A. Discuss the difference between online educational content and openly licensed educational content.
Open educational resources (OER) is the free learning materials and the other techniques that you can use to teach or access to the knowledge. You might be able to find more information about open educational resources on OER Africa. Here is also a video clip attached about the introduction of OER:
Educational resources are under the protection of copy law once they were created. Openly licensed educational content means that giving the permissions to the public to use the materials under the law of licenses. Just for an instance, if a educational company wants to use a textbook for public to use, then the company has to negotiate with the author of the textbook or author’s lawyer. When both party all made an agreement on the use of the book, then this textbook could become an openly licensed educational resources. Online educational content where can be found online, such as streaming videos, software and online tools can assist you to get the access to the knowledge.
B. Find an open educational resources (OER) and present it on your portfolio, either by linking, embedding, or by including a screenshot.
By using the Google advanced search with the most open license allowed , I searched the key word of economics. An article is called “ Boundless Economics” by Lumen appeared in the very first place of the searching results. This site basically explains the fundamental theories of economics in a way that people can easily understand. Here is also a video of the screencast of the site:
C. Review the OER using the evaluation guide found in the tutorial, provide a brief comment on this process in your post
Reviewing the OER by using the evaluation guide given on the OER Africa. We can conclude that this OER has a relatively high usefulness when we try to access the knowledge of economics. This guide is a very helpful tool for guiding us to evaluate an OER from six perspectives: relevance, acurancy, production quality, accessibility, interactivity and licensing. We can just simply check the boxes under each categories to make an evaluation of the OER, so we will be able to tell the usefulness of the OER. The link of evaluation guide is attached below:
D. Discuss how you might use OER in your own life or professional work.
OER is a great tool to access to the knowledge. It gives us the full flexibility in creating a learning environment. OER also can be really useful in our day-to-day life, you can always have the permissions to see and learn the educational resources at any time you want. I will have the access to the open knowledge that I want to learn. It is different from the traditional lecture-based learning, providing us another method to obtain the goals. Overall, OER is a very helpful and practical tool to use in our daily life.
References
OER Africa. (n.d.). Retrieved February 9, 2020, from https://www.oerafrica.org/
Lumen. (n.d.). Boundless Economics. Retrieved February 9, 2020, from https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-economics/chapter/the-study-of-economics/
OER (Open Educational Resources) Introduction. (n.d.). Retrieved February 9, 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFeyCc6we-s