1. advancing formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
Discovering High-Quality
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Una Daly
Community College Outreach Manager
OCW Consortium
July 20, 2012
2. Welcome
Please introduce yourself, what you
teach, and your interest in OER
– Una Daly, facilitator
• Community College Outreach Manager at
the OCW Consortium
3. Agenda
• Open Education Movement
• What is OER?
• The Power of OER for Learning
• Finding OER with OER Commons
• Other Sources of OER
• Usage considerations
4. Community Colleges & OER
• Enhance teaching & learning
• Expand access to education
• Join global open education
Dr. Martha Kanter movement
U.S. Undersecretary of
Education (2009-12)
Funded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
5. Open Courseware Mission
“Advance formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-
quality education materials organized as courses.”
Over 250 institutions, 46 Countries,
18,000 Courses, 4000 Translated
6. What are Open Educational
Resources?
U.S. Dept. of Education
– 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 repurposing by others.
cc-by donkyhotey/flickr
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7. Examples
Includes –
• Course materials
• Lesson Plans
• Modules or lessons
• Open CourseWare (OCW)
• Open textbooks
• Videos
• Images
• Tests
• Software
• Any other tools, materials, or techniques used
to support ready access to knowledge
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8. Characteristics of OER
• Digital
– Easily modified
– free distribution
• Open License
– Reuse, Revise, Remix,
Redistribute
• Low cost
– Lowers barriers to education
9. What is an Open License?
• Free: Free to access online, free to print
• Open: Shared, usable and re-usable: licensing that is less
restrictive than standard copyright
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10. Creative Commons licensing
• Works with existing copyright law
• Promotes sharing
• Internationally recognized
• Author/creator can specify re-uses
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11. Finding OER
• OER Repositories
– Content is located at repository
• OER Referatories
– Links to content contained in repositories
12. How to Search in OER Commons
Step 1: Go to http://oercommons.org
Step 2: Click on Advanced Search
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13. How to Search in OER Commons
Step 3: Type in Keywords for what you
teach
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14. How to Search in OER Commons
Step 4: Using Additional Search Criteria
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15. How to Search in OER Commons
Step 5:
Grade Level
Subject
Mar
Media Format
Material Type
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16. 10 minute : Activity
• Find and select resources for your
classroom
http://oercommons.org/oer
17. Evaluating OER
• R1: Degree of Alignment to Standards
• R2: Quality of Explanation of the Subject Matter
• R3: Utility of Materials Designed to Support
Teaching
• R4: Quality of Assessment
• R5: Quality of Technological Interactivity
• R6: Quality of Instructional Tasks and Practice
Exercises
• R7: Opportunities for Deeper Learning
• R8: Assurance of Accessibility
Achieve.org
19. K-12 OER Repositories
• Curriki
• CK-12
• PhET Interactive Simulations
• Connexions
• Khan Academy
• Open High School of Utah
Creatiive Commons Wiki
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Case_Studies/United_States
21. How to Make Best Use of OER
• Enhance existing materials with OER
• Enhance an existing OER
– E.g. Translations, Images, etc.
• Replace existing materials with OER
• Invite students to generate OER
cc-by-nc-ndeslenkphoto
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22. Customize, Remix, and Organize
–Interoperability
–Accessibility
–License type
–Cultural relevance
–Translations
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23. Why Customize and Remix?
• Adapt the material to make it more accessible for
