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Towards Crossing over the Digital Divide: the use of OER to promote digital literacy

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

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Towards Crossing over the Digital Divide: the use of OER to promote digital literacy

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  1. Towards Crossing over the Digital Divide: the use of OER to promote digital literacy Murilo Matos Mendonça; Patrick McAndrew; Andreia Inamorato dos Santos

  2. Image credits: http://www.ilmoamal.org/bms/q_unit_slide.php?unit_id=16&slide_order=4&language=URU

  3. COLLABORATION useprovide promoteuptakeunderstandimpact

  4. 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.

  5. 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).

  6. PROMOTE UPTAKEUnisulVirtual Continuing Education Programme - Digital Literacy Project: - Searching Information on the Web- Word Basics- Introduction to Power Point- Excel for Beginners

  7. UNDERSTAND IMPACT- Collaboration with OLnet Project.- Fellowship.- Research.OLnet: http://olnet.org

  8. ILLITERACY IN BRAZIL(Base: 15+ year-old persons)- Brazilian population = 201 million- Absolute illiterates = 14.1 million (7%)- Functional illiterates = 30 million (14.9%)

  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.

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. UnisulVirtual OER-BASED DIGITAL LITERACY PILOT PROJECT- £20 registration fee- Tutor- Certificate- Double platform (VLS + OpenLearn)

  13. UnisulVirtual VLS Activities and Interaction OpenLearn Moodle Course Material

  14. 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

  15. IMPACT- Written feedback from students- Course: “Searching Information on the Web”- 190 students responded (49.4%)

  16. 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.’

  17. 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’

  18. 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.’

  19. 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.

  20. Western Europe in relation to the Brazilian Amazon SOURCE: INPE – BRAZILIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE RESEARCH

  21. Regional Centres in all 27 states of Brazil Unisul: 35.600 students UnisulVirtual: 13.600 students Gerência de Mercado

  22. DAVID WILEY’S 4 “Rs”- Reuse: copy verbatim- Redistribute: share with others- Revise: adapt and improve- Remix: combine with others

  23. Image credits: http://www.ilmoamal.org/bms/q_unit_slide.php?unit_id=16&slide_order=4&language=URU

  24. OBRIGADO! THANK YOU! Image credits: http://chapaelo.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/obrigado.jpg Murilo Matos Mendonça – murilo.mendonca@unisul.br Patrick McAndrew – p.mcandrew@open.ac.uk Andreia Inamorato dos Santos – andreia_inamorato@hotmail.com

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