The document provides an overview of Open Educational Resources (OER) including:
1. The strategic context and benefits of open educational practices and resources.
2. Key concepts of OER such as freely available learning materials that can be reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed under open licenses.
3. How OER lower costs, increase access to education, and promote innovation through collaboration. Intellectual property, copyright, and the role of Creative Commons licensing in making educational resources open is also discussed.
1. Paul Stacey
Open Educational Resources (OER) 101
for: 1. Larger strategic context of "open”
Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) 2. OER fundamental concepts
Implementing the Common Core Standards (ICCS)
Pre-conference on Open Educational Resources 3. OER benefits
Seattle, Wednesday, 15-Aug-2012 4. OER IP, copyright and licensing
2. Open Access
Open Pedagogies
Open Data
Open Practices
Open Govt & Open Policy
14. Promote creative and
innovative activities, which
will deliver social and
economic benefits.
Make government more
transparent and open in its
activities, ensuring that the
public are better informed
about the work of the
government and the public
sector.
Enable more civic and
democratic engagement
through social enterprise and
voluntary and community
activities.
http://creativecommons.org/government
15. Common Attributes of Open
• Free – public funding results in a public good
• Access & use is explicitly expressed upfront – not
dependent on access copyright, payment of fees,
proprietary owner permission
• Easily & quickly adapted
• Customization & enhancements don't require large
investments
• Errors, improvements, & feature requests are openly
shared & managed
• Development, distribution & use is
community/consortia based
• Sustainability relies on sharing - resources,
development, hosting & support
• Users are developers
16.
17. OER are teaching, learning, and research
resources that reside in the public domain or
have been released under an open license that
permits their free use and re-purposing by
others.
Open educational resources include full courses
and supplemental resources such as textbooks,
images, videos, animations, simulations,
assessments, …
Core Concept
OER are learning materials that are freely
available under a license that you to:
•Reuse
•Revise
•Remixe
•Redistribute
18. OER Benefits
• increase access to education
• generate cost savings
• reduce teacher/faculty preparation time
• enhance quality
• accelerate learning
• generate innovation through collaboration
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by paul goyette: flickr.com/photos/pgoyette/2819175465/
19. OER IP, Copyright & Licensing
Core Concept
• Know who the IP copyright owner is (state, school
district, teacher, student, …)
• IP/copyright owner puts Creative Commons licenses
on educational materials to make them into OER
23. OER – more than licenses
Fundamentals
• Open policy
• Open practices – national, states, districts, schools,
teachers, students, …
• Finding & evaluating OER
• Remixing & publishing your own OER
• Instructional design and pedagogical impact
• Creative Commons licenses
• Quality – Technical
– Layout & visual design
– Open file formats
– Open course formats
– Meta data
• Assessment
24. Paul Stacey
Open Educational Resources (OER) 101
• Open strategic big picture
• Benefits of open
• OER fundamental concepts
• IP, copyright and licensing
Paul Stacey*
Senior Project Manager
Creative Commons
pstacey@creativecommons.org
* 0941176 B.C. Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Creative Commons
25. Please attribute Creative Commons with a link to
creativecommons.org
Creative Commons and the double C in a circle are registered trademarks of
Creative Commons in the United States and other countries. Third party
marks and brands are the property of their respective holders.
Notas do Editor
And that’s pretty much all I have for today. I know that was a lot of information, so I’m open to questions, and you can also email me later if you remember a questions later.