TY - GEN
T1 - Enhancing the Learning of Computing/IT Students with Open Educational Resources
AU - Chan, Henry C.B.
AU - Ho, Yik Him
AU - Tovar, Edmundo
AU - Reisman, Sorel
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is mainly supported by a teaching/learning grant of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University under account number 8CNV, and partially supported by the Madrid Regional Government through the e-Madrid-CM Project under Grant S2018/TCS-4307 and by the European Structural Funds (FSE and FEDER).
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II. ANALYSIS OF OERS IN MERLOT This section presents an in-depth analysis of the computing-related OERs in MERLOT (www.merlot.org). Supported by the California State University, MERLOT is one of the world’s largest/major OER repositories. In addition to the repository, there are approximately two dozen different discipline community portals – each focusing on OERs and teaching and learning matters specific to that discipline. Two of the portals are the Computer Science (CS) Community Portal and the Information Technology (IT) Community Portal (e.g., see Fig. 1), both of which are endorsed by the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Education Society. With the advent of CS/IT, the aim of these portals is to seek a collection of good OERs from global teachers and learners for teaching/learning purposes. One unique feature of MERLOT is that there is an OER review editorial board for each discipline, and selected OERs are reviewed by domain experts on those boards. In addition, there are user ratings and comments posted on the website. The domain expert reviewer comments, also posted on the web, provide additional objective and useful information for MERLOT users.
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PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - With the advent of the Internet, there is now a vast amount of useful learning resources available. These public resources or Open Educational Resources (OERs) can complement traditional teaching/lectures and student learning. In this paper, we make two contributions to the development of OERs for the global education community. First, we analyze the popular computing/IT-related OERs at MERLOT, one of the major OER repositories in the world. Through the analysis of peer reviews and other data, we present interesting findings and valuable insights for the development of OERs, particularly for the computer science discipline. Second, we present an innovative 3E (Enrich, Extend, Elevate) strategy/pedagogy for the use of OERs with the aim of enhancing student learning from different perspectives. In particular, students can play an important role, to find and even create OERs to enhance their learning to a new dimension.
AB - With the advent of the Internet, there is now a vast amount of useful learning resources available. These public resources or Open Educational Resources (OERs) can complement traditional teaching/lectures and student learning. In this paper, we make two contributions to the development of OERs for the global education community. First, we analyze the popular computing/IT-related OERs at MERLOT, one of the major OER repositories in the world. Through the analysis of peer reviews and other data, we present interesting findings and valuable insights for the development of OERs, particularly for the computer science discipline. Second, we present an innovative 3E (Enrich, Extend, Elevate) strategy/pedagogy for the use of OERs with the aim of enhancing student learning from different perspectives. In particular, students can play an important role, to find and even create OERs to enhance their learning to a new dimension.
KW - e-learning
KW - Internet
KW - OER
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85094131240&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/COMPSAC48688.2020.00024
DO - 10.1109/COMPSAC48688.2020.00024
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85094131240
T3 - Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2020
SP - 113
EP - 122
BT - Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2020
A2 - Chan, W. K.
A2 - Claycomb, Bill
A2 - Takakura, Hiroki
A2 - Yang, Ji-Jiang
A2 - Teranishi, Yuuichi
A2 - Towey, Dave
A2 - Segura, Sergio
A2 - Shahriar, Hossain
A2 - Reisman, Sorel
A2 - Ahamed, Sheikh Iqbal
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 44th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2020
Y2 - 13 July 2020 through 17 July 2020
ER -