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1 Open Education and OERs repositories Course Guide Course coordinator Manuel Castro Brought to you by the IEEE Education Society IEEE All Rights Reserved Page 1

2 Welcome Welcome to Open education and OERs repositories. This course is brought to you by IEEE, the world's largest professional organization dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE's highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities. Learn more about IEEE at In this course guide, you will find: Lead Instructor s Biography About this Course Course Outline Grading Policy and Course Outline Discussion Guidelines Resources Subject Matter Expert Biographies Throughout your course adventure, the IEEE course staff is here to help and to guide you. To get help about the content being presented, click the Discussion tab and post a question. To get help with a technical problem, click Help to send a message to edx Student Support. Thank you for joining us! Best wishes for an informative and fun experience. Please also visit our IEEE Education Society site for additional resources to help you learn more about our activities. IEEE All Rights Reserved Page 2

3 Course Lead Instructor Biography Manuel Castro is Electrical and Computer Engineering educator in the Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED), has an industrial engineering degree from the Industrial Engineering School of the Madrid Polytechnic University and a doctoral engineering degree from the same University. He has received the Extraordinary Doctoral Award in the UPM and the Viesgo 1988 Award to the Doctoral Thesis improving the Scientific Research about the Industrial Process Electricity Application, as well as the 1997 and 1999 years UNED's Social Council Award for the Best Didactic Materials in Experimental Sciences and the 2001 Award for the Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning & Technology from the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning. He works as researcher, coordinator and director in different projects, ranging from systems applications of simulation techniques, solar system and advanced microprocessor system simulation to telematics and distance learning applications and systems, as well as computeraided electrical engineering (CAEE), acting now as and senior Technical Director. He is now with the UNED as Professor of Electronics Technology inside the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He was previously UNED's New Technologies Vice-Rector, UNED s Information Services Center Director and Research, Doctorate Vice-director and Academic Affairs Vice-director of the Engineering School at UNED and Director of the Department. He worked during 5 years in Digital Equipment Corporation as senior system engineer. He publishes different technical, research and teaching books and articles for journals and conferences as well as multimedia materials and radio and TV programs. He belongs to the organizing committee of IEEE EDUCON, IEEE FIE (International and Europe Chair, ), ISES, TAEE and SAAEI conferences as well as program and planning committees member and reviewer and chairman of several ones. He was co-chair of the conference EDUCON 2010 (Engineering Education Conference), TAEE 2010 and ICECE 2005 (International Conference on Engineering and Computer Education). Is co-chair of the conference FIE 2014 (Frontiers in Education Conference) to be organized in Madrid, Spain, by the IEEE and the ASEE. He is co-editor of IEEE-RITA (Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje) and of the Electronic Journal of Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society. He is Fellow member of IEEE (for contributions to distance learning in electrical and computer engineering education) and member of the Administration Committee (AdCOM) ( ) of the IEEE Education Society and Vice-chair ( ) of the IEEE Education Society; Founder and Past-Chairman ( ) of the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society, and Chair of the IEEE Spain Section ( ). He has been awarded with the IEEE EDUCON 2011 Meritorious Service Award (jointly with Edmundo Tovar), of the EDUCON 2011 conference; 2010 Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Education Society; 2009 Edwin C. Jones, Jr. Meritorious Service Award of the IEEE Education Society; with the 2006 Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award and for the collective work inside the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society with the 2011 Best Chapter Award (by the IEEE Region 8) and with the 2007 Chapter Achievement Award (by the IEEE Education Society). He is Vice- President of the Board of the Spanish International Solar Energy Society (ISES). IEEE All Rights Reserved Page 3

