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Adapting OER for Classroom Use
Now that you have been introduced to OER and explored different resources, this module focuses on using OER in the classroom.
The following is included in this module:
Learning Objectives
The following are the learning objectives for this module. By the end of this lesson, users will be able to
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Identify benefits of OER in a classroom
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Integrate OER into a current lesson plan
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Identify barriers of OER in classrooms
Quiz
This is a quiz that is meant to help you reflect on how OER can help you while informing you of some of its possible benefits and barriers to using OER in the classroom. We have created the quiz in Genial.ly and Google Forms.
Presentation
The following presentation introduces OER in the classroom and presents the reasons why it is incorporated and how it is beneficial. The presentation also provides resources for various forms of OER, such as textbooks, multimedia, lesson plans, and repositories. Finally, the presentation informs users about the barriers that educators can encounter when incorporating OER.
Quick Guide
Here is a quick guide of four easy steps of how to find and integrate OER for your classroom.
Lesson Plans
When incorporating OER in the classroom, we suggest you begin by adapting existing lessons to integrate OER instead of building a lesson around a specific OER. This method is quick and effective, and it is a great way to explore OER.
Below are a few lesson plan examples that demonstrate how to incorporate OER in the classroom. These lesson plans can be used as an OER for educators, and can be adapted and edited for their needs. A blank template is also available for users to create their own lesson plans to incorporate OER.
The following is a secondary two geography lesson plan about the History of Metropolises.
The following is a secondary three Enriched English Second Language Novel Assignment of the Hunger Games.
Self Reflection
This is a self-reflection activity to help you evaluate using OER in the classroom and how it can help you, where you can get stuck and how you might overcome barriers. Although there is much prescriptive advice about using OER in the classroom, it is useful to reflect on whether OER is useful, how and how your experience has been with it so far.
Module Review
This document contains a cheat sheet to help you scroll through the salient points of this module.
It connects the benefits, barriers, hacks, self-reflection and some resources all in one place.
Resources
This list, divided by category, offers several resources on subjects that may be of interest when adapting OER to the classroom.
Scroll and click on the selected topic to view the resources!
Google Drive
All the resources used on this page can be accessed in our Google Drive!