The innovation du jour for teaching and learning, OERs are at their core of some of the largest grant-funding sources for new courses and course materials— including the Department of Labor's TAA grant which provides $2billion for community colleges and workforce development. What are OERs? What makes them unique? A phrase that was coined in 2002 at a UNESCO forum, OERs are defined as “educational resources—lesson plans, quizzes, syllabi, instructional modules, simulations, etc.—that are freely-available for use, reuse, adaptation, and sharing.” Why should faculty and educational technologists care?
This workshop is designed for faculty and educational technologists using existing and developing new OERs, but elements will be useful for administrators who have faculty and staff who are using or developing OERs. Attend this workshop to: understand the OER landscape; learn how to find, critically evaluate and use OERs developed by others; identify and select open educational resources for use in discipline-specific courses; understand Creative Commons licenses; learn what resources exist for developing and/or adopting OERs; and learn about the issues involved in adopting OERs and localizing them.
Presented by Brandon Muramatsu and Jean Runyon, at Elearning 2012 preconference workshop on February 18, 2012
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Demystifying Open Educational Resources
1. 1
DEMYSTIFYING OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
Brandon Muramatsu and Jean Runyon
Citation: Muramatsu, B., & Runyon, J. (2012, February). Demystifying open educational resources. Preconference
workshop at eLearning 2012, Long Beach, CA.
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2. Outline
2
Howdy y’all
By the end of the workshop…
Thinking about OERs differently
What’s the big deal about OERs?
The mechanics of OER
An OER walks into a bar…
Set them freeee…
They’re just looking for a good home
Wrapup
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3. 3 Howdy Y’All
Introductions and Expectations
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4. Expectations
4
I know nothing, I expect to learn a lot
Finding current material (MBA in Sustainability)
Beg, borrow, steal great ideas
Started exploring, felt like dove into ocean, so much out
there—how to control it, where is the quality
Developing workshops to help faculty understand some of the
newer things to help engage students
How to find OERs
Leverage open resources
Liberal arts degree—resources to support
Leverage OERs—try not to recreate the wheel, quality for
accreditation and transferability
Faculty culture is to buy courses, find more than what she
found on her own
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5. 5 By the end of the workshop…
Outcomes
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6. Workshop Outcomes
6
Develop a working definition of OERs
Understand the implications and importance of
OERs
Take it with you…
How will you adopt, produce, or encourage the
use of OERs?
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7. 7 Thinking about OERs differently
What are OERs?
Interactive Exercise
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8. How do you define
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“Open Educational Resources”?
Something puts out in the “open”
Not contained, not password protected
Interoperable, use in a number of systems
Open = “not copyrighted”?
Creative Commons
Easy to find, reusable learning objects
Free or low cost
Available
Digital, assumed to be online
Idea generating
Modifiable
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9. OER: l’innovation du jour?
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What are Open Educational Resources?
We’re going to talk about OER writ large.
We’re not going to bore you with definitions!
(Well, we’ll try!)
We’re not going to get all religious about
OERs!
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10. OER: l’innovation du jour?
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We’d like you to think about OER as an
entrée to a conversation
A conversation about teaching, crafting
courses, & sharing course materials
A conversation about collaborating with peers
and even students
This doesn’t sound like it’s specific to OERs
does it?
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11. Poll: Do you (or your faculty)…
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Talk about courses with peers?
Borrow course materials, teaching
techniques, sources?
Share materials back with your peers?
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12. OER is all of these things!
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At it’s heart, OER is about doing these
sorts of things!
And, it’s about encouraging sharing of
materials and practices…
And, it’s clearly communicating what
others are allowed to do with the
materials…
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13. Ok, let’s get a bit more formal
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Photo: Flickr @mringlein, cc-by-nc-nd
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14. OER: A Definition
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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. Open educational
resources include full courses, course
materials, modules, textbooks, streaming
videos, tests, software, and any other
tools, materials, or techniques used to support
access to knowledge.
Atkins, Daniel E., John Seely Brown, Allen L. Hammond. (2007-02). “A Review of Open Educational Resources
(OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities.” Menlo Park, CA: The William and Flora
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Hewlett
15. U.S. Department of Education
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Open Educational Resources (OER) are
an important element of an infrastructure
for learning.
Department of Education. (2010). National Education Technology Plan: Transforming American Education:
Learning Powered by Technology. http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010/open-educational-resources
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16. OERs in the Modern Era
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“Open Educational
“Open Content” Resources” Open University OpenCourseWare Open Course Library
David Wiley Coined By UNESCO OpenLearn Consortium MITx
1998 2002 2006 2008 2011
2001 2000s 2007 2009
Wikipedia William and Flora Hewlett Cape Town Open High School of Utah
Creative Commons Foundation Declaration American Graduation Initiative
MIT OpenCourseWare Support & $2B in funding
University of the People
Unless otherwise specified, this work WikiEducator. (2012). OER Timeline. http://wikieducator.org/OER_timeline
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17. OERs are a part of Open
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Education
OERs focus on resources
They have been getting a lot of attention at the
federal and state levels
They are primarily course materials and open
textbooks
Open Education is the bigger concept
Sharing, availability and access
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18. 18 What’s the big deal about OERs?
Importance of Open Educational Resources
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19. Importance of OERs
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Cost / cost savings
Flexibility: mix and match, select
pieces, you’re in control
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21. 21 The mechanics of OERs
Understanding licenses
Demonstration
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22. Poll: When borrowing
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resources…
Do you look at the license or terms of
use?
Do you provide attribution for those
resources?
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23. What are you allowed to do?
