OER LIFE CYCLE Andrew Moore and Tessa Welch

OER LIFE CYCLE Andrew Moore and Tessa Welch

OER LIFE CYCLE GET Find OER Share and make available for reuse Compose (Piece Together) Refine Learning Resource Adapt to Local Contexts Deploy and Use Resource Produce a Learning Resource

COMPOSE Link to Outcomes Language (translation, remove colloquialisms) Pitch at your learners level Chunk information appropriately Insert into your methodology/pedagogy Contextualise materials

OER LIFE CYCLE Search & find OER Share and make available for reuse Compose (Piece Together) Refine Learning Resource Adapt to Local Contexts Deploy and Use Resource Produce a Learning Resource

ADAPT Re. Use (Use OERs as per original) Rework (Rework OER but remain true to its message) Remix (Mix OER materials) Be true to copyrighted conditions of materials

OER LIFE CYCLE Search & find OER Share and make available for reuse Compose (Piece Together) Refine Learning Resource Adapt to Local Contexts Deploy and Use Resource Produce a Learning Resource

PRODUCE, DEPLOY & REFINE Produce: Medium, (Paper vs Digital) has implications for distribution and access. Produce: Quantity, implications for cost. Deploy: Who should have access to the documents and when? Refine: After the first run the document needs to be refined/revised based on ‘lessons learnt’ so that it is remains useful.

OER LIFE CYCLE Search & find OER Share and make available for reuse Compose (Piece Together) Refine Learning Resource Adapt to Local Contexts Deploy and Use Resource Produce a Learning Resource

SHARE Need to get the OER’s back to the OER community. Others should benefit from your revisions (especially in Africa where material context is significant) Need to advertise your ‘improvements’.

WHAT IS THE SAME AND WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS VERSION OF THE OER LIFE CYCLE? START How are the TESSA materials structured? HERE→ → Getting to know the TESSA materials How can you deepen your engagement with the TESSA community? Which TESSA materials are suitable for your teachers? Curriculum mapping Community of practice ↑ How can you evaluate and improve your use of the TESSA materials? Working with teachers Reflective practice Course design ↓ Materials adaptation Assessment How can you encourage Reflective Practice by the kinds of assessment you use? How will you plan to use the selected TESSA materials in your context? Teaching and learning How will you adapt the TESSA materials for your context? ← How will you use the selected TESSA materials with your teachers?

TESSA KEY QUESTIONS IN GOOGLE PORTUGUESE 1. Como são as matérias TESSA estruturado? [Conhecer os materiais TESSA] 2. Quais materiais TESSA são adequados para seus professores? [mapeamento Curriculum] 3. Como você planeja usar os materiais selecionados TESSA no seu contexto? [Curso de design] 4. Como você pode acessar e adaptar os materiais TESSA para o seu contexto, semperder sua essência? [adaptação de materiais] 5. Como você vai usar os materiais selecionados TESSA com seus professores? [O ensino e aprendizagem] 6. Como você pode estimular a prática reflexiva sobre as atividades TESSA atravésdo tipo de avaliação que você usa? [Avaliação] 7. Como você pode avaliar e melhorar o uso dos materiais TESSA? [prática reflexiva] 8. Como você pode aprofundar seu envolvimento com a comunidade Tessa outrosenvolvidos no trabalho com professores em um ambiente OER? [Comunidade de prática]

SOME WORDS OF WISDOM FROM OTHERS To unlock the potential of OERs, they ‘have to be first located, then adapted, used and the adaptations (perhaps with commentary on the form and impact of their use) made available to a wider community; otherwise they remain just another piece of ‘content’, merely stuff rather than a tool (Cantoni, quoted in Conole & Weller, 2008, p. 11). ’