Open Education Resources (OERs) Competition – Learn to Learn

To further enhance students’ learning experiences, COMP organised an “Open Education Resources (OERs) Competition – Learn to Learn” from January to June 2020. There are many public domain e-learning materials and OERs such as short videos and websites available online, thus this competition consisted of two parts: Suggesting OERs and Creating OERs, to encourage students to search for and create good OERs.

Students first identified a specific learning topic, suggested a good OER from the Internet and provided a learning reflection by indicating what they have learned and why the OER was useful. In phase 2, students created an OER based on their proposed topics. They were required to prepare some learning materials including presentation slides, an animation or a video to explain their topics and then make use of them to educate others as an OER. Shortlisted students were invited to give a presentation in the final assessment.

“After the OER competition, I treasure the value of personifying abstract concepts,” said Miss Isabel Madeleine Kemp, the First Prize winner of Creating OER. “An intuitive and metaphorical explanation speaks for itself, intimidating computing concepts would dissolve into understandable knowledge, even in the eyes of a non-expertise.”

 “This OER competition encouraged me to take the initiative in learning. I discovered more useful OERs which were helpful for my study and I would like to learn more after joining this contest,” shared Miss Cheuk Lam Leung, the Second Prize winner of Creating OER and Suggesting OER.

The competition enabled students to be more responsive to the advancement in computing and its impact. It also provided them with the opportunities to apply the relevant computing tools and software, and successfully instilled their desire and ability to ‘learn to learn’.