Open Educational eXtended Reality (OEXR): Why Now?
Start Date
18-3-2022 10:00 AM
End Date
18-3-2022 10:50 AM
Presentation Type
Presentation
Primary Theme
Technology
Secondary Theme
Technology
Description
With few exceptions, the diverse Open Educational Resource (OER) landscape has not included eXtended Reality (XR) which includes augmented, mixed, and virtual reality modalities. However, recent technological advances, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic have fast tracked XR adoption. This session offers foundational recommendations for embracing OER and XR together within the higher education community in the spirit of democratizing the technology and ensuring equitable access.
This session will provide Open Educational eXtended Reality (OEXR) examples and takeaways from San Diego State University (SDSU) including faculty partnerships, content creation and evaluation, and use of Creative Commons (CC) licensing to retain copyright while allowing different types of educational use without charge. These resources include an open platform to make OEXR virtual anatomy resources available to the 400,000+ students enrolled within the California State University system—and beyond! This platform will bring existing anatomy and physiology content together, and provide a library for multi-disciplinary content, including indigenous artifacts from the Kumeyaay Indigenous people and botany specimens endemic to San Diego.
Recommended Citation
Frazee, James P. PhD and Hauze, Sean PhD, "Open Educational eXtended Reality (OEXR): Why Now?" (2022). Open Educational Resources Conference. 3.
https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/oer_conference/2022/Schedule_March18/3
Open Educational eXtended Reality (OEXR): Why Now?
https://kean-edu.zoom.us/j/96220810391?pwd=M1lSZWx4bmZSZklYcmN0TDhhbkdzUT09
With few exceptions, the diverse Open Educational Resource (OER) landscape has not included eXtended Reality (XR) which includes augmented, mixed, and virtual reality modalities. However, recent technological advances, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic have fast tracked XR adoption. This session offers foundational recommendations for embracing OER and XR together within the higher education community in the spirit of democratizing the technology and ensuring equitable access.
This session will provide Open Educational eXtended Reality (OEXR) examples and takeaways from San Diego State University (SDSU) including faculty partnerships, content creation and evaluation, and use of Creative Commons (CC) licensing to retain copyright while allowing different types of educational use without charge. These resources include an open platform to make OEXR virtual anatomy resources available to the 400,000+ students enrolled within the California State University system—and beyond! This platform will bring existing anatomy and physiology content together, and provide a library for multi-disciplinary content, including indigenous artifacts from the Kumeyaay Indigenous people and botany specimens endemic to San Diego.