Development of digital Open Educational Resource for metrology education

Abstract

Open Educational Resources (OER) designates teaching, learning and investigation materials in any supports, digital or others, located either within the public domain or disclosed under an open license that allows access, use, adaptation and redistribution, free of charge, by third parties with few or no restriction. The general paper purpose is to submit a digital OER proposal, an educational resource called “Introduction to Metrology”, planned for a five steps life cycle production scheme: to find, to create, to adapt, to share, to use. The work applies a qualitative approach, with the survey of all educational resources identified in the International Bank of Educational Objects (BIOE), from the research of terms “metrology”, “measurement” and “measurement unit” as keywords; besides the survey of materials identified on INMETRO’s website. Five videos-type resources identified in BIOE and one text in INMETRO’s website were strategies to deliver contents. Moreover, the production of four unpublished exercises blocks with software Hot Potatoes® and CMapTools®. OER is available as a course inside Moodle®. STEM Education needs enrichment with metrological concepts to establish a common and standardized language. OER could support metrology education, therefore propose didactic sequences and activities are the way to encourage its use in the classroom.