Week 6 - OLDSMOOC & OER
It's week 6 of 9 in OLDSMOOC† and the topic is Curation of content , and one of the major areas is Open Educational Resources (or OER). I had to go back to last summer, when I was working on the #ioe12 MOOC, and the week that was specifically tackling the topic of OER to see what I wrote then on the topic. I think my main "complain" about OER is that it, in addition to spending time to find OER resources, you also have to, usually spend, a lot of time on editing and adapting the OER for usage in your own classroom. After all, materials are designed with certain uses, users, and criteria in mind, and those uses, users, and criteria may not match your own LD/ID analysis. Thus, the process isn't one of Seeking & Deploying , but rather Seeking, Evaluating, Modifying, Testing, Deploying . The process then can become a rabbit hole, where if you jump in too deep, you feel vested in the outcome and you probably don't want to scrap your current work on OER, if y...