4 Course Syllabus About this Course We have gathered subject matter experts academia to join the course as guest lecturers. These experts will provide further insight into their particular topics of expertise. Please visit the Appendix at the end of this document to see their biographies. About This Course Open education and open educational resources are deeply influencing and transforming the educational environment. This course offers a practitioner s view of open education, open educational resources, repositories and applications for educators and professionals. This 4-week course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which open education and open educational resources are changing the rules of education. The purpose of the course is to help faculty and professionals dedicated to education to understand the advantages of open education and how they can apply it to their everyday teaching. Prerequisites No previous knowledge is necessary. Time Commitment Approximately 3-5 hours per week. Deadlines Course starts on August 19. All course requirements must be completed by 15 September 2017 at 23:30 UTC. What You Will Learn On completing this course, you will strengthen your knowledge and career potential by demonstrating an understanding of: 1. Foundations of open education and open educational resources (OERs) 2. Open licences that apply to OERs; 3. How to search, create, use, remix and share OERs; 4. OERs repositories; 5. OERs Applications to Academia & Industry IEEE All Rights Reserved Page 4

5 Grading Policy and Course Outline Grading Policy To obtain a verified certificate for this course, students must complete the pre-test and post-course tests, short quizzes in each section, pass the multiple-choice final exam, and participate in the discussions with other students. Assignment # of # # of Attempts % of Overall Type Assignments Droppable Allowed Grade Pre-test Quizzes 40 0 no limit 100 Discussion Boards Letter Grade Pass Fail 16 0 n/a 0 Overall Percentage to Earn 50% and over 49% and under Course Outline Unit 1: Introduction to Open Education & OERs Open source way Open education Open educational resources Open courses: from OCW to MOOCs Unit 2: Repositories Communities based on OER Repositories. Repositories of general purpose Open practices based on repositories Challenges to use OER from repositories Open engineering communities. The case of IT and CS communities in Merlot repository Unit 3: Applications to Academic and Industry Teaching through Open Education Research and Open Access Industry and Open Education The Future Unit 4: Applications for OERs OERs: properties, formats and tools Creative Commons Licenses and their use OERs and media: presentations and documents / video (creation and modification) Other OERs (Lesson Plans, Rubrics, Assessments, etc.) IEEE All Rights Reserved Page 5

6 Discussion Guidelines We ask you to help build a community and share your thoughts about the course content and any news or research related to the class topics. We ask that you use the discussion space as: A forum for discussing topics raised in the course where you can demonstrate your understanding or application of the course material A medium to discuss questions about assignments, readings and course content with peers and course staff A medium for collaboration and the exchange of ideas. An online meeting place for social interaction among peers. Discussion boards are moderated by the IEEE course instructional team. For more information on discussion boards, please see below and refer to the discussion board details In order for the discussion board to run smoothly, please refer to the guidelines below for basic discussion board etiquette. How you phrase your posts is important. Please remember that the participants in the course come from all over the world, representing a variety of cultures and speaking many different languages. Be respectful of others and be aware of the tone of your posts. Think through and re-read your posts before posting! IEEE All Rights Reserved Page 6

7 Discussion Guidelines, continued A few guidelines for the discussion board are outlined below. Please limit your posts/responses to 200 words or less (by request of edx). In other words, be concise in your posts/responses. Reflect on and respond to Discussion Board questions and post your contribution, in your own words. To build community, we ask that you review 1-2 items posted by your classmates and respond to at least one of those postings. Before posting, read what others have previously posted to avoid repeating comments. You can always upvote good posts. Click on the green plus button so that good posts and/or responses can be found more easily. You can search by votes to find the most interesting posts. Never use derogatory language or make insensitive comments. (You should flag inappropriate posts.) Do not personally attack people. It s fine to disagree, but use facts and reasons to back up an argument, not personal attacks. Stick to the topic of the discussion board. Remember that humor is often difficult to convey in text avoid it if people might not understand what you are trying to say. Avoid slang and use appropriate spelling given the diversity in the class, what might mean something to you might not mean the same thing to someone else. Correct spelling and grammar will help others to understand you and to provide useful responses. Avoid using ALL CAPS, abbrv of wrds (abbreviation of words), and excessive punctuation!!!!!!!!! Use correct grammar. If you reference something, provide everyone with the link or reference. Notify the IEEE course staff of bugs. Include [STAFF] at the beginning of your post s title this will help us identify your question or problem and respond to it. IEEE All Rights Reserved Page 7

