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“Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources released under an open license that permits their free use and repurposing by others.  OERs can be full courses, course materials, lesson plans, open textbooks, learning objects, videos, games, tests, software, or any other tool, material, or technique that supports access to knowledge.“

What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?

Source: SPARC: The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition http://sparc.arl.org/issues/oer

“Open Educational Resources (OER) provide a new model for disseminating knowledge that is designed to take full advantage of the digital environment.

Students can access OER online for zero cost, download and keep a copy, and print as many pages as they wish. 

Teachers can collect and tailor OER to perfectly suit their curriculum, and share their innovations with other educators. 

Entrepreneurs can build businesses around OER by offering products that add value, such as assessments, software or enhanced formats. 

Authors can disseminate their work to a worldwide audience while still receiving attribution.

OER can maximize the full benefit of the Internet to improve teaching, learning and access to education.”

A NEW EDUCATION MODEL FOR THE DIGITAL WORLD

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• Reuse: Content can be reused in its unaltered form.

• Revise: Content can be adapted, modified

or altered. • Remix: New content can be added to the

original or revised content to create something new.

• Redistribute: Copies of the content can be shared with others in its original, revised or remixed form.

The “4 Rs”of Open Ed Resources

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OERS CAN INCLUDE: Full courses (free but no college credit given). Open textbooks which can be added to, rearranged,

or otherwise adapted to a particular course E-books Lesson plans Videos Music Course materials Games Tests Software Anything that supports learning

LEVELS OF CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES

Public Domain Declaration (CC0): By using CC0, you waive all copyright and related rights to a work to the extent possible under the law. Attribution (BY): This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. 

Share Alike (SA): You can distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs the work.

No Derivative Works (ND): You can copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of this work, not derivative works based upon it.

Noncommercial (NC): You can copy, distribute, display and perform this work, but for noncommercial purposes only

See examples of works under various CC licenses:http://creativecommons.org/examples

License definitions from www.creativecommons.org

OPEN COURSES: UNIVERSITIESExamples:“MIT Open CourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.” http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

“Open Yale Courses  provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.” http://oyc.yale.edu/

Webcast.berkeley: University of California--Berkeley’s central service for online video and audio for students and learners around the globe.”http://webcast.berkeley.edu/

Open Learn from the UK’s Open University: Over 650 free courses, described as “excerpts” of the full courses taken by registered (tuition-paying) students.http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORSExamples:Open Course Library: “A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download.” Managed by the Washington State Board of Community & Technical Colleges. http://opencourselibrary.org/MERLOT II: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online Teaching:“MERLOT is a free and open peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services contributed and used by an international education community.” http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htmConnexions: “an educational content repository and a content management system optimized for the delivery of educational content…for all ages. A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute.” http://cnx.org/

OER Commons: Huge collection of OERs of all types for both K-12 and college-level courses. http://www.oercommons.org/

K-12 RESOURCESCurriki: “a nonprofit K-12 global community for teachers, students, and parents to create, share, and find free learning resources that enable true personalized learning. ”http://www.curriki.org/welcome/CK-12 Foundation “is a non-profit that creates and aggregates high quality, curated STEM content”. http://www.ck12.org/about/PBS Learning Media: “thousands of classroom-ready, curriculum-targeted digital resources...aligned to Common Core and national standards. Basic service is free for PreK-12 educators.” http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/Gooru Learning: “a free search engine for learning that makes it easy for teachers to discover educational content, organize it into learning playlists, and teach and share it with students to study.” http://www.goorulearning.org/#discoverSaylor K-12 (beta): “Free, Common Core-aligned courses for students, parents, and teachers in math, English language arts, and SAT prep. Saylor also offers college-level and professional development courses. http://www.saylor.org/Khan Academy: Primary, secondary and post-secondary content in math, science, economics, and some humanities. https://www.khanacademy.org/library

OPEN TEXTBOOKSOpenStax College: An initiative of Rice University providing free online textbooks developed and peer-reviewed by educators. http://openstaxcollege.org/

University of Minnesota Open Textbook Library: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources: http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/

The Global Text Project “publishes electronic texts for students in the developing world, and maintains a database of links to books for such students.” A joint project of the University of Georgia and the University of Denver. http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/books

CC LICENSED IMAGES, VIDEOS & MUSICFlickr Advanced Search: Be sure to scroll down to the bottom and click “Only search with Creative Commons licensed content.”http://www.flickr.com/search/advancedFotopedia: Click “advanced options” in the upper right, and select the level of license you need under “license”. http://www.fotopedia.com/search/photosOpen Clip Art Library: http://openclipart.org/Vimeo: Includes Creative Commons licensed videos. http://vimeo.com/creativecommonsInternet Archive: freely available videos including news footage, movies, cartoons, and more. https://archive.org/details/moviesJamendo: offers more than 350,000 free music tracks licensed under Creative Commons, all available for streaming and unlimited download without adshttp://www.jamendo.com/en/Find More at http://open4us.org/find-oer/Note: Google Advanced Search has an option to limit your search by license, but be aware that the license may pertain only to the text, while the image(s) on a page may be under copyright.

BOOKS & ARTICLESDirectory of Open Access Journals: Free access to articles from scientific and scholarly periodicals on a wide range of topics, in several languages.

Directory of Open Access Books: Freely accessible and downloadable academic books.

Wiley Open Access: A small collection of open access journals from Wiley Online Library.

Public Library of Science (PLOS): Open access scientific and medical research journals.

WHAT COULD YOU DO WITH OERS?

“Create” by Wes Peck is licensed under CC BY ND