“Publish a blog post that describes your experience with open education. Is it just with the OU, or have you studied a MOOC”

I have both used and created open educational resources.

I created a short guide to the program eXeLearning (an eLearning designer based on Mozilla Firefox). This was in the form of a course created in eXeLearning and distributed as a SCORM and .elp which is the file format of eXe. This is hosted on the wiki educator site (Baxter 2011). The resource was also translated into German.

I completed the Open University course ‘how to succeed in postgraduate study’ (OU 2020) before commencing this unit.

I found this OER to be engaging even though I was working alone. The way the tasks are constructed provides you with feedback to some text that you provide. There are also research activities, PROMPT and critical reflection activities.

I have suggested an open educational resource (a keeping warm) course be created for our institution for pre-enrolment students. I covered the background to this in my TMA01.  I am hoping to discover many more sources of OERs and through the module discover how they might fit together to create the course.

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References

Baxter, S (2011) Materials prepared for different workshops and presentations., Available at: https://wikieducator.org/Materials_prepared_for_different_workshops_and_presentations. (Accessed: 13th March 2020).

Open University (2020) Succeeding in postgraduate study, Available at: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/succeeding-postgraduate-study/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab (Accessed: 13th March 2020).