#OpenEd21
Session No: 272
Session description: https://sched.co/moSJ
Author: Lisa Young, Marc Nash, David Schonstein, Lady Emma Franck, Ariel Anbar

OpenSkill is developing open educational resources (Active OER) that promote essential job skills as part of a $3.4 million program from the U.S. Department of Education. The development team includes Arizona State University's (ASU) Center for Education Through Exploration (ETX) and three of the nation's largest community college systems: Maricopa Community Colleges, Ivy Tech Community College, and Miami Dade College.

The process of creating our OER represents a unique, cross-institutional collaboration between nearly 60 faculty members, numerous experienced learning designers, and program coordinators at each college. The underlying technology is open source and leverages a powerful new courseware authoring platform that enables contextualization of content. This platform was developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative in collaboration with ETX. The goal of the project is to advance new interoperability standards.

Institutions and faculty are supported by ASU's Learning Enterprise's Inspark Teaching Network, which provides training and professional development within an evolving community of practice focused entirely on active learning. The OER, underlying technology, and partnerships all aim to increase access to high-quality learning experiences for low-income, minority, and first-year students.

Available OER combine course content packages and tools that can be used together as textbooks. OpenSkill Tools are customizable digital resources that enable active learning and promote important skills that can be used across disciplines. Active learning is at the heart of the OpenSkill vision because skills are best learned by doing. OpenSkill Tools can be used alone or complemented by ready-to-use assignments, tutorials and high-quality existing OER materials, all available on the OpenSkill Hub. Course content packages are curated OER developed with partner institutions to meet local needs.

Join us for a presentation of our design process, live demos, and information on how you can use OER and get involved.

After attending this session, participants will be able to:
– Use new cross-disciplinary open source tools
– See an example of multi-institutional collaboration
– Try a new platform for developing course materials
– Use content packages and tools as a textbook replacement

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