Western Pacific University (WPU) is a new institution in Papua New Guinea and is a member of the OERu Outreach Partnership Programme. “ We are delighted to contribute to the growth of open education in widening participation and access for all, irrespective of location or context and hope that the LiDA initiative will continue to empower learners around the world.”Ĭourse reuse combined with local assessment at Western Pacific University, Papua New Guinea “ Observing the widespread pandemic-initiated shift to integrated learning and teaching approaches for tertiary education, and proliferation of pandemic-informed response, review and recalibration, it is heartening to see collaborative practice in action across our network” commented Oonagh McGirr, Deputy Chief Executive at Otago Polytechnic. The new assessment alternative is itself now available for re-use and adaptation under a Creative Commons Share-Alike licence. Learners may choose to interact with the open OERu tools or work within the forums in Otago Polytechnic’s Moodle instance. Course materials are accessed directly from the open OERu WordPress site, while a more discipline-specific assessment process has been introduced for one of the programmes via the Polytechnic’s Learning Management System. Since July 2019, LiDA has been offered as a self-directed elective course in three of Otago Polytechnic’s undergraduate programmes. In a ground-breaking example of international cooperation in support of OER, these four combined microcredentials have also been approved for credit transfer at first-year undergraduate level at OERu partner universities in the USA, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The New Zealand Qualifications Authority assessed the Learning in a Digital Age (Micro-credential) delivered by OERu to be equivalent to 16 credits (160 notional learning hours) at Level 5 on the New Zealand Qualifications Framework.
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Micro-credentials plus local course adoptions at Otago Polytechnic, New ZealandĮach of OERu’s four Learning in a Digital Age (LiDA) micro-courses has been recognised for assessment through Otago Polytechnic’s micro-credentialing system. The OER Foundation’s FOSS ecosystem has been deployed to implement a number of OER reuse and remix scenarios: the following case studies highlight six context-appropriate examples from different regions of the world. So for example, the Commonwealth of Learning, the Ministry of Education Science and Culture in Samoa and Open Education global have all implemented their own instances of course sites. Using the Foundation’s freely available detailed technical specifications, institutions may select components to host themselves in the cloud or on their own infrastructure. This open component-based approach enables a federated system, whereby multiple institutions can host and publish their own branded remixes of the course sites, while facilitating interaction between learners distributed around the world on different course sites. In this way, learners can find blog posts from fellow students distributed across the web.
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Learners can register their preferred blog feed URLs using the Blog Feed Finder software (also developed by the Foundation) which collects links to course blog posts published using the course tag. The Foundation developed WEnotes to aggregate interactions distributed across these technologies into a live “Twitter-like” course feed with links back to the original posts or mentions. Using open source scripts developed by the Foundation, a curated collection of wiki pages are published to a course web site (WordPress) utilising a responsive theme to make the content easily accessible on mobile devices.Ī range of open source applications are used to support learner interactions, feedback, and support including forum software (Discourse), social media (Mastodon), social bookmarking (Semantic Scuttle), web page annotations (Hypothes.is), and a local commenting feature (WEnotes). OERu courses are authored in an open wiki (MediaWiki) which enables collaborative editing with detailed version control.
Rather than providing learning materials via a single application Learning Management System (LMS), the Foundation has implemented a component-based approach, selecting “best-of-breed” FOSS technologies to assemble an open digital learning ecosystem.
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The OER Foundation deploys Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) solutions from concept to completion of all OERu courses.
Course reuse for local credit in Papua New Guinea.Case studies on the context-appropriate implementation of an award winning open digital ecosystem including:
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