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Finding, Creating and Using Open Educational Resources Module Summary

Summary Activity

The final piece in this workshop is for you to actually work with finding, using and/or creating OER. We’ve elected to provide you with some options outlined below, as well as some additional resources.

Complete one of the following:

Find and curate three OER within a topic area .

  • This can be within your teaching discipline, or just an area of general interest
  • Provide a brief description of the OER collection you’ve curated
  • Include how you evaluated each one, using the evaluation worksheet provided earlier in this workshop

Create your own OER using eCampusOntario’s H5P Studio.

  • Follow the steps you covered in the Creating OER with H5P section, to create your own OER using eCampusOntario’s H5P Studio
  • We recommend you start small – with an easy content type, such as a Multiple Choice Quiz, Fill in the Blanks, Drag and Drop or Image Slider.
  • If you want to get fancy, embed, rather than link to this new content type. This can be done by clicking “Start a New Thread,” clicking “Insert Stuff” (the far left icon), clicking “Enter Embed Code” and copying and pasting the embed code from the H5P content type you created. Don’t worry – you can just link to this instead!

In this module we covered:

  • What OER are and why they are important 
  • Your teaching and learning motivations for using OER  
  • How to find, evaluate, and use OER for your teaching 
  • Ways to create OER and contribute it back to the commons 

Additional Resources

Information Box Group

Module Reflection Form Microsoft Form

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