1. Open Educational Resources
Monroe Community College
Online Learning Day
June 20th, 2013
Kathleen Stone
Coordinator of Curriculum and Instructional Design/Course Conversion Manager
Empire State College
Center for Distance Learning
Kathleen.Stone@esc.edu
Twitter: @KathleenAStone
Gmail: Kathleen.A.Stone@gmail.com
3. Open vs. Free
• Free
▫ No financial exchange for the
product or service.
▫ Copyright law still applies.
• How is “open” different?
▫ Open includes free as in no
charge AND free as in
freedom to:
reuse
revise
remix
redistribute
Image on WikiEducator by Recyclethis CC-BY
At its core it is a
Philosophy – a way of
looking at how we
create knowledge and
move forward as a
society.
4. Creative Commons
• In order to easily facilitate the 4 R's, there needs
to be a common language that creators can
use to convey their wishes for how their works
can be used.
• Does not take away copyright from the owner –
provides you with “permission” without
having to ask for it
5. Creative Common Licenses
• CC = Creative Commons
• BY = Attribution
• SA = Share Alike
• NC = Noncommercial
• ND = No Derivatives
License Abbreviations
11. Video
YouTube
• No CC search
• Does have CC-BY license option
• Has captioning/transcript capabilities
• Edit in YouTube
12. Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
c-MOOC's X-MOOC
• Radically different idea about
how people learn in a digitally
connected and networked
society.
• It's all about the learners and
connections not the content!
• Siemens and Downes- 2008
Connectivism and Connective
Knowledge
http://youtu.be/eW3gMGqcZQc
• Coursera
• Udacity
• edX
• Focus is on the content - uses
an LMS, automated feedback
and exams.
http://youtu.be/601pU_Oib7o