Tech Summit Dec. 2011

1. Going Beyond the
Library:
Enhancing Your Course Content with
Open Educational Resources

2. Library Resources are 1 Piece…
www.nvcc.edu/library

3. What are Open Educational
Resources?
• “OER are teaching, learning and research
resources that reside in the public domain or
have been released under an intellectual
property license that permits their free use or
re-purposing by others.”
– The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

4. A Little
History… 1999
CA State
2001 University University
University of OK State
System of NC
GA System Regents for
System
Higher Ed
Andrew W. Hewlett
Mellon Foundation
MIT
Foundation

5. Open
Course
Ware
Learning
Modules
Objects
OER
Tutorials Textbooks
Open Streaming
Journals Videos

6. Find the examples used today
and more at:
http://bit.ly/ELIOERforFaculty

7. Examples…
• MERLOT
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• The Saylor Foundation – OpenCourseWare
• iTunes U
• Khan Academy

8. Creative Commons Licensing
“To achieve the vision of universal
access, someone needed to provide a
free, public, and standardized infrastructure
that creates a balance between the reality of
the Internet and the reality of copyright laws.
That someone is Creative Commons.”
- Creative Commons Website
http://creativecommons.org/licenses

9. Questions/Comme
nts?
Natalie Clewell
nclewell@nvcc.edu