What Will You Learn in IPT 531?

By the time you finish this course you’ll be able to do several useful things:

  • Foundations
    • articulate the core values of open education
    • explain why open should be a means, and not its own end
    • recognize when open has become its own end
  • Open Licenses
    • describe how changes in intellectual property law necessitated open licenses
    • demonstrate a working knowledge of the Creative Commons licenses
    • license a creative work with a Creative Commons license
  • Open Educational Resources
    • define open educational resources (OER)
    • explain why “retain” is the fundamental permission of the 5Rs
    • critically analyze definitions of OER
    • locate OER using Google Advanced Search and other methods
  • OER Research
    • explain the COUP Framework
    • explain the OER Research Hub Research Framework
    • critically analyze key findings from the empirical research regarding the impacts of OER adoption and use
    • describe how OER can support social justice initiatives on campus
  • OER-Enabled Pedagogy
    • define OER-enabled pedagogy, disposable assignment, and renewable assignment
    • design a renewable assignment
  • Continuous Improvement
    • define continuous improvement
    • explain how the 5R permissions make continuous improvement of educational materials possible
    • draw and annotate a 2×2 RISE table
    • interpret a RISE diagram
  • Sustainability
    • define sustainability, (non)rivalrous, (non)excludable, common pool resources, commons, enclosure, public goods, and free rider
    • explain why OER are public goods and not common-pool resources
    • explain the sustainability challenges faced by OER in terms of the challenges typically associated with public goods
    • articulate the reasons why OER are not part of a commons
    • critically analyze sustainability models
    • describe the role of policy in sustaining OER efforts
  • Competing Priorities 
    • differentiate between the OER movement and the Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) movement
    • discuss the likely impacts of the ZTC model on the long-term sustainability of OER
    • explain the phrase “content is infrastructure”
    • describe how OER can provide a foundation for innovation and experimentation focused on improving student learning

  • Evaluating Impact
    • discuss the pros and cons of various methods for calculating the money saved by students whose faculty adopt OER
    • list learning-related metrics that might change as a result of OER adoption and use
    • explain how these metrics could be measured in practice
    • use the S3 Framework to plan a holistic evaluation of an OER initiative
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