What are OER?

OER = open educational resources Digital, free, and OPEN for anyone to use,

adapt, and redistribute

Why OER?

Differentiating instruction is essential to improving education.

Textbooks are not the best tool for this. Technology coupled with high quality content is. Teachers and students need high quality

resources that they can use legally to build upon.

Teacher and student innovation is key. Sharing is good.

How is OER relevant to education?

Suitable for “remixing” Increases teacher professionalism Increases equity FREE

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Remixing and the Common Core

We have a unique opportunity

Common Core + digital + open + teacher and student innovation = a new era in curriculum

Traditional copyright -

all rights reserved

Public domain - unrestricted

use

Traditional copyright -

all rights reserved

Public domain - unrestricted

use

Copyright with open licenses -

some rights reserved

Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪

No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)

Recommended for education:

CC BY

http://content.k12opened.com

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How to Find OER

1. If you know what you’re looking for, go directly to the best source(s).

2. OER Commons search

3. Creative Commons search

4. Advanced Google Search

5. …and more

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How You Can Open License Your Own Work

Just write “licensed under Creative Commons CC BY” on the work

Use the Creative Commons “Choose a License” tool Supplies license artwork Optional code you can put on a web site to be

accessed by open search engines

Thank you.

Karen Fasimpaur

karen@k12opened.com

@kfasimpaur

#oer

First screen image credits:

Linux computer lab – Michael SurranLinux penguin - Larry Ewing <lewing@isc.tamu.edu> with the GIMPBooks - TizzieGlobe – NASACloud background - Anca Mosoiu

Washington OER Project2013 NCCE Conference – Leadership SummitsFebruary 27, 2013

Barbara SootsOER Program ManagerOffice of Superintendent of Public InstructionDigital Learning Departmentbarbara.soots@k12.wa.us

OER may be used as anentire course, full curricular

units, lesson plan components, supplemental material, or multimedia building blocks

for creating new works.

lCC BY-SA Bruce Peru Brainstorming by jeferonix http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreywarren/174755307/in/photostream

Conditions are ripe to explore the use ofOpen Educational Resources

Districts spend $5.5 billion a year in instructional content.However, many students are still using textbooks7 to 10 years old…

Source: Out of Print: Reimagining the K-12 Textbook in a Digital Age

CC BY-SA Money by 401(K) 2012 http://www.flickr.com/photos/68751915@N05/6551534889

In 2012, Washington passed a bill directing OSPI to identify a library of openly licensed courseware

OSPI will suggest OER courseware to school districts that are less expensive , more current, and aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

Many states have existing OER repositories…

CC BY-SA Confused by CollegeDegrees360 http://www.flickr.com/photos/83633410@N07/7658298768

1. Creation of a review process for OER material useful to districts and sustainable over time

2. Development of a vetted list of full-curriculum OER

3. OER awareness campaign directed toward district curriculum adopter decision-makers

WA OER ProjectPhase 1

Important•OSPI is providing review of standards alignment and identification of potential resources – not an adoption mandate

•All materials OSPI builds, as part of this project, will be CC licensed

Tools to Evaluate Quality

Publisher’s Criteria

Tri-State/EQuIP Rubrics

OER Rubrics

Rubric OptionsAchieve OER Rubrics

Evaluate individual OER “building block” assets Any combination of 8 rubrics may be used

Tri-State Quality Review Rubric

Evaluate complete unit/lesson Would not capture some of the richness of smaller stand-alone OER assets never created to address all the rubric dimensions of a full lesson

CCSS Publisher’s CriteriaRubric is written in broader strokes better to evaluate full curriculum and assess CCSS instructional shifts.

IndividualAsset

Unit /Lesson Plan

Full Curriculum

OER Project Website

http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer

Website: http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer

Twitter: waOSPI_OER

Email: barbara.soots@k12.wa.us

Materials Review Information:http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer/review.php

Please fill out our OER Landscape Survey!http://bit.ly/PpyqtL

Stay involved with the OER Project