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Follow the thread and think about how you share your knowledge!
You may start out as an individual teacher who wants to share your teaching material to your students or perhaps to other teachers. Or maybe after years of institutional teaching, you want to share your knowledge in a different way!
The teacher as an individual
You may want to offer an educational experience through your university's profile to your students or other teachers. Here you will probably will follow the institutional mode of teaching.
The university teacher
To share your knowledge online, there are many networked solutions at your disposal. Some of the connected to your university, some to you as an individual. It is time for you to chose what to use.
Distance learning solutions
Part of the quality control within EU countries is the EU’s web accessibility directive. From the 23rd of September 2020 all websites in the public sector should answer to the legal requirements for accessibility (meaning that everyone should be able to access the site, whether you have a disability or not).
Visit the EU’s web accessibility site
A decision needs to be made on what kind of Open education resource you want to share. Parameters to think about would be:
Using online tools to teach online has been really important. This are third party tools that help teachers organize their teaching, but that normally are not created specifically for education. Here we talk about things like padlets, like google docs, like Zoom...Sometimes it is difficult to know what is a tool and what is a platform. Many times they are both.
Here's a long list of blanded online tools that can be used for teaching online.
There are multiple data repositories available to teachers both to share existing open data or to share their own data. If that fails, you can always use third party commercial online data sharing services, such as weTransfer or Dropbox.
Here's a list of data repositories
Creative Commons enables creators to share creative works legally by providing several copyright licenses and tools that creators may use to grant the public specific permissions on how to use their work. You need to familiarise yourself with the contents of each of the license deeds and legal codes.
This is a creative way explaining creative commons licenses.
Individual teachers that don't have access to an LMS can always use the power of social media and blogs to share their knowledge with a wider audience.
Here's a list of guides and strategies.
Learning Management Systems (LMS) are powerful systems that help education institutions manage their courses. Usually, the scale of these platforms are dedicated to big institutions. You probably will have to use whatever your institution uses.
The best LMSs
International Copyright legislation should be first and foremost considered as following the regulations we greatly contribute to a quality educational product. It is adopted differently in different countries.
This is an overview.
The relevant legislation covering copyright issues vary across countries. In Ukraine, for example, it mainly consists of two laws: the Civil Code of Ukraine (2003) and the Law of Ukraine On Copyright and Related Rights (1993) (the Law). The other significant source of copyright regulations is the Ukraine - European Union Association Agreement (2014).
More on the official document.
Because sometimes national regulations have vague rules, countries rely on institutional regulations that set up more individualized rules about how teachers can be open and share their knowledge.
This is the specific site used by Karlstad University to handle copyright and teaching.
Cloud computing in education is getting more and more significant. Due to its flexibility and cost-effectiveness it has already become a universal tool to deliver knowledge as well as acquire and master skills. Moreover, it can simplify, add value to and lower the cost of education transformations.
Key aspects of the education cloud.
Whether through an institution or through individual teachers, students driven by online teaching have many options to consume knowledge. However, these options usually are divided in how that knowledge is supported, with various combinations of free and paid-for knowledge.
Here's an interesting study about it.
Many online courses are free to audit but if you want to get a certificate or get access to examinations or even some contents, you will need to pay. But if your happy with just looking and can use skills earned without a certificate, this is for you.
What are the differences between audit (free) and verified (paid) courses?
If you need a certificate from the course, or your employer delivers coursers through any of the major platforms, you will have to pay for the course. You can buy just for one course or a couple of courses, linked together with a theme.
The Coursera Business Model – How Does Coursera Make Money?
If you want a full degree, its also possible through the major platforms, but to a much lower price compared to an on-campus degree. This includes programs like MBAs, machine learning programs, and computer science programs.
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