The Liberated Learner by Joanne Kehoe and Terry Greene
Channel: Open Education Global
Date: 2022-06-20

The Liberated Learner, funded by the eCampusOntario Virtual Learning Strategy is an inter-institutional collaboration that brings together student co-designers and elearning professionals. This open resource consists of four modules that mirror the Ontario Extend for Educators modules (Lopes & Porter, 2018), but are customised to the learner context. These modules are Learner (learning strategies), Technologist (digital fluency skills), Collaborator (communication, group work, community member), & Navigator (curating, fact checking, other scholarly skills). The goal is to provide learners a similar opportunity to gain confidence and independence in their post-secondary experience online.

Recognizing that most issues post-secondary students face are complex and ill-structured (Cormier, 2021), the design and development of the Liberated Learner open modules were primarily student-led. During a week-long design sprint, 120 students generated 99 wicked problems. This collection of personal stories document students’ real life post-secondary challenges. These stories then informed the content of the 4 modules as they were developed together with student co-designers from each institution. They also provided a pathway into the Liberated Leaner modular support at multiple levels of experience (beginner, intermediate, advanced). Each module also consists of a student created Beats to Study to intro to help learners get into the learning groove.

This session will introduce participants to this resource and share how we built this with student involvement every step of the way.

Link to resource: https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/learner/ 
Curious about this work? Engage here: https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/3778
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This was one of the sessions at OEGlobal 2022

OEGlobal22 took place in-person in Nantes from 23rd – 25th May. It was the first in-person OEGlobal conference held for 2 years. OEGlobal and the accompanying online "And Conference" are focused on the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on OER. This event was co-hosted by OEGlobal and Nantes Université.

OEGlobal22 is documented here: https://oeg.pub/OEG22AndConf
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