This session will describe the development of an OER by collaborators in India and Canada. The original idea for this project arose out of a thought that, like common journalists, teachers and students are not capable of reporting, writing and analyzing the news information they want to share with the academic community.
The team engaged in a joint collaboration on an Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) project in 2021-22. The OE4BW project involved the creation and delivery of a MOOC in Educational Journalism. This then led to a collaboration by the three participants in the development of an open resource through the Pressbooks platform.
One of the goals of the project was to create a more accessible and interactive resource for educationists/academicians in educational journalism.
An additional goal of this presentation is to describe the best practices for selection of cross-cultural teams, digital tools, interactive multimedia and strategies for maintaining openness.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Describe the challenges involved in cross-cultural open education collaborations.
- Identify strategies for addressing challenges to maintaining downstream openness.
- Explore processes for identifying appropriate digital tools for open content development.
- Identify the skills needed to pursue cross-cultural open content creation projects.
- Gain insights into how to create effective cross-cultural teams for open educational projects.