8 Subject Matter Expert Biographies in Alphabetical Order Manuel Caeiro Manuel Caeiro Rodriguez: University of Vigo, Vigo Computer Architecture, Computing in Mathematics, Natural Science, Engineering and Medicine, Distributed Computing. PhD in Telecommunications Engineering Manuel Caeiro-Rodríguez received the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in Telematics (European mention) in 2007; both at the University of Vigo, Spain. He has been assistant professor during the period at the ETSI de Telecomunicaciones (Higher Technical School of Telecommunications Engineering) in the University of Vigo, Spain. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Telematic Engineering at the same university. Manuel has participated in several R&D projects in the areas of e- learning, middleware and Web engineering, and has published more than one hundred papers in international refereed journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, distributed optimization and telematic services. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), IRISA in Rennes (France) and SZTAKI in Budapest (Hungary). Gabriel Díaz Dr. Gabriel Díaz Orueta received the M. Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics from UAM (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He worked for Digital Equipment Corporation during 10 years, working in several projects related with expert systems and taking the responsibility of several learning and consultancy areas, related with communications and information security. He got several European technical excellence awards at Digital. He also worked for other IT companies as Hewlett Packard or Cisco Systems. He has several IT industry certificates as Microsoft s MCSE or MCT, Cisco s CCNA, CCSI and CCSP, HP s Tru64 Unix system engineer, Sun Microsystems system engineer or several other related with ITIL and ISO Afterwards he founded his own company, ADSO, dedicated to training and consultancy for communications networks, information security and IT services management. Since 2006, he works for UNED, where he leads the Industrial Electrical Electronics and Control Engineering Research Master. His research interests include security measurement and metrics, security for Process Control Systems and the different approaches for getting the best of ICT technologies applied to different kinds of security and electronics learning for Higher Education at universities. He is author or co-author of several books and papers (national and international) related with his research areas. He is a senior member of the IEEE. He is also vice-chairman of the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society since He has been awarded with the 2007 Chapter Achievement Award for the collective work inside the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society. He is also member of ACM and Criptored. IEEE All Rights Reserved Page 8

9 Subject Matter Expert Biographies in Alphabetical Order, continued Martín Llamas Nistal Martin Llamas-Nistal received the Engineering and PhD degrees in telecommunication from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, in 1986 and 1994, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Telematics Engineering, University of Vigo, Spain. He has served as Vice Dean of the Higher Technical School of Telecommunication Engineers ( ), and as head of the ICT Area ( ), both in the University of Vigo. He is author or coauthor of more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed international refereed journals and conference proceedings, and has directed several national and international research projects in telematics and technology enhanced learning fields. Dr. Llamas-Nistal is member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is deeply involved in activities organized by the IEEE Education Society (IEEE ES). He is currently Vice-President of IEEE ES for Publications (since 2011), elected member of the Board of Governors (since 2008), and member of the Strategic Planning Committee. Since it was founded in 2004, he has been a member of the IEEE Education Society Spanish Chapter Board, serving in different positions, including Chairman of the IEEE ES Spanish Chapter from April 2008 to April He co-founded in 2006 the IEEE Journal of Latin-American Learning Technologies (IEEE-RITA), and served since that time as Editor-inChief. He is member of the program committees of different international conferences and workshops, and General Co-Chair of the IEEE-EDUCON 2012, 2013 and He has received several awards from the W3C ((Highlight Paper in the WWW 2001, and Education Track Best Paper and Conference Best Paper Finalist in the WWW 2002) and from the IEEE (the 2007 Chapter Achievement Award for the Spanish Chapter as an outstanding model of technical activities, membership services, and professional development in Spain and Latin America, the 2010 Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award, the 2011 IEEE Education Society Chapter Achievement Award, and the IEEE EDUCON 2015 Meritorious Service Award). Beatriz Martin BA in English Linguistics. MA in ICT for teaching of second languages and electronic processing of languages. Ph D Student in ICT for Applied English Linguistics. MA in Management of Educational Institutions. MA in Education: ITC for Elementary Schools. Multilingual TESOL / ESP teacher with a long experience in teaching English as a Second Language, levels C2 (Proficiency), C1 (Advanced), Business English Vantage and Higher Certificates (CBC). Associate Professor / Lecturer of ESP in La Salle University. Advanced English teacher in the UNED School of Language. Speaker in the VII Seminar of ICT TML UNED (April 24th 2014). Translator specialized in legal, finance and technical documents for international and multilingual companies. Specialist in International Projects in UNED. Copy Editor & Proof Reader in UNED. Translator of academic, technical and scientific documents for several higher education institutions (UCM, La SalleUAM, etc). IEEE All Rights Reserved Page 9

