User talk:Mohammad Shoaib Haider

Module 4 - Feedback

Activity 3 Feedback

Dear Shoaib,
Thank you for your insghtful work.
Please find below some reactions and comments:
Tools to revise and remix OER which are not expensive: H5P for example, https://lumi.education/en/ .
You have analysed the full range of OER - from paid employees and prestigious institutions to community models of volonteers, highlighting advantages and drawbacks. Please note that when you say "free", for instance for
Coursera, this is not really the case. You pay access by giving away your privacy and you must pay (dollars) to access to certification. This comment should help you increase your judgment when you see "free" in the future.
Consider the licence upfront when you design the resource: indeed - but then stay flexible and change your plans if you think an other licence would be more appropriate.
You explored models on one hand, you explored licences on the other: what about bringing both together? For example, you cite Coursera, have you registered to one course to see all that is asked (i.e privacy issues and OER access issue) and whether the content is CC licenced (Openness of the OER issue if an OER at all)?
The example of your blog post is excellent: if your blogpost is CC BY SA, a priori, the course which would use it should respect the SA, which would mean implicitly NC. So the case where your blog post would be a resource for a coursse where students pay for the access should not happen.
I really appreciate how you consider licensing past work and hope you will manage to actually do it, i.e. convince the stakeholders to do it. This kind of document might support your arguments: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/licence/creative-commons-attribution-40-international-cc-40
One big output for you during this module is your blog: now I can access it and it is really valuable, https://shoaibopeneducation.blogspot.com/. Congratulations :) You might become an "influencer" so pay attention to what you blog because you have some societal responsibility. A very technical point: actually, where is the licence on your blog posts? I cannot see it and would advise that you make it explicit.
Hope this helps, Best, Barbara

Feedback on "Blog post: Designing a Course on Digital Skills using OER"

Thank you Shoaib for investigating OER on digital skills and trying to set up a course on that topic starting from OERs (ie.e. a new culture for a teacher to start from existing material that is adaptable rather than start from scartch or from x handbooks).
Before starting to search for OER, it is important that you are very clear with what you are searching (i.e. target audience, language, level, etc.). So you might want to revisit the OER you have identified with regard to your upfront search obejectives. Then, you think that one of these OER is more appropriate: why? according to what criteria? Have you tried to use criteria from the rubric to evaluate the OER? It is good to use the rubric for 2 to 3 OER so that you integrate the criteria and afterwards, you screen the OERs without even noticing you are applying the criterai and your choice to take the OER or not because it is relevant or not is very quick. Hope this helps.

Activity 2 feedback

Dear Shoaib,
Thank you for being so active and productive. You seem to be disappointed by the fact that automatisation, costs and reusability do not move in the same direction. Contextualising takes time and cannot be done my algorithms.
This may be the case in the future and this is the reason why it is important to know who programms algorithms and the values they put in these. For more on that, you may follow the work conducted by Colin de la Higuera, University of Nantes but the one I know is in French, e.g. https://chaireunescorel.ls2n.fr/ - sorry for that language issue.
With regard to the relationship between learning objects and OER, the main similarities are with regard to the granularity of the ressource and its capacity to be integrated into an environment (i.e. interoperability).
With regard to OER, interesting that you went to search for valuable resources not being convinced by what the course was offering. This is exactly the attitude to have and to pass on to learners.
Concerning your question "is it possible to replace formal study with low-cost alternatives", I am not sure formal study and low cost-alternatives are to be compared. With regard to your confusion on "how to draw a line between what constitutes OER and what constitutes other resources on the web", the answer is simple and difficult. Without entering into the difficult question of copyright, if a resource on the internet has a clear mention of an open licence as a creative commons one, it is an OER if it meets the conditions as discussed last thursday (slide 11).
With regard to quality of OER, you have two rubrics from the OER EduTechWiki page: https://www.achieve.org/oer-rubrics and https://www.achieve.org/oer-rubrics .
Sustainability is indeed THE big issue of OER to which robust answers have not yet been brought to my knowledge. Hope this helps, Best, Barbara

Activities 1 & 2

Dear Shoaib, Thank you for sharing your work (interesting that you have uploaded it on dropbox - I guess it is because converting the word content into a wiki page takes some time). Here are some suggestions:

With regard to content:

1. After this introduction to OE, you will have some ideas of the areas of debate and priorities. If you continue training and reflecting on OE in the future you will consolidate your perceptivenss / discernement of key topics at stake.
2. Congratulations for creating a blog. Unfortunately, I could not access it from https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/7352580656779293359 : it requests username, cookies, etc. exactly what we discussed yesterday with regard to social media :( You might want to try out an open source tool? http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Blog#Blog_software_and_platforms
3. OE aims at being contextual, whether it succeeds depends on the layers of openness, i.e. to contextualise, you need to use the language of the target audience first of all; second you must understand priorities and how the topic that is going to be learnt is understood by the target audience and start from there to then open up to other perspectives, etc. OE is not contextual per se, it can become contextual depending on the HR who are invovled and how they conceive education and learning.

With regard to the form:

1. you may want to check whether you have the right to put a CC licence on this reflective work (cf. because you use an image which is third party). If you have the right, it would be nice to choose a licence and add it to the work.
2. with regard to the image, it is always a good idea to provide the URL of any third party material used so that readers can check the origin and make their own opinion.

Hope this helps, Best, Barbara

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