Day 1 - Hello
Hi,
My name is Steeve Doubt, an instructional designer and longtime High School teacher currently based in Kamloops. I have worked with various CC licensing tags and been teaching students about them for years. However, I still find quality content difficult to locate. In some cases I still wonder if 'you get what you pay for'.
I am hoping to undo this sense over the next couple of weeks because I wholeheartedly support the philosophical imperative of OER adoption for all of the reasons stated at the beginning of this course.
I am a positive person, as I hope you will learn, but the resource that speaks to me at the moment is this:
I look forward to getting to know you all over the next couple of weeks and learning to harness the potential of OERs for work and pleasure!
SD
Hello Steve! Welcome to the course. Thank you for sharing a good article that highlights the very real challenges of wider adoption (and more impact) of OER. In the five years since it came out, I believe there have been some good strides in terms of educator awareness (particularly in British Columbia in higher education), and a healthy increase in use (and therefore, learner savings on expensive textbooks). The continuing growth of the Internet (in terms of millions of pages per day) is one helpful factor. There is so much room for improvement and growth in use of OER, better models for finding good quality resources and appropriate compensation for educators to adapt resources and courses, and create new resources if none exist.
Awareness is a big key to success, I think. And this course is designed to increase it, in whatever small or large ways it can. I know that use of OER in PreK-12 (in Canada and the U.S.) has been much slower to grow. I hope we can help you find some useful, good quality resources that might be new and useful to you.
Jenni