Collaborative Relational Database Software-as-a-Service as Authoring Tools for Online and Offline OERs: Using Airtable and Notion to Make Your Own Learning Management System

Abstract

In this presentation, I describe how specific collaboration, authentication, and sharing features of two popular, low-cost, relational database software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms, Airtable and Notion, can be used to create open educational resources (OERs) that are easily updatable, shareable, and repurposable. Not only do these SaaS platforms provide opportunities for student assessments to be closely align with course content, but they also afford course facilitators a way to quickly verify and monitor such content-assessment alignment. Using two examples of courses taught at the UP Open University, I additionally describe how SaaS relational database platforms facilitates the use of previous student outputs as learning material for subsequent iterations of courses and drives the continuous improvement of course design.