The Open Educational Resource Project at Royal Roads University

Session Title: The Open Educational Resource Project at Royal Roads University

Presenter: Mary Burgess, Manager, Centre for Teaching and Educational Technologies, Royal Roads University

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Time & Date: 11:15 A.M. - 12:00 P.M., Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Location: Rm. C150

Session Description: One of the latest and most important movements in education is Open Educational Resources. In 2002, MIT began sharing their courses for free online. The OpenCourseWare Consortium has since been established with a mandate to ?advance education and empower people worldwide through courseware?.  At Royal Roads University we have reaped the benefits of Open Source software. Our learning platform and Content Management System are both built on code bases that were developed by people at other institutions (Moodle and Drupal). In 2009/10, Royal Roads will embark upon a project that will have us sharing back. The Open Educational Resource project at Royal Roads will have us sharing selected course content as well as the pedagogy behind its design, our multimedia objects, our custom Moodle code and our custom Moodle training materials. It is our hope that this project will:

• Improve access to learning opportunities by sharing knowledge and resources with those in the BC Educational Community.
• Encourage and support the reuse of multimedia learning objects
• Encourage and support the reuse of Moodle training materials
• Assist faculty and instructional designers in developing courses based on appropriate pedagogy
• Provide resources to organizations globally who are using Moodle but don?t have the resources to spend on code development and the development of training materials.
• Improve the overall quality of the student experience in both the BC post-secondary community and globally through access to pedagogically sound, high quality resources and code.