This course examines the use, creation, and distribution of instructional media, focusing on technology's role in enhancing or hindering understanding. It explores the nexus of media, text, and technology, beneficial for creators, distributors, and managers of educational content. Highlighting the open learning movement, it discusses how technology broadens access to educational materials. The course also covers content creation and sharing technologies, along with copyright, authorship, and sharing concerns.
Open learning is an approach to education that emphasizes flexibility, learner autonomy, and open access to educational resources and opportunities. I created a chart to explain and compare some terms and give an example to make the definition more visible.
In this paper, I discussed intellectual property and authorship concerns as they relate to the instructional designer. It is specific about how technology-particularly internet-based technology views and practices related to the development, sharing, and remixing of text and media.
In this paper, I focused on Open Education Resources, which is a public digital library of open educational resources. To analyze its functions, interface, and implications for use in education, along with its suitability, strengths, and potential areas for improvement.Â
This paper investigates the Google Currents community, examining its benefits, features, and member dynamics based on official sources and user guidelines. It aims to shed light on the significance and effects of engagement in social communities like Google Currents, offering insights into the platform's value and impact on its users. This analysis can be applied to any other social community.