Course Overview

Open Educational Resources (OERs) have been recognised as a means to provide current and high-quality content in various fields of study. OERs bridge gaps of the inadequate number of required professionals and encourage collaboration that enhances the quality of knowledge and skills taught or learned. The need for OERs has become critical in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and its potential contributions to educational recovery. Despite the availability of useful OERs, many do not know how to integrate them in teaching and learning. Therefore, in this course, you will learn how to plan, write, and evaluate OERs for integration in online learning content.

Course audience: Educational practitioners, trainers, researchers, and all with interests in how to use Open Educational Resources for teaching and learning.

Learning Outcomes

The objectives of this course are to:        

  • Plan online learning content using OERs
  • Write an online learning content integrating OERs
  • Evaluate OER for integration in online learning   
Instructor(s)
Prof. Juliet Inegbedion; Prof. Christine Ofulue; Mr. Okechukwu Okafor
Syllabus

Week 1:Fundamentals of the Use of OERs in Online Learning

  • Unit 1: OERs and Copyrights
  • Unit 2: Copyrights and Intellectual Property
  • Unit 3: Open Educational Resources (OER)
  • Unit 4: Creative Commons Open Licenses (CC)
  • Unit 5: How to find and Use Quality OERs

Week 2: Online Course Design Basics

  • Unit 1:Applying ADDIE Model in Online Course Design  
  • Unit 2: Learning Objectives and Learning Outcomes
  • Unit 3: Applying Pedagogy in Online Learning
  • Unit 4: Learning Activities and Resources for Online Learning
  • Unit 5: Live Session

Week 3:Integrating OERs in Online Learning

  • Unit 1: Writing Acceptable Course Learning Objectives
  • Unit 2: Writing Acceptable Unit Learning Outcomes
  • Unit 3: Matching Learning Outcomes with Learning Activities
  • Unit 4: Matching Learning Outcomes with Learning Resources (OERs)
  • Unit 5: Assignment

Week 4: Developing the Online Content Using OERs

  • Unit 1:Using OERs Materials as standalone Course in a programme
  • Unit 2: Embedding OERs within texts/contents
  • Unit 3: Referencing OERs materials
  • Unit 4: Assignment
  • Unit 5: Live Session