Track Session Type
Creation: OER Creation & Management, Copyright, Licensing, and CC101, Instructional Design and Ed Tech for OER, Open Pedagogy
Presentation Type
Workshop
OER Level of Expertise
Intermediate, Advanced
Audience
Faculty, Librarian, instructional designer
Session Title
New Ideas for OERs via Remixing
Session Abstract
Remixes enable educators to build on each other’s work, creating materials that reflect the collective expertise of many authors. But the vast potential for adapting OERs has been underused. In this interactive session, we’ll work together to develop materials such as research guides and lesson plans based on remixing techniques and technologies. These approaches can be used by librarians, instructors, and instructional designers to create content, and they arm OER advocates with new ways to show other educators the benefits of building and using open resources. The sustainability of OERs depends on their adaptation to new contexts and new generations of students. Participants will leave this session with ideas and templates for extending the utility of the resources other educators have created and for developing their own OERs in ways that make them more sustainable.
Objectives of the Session
Give educators new methods for creating materials, in particular for teaching scholarly communication and information literacy.
Give OER advocates new ways to demonstrate the benefits of using and creating OERs.
Full Description of the Session
In this workshop, participants and I will collaborate to create remixes of textbooks, scholarly articles, and other CC-BY 4.0 licensed materials. Based on remixing techniques used elsewhere, including my own in-progress textbook on STEM writing (North Broad Press), we’ll produce, for example, a subject research guide and an interactive lesson plan.
As we create these remixes, the session will teach participants the pedagogical theory justifying remix strategies (e.g., scaffolding, learning by teaching), how to find material that is useful to remix (e.g., PeerJ open peer reviews for teaching scholarly communication), and free technologies and techniques for creating remixes (e.g., multimedia tools such as Open Broadcaster Software). To lower technical hurdles and facilitate quick interaction, session activities will mainly use open, easily browsable websites and Google Docs; more complex tools and methods will be demonstrated for use in the future.
This session will focus on undergraduate education and speak mainly to the needs of librarians, instructors, and instructional designers, assuming some basic familiarity with OER terminology and concepts. But a core feature of remixing is that it enables materials to be adapted to new contexts and various stages of education, so the activities practiced here could be used to modify OERs for other uses.
This session will conclude with an exploration of how to make OER materials more easily remixable by other educators. We’ll study an example of an “Invitation to Remix,” which can be added to OERs to give other educators ideas and guidelines for remixing.
Presenter Bios
Geoff Keston is an adjunct professor of technical communication at Temple University, and he is currently working on an OER textbook, STEM Writing: Mindsets, Tools, and Techniques (North Broad Press, CC BY-NC 4.0). He has a master’s degree in Critical and Creative Thinking from the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Publishing Permission
1
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Start Date
4-4-2023 9:00 AM
End Date
4-4-2023 11:00 AM
New Ideas for OERs via Remixing
In this workshop, participants and I will collaborate to create remixes of textbooks, scholarly articles, and other CC-BY 4.0 licensed materials. Based on remixing techniques used elsewhere, including my own in-progress textbook on STEM writing (North Broad Press), we’ll produce, for example, a subject research guide and an interactive lesson plan.
As we create these remixes, the session will teach participants the pedagogical theory justifying remix strategies (e.g., scaffolding, learning by teaching), how to find material that is useful to remix (e.g., PeerJ open peer reviews for teaching scholarly communication), and free technologies and techniques for creating remixes (e.g., multimedia tools such as Open Broadcaster Software). To lower technical hurdles and facilitate quick interaction, session activities will mainly use open, easily browsable websites and Google Docs; more complex tools and methods will be demonstrated for use in the future.
This session will focus on undergraduate education and speak mainly to the needs of librarians, instructors, and instructional designers, assuming some basic familiarity with OER terminology and concepts. But a core feature of remixing is that it enables materials to be adapted to new contexts and various stages of education, so the activities practiced here could be used to modify OERs for other uses.
This session will conclude with an exploration of how to make OER materials more easily remixable by other educators. We’ll study an example of an “Invitation to Remix,” which can be added to OERs to give other educators ideas and guidelines for remixing.