NAP - 2019 - Assessing OERs quality – the Open VM mini-MOOC case
Channel: EDEN Digital Learning Europe
Date: 2020-09-09

Wednesday, 3 April 2019, 15:30 CEST

In the context of Open Education, quality assessment tools are necessary. Speaking of  quality means quality assurance, quality audit and quality enhancement. In the Open Virtual Mobilty Erasmus + Project’s framework https://www.openvirtualmobility.eu/es_ES/, the quality assurance of OER is addressed through an iterative cycle of design, creation, implementation, and assessment, following the Design Based Research model (Barab & Squire, 2004).

Atenas and Havemann (2014) list a series of actions to identify resources to be taken into consideration such as choose resources already valued as high quality by peers, start a community discussion on a specific resource, use resources where keywords and metadata are clearly identified. In order to assess  each OER to include in the VM MOOC, partners of the IO6 developed a tool structured in three main indicators (Poce, Agrusti & Re 2015): 1. Quality; 2. Appropriateness; 3. Technical aspects. The webinar will present best practices developed in the Erasmus + Project OpenVM to search, select and assess OERs. In addition, the preliminary results of the pre-pilot phase will be presented.

Atenas, J., & Havemann, L. (2014). Questions of quality in repositories of open educational resources: a literature review. Research in Learning Technology, 22, 20889.
Barab, S., & Squire, K. (2004). Design-based research: Putting a stake in the ground. The journal of the learning sciences, 13(1), 1-14.
Poce, A., Agrusti, F., & Re, M. R. (2015). Sviluppo di uno strumento di valutazione delle risorse aperte (Oers). Cadmo.
The webinar will be followed by an #EDENChat with Francesca Amenduni on 3 April, 2019 at 18:00 CEST titled “From evaluation to creation: theoretical and practical tools for Open Educational Resources”

Francesca Amenduni is a PhD Student in Experimental Pedagogy. Her expertise is in the e-learning field both as practitioner and researcher. She has worked as e-learning tutor and instructional designer since 2015. She carried research related to blended learning and her current PhD project regards semi-automated assessment of Critical Thinking in e-learning environments.