A day in the life of a flexible OER

Wed Jun 18 16:35:17 EDT 2014

Looks great. I'm thinking we could mention how consistent this view of a personalized resource is with the whole
'flipped classroom' idea that's very popular, at least here in the US. 

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From: Dana Ayotte [mailto:dana.ayotte at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 4:23 PM
To: Treviranus, Jutta (Academic)
Cc: Fluid-Work Mailing List Work; Jim Tobias; Mitchell, Jess; Colin Clark
Subject: Re: A day in the life of a flexible OER

Hi All,

After receiving your feedback and further discussion with Jutta I have modified this to include an OER re-mixing layer,
followed by individual transformations allowed by the FLOE tools.

As always, I welcome your feedback!

Thanks,
Dana

On Jun 5, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Jim Tobias <tobias at inclusive.com <mailto:tobias at inclusive.com> > wrote:

Thanks, these all sound great.

I was thinking in terms of 'a day in the life' that you could frame it by timezone or some other way of showing its use
in multiple settings during a day, and even show the global value. It could llso show that at the end of the day it has
even more value because someone has added some comments or corrections.

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From: fluid-work-bounces at fluidproject.org <mailto:fluid-work-bounces at fluidproject.org>
[mailto:fluid-work-bounces at fluidproject.org] On Behalf Of Dana Ayotte
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 11:33 AM
To: Colin Clark
Cc: Fluid-Work Mailing List Work
Subject: Re: A day in the life of a flexible OER

Hi Colin, 

Thanks for your comments so far.  I've copied some of the feedback I received below.  It was also suggested that it
might be a little text-heavy.  Perhaps a digital version could have the vignettes open up when one of the images is
selected.

I've been working mainly on the alternate version Jutta suggested as well as the slides.  Here's a
<http://wiki.fluidproject.org/download/attachments/16777606/OER%20day%20in%20the%20life%20single%20resource%20draft.pdf?
version=1&modificationDate=1401981933197&api=v2> link to a draft of what I've got so far (as well as the
<http://wiki.fluidproject.org/download/attachments/16777606/OER%20day%20in%20the%20life%20final%20draft.pdf?version=1&mo
dificationDate=1401981925589&api=v2> original version for reference).  

Regarding Jim's comments, they emphasize the open-source aspect of the resource, rather than the transformations that
the FLOE tools allow.  I guess it's a question of what we want to convey for Hewlett.  I'm guessing it's both - the
added benefits of an open-source resource (i.e. re-mixing and greater access to information in general) as well as what
the FLOE tools provide on top of that?  In which case I think it would be good to add one or two of the examples Jim
suggests.

At the moment the "Single Resource" version is limited to transformations we are currently able to make with Learner
Options (which might be good because we can link to a working demo), but we could also include transformations that we
are not currently able to demonstrate live (this would require further design work). 

Thanks,
Dana

Hi Dana, 
Sorry to have missed this.
This is great, especially for a brochure.

Would you be able to provide a slide deck that breaks each of the transformations  into one slide? 
Also could we create a version that shows how the same resource changes rather than focusing on the FLOE tools?

thanks!

Jutta

Hi Dana -- this is very nice! I'm glad Hewlett asked for it, and maybe 
it's the kind of thing we should do more of, and in a bigger way.

In the meantime, here are some suggestions:

1. Re-frame the right pane so that the resource is in the center, and 
the use cases come off at different angles. This might emphasize the
'faceted' nature of OERs -- something for everyone if you look at it from a
different angle.

2. Add a re-mix use case, perhaps a student who pulls an image or 
activity out of the resource to use as part of a 'build a molecule' booth
she is building for a neighborhood carnival.

3. Add a research use case, where a student searches the 
caption/transcript for information he will use in a science fair poster.
4. Add a gifted/talented use case, where because the OER is freely 
available, a younger student can access it for both enrichment and
acceleration.

Hope this helps.

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On Jun 4, 2014, at 5:44 PM, Colin Clark < <mailto:colinbdclark at gmail.com> colinbdclark at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Dana,

I'm sorry I wasn't able to respond to this sooner. I really enjoyed reading the narratives you wrote about each of our
components.

Have you received further feedback? Is there a newer version I should take a look at before sharing more feedback?

Colin

On May 15, 2014, at 1:44 PM, Dana Ayotte < <mailto:dana.ayotte at gmail.com> dana.ayotte at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,
Hewlett requested that we include a "day in the life of a flexible OER" for their communications on FLOE, including a
comparison to a proprietary resource and showing all the different ways students might personalise the OER to meet their
learning needs.  Attached is a first draft - please provide any feedback.
Thanks,
Dana

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