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Tuesday November 3, 2020

Collaboration and MOOCs

10:35–11:05AM – Presentation 1

fabriqueREL – the “why,” the “what,” the “how” and the initial results

UNESCO defines OER as follows (2002): “Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. Open licensing is built within the existing framework of intellectual property rights as defined by relevant international conventions and respects the authorship of the work.”

Despite the proliferation, for some time now, of no-cost online teaching resources, the fundamental problem, as UNESCO also puts it (2016), is that OER, after 10 years of appeals worldwide, have yet to be more fully integrated into educational policies and practices. A number of obstacles (difficulty finding the right resource, uneven quality, concerns about intellectual property, etc.) could explain the extremely slow adoption of this heritage – an even slower process among francophones. The fabriqueREL project is a response to incorporating OER into higher education in Quebec. In this presentation, we will revisit the concepts of open education and OER, describe fabriqueREL and present its initial results.

11:05–11:35AM – Presentation 2

Feasibility study into a shared portal for Digital Educational Resource (DER) searches and Open Educational Resource (OER) deposit

The issue of digital resources and how to re-use them is not a new development in education. Initiatives in building directories for cataloguing “learning and teaching materials (LTM)” were launched in the late 1990s. We are now seeing renewed interest in this topic and in a convergence of institutional and government efforts to build provincial platforms for DER, as shown by some measures in the Digital Action Plan produced by Quebec’s Ministère de l’éducation et de l’enseignement supérieur (MÉES). This state of affairs, perceived internationally, is linked to a number of factors, including the growing digitalization of education, development of the distance education and blended learning offer and an increase in the number of digital educational resources and in self-directed learning situations.

Our goal is to present the “Feasibility study into a shared portal for Digital Educational Resource (DER) searches and Open Educational Resource (OER) deposit,” commissioned by the MÉES, which has signed an agreement in principle with the proponents: the CCDMD (Collegial Centre for Educational Materials Development), the Centre de documentation collégiale (CDC) and Vitrine technologie-éducation (VTÉ).

11:35AM–12:05PM – Presentation 3

Peer instruction with myDALITE.org

SALTISE is a learning community that supports research and encourages the creation of tools and resources dedicated to educational innovation. SALTISE presents myDALITE.org, a free open-source website platform that promotes peer instruction. It engages students in cognitive tasks that include self-explanation, comparison and evaluation of explanations produced by peers, and reflection.

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