An Open Educational Resource (OER) is a teaching, learning or research material that is in the public domain or distributed under an open licence, allowing it to be used, adapted and redistributed free of charge.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational approach that seeks to create flexible and accessible learning environments for all learners. It offers multiple means of representation, expression and participation, with the aim of catering for the diversity of learners’ abilities, interests and needs. It also promotes inclusive education.
So… what is REA-DUA Andalucía?
These two concepts have been masterfully brought together inREA-DUA Andalucía, a project of the Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Andalucía in which several groups of teachers coordinated by other teachers were set up and, as it should be, financially rewarded for their work.
The result is amazing! All the resources maintain the same graphic line and respond to the same pedagogical model based on the Universal Design for Learning.
- They start with a motivating task to ‘hook’ the learner, continue with activation situations to evoke their prior knowledge.
- The exploration activities promote ‘learning by thinking ’ and with the reflection activities the student synthesises what was discovered in the previous phase.
- What has been learned is transferred to new situations through specific tasks and finally concludes with an evaluation that brings the process to an end.
- The proposed activities are graded in order to be able to cater for diversity and so that everyone reaches a sufficient minimum.
REA + LearningML
During the project, OER were developed for the levels:
- Primary (Language, Mathematics, English and Robotics),
- Secondary (Computer Science and Robotics, Aerospace Research, Language and English) and
- and Baccalaureate (Digital Creation and Computational Thinking and Programming and Computing).
We are glad that in some of the OERs LearningML is used as part of the activities that help to work on the contents of the Learning Situation.
We do not know the reason why this beautiful and useful project has not had the diffusion it deserves, after the enormous effort invested and the magnificent result obtained(although we have our suspicions).
In any case, if you are a teacher, we highly recommend that you study them and take them to your classroom!!! Ah! and the best thing, as they are made with the authoring tool Exelearning you can always modify and adapt them to your liking to make them work better with your students.
Here you can download the .pdf of the project.
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