{"id":5523,"date":"2025-06-02T08:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/2025\/06\/02\/blog2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T08:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:30:23","slug":"blog2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/2025\/06\/02\/blog2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog#2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Through reading this week\u2019s materials, I have learned about the concepts and differences between OEP and OER:\u00a0OER (Open Educational Resources)\u00a0<\/strong>refers to teaching and learning materials that can be freely accessed, used, modified, and re-shared, such as open textbooks, videos, and courseware, to lower the cost of education and improve access; while OEP (Open Educational Practices)<\/strong>\u00a0involves the proactive use of these resources in teaching and learning and emphasizes collaboration, co-creation, and learner participation, promoting education from \u201copen content\u201d to \u201copen process\u201d.\u00a0OEP, <\/strong>on the other hand, actively utilizes these resources in teaching and learning, and emphasizes collaboration, co-creation, and learner participation, pushing education from \u201copen content\u201d to \u201copen process\u201d. The combination of the two makes education more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable.
\nThe role of teachers has shifted from \u201cresource providers\u201d to \u201clearning community builders.\u201d;<\/p>\n

This made me reflect on how I could give my students enough participation rights in my teaching in the future. Did I really respect the backgrounds and needs of different learners? OEP is not just an open-source platform, but a way of rethinking \u201cwho has the right to participate in education\u201d.
\nPromoting \u201copenness in education\u201d is not limited to technological tools, but also focuses on cultural diversity and social justice.<\/p>\n

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I chose to read carefully Friesen, N. (2009) \u201cOpen Educational Resources: New Possibilities for Change and Sustainability\u201d. The author suggests that while OER has brought about significant freedom of access to educational resources, its real potential lies not in the \u201cfree\u201d itself, but in how it can lead us to rethink the structures of education, power relations, and the ways in which knowledge is produced.<\/p>\n

In particular, Friesen emphasized that the success of OER is not dependent on how advanced the technology is, but whether it is rooted in educational practice and encourages collaboration, participation, and continuous improvement. This made me revisit my understanding of \u201copenness\u201d \u2013 not just the use of open source materials, but the creation of an educational ecosystem that can evolve and be transformed by learners.<\/p>\n

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Friesen, N. (2009). Open Educational Resources: New Possibilities for Change and Sustainability.\u00a0The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning<\/em>,\u00a010<\/em>(5). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.19173\/irrodl.v10i5.664<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through reading this week\u2019s materials, I have learned about the concepts and differences between OEP and OER:\u00a0OER (Open Educational Resources)\u00a0refers to teaching and learning materials that can be freely accessed, used, modified, and re-shared, such as open textbooks, videos, and… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci339\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}