Quest 1
Carefully review four articles containing historical information on the open education movement. Write a substantive summary post with references on the history of the movement.
- Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources (OECD, 147 pages)
- Open Educational Resources- Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education (JISC CETIS, 34 pages)
- Open Educational Practices and Resources: OLCOS Roadmap 2012 (OLCOS, 149 pages)
- A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities (Atkins, Brown, and Hammond, 80 pages)
- JISC Good Intentions Final Report (JISC, 48 pages)
- OER Handbook for Educators (a printed version is also available; 284 pages)
Quest 2
Carefully review three articles describing motivations for the open education movement. Write a substantive post with references on the motivations of the movement.
- Removing obstacles in the way of the right to education (Tomasevski, 51 pages)
- Free and compulsory education for all children: the gap between promise and performance (Tomasevski, 81 pages)
- Testimony to the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education (Wiley, 7 pages)
Quest 3
Carefully review the following open education sites. Write a substantive post with references comparing and contrasting what they provide, how they differ, and how they could be improved.
- MIT OCW
- Connexions
- Stanford
- Yale
- Open University of the UK
- Curriki
- WGBH Teachers Domainlink
- Hippocampus
Quest 4
Conduct an interview with three leaders in the field of open education. Learn about new or particularly interesting projects. Be sure to allow enough time for one or more of your interviews to be postponed and still complete the Quest on time. Write a substantive post with references about the state-of-the-art in the field.
Quest 5
Many BYU faculty already openly share their syllabi and other course materials on personal websites, through iTunesU, and through other mechanisms. Find as many of the open educational resources being shared by BYU faculty as you can, regardless of media or channel. (Hint: There are dozens.) Write a post with references to each of the OERs you find.
Quest 6
Much of the open education movement resides in higher education. Locate and organize a sufficient number of open educational resources to teach a semester-long high school course. Discuss the course you have selected with the game master before beginning this quest. Use the State of Utah Core Curriculum Standards as your guide to what needs to be included in the course. Present the course design and structure, materials you’ve aggregated and necessary adaptations (specifically the sources of the materials and how easy they will be to adapt to your needs), IP problems, and an estimate of time and effort spent to a meeting of the Guilds. We will record your presentation and post it online.