March 31, 2016 Webinar Recording: Adult Educators
Webcast: Adult Education Context & Need
The following video (55:43 minutes) Links to an external site. is a webcast recording held during a prior version of this course on March 31, 2016. As described in the webcast notes below, the focus of this discussion is the adult education context and resource needs as shared by those working in the field.
Webcast Notes
- Panelists:
- John Baaki (co-host)
- Jennifer Maddrell (co-host)
- JR Dingwall (co-host)
- Leecy Wise (co-host / SME)
- Patricia Hernandez (special guest & enrolled in MOOC)
- Alfons Prince (special guest & enrolled in MOOC)
- Ruth Sugar (special guest & enrolled in MOOC)
- Magxina Wageman (special guest & enrolled in MOOC)
- Prompted discussion questions:
- Describe your role as an adult educator.
- To help us understand the ABE context and your learners, tell us a brief story about working with your learner(s).
- What do you see as primary needs for adult educators and learners?
- What impact (if any) have the College and Career Readiness Standards had on you as an adult educator?
- What drew you to this course and our ABE OER project?
- What advice do you have for course participants as they design lessons for your peer instructors and adult learners?
- “Real-world problem/tasks” - What does this mean?
- Finding relevant OER or CC licensed content:
- Check for CC / public domain options when you search
- You may have luck on government, library, or nonprofit/special interest pages for reports.
- Some OER Repositories we’ve aggregated Links to an external site.
- JR recent recommendation for CC-licensed: http://solvonauts.org/
- Open vs. Free … and “Fair Use”
- Open vs. Free - The 5R Permissions: Importantly, a resource you find on the internet may be "free" (available for your use without fee), but the copyright and terms of use of the materials may not be openly licensed to broaden the usage rights to give you (and others) perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities Links to an external site. to:
- Retain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)
- Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
- Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
- Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)
- Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)
- Fair Use: Purpose is only for small excerpts (e.g. to critique), but often misinterpreted to be anything goes for educational purposes.