Y1 Unit 2.1: Learning Objectives and Overview
Learning Objectives
- Define open licenses and their potential for course materials.
- Apply the Open Curriculum Project’s Equity Statement to your open curriculum.
- Create attributes for openly licensed materials from diverse sources using the Attributions Style Guide.
- Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of open education as a strategy to advance equity.
Overview
Welcome to Unit 2! In Unit 1, you absorbed a lot of introductory information about the project and you started browsing your background scan to learn about existing resources for your course. You started using key documents where we’ll work together during this project.
In this unit we dive into open license definitions – what open licenses are and why they are a powerful tool for instructors to develop curricula with an equity lens.
For some this will be a review and for others this will be new. Either way, please read on because open licenses are just the beginning of a story that leads to ideas like open education and open pedagogy, as well as many connections to equity in teaching and learning. These topics can get very big very quickly, so we will stick to the points that are relevant to your work on this project.
Our discussion of equity and open educational resources will continue to inform your read-through of your background scan materials. You’ll start thinking about which openly licensed sources you might want to reuse in your work, particularly if the source has an equity approach that aligns with our project goals, and you’ll practice the logistics of doing this. Now that you’ve drafted your author bio and commented on author bios from your team, you’ll do your first shared writing project as a group: drafting a project-specific equity statement to guide your collaboration.
Right now you’re working with a very large amount of information. In the next unit, we’ll start right-sizing your project to align with a 10-week quarter.
Task List with Time Estimates
The table below provides an overview of the tasks for this unit, along with how long we expect each task to take.
| Unit 2 Tasks (Unit Duration – 1 Week) | Estimated Time |
|---|---|
| Read Unit 2 | 45 minutes |
| Brainstorm notes for your curriculum’s equity statement. Use team meeting time to collaboratively draft an equity statement in your {Course #} About This Book document. | 60 minutes |
| Think about whether you’re going to implement an open pedagogy component in your course this academic year. If so, let the Project Manager know! | 30 minutes |
| Add an open license to your {Course #} About This Book document. After you’ve discussed at your team meeting, delete any extras that you generated. | 10 minutes |
| Choose one openly licensed passage you want to reuse and practice pasting it into your Parking Lot with an attribution. | 10 minutes |
| Finish browsing the materials in your background scans | 1-3 hours |
| Estimated total for all tasks over 1 week | 3-6 hours |
Licenses and Attributions for Learning Objectives and Overview
“Learning Objectives and Overview” by Open Oregon Educational Resources is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
