tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149957315810348152.post3300242314488854973..comments2024-01-01T00:45:41.758+00:00Comments on Wishful thinking in medical education: What should open educational resources (aka #FOAMed) 'replace' in university education?Anne Marie Cunninghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05289974924032448531noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149957315810348152.post-13795569135502504382015-03-23T07:47:28.952+00:002015-03-23T07:47:28.952+00:00Really its very good to be here i loved your posts...Really its very good to be here i loved your posts <br />Hi all,<br /><br />I am a graduate from life sciences background; I came across<br />a Diploma course online from Apollo hospitals and Medvarsity that is http://www.medvarsity.com/ with certification. Can anybody say is that<br />really helpful ??AanyaMichaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149957315810348152.post-1482915122205140472015-02-12T21:15:41.704+00:002015-02-12T21:15:41.704+00:00I will tell my friends that this is a very informa...I will tell my friends that this is a very informative blog thanks vist<br /><br /><a href="http:/www.fullchatroom.com/" rel="nofollow">2015 New Movies Free Download</a>djhadiinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149957315810348152.post-52369069339094461922014-09-23T23:48:10.142+01:002014-09-23T23:48:10.142+01:00Ps: I meant to write "neither of them",...Ps: I meant to write "neither of them", not "either"!Annalisa Mancahttp://edulabyrinths.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149957315810348152.post-39647421799689684772014-09-23T21:18:02.347+01:002014-09-23T21:18:02.347+01:00I think a creative commons approach in which autho...I think a creative commons approach in which authors of free content enable their work to be reused within a sensible framework seems to make sense. The open access element of #FOAMed is vulnerable to exploitation but this makes an ideal opportunity for commercial organisations to model good practice to their students when using such material in their teaching.Patrick Naughton-Doenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149957315810348152.post-24940201774744453132014-09-23T18:49:00.371+01:002014-09-23T18:49:00.371+01:00Hi Anne Marie,
Interesting questions. My thoughts...Hi Anne Marie,<br /><br />Interesting questions. My thoughts on the payment issue are pretty pragmatic (philosophically I live in a dream world where all education is and should be free of all costs for students). But since that isn't happening anytime soon, we can use OER to reduce the cost of course materials to $0 for students, which is a perfectly achievable goal. As to whether or not it is acceptable for students to pay for a course built on OER, this assumes that a course is nothing but content when, in fact, a course is made up of much more than just the content. There is work done in scaffolding the content, presenting it in a way that makes sense to the learner, creating assesments, designing the entire experience. A course is more than a collection of resources (OER or not), so when the course is framed like that, you can build a justification for charging students for courses built on OER. The perspective of the person who built the content is a bit more of a nuanced discussion as (in my experience) ecery person who creates and releases OER material has a vision or an expectation of how that material would be used. The problems arise when the material is not used in the manner that have built up in their mental model of how their content would be used, and then the discomfort. Part of this could be addressed by better understanding of the different flavours of open licenses before releasing your content openly as the restrictions on reuse can be granularity adjusted (and there are open license options beyond Creative Commons that may be more acceptable or suitable for some).<br /><br />For question #2 - very unlikely that we will find "the best" anything because "the best" is subjective and fluid, which is why open licenses are so important. If we find "good" or even "ok, but needs work", is there a license (and increasingly a technical format that can be reworked) to make it "best for me and my teaching circumstance".<br /><br />#3 a threat to local pedagogical practice. I agree with you that it is a local threat since content always needs context to make it a learning object, and very often that context is provided locally. <br /><br />#4 what can OER replace? Any resource in a course that costs money or cannot be modified is the clinical answer. A lecture being replaced by an OER could happen if, say, a lecturer decides to replace his lecture with a chapter reading from an open textbook. But that implies that a lecture is *only* for the transmission of information from lecturer to learner, and with a good lecturer that is not the case. A good lecturer also delivers passion and enthusiasm for their subject and often times this is really at the heart of a good lecture - some kind of emotional connection to the content. So, lecture a content delivery could easily be replaced by OER. Lecture a pedagogical device - well, not so easy to replace the passion of a live person in front of you with a book reading.Clint Lalondehttp://clintlalonde.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149957315810348152.post-43028861470709351062014-09-23T17:58:57.900+01:002014-09-23T17:58:57.900+01:00Hi Anne Marie, I think we established that the wor...Hi Anne Marie, I think we established that the word "replace" is a bit controversial here, hence why all the twittering :D<br /><br />The first tweet in the thread asked if FOAMEd should be incorporated into uni degrees, then, if I'm not mistaking, there were at least two main concerns - either of them suggesting that we should not use OERs but making quite fair observations - with which I agree.<br /><br />1) The use of free resources shouldn't prevent teachers to create *personal* resources, teaching material that is embedded in the particular curriculum and context, and created for a particular group of students. So I guess the difference here is similar to that between meaningful content curation and a sterile curation, not adding any value to the content.<br /><br />2) Free, open access resources will never replace other content or teachers - rather, they can be used to add value, to help repurposing or redeveloping existing resources, to signpost educators towards a fresh look into topics they already master, so that they can hopefully introduce new, alternative ways to teach them.<br /><br />I see the use of FOAMEd - by educators and students - as embedded in an iterative, creative cycle driven by good pedagogy and signposted by learning goals. It shouldn't be a threat to local practice if used in this way, but I guess this is up to the educators' personal and professional ethic.Annalisa Mancanoreply@blogger.com