Open Educational Resources in the context of teacher education Nicky Watts, Sheffield Hallam University

Introduction and background

•Local teachers and pupils, teacher educators and PGCE students involved in:•sharing and developing good practice in teaching•understanding more about digital literacy•developing guidance on Open Educational Resources in the school context•Project outputs will be shared via an open textbook (pulling together case studies and supporting resources) and the "Digital Bloom" installation

• For more information:

•Project website www.digitalfutures.org

•Project blog www.deftoer3.wordpress.com

•Twitter @deftoer3

•Slideshare www.slideshare.net/deftoer3•Contact:

a.gruszczynska@shu.ac.uk;r.p.pountney@shu.ac.uk

Key terms: Open Educational Resources

… digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research (OECD, 2007).

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… teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. (Atkins et al. 2007).

Frameworks for digital literacy

• Digital literacy as a continuum between the purely social and the purely technological

• Move from the singular ‘literacy’ to the plural ‘literacies’ to emphasise the sheer diversity of existing accounts (Lankshear and Knobel, 2008).

• Digital literacies as "the constantly changing practices through which people make traceable meanings using digital technologies" (Gillen and Barton, 2011).

Intersections of digital literacy and creativity