Dreamweaving Open Educational Practices

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The Open University of Sri Lanka “After attending the first workshop, we felt that it was truly a new and wonderful experience to us as teacher, and we are fortunate to have such a great opportunity to be guided by our lecturers”. “The workshop leader gradually explained the term OER and we were all given a broad description about OER, and Creative Commons and different CC licenses, and that we can obtain vast amount of information available in the Web. Because of this amazing experience we felt that knowing about OER we had discovered a gold mine of information relevant to teaching and learning process”. “This workshop led us to learn more about copyrighted materials and creative commons. It was the first time we eagerly started our research about these concepts where we understood that any time we use a copyrighted work, we must have permission from the owner of the work”. The initial activity, just after the introductory session for students, was to prepare a concept map and to respond to an online questionnaire and submit it. Completing and submitting an online questionnaire and concept map development were first time experiences for many of them. Those activities helped them to get understanding on concept “OER” and Creative Commons license, and Terms of u s e etc. Al s o t h ey were i nt ro d u ced to Mo o d l e L MS , th e o n l i n e teach i n g – l ea rn i n g platform. Students’ views on these activities are as follows: “Even without a proper knowledge we were able to complete the concept map as requested. And then little by little we were instructed how these OER can be accessed with the support of Moodle LMS. Later we were given an opportunity to sign up by providing user accounts through which the materials can be accessed and shared. Moodle became a platform for us to go ahead with what we were to do. Through that we were sent updates from our OER Research team”. During the activity it was found that some of them were not only unaware of the OER concept, but also they were clueless about concept maps. It was the first time that they learn to draw a concept map. The following two concepts maps drawn by two of them just after the introduction session of the first workshop; shows how they had gained some understanding on OER. (Fig. 5.1.1) 75
Dreamweaving Open Educational Practices Fig. 5.1.1: Two Concepts Maps drawn by two participants just after the introductory session Students were engaged with finding OER with the help of some of the OER repositories introduced during the workshop. They faced challenges such as their limited understanding in using computers and online access, slow functioning of LMS system they were using and unavailability of computer and internet facilities at home and schools where they were working. Reflective journal writing was another new experience for them. This is how two students have reflected on their first day experiences through their first journal entry: “This program helped me to improve my knowledge of using OER facilities. I want to gather more knowledge on use of this to find more details on different subjects. Thank you for giving us this opportunity to identify our potential”. 76
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