{"id":398,"date":"2015-03-31T14:47:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T14:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verkkolehdet.jamk.fi\/welhojaverkossa\/?p=398"},"modified":"2017-05-09T10:01:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T10:01:40","slug":"how-to-locate-the-high-quality-digital-learning-materials-after-shanks-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verkkolehdet.jamk.fi\/welhojaverkossa\/archives\/398","title":{"rendered":"How to locate the high-quality digital learning materials after Shank\u2019s advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dream Team (a learning circle in International teacher education 2013-12014 in Teacher Education College in Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4) is an international group of students studying to achieve the qualification of a vocational teacher.<\/em><\/p>\n

Arja Kunnela<\/em>
\nInternational Group 13 – 14<\/em>
\nTeacher Education College<\/em>
\nJAMK University of Applied Sciences<\/em><\/p>\n

The most significant barrier<\/strong> to wider adoption of OER remains a faculty perception of the time and effort required to find and evaluate it <\/strong>according Babson Survey Research Group\u2019s survey in U.S. Higher education Opening the Curriculum: Open Education Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2014<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by I. Allen & J. Seaman (Allen & Seaman 2014, 2). So this means we need advice how to find<\/strong> proper open educational resources easily<\/strong> in order to make most of them.<\/p>\n

John D. Shank started to develop instructions how to find and locate different types of open educational materials that are available for teaching. Together with Steven J. Bell they wrote a book Academic librarianship by design: a blended librarian\u2019s guide to the tools and techniques<\/a> in 2007. They introduced a DLM (Digital Learning Materials) search criteria steps. Already there were steps for What DLMs are sought<\/strong> to 1) determine subject(s) or discipline(s), 2) determine keyword(s), 3) Desired Type(s) 4) Desired Format and 5) Expected Audience and for Where DLMs are sought<\/strong> to 1) Determine Repository \/ Referitory 2) Determine Educational Broadcaster\u2019s website 3) Desired Government\u2019s website 4) Desired Museum\u2019s website or 5) Last option: General Search engine(s). (Bell & Shank 2007, 125)<\/p>\n

In his newest book Interactive Open Educational Resources: a guide to Finding, Choosing, and Using What\u2019s Out there to transform College Teaching<\/a> (Wiley 2014) John D. Shank presents his search taxonomy by writing about Discovery process: The art of Discovering ILMs (Interactive Learning Materials ) and describes it just as much art as science (Shank 2014, 21).<\/p>\n

To find a good ILM need you to first think and define what<\/strong> you are \u00a0looking for. The \u201cWhat\u201d of the ILM in Shank\u2019s Search Taxonomy<\/strong>:<\/p>\n