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Towards Crossing over the Digital Divide: the use of OER
to promote digital literacy
Murilo Matos Mendonça; Patrick McAndrew; Andreia Inamorato dos Santos
Image credits: http://www.ilmoamal.org/bms/q_unit_slide.php?unit_id=16&slide_order=4&language=URU
COLLABORATION
use provide
promote uptake understand impact
USE - Promote OER use amongst DE faculty and other members of staff.- Encourage students to use OpenLearn.- Include OpenLearn courses as complementary materials in the VLS.
PROVIDE
- Publish, translate and localise material (8 Portuguese-speaking countries = 273 million people; 5th most spoken language in the world.- Share our own intellectual production in both Portuguese and English (cross-cultural studies).
PROMOTE UPTAKE UnisulVirtual Continuing Education Programme - Digital Literacy Project:
- Searching Information on the Web- Word Basics- Introduction to Power Point- Excel for Beginners
UNDERSTAND IMPACT
- Collaboration with OLnet Project.- Fellowship.- Research.
OLnet: http://olnet.org
ILLITERACY IN BRAZIL (Base: 15+ year-old persons)
- Brazilian population = 201 million- Absolute illiterates = 14.1 million (7%)- Functional illiterates = 30 million (14.9%)
DIGITAL LITERACY - Ability to organise, understand, evaluate and analyse information by using digital technology.
- Learning how to use, summarise, evaluate,create and communicate information while using digital technologies.
COURSES 2009 ENROLLMENT 2009
Mini Course 1- THE CONCEPT OF INNOVATION
215 students
Mini Course 2 – THE USE OF THE FINANCIAL CALCULATOR ON THE INTERNET
201 students
Mini Course 3 DESIGNING THE USER INTERFACE
136 students
Mini Course 4EXPLORING THE FINANCIAL FUNCTIONS OF EXCEL®
253 students
UnisulVirtual OER-BASED DIGITAL LITERACY PILOT PROJECT - Searching Information on the Web (385 sts.)- Word Basics (33 sts.)- Introduction to Power Point (25 sts.)- Excel for Beginners (48 sts.)
TOTAL = 491 students
UnisulVirtual OER-BASED DIGITAL LITERACY PILOT PROJECT - Searching Information on the Web (385 sts.)Translation + localisation from OpenLearn
- Word Basics (33 sts.)- Introduction to Power Point (25 sts.)- Excel for Beginners (48 sts.)Originally written in Portuguese by UnisulVirtual lecturers specifically as OER
UnisulVirtual OER-BASED DIGITAL LITERACY PILOT PROJECT - £20 registration fee- Tutor- Certificate- Double platform (VLS + OpenLearn)
Activities and Interaction
Course Material
UnisulVirtual VLS
OpenLearn Moodle
Open Learning: Bridge to Success (B2S) OER used to gain skills to learn- core developmental mathematics requirements- learning to learnGoals / Benefits- increase learner capability and confidence- help transition into Tertiary Education- get under-prepared sts. ready to complete college work- provide skills required for lifelong learning
IMPACT
- Written feedback from students
- Course: “Searching Information on the Web”
- 190 students responded (49.4%)
IMPACT – Students Quotes - ‘(...) raised awareness of the need to acknoledge authors’ intellectual merit and avoid plagiarism.’
- ‘(...) acquired new knowldege and skills as the Web is something new to me.’
- ‘I belong to the Internet generation. I’d thought this course might be “silly” but it ended up being more than I’d expected.’
IMPACT – Students Quotes - ‘(...) I used to find difficult to do searches. The course showed the way (...) valuable to my personal, professional and academic life.’
- ‘(...) raised important questions regarding quantily x quality and information reliability.’
- ‘Lack of knowledge and skills prevents us from advancing and gets us unmotivated. (...) extremely relevant for us studying at a distance’
IMPACT – Students Quotes - Teachers could use learning objects in the classroom to make their classes more interactive and dynamic and less ‘traditional’.
- ‘(...) little contribution to me. I already new about 90% of what was taught.’
- ‘Honestly, I expected more. There was nothing different from what I already knew.’
EXPECTATIONS - Cascading effect with the help of students.Latest breaking news from yesterday: “Word Basics” and “Excel for Beginners” enrollment numbers increased 4-fold and are still going up!
- Replication through uptake by other institutions.
SOURCE: INPE – BRAZILIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE RESEARCH
Western Europe in relation to the Brazilian Amazon
Unisul: 35.600 students
UnisulVirtual:13.600 students
Regional Centres in all 27 states of BrazilRegional Centres in all 27 states of Brazil
DAVID WILEY’S 4 “Rs”
- Reuse: copy verbatim
- Redistribute: share with others
- Revise: adapt and improve
- Remix: combine with others
Image credits: http://www.ilmoamal.org/bms/q_unit_slide.php?unit_id=16&slide_order=4&language=URU
Image credits: http://chapaelo.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/obrigado.jpg
Murilo Matos Mendonça – [email protected]
Patrick McAndrew – [email protected]
Andreia Inamorato dos Santos – [email protected]
OBRIGADO! THANK YOU!
