Open Educational Resources

This post is a bit late because I was sick but I am very happy to be back!

I feel like I have had a lot of prior experience with online learning. Ever since elementary school, we were expected to take AR tests online and so forth. I feel like as technology evolved our learning experience evolved with it too. I cannot remember using one specific learning management system but I do specifically remember that most of my online learning experience was synchronous. I personally loved online learning because it broke off from every day to day routines that were established. For me, online learning was always sort of a treat that we would get if we behaved well or something along those lines.

Open Educational Resources are resources such as text, media, and other digital properties that are free, accessible, useful for teaching and learning. According to Open Colleges, the top ten examples of open educational resources are MIT OCW, Lumen Learning, Khan Academy, Merlot, OER Commons, Open Stax, Academic Earth, Learningpod, Open Culture, and Open Learning Initiative. This blog post provides a little summary of all of these websites by highlighting their top features. I feel like as a teacher this would be a great website to compare what works best for my students. https://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/10-open-educational-resources-know/


I definitely learned a lot from the Newsletter Design assignment. Obviously, I have used Microsoft products before but this assignment was a little bit frustrating. I guess what was the most frustrating is that Microsoft word already had a set code and structure for what their newsletter design was supposed to look like so changing it was the only frustrating part. Obviously, I had never made my own newsletter so I feel like with anything else one you do it more than once it starts to become like muscle memory.