What might you allow others?
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Instead of “All Rights Reserved”
Can someone else use the materials?
Can someone build upon or modify the
materials?
Can they use those materials commercially?
Do they have to share any materials they
develop the same way the materials were
originally shared?
Do these sound familiar?
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24. Creative Commons: Enabling
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OER
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25. creativecommons.org
Creative Commons Licenses
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A “standard” way providing permissions to your work
The easiest way of communicating your resource is
“open”
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26. Applying a license to this
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presentation
Ok, so how do I do it?
Select a license
Add Creative Commons logo to the title slide
Add a license statement to the title slide (and
notes field)
Add an attribution statement
Add metadata to Presentation properties
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27. Creative Commons: Pick a
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License
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28. Creative Commons: Attribution
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30. 30 An OER walks into a bar…
Finding and Recognizing OERs
Demonstration / Interactive Exercise
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31. Finding OERs
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How do you find out about them?
Talking to peers in your department?
Through ITC? Other professional
organizations?
Looking through digital repositories?
Google searches?
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32. Recognizing OERs: Examples
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Flickr (www.flickr.com)
MIT OpenCourseWare (ocw.mit.edu)
MERLOT (www.merlot.org)
OER Commons (www.oercommons.org)
Open Course Library
(www.opencourselibrary.org)
Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)
Crowd choice (what will it be?)
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33. Pattern
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1. Check out the site
2. Search for resources
3. Look at detailed results
4. Review the resource itself
5. Is it an OER?
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34. Have you used Flickr?
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Did you know that Flickr allows photo
sharers to indicate a license?
And that you can search for Creative
Commons licensed photos?
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35. Searching for Openly Licensed
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Photos at Flickr
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36. Flickr Search Results
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37. CC-Licensed Math Photo
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38. MIT OpenCourseWare
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ocw.mit.edu
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40. OER Commons
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www.oercommons.org
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41. Open Course Library
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www.opencourselibrary.org
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42. Wikipedia
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www.wikipedia.org
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43. Audience Choice?
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44. Examples of OERs
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Flickr (www.flickr.com)
Some CC-licensed, find via Advanced Search
MIT Open CourseWare (ocw.mit.edu)
One of the granddaddy’s of OERs, CC-by-nc-sa
MERLOT (www.merlot.org)
Wide range of resources, complex licensing
OER Commons (www.oercommons.org)
Wide range of resources, nearly all CC-licensed
Open Course Library (www.opencourselibrary.org)
Open Textbooks, 42 published, more coming, CC-by
Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)
Probably the biggest OER, support for attribution
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45. Discussion Questions
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What makes a site an OER?
Did any of the sites surprise you?
What features make some sites better than
others?
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46. OER Smörgåsbord
OER as a conversation:
Sharing, access, materials, practice
OER as a continuum
Individual Standalone Course Materials Whole Courses
Images Modules Open Textbooks
Flickr Open Course Library
OpenLearn Saylor
B2S Courses
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47. Selected additional resources
Bridge to Success (shameless plug), b2s.aacc.edu
CK-12, www.ck12.org
College Open Textbooks, www.collegeopentextbooks.org
Community College Consortium for Open Educational
Resources, www.oerconsortium.org
Flat World Knowledge, www.flatworldknowledge.com
Kaleidoscope Project, www.project-kaleidoscope.org
Open High School of Utah, ocw.openhighschool.org
Open University OpenLearn, www.open.edu/openlearn
P2PU, www.p2pu.org
Saylor Foundation, www.saylor.org
WikiEducator, wikieducator.org
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48. 48 Set them freeee…
Producing OERs
Demonstration
Photo: Patrick McAndrew, cc-by
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49. Let’s make an OER
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Apply license, citation, metadata
Share the presentation via Slideshare
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50. Slideshare.net
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51. 51
They’re just looking for a good
home…
Adopting OERs
Interactive Exercise
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52. Your turn to adopt an OER
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From a course you teach, or one that you’ve
helped a faculty member with…
What’s an area for which a learning resource
might help explain something, improve student
understanding, etc.?
Look for a resource that’s an OER that might
meet your needs.
Describe the problem and the OER to the
workshop.
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53. 53 Wrap-Up
Revisiting Outcomes
Interactive Exercise
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54. Outline Revisited
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By the end of the workshop…
Thinking about OERs differently
What’s the big deal about OERs?
The mechanics of OER
An OER walks into a bar…
Set them freeee…
They’re just looking for a good home
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55. Workshop Outcomes
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Develop a working definition of OERs
Understand the implications and importance of
OERs
Take it with you… How will you
adopt, produce, or encourage the use of
OERs?
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56. Discussion of OERs
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It *is* an ocean!
Conversations: more than
materials, opportunities for sharing and
learning together
Parameters under which you have to work, it’s
a system
This should be part of what we do when we
work with faculty to publish courses
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57. Why are OERs Important?
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Because…???
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58. What are some of the
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challenges?
Accreditation issues: faculty responsible for
creating materials, and teaching and ensuring
student learning outcomes
Document success, have metrics
Make sure we serve our students
Using modern tools and techniques ->
transform faculty practices? Brown-bag
lunches, faculty development
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59. Contact Us
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Brandon Muramatsu, MIT Jean Runyon, AACC
mura@mit.edu jmrunyon@aacc.ed
@bmuramatsu u
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Editor's Notes
Citation: Muramatsu, B., & Runyon, J. (2012, February). Demystifying open educational resources. Preconference workshop at eLearning 2012, Long Beach, CA.Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Some of the largest collections of OERs (aka Creative Commons licensed resources)
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