Integrating online resources into your teaching Video Lecture | Teach Online: A Comprehensive Approach for Teaching Online - Professional Skills

the internet enables access to a wide
range of rich resources for learning and
offers teachers many options for
creating their own online resources this
episode discusses different types of
online resources and highlights the
copyright considerations you need to
think about when using existing online
material it also discusses the concept
of open educational resources where
teachers can access and freely use
learning materials created from
institutions all around the world when
you start to teach online you have to
free yourself of the idea that your job
is to write copious notes and deliver
incredibly detailed lectures as if
you're the only person who has something
to contribute
it's amazing how freely other people
have been creating fantastic resources
in lots of different areas which you can
very easily be used and referred to I
don't think necessarily you have to make
it yourself it's up to other academics
then to sort of look at those materials
and see how they can use them in their
own teaching validity of the material
that's available you know there's some
really good stuff that's available open
source on the width I've never been a
person who said I'll never use Google
you know I think if it's if it gives you
what you need use it but be aware of
what it is that you're using and be
aware of the context in which was
created and be aware of whether or not
it breaks the law
well increasingly the resources in
libraries are online online journal
articles online conference papers of
book chapters and so on databases like
TV news which enables academics to have
access to news programs databases that
have high quality images for instance
art stores the best response we've got
from students is definitely on the audio
material were produced we're getting a
lot of good results from students who
are actually hearing the academic voice
one of the things that we've been doing
is trying to capture technical processes
that we do at the college which are
rather endangered or there's so much
technical process involved in a
particular subject we feel there's not
enough time to to keep on doing
demonstrations sometimes once isn't
enough
so we're capturing those kind of
technical master classes so the students
can review it even things like making
available lecture notes syllabus details
organizational details about when exams
are taking place and so on just some
real basic information resources and
organizational aids for students and
there could be difference there's the
sense of confidence that the students
always have access to the information
24/7 if they miss a handout in class but
it's online they can always go and get
it and if someone emails you after the
class and they've notes on a weekend
that's quite quick to be able to direct
them to a resource that can help them
solve their problem
I think another important issue that
teachers need to understand is that they
are personally responsible for complying
with the law people think if it's on the
web that it is freely available on the
web
whereas everything on the web web is
still covered by copyright if you found
any text or any kind of content on the
web that you want to make available to
your students I would very strongly
recommend that you link to it rather
than copying it but make sure that you
are linking to a non infringing copy
academics trying to understand copyright
issues should go to the copyright pages
of their own institution first because
that will give them not only information
about the Copyright Act but also their
own institutions approach to managing
copyright
there is a subset of online resources
that's available relatively easily which
are curriculum or lesson plans or rich
content about subjects that people are
studying which have been made available
by academics around the world either
through a university decision such as
MIT OpenCourseWare approach or by
academics or groups who want to propose
how they are teaching or what they are
teaching as a very good resource for
others to use what we've been working on
here at the University of Leicester is
open educational resources these are
basically teaching materials that the
academic has given over to the project
we look at those resources make sure
there's no copyright issues with them we
try to turn them into materials that
other institutions can use we then place
those materials on a open repository at
the University here so it's there that
then searchable by Google and other
other tools and we also then place them
on Joramun
it's a sign that that idea of public
ownership or public utility of
information is becoming more and more
widespread and as we get more video more
images more sound into that it becomes a
really rich base from which students and
teachers can incorporate some sort of
media forms into the sort of work that
they're doing
you're not contributing the last word
you're not delivering the the final
sermon on the content in your unit what
you're delivering is something much more
challenging and intellectually
stimulating which is questions points of
view challenges provocations and maybe a
little bit of content through which you
weave all of the material that is
available online there's so much good
good material out there now that the
academics should feel a lot more
confident in actually using those
materials and then spend more time
perhaps on actually getting students
delivered through those materials and
getting those successes at the end
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