Title: Activity 3.2 - OER Adaptation
Course: Working with Open Educational Resources (OERs) > Section: Topic 3: Mixing, Adapting, and Reusing OERs

Aim: To familiarize yourself with adapting an OER

Motivation: To experience the planning stage of adapting an OER for your own repurposes.

Tools: YouTube; Assignment file upload

Task: Select an OER found on any OER repositories and adapt it by following procedures

Resources:

- ‘Creating OER and Combining Licenses Part 2’ The OG Repository (2012)
- Common OER websites such as http://www.oerafrica.org,  http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php and other repositories of OERs

What:

- Watch the video (Part 2) to discover how Creative Commons licenses may be combined when adapting OERs in practice. (4 min 56 secs)
- Select an OER of interest to you from the repository accessed and use it to plan an adaptation. See more on licensing in topic 2

How:

- Access Part 2 of the video on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6RR29O4Rlo
- If you have difficulty viewing the video, please contact your local IT support for assistance.
- Take note of the complexities of adapting OER with different licenses.
- Then identify the OER that you plan to adapt, taking good note of the license permissions and limitations. .Develop a plan to adapt the OER, including the details regarding:
  - Title, topic, and format of the OER.
  - Who is your target audience for the adaptation
  - What parts of it you are going to use
  - What parts you are going to adapt
  - What parts you are NOT going to use.
  - Are the permissions enabled for you to do as you plan?
  - Where and HOW are you going to use the adapted resource?
- Upload the file containing your detailed plan via the ‘Submit assignment’ button.

Duration: 90 minutes

Feedback: Your facilitator will provide you with individual feedback.