This year the Open Education Act is related to Open Educational Resources (OER). OER was originally defined as a way for students to learn through exploration based on their own interests, rather than learning that bores them. OER is how we can complement OER by opening up our educational resources and videos. OER also allows our students to engage more freely in activities and thus take a broader approach to learning. Also the text states that pedagogy that supports OER creates complementary learning resources designed to facilitate learning for other students. Students can use Creative Commons to post content that is reviewed by the instructor and then selected for inclusion in the class, while some high level students can become teaching assistants for the next semester. It is also possible to include quality content in the courseware as teaching materials.
Also the OER approach to teaching and learning may improve the learning of future students. Through this educational approach students will not only be able to create or modify openly licensed work examples especially on topics that have been very challenging in the past. They can then review and deepen their knowledge. So OERs allow students to both demonstrate and listen to their learning and create learning resources for the next generation of learners. Although OER has so many benefits, some people think that because it is free it is not as good as some commercial alternatives. I believe that OER can change the learning atmosphere and creativity of students and can increase GPA.
I think OER is a very useful way to educate. When talking about Wikipedia and OER in the article. I noticed that these students may initially have a lot of imperfections in the articles they post on it, but they can improve by relearning later and seeing what mistakes they made in their previous studies. They can continue to improve themselves from this and what they post makes a significant contribution to the community.
Wiley, D. & Hilton, J. (2018). Defining OER-enabled Pedagogy. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 19(4).
Mengqi Zhang
I agree with you. Students will have different ideas through continuous self-improvement, and they will have more understanding of these knowledge after they constantly revise their assignment. OER is a very good education model, which will give students a broader platform to stimulate their potential. I believe that through this model, students can not only improve their grades, but also truly think for themselves.
leihan
Hi, Minrui
I agree with your idea, ORE education model can give students a bigger platform to help students supplement their learning resources and help them learn more knowledge. I believe that with the development of open education, students can complete their own learning more independently and help other students.
The best
Lei.
yilinwang
Hi Minrui，
I agree with you that OER teaching methods may improve future student learning. The Wikipedia example is also mentioned on my blog. It is a typical example, providing a platform for many people to learn and help continue to improve themselves. I also think that the OER learning method will become a model for open learning in the future for all platforms to learn.
hbramxj
Hi Minrui,
I have a similar opinion to you. I also think OERs are to let people create more interest in learning knowledge. This is why the OERs course design is harder than the traditional course, in my perspective. OERs are open learning, which has less interaction between teacher and student; this requires the course to be interesting to let students follow the step you design to achieve success on the course. Otherwise, I also agree with what you said OER is an efficient way to educate. For the example the article gave us, letting students edit Wikipedia texts as homework is really interesting way to learn knowledge, and it sounds very creative. Furthermore, these types of assignments also increase the tolerance of the assignment and give students more space to express their ideas, which I think is very good.
Julie