Paul Stacey

Open Educational Resources (OER) 101

for:Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)Implementing the Common Core Standards (ICCS)Pre-conference on Open Educational ResourcesSeattle, Wednesday, 15-Aug-2012

1. Larger strategic context of "open”

2. OER fundamental concepts

3. OER benefits

4. OER IP, copyright and licensing

Open Pedagogies

Open Access

Open Data

Open Practices

Open Govt & Open Policy

Open Access

US Research Works Act

Open Pedagogies

Massively Open Online Course - MOOC

2011 – 160,000 students, 190 countries

https://www.ai-class.com

http://www.udacity.com

http://www.edxonline.org/

Open Data

National Gov’tsStatesMunicipalities

http://data.gov.uk/

Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums

http://openglam.org/

Open Practices

http://www.jorum.ac.uk

OERu

Open Govt. & Open Policy

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

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

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

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/

OER IP, Copyright & Licensing

• 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

Core Concept

http://www.creativecommons.org

http://creativecommons.org

Open License

Creative Commons

OER – more than licenses

• 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

Fundamentals

• Open strategic big picture• Benefits of open• OER fundamental concepts• IP, copyright and licensing

Paul Stacey*

Senior Project Manager

Creative Commons

pstacey@creativecommons.org

Paul Stacey

Open Educational Resources (OER) 101

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