easy this transformation is when you have appropriate tools at your disposal.
Windows + Shift + S: Opens the Snipping Tool overlay for a still image. You can capture a specific area, a freeform shape, a window, or the entire screen.
Snagit (Windows, macOS): A feature-rich tool from TechSmith that offers extensive image and video capture, robust annotation tools, and organizational features
Snagit (Windows, macOS): A feature-rich tool from TechSmith that offers extensive image and video capture, robust annotation tools, and organizational features
Greenshot
Greenshot is a free and open-source screen capture application for Windows users. Greenshot makes it very easy to take a screen capture and then draw and annotate upon it without having to open another application.
4K Video Downloader: Often cited as one of the best options, this software is easy to use and supports high resolutions up to 4K and 8K. It can also download entire playlists and channels.
ClipGrab: Free software for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It allows you to download and convert videos from YouTube and other platforms into various formats such as MPEG4 or MP3.
MediaHuman YouTube to MP3 Converter: Specializes in extracting the audio track from YouTube videos and saving it as MP3.
YouTube Downloader HD https://www.youtubedownloaderhd.com/download.html
Audio Recorder
Audio Recorder
HTTrack Website Copier: A free, open-source program that copies an entire website to your local hard drive while preserving the link structure. The downloaded website can be browsed just like online in a browser.
Cyotek WebCopy: A free tool for Windows that downloads entire websites or parts of them. It scans the website, downloads the content, and automatically adjusts the links to the local path.
Website Downloader
Website Downloader
HTTrack …is a free and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure.
Creating OER
Creating OER
How Adults Learn
How Adults Learn
If you don’t find adequate textbooks you might want to produce your own instructive learning material. It doesn’t mean you have to create all from scratch. Very often you may find illustrative images, animations and instructive texts.
If you don’t find adequate textbooks you might want to produce your own instructive learning material. It doesn’t mean you have to create all from scratch. Very often you may find illustrative images, animations and instructive texts.
Need to know: Adults must understand the purpose and value of new knowledge. They want to know "what's in it for me" and how the learning will apply to their personal or professional lives.
Experience: Adult learners have a rich reservoir of life experience, which is a valuable resource to be incorporated into the learning process. This experience provides context for new information but can also lead to biases that need to be addressed.
Self-concept: As individuals mature, they move from a dependent self-concept to one of greater self-direction. Adults prefer to have control and take responsibility for their own learning journey.
Readiness to learn: Adults are most motivated to learn when they experience a need to know something in order to perform more effectively in their lives. This readiness is often linked to their immediate life roles and responsibilities.
Orientation to learning: Adults are problem-centered rather than subject-centered. They want to learn how to solve real-world problems and prefer practical, immediately applicable knowledge.
Intrinsic motivation: While adults may respond to external motivators like a promotion, they are more powerfully driven by internal factors such as self-esteem, personal growth, and a better quality of life.
Tutorials for OER
Tutorials by Open e-Learning Content Observatory Services (OLCOS): www.olcos.org/tutorials/as-pdf-documents/index.htm
An OER Starter Kit from the Iowa State University Digital Press: https://iastate.pressbooks.pub/oerstarterkit
You can develop your own learning resources, adapt existing ones to your situation, or use the wrap-around approach.
Combination of images and text
Evidence Based Facts and Recommendations for Multimedia.docxQuality Criteria for OER
Quality Criteria for OER
Today it is easy to find tons of learning materials. The challenge is rather to distinguish good from bad learning aids. Materials are selected for a reason and purpose. They are evaluated as to their aesthetic, literary, and social value; appropriateness to student age and emotional maturity; and relevance to the curriculum.
Today it is easy to find tons of learning materials. The challenge is rather to distinguish good from bad learning aids. Materials are selected for a reason and purpose. They are evaluated as to their aesthetic, literary, and social value; appropriateness to student age and emotional maturity; and relevance to the curriculum.
Purpose
Purpose
- To activate, influence motivation and arouse interest in students
- To help clarify, interpret and compare important concepts, phenomena and events
- To make learning more focused, effective, interesting, vivid, meaningful and imaginative
- To promote better understanding and development of different skills and attitudes
- To promote teacher-student and student-student communication and interaction
- To encourage evoking pregained knowledge and acquiring new information
- To aid in finding causes and reasons
- To encourage students' personal development
Compare a poor and an effective learning resource and study both learning aids about the same topic carefully
Compare a poor and an effective learning resource and study both learning aids about the same topic carefully
Learning Material Poor example.docxLearning Material Excellent Example.docxHow to protect my intellectual property?
How to protect my intellectual property?
Creative Commons (CC) licenses offer a flexible way for creators to share their work while retaining copyright and granting the public permission to use it under specific conditions. These licenses are a standardized system, based on copyright law, allowing creators to choose how their work can be reused, remixed, or adapted by others.
Create a list with your Curriculum and matching Learning Resources
Create a list with your Curriculum and matching Learning Resources
Once you have collected all the learning resources you create a list of links to learning resources (column on the right) and match it with the curriculum. This will be the learning path the students will follow during the self-directed learning. In the left column you indicate, what the tutor will do in the synchronous teaching phase. This can be done in face-to-face sessions or in virtual lessons via ZOOM.. The activities during the tutor sessions are related to the self-directed learning.
Once you have collected all the learning resources you create a list of links to learning resources (column on the right) and match it with the curriculum. This will be the learning path the students will follow during the self-directed learning. In the left column you indicate, what the tutor will do in the synchronous teaching phase. This can be done in face-to-face sessions or in virtual lessons via ZOOM.. The activities during the tutor sessions are related to the self-directed learning.
Example Self-difected Learning with resources from Khan Academy
Example Self-difected Learning with resources from Khan Academy
Self-directed learning represents a vital and emerging component of Blended Learning. For many students, however, developing the ability to learn independently can be demanding. Through the use of KA Tutorials, learners are able to progress at their own pace, revisit complex sections as needed, and concentrate on areas where they experience difficulty.
Yet, the abundance of resources available online can easily overwhelm them. Therefore, structured guidance and a clearly defined learning path are essential to prevent students from losing focus or direction. References provided by lecturers and tutors serve as valuable signposts, helping learners navigate their studies more effectively.
It should also be noted that not all students possess the self-discipline required to study diligently without external supervision. In such cases, motivational mechanisms—such as KA’s monitoring tools or unannounced assessments—can serve as effective incentives, encouraging greater engagement and consistent effort.
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