[Sharing is a challenge] #15 Open Educational Resources: Is sharing really time-consuming? by Sophie Depoterre, José-Miguel Escobar-Zuniga, Paul Lyonnaz and Nadia Villeneuve

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Today: 8 hands, 4 institutions, 3 countries, 2 continents, and 1 article. Already a challenge in itself!

Nadia Villeneuve and José-Miguel Escobar-Zuniga from Canada (Universities of Laval and Sherbrooke), Sophie Depoterre from Belgium (UCLouvain) and Paul Lyonnaz from France (Nantes Université) reflect together on time : is it “time-consuming” to share an OER?

Their answer: it can be, “[b]ut to say that OERs take time without naming the elements that save time is to miss the point!”. Drawing on their experience in supporting OER creation projects, they share some key tips on how to avoid “wasting” time, and even “save” time, thanks to open licences and open pedagogy.

It is worth your time reading it!

Open Educational Resources: Is sharing really time-consuming? by Sophie Depoterre, José-Miguel Escobar-Zuniga, Paul Lyonnaz and Nadia Villeneuve

A fine group of authors has come together to address this significant challenge: that producing OER takes too long. Sophie Depoterre, José-Miguel Escobar-Zuniga, Paul Lyonnaz and Nadia Villeneuve (Leuven, Belgium; Sherbrooke, Canada; Nantes, France; and Laval, Canada). Their conclusion is realistic: yes, it takes time to design an OER! But that time is ‘amortised’ by working collectively.

Read the article:

And well done to the authors for managing to work together on this article despite the rather tight deadline!

We are nearing the end of March, and so the end of these daily posts. It will be time for us to thank all the authors who have made this series such a success. And when it comes to expressing our gratitude, perhaps @cogdog can help us out? See you on Monday!

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I have to say loudly that the time consumed reading this latest post is worth it, especially for fitting so many voices into one piece.

This was the first time I heard term DER for Digital Education Resource, and its Venn diagram relationship to OER. Somewhere in there or adjacent are the kinds of resources you can send learners to view/read but with no options for remixing/modifying, like YouTube videos, PDFs, open access articles. These are all valuable ideally used in the context of an OER.

Maybe another dimension to consider is the granularity or the complexity of an OER, we speak about the term is if it is one thing, but the time consumption for finding/using/ sharing seem not the same when talking about a single piece of media (image, audio, maybe an H5P exercise) and something much more comprensive, like a lesson, open textbook, and open course.

And yes, @erwan_louerat I am excited and a bit nervous for Monday. I extend an early expression of gratitude for your communicating, and sharing the sharing here.

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