If you are a faculty member, instructor, or graduate student who wants to learn how to engage with open educational resources (OER), then eCampusOntario’s new micro-credential is for you.
Mastering Open Education is available now as a facilitated micro-credentialed learning program focused on open licensing, sourcing quality OER, and using tools like Pressbooks and H5P to create engaging, accessible content. Educators who complete this program will be able to overcome financial barriers in education, contributing to a more accessible, equitable educational landscape for all learners.
Fall Cohort is Full
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Since 2017, the eCampusOntario Open Library has provided professional learning opportunities, community building, services, and platforms for open education to the postsecondary sector. In fall 2024, the Open Library will launch its inaugural micro-credentialed professional learning program. This new program builds on the work of the OER Rangers program by taking the Ontario-made, bilingual-by-design, “Mastering Open Ed” resource and launching a credentialed course that is free to members of Ontario’s publicly-supported post-secondary institutions.
Who You Are
Whether you are a faculty member, instructor, staff, or even graduate student, this program can help you build foundational knowledge to engage with open educational resources (OER) and help you expand your pedagogy through engaging with open publishing tools and open education concepts.
Learning Outcomes
By completing this course, you will:
- Understand the history and context of OER;
- Identify and apply common open licenses;
- Demonstrate understanding with the common accessibility concerns and standards that apply to OER;
- Select and create H5P activities applicable to your teaching context;
- Create Pressbooks and practice adaptation; and
- Assess the open education context of your own teaching practices and at your institution.
Program Duration
The full program runs for 7 weeks with the course content taking 6 weeks. Each week there are self-paced, asynchronous course modules and a 1-hour, optional facilitated session to support your learning.
Completing all required module activities and the final assignment will be required to earn the micro-credential badge for this program. On average, participants should expect 2 hours each week to complete all required course content and required activities, and 2 – 5 hours for the final assignment.
How to Participate
The English cohort has reached capacity for fall 2024 – please use the form below to join the wait list. There are still seats for the French cohort.
The program will run in fall 2024 from September 23 to November 10, 2024. There is one English facilitated cohort and one French facilitated cohort available for the first year. For 2024, this course is open and free of cost to members of Ontario’s publicly-supported postsecondary institutions. Registration for this course is open until September 13, 2024 at 11:30 PM ET.
What is Open Education and OER?
Open education is a movement and ideology that is rooted in the concept of “everyone has a right to education” from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations, 1948).
Using the UNESCO definition, Open Educational Resources are “learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others”.