10 Subject Matter Expert Biographies in Alphabetical Order, continued Sergio Martin Sergio Martin is PhD by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Industrial Engineering School of UNED. He is Computer Engineer in Distributed Applications & Systems by the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M), receiving Honor marks in his final project. Technical Computer Engineer by the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). He teaches subjects related to microelectronics and digital electronics since 2007 in the Industrial Engineering School of UNED. He has participated since 2002 in national and international research projects related to mobile devices, ambient intelligence, and location-based technologies as well as in projects related to "e-learning", virtual and remote labs, and new technologies applied to distance education. He has published more than 100 papers both in international journals and conferences, being awarded in 2009 with the Best Paper Award in the Fourth International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology and in 2007 with the Jean Peperstraete award for the Best Paper in the 18th Annual Conference on Innovation in Education for Electrical and Information Engineering. He is IEEE senior member. He joined in 2010 the Advisory Committee of the IEEE Spanish Chapter of the Education Society, and in 2009 the Advisory Committee of the IEEE Technology Management Council of Spain. He also participates as technical reviewer for several international journals and conferences. Óscar Martinez Bonastre Oscar Martinez-Bonastre received his M.Sc. degree in Computing Science from the Polytechnic University of Alicante in 1994 and his PhD in Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Valencia in Since 1997, he is with the Miguel Hernandez University of Elche where he works full time for the department of Computing Science, Maths and Statistics in conjunction with the Operational Research Centre. He has served as Head of International Relations for the School of Engineering ( ) at same university. He teaches subjects related with Advanced Distributed Systems, involved in research and development projects for the application of Multimedia technologies to e-learning education, Internet of Things and Media content distribution. Since 2009, he serves for BoD IEEE Education Society Student Activities Committee (EdSocSAC), BoD IEEE Education Chapter (IEEE Spain Section), Associate Editor (Founding Member) IEEE Technology and Engineering Education (Former name IEEE Multidisplinary Engineering Education Magazine). Since 2012, he is counselor (Founder) of IEEE Student Branch Miguel Hernandez University (Spain) with recognition of Exemplary Student Branch Award IEEE Spain during years 2014 and He was serving for IEEE Transactions on Education ( ) as Associate Editor in charge of area Computer Engineering & Computing, member of IEEE Region 8 Educational Activities Subcommittee ( ) and currently Chair of Technical Activities of IEEE Spain Section (voted member - period 2016/2017). Dr. Bonastre is an IEEE senior member IEEE All Rights Reserved Page 10

11 Subject Matter Expert Biographies in Alphabetical Order, continued Edmundo Tovar Edmundo Tovar received the computer engineering degree and Ph.D. degree in informatics from the Madrid Technical University (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM), Madrid, Spain, in 1986 and 1994, respectively. He is currently with the UPM as a Professor of information technology in enterprise with the Languages and Information Systems Department, and a leader of an Innovation Group in Education in the UPM focused in the application of Web technologies to OpenCourseware and OER. He has been participating in different European projects about OER. He has served as an elected member of the Board of Directors of the OpenCourseWare Consortium ( ), Executive Director of the OCW Office of the UPM ( ), and currently Executive Director of the Open Education Office at UPM. Prof. Tovar is a member of the IEEE Education Society Board of Governors ( ) and Vice President of Educational Activities and Awards ( ). He is a member on behalf of the Education Society of the University Resources Committee of the IEEE Educational Activities Board. He is a Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) of the IEEE Computer Society (2005 to date). He is on the Steering Committee of the IEEE EDUCON and the IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference (International and Europe Chair, 2008 to date) and is a program and planning committee member, reviewer, and chairman of several others. Rebecca Strachan Rebecca Strachan is Professor of Digital Technology and Education and Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Strategic Planning and Engagement in the Faculty of Engineering and Environment at Northumbria University. She is a leading expert in the exploitation of digital technologies to improve daily life and believes we should be using technology in transformational ways to support student learning. A keen advocate of partnership working, she leads on the university s digital degree apprenticeship programme, drawing on her experience of co-designing and delivering work based and distance learning programmes with employers and professional bodies. She has developed a keen interest in gender and STEM, is a member of the University s Athena Swan Self-Assessment team and supports equality of opportunities for all. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and member of the Council for Professors and Heads of Computing. Internationally she is a committee member of the IEEE Education Society and recently led the EU Tempus funded IMPRESS project aimed at improving student services across higher education in the Ukraine ( working with partners across Europe including the Ukrainian Ministry for Science and Education and four of the leading classical universities in the Ukraine. She is currently working with a team in Nigeria to introduce digital games in the classroom and is the faculty executive lead for NUSTEM, a major widening participation programme to engage more young people, particularly females in STEM ( IEEE All Rights Reserved Page 11

12 Subject Matter Expert Biographies in Alphabetical Order, continued She believes students should be active participants in their own learning and we should equip them for their future careers and lifelong learning by creating interactive and applied learning experiences, using technology in transformational ways and preparing them to be independent learners. For further information, see IEEE All Rights Reserved Page 12

13 Other Collaborators, Short Biographies in Alphabetical Order Francisco Arcega Francisco Arcega was born in Caspe (Zaragoza), Spain. He received the M.Sc. in Physics in 1976 and Doctorate in 1981 at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. In 1976 he joined the Electronics Department at the University of Zaragoza and since 1982 he is in the Electrical Engineering Department where he is currently Professor (CEU). His main research interests are in the field of electrical measurements and their applications in the industry field. As well he is involved with quality in the education and in the laboratory activities. He is co-director of the research group EduQTech devoted to research and use the quality in the education and in the technology. He has been auditing engineering university Faculties for Diplomas (Degree and Master) and Doctorate level for the Spanish National Agency for Accreditation (ANECA). He is auditor and accredited evaluator of ABET and Past President of the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society. Javier Garcia-Zubia Javier García-Zubía is full professor of the University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain). His research is mainly focused on remote experimentation (also in programmable devices) and technology enhanced learning. He has been responsible for the WebLab-Deusto platform in remote experimentation for more than 10 years. He has edited several books on remote experimentation, including research of many research groups in this area, and has published and presented technical papers in journals and conferences. Currently he is the President of the Spanish Chapter of IEEE Education Society. Manuel Gericota Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering - Polytechnic of Porto, since December I have been teaching undergraduate classes in Digital Systems, Electronics and Power Electronics, and postgraduate classes in Computer Architecture, Digital Systems Design and Digital Systems Testing. Tutor of several PhD and Master students in the areas of Digital Hardware Design, Power Electronics, Design & Test and Remote Experimentation Labs for electronics teaching. Invited expert of the European Commission in the framework of FP7 (the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development) to integrate a panel of experts to review a project in the area of e-learning and remote experimentation. Currently he is the President of the Portuguese Chapter of IEEE Education Society. IEEE All Rights Reserved Page 13