Curating Module Overview
Curating, Adapting, and Creating: Advantages and Challenges
Once you have a firm understanding of OER and where to find them, you can begin to make resources of your own. This module will focus on building OER and developing your course.
By the end of this unit you should be able to:
- Distinguish between creation, remixing, and collecting
- Identify the steps for successful adaptation or curation of OER
- Recognize the principles of backwards design and course development
- Organize resources for your course and apply to course design outline
- Recognize the best resources to adapt, curate, and create
- Locate and evaluate content for your course
Learning Resources
On each page we have collected some of the best resources to help you learn about OER. We encourage you to look at the resources provided but we know that you are busy and constrained by time. To help focus your attention, preview the quiz for this module. This will help you know what to focus on as you work though the module.
Assignments
- Quiz - Test your knowledge on adapting and creating content.
- Exercise - Review OER Content for Your Courses. For this exercise you will research, analyze and review five open resources in your content area. To do this you will need to create a free OER Commons account. Reviews will be posted, shared, and retained as a way to contribute to the growing OER movement.