No prior experience with open education or open educational resources is required for this micro-credential. This course is intended to provide you with all the basic knowledge and skills to start using and creating open educational resources.
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.
Yes! We have built in opportunities for synchronous interactions through our live, weekly, optional discussion sessions. These will give you an opportunity to interact with your peers, clear doubts about any specific topic with your program facilitator or just share your learning journey. Sessions will be held over Zoom.
Every module includes required activities to help you apply what you have learned. At the end of the final module, there is a final assignment to complete the full course.
Upon successful completion of the required activities and the final assignment, you will be rewarded with the Mastering Open Ed: OER Foundations digital badge. Badges are issued via the CanCred platform.
Simply register below to automatically enroll. Once registered, become comfortable with Brightspace and review the schedule for the facilitated sessions. Attend as many sessions as possible to contribute to our growing community of practice and maximize your learning experience. More information around next steps will be on Brightspace once you are registered in the course.
Learn more about the Mastering Open Ed Micro-Credential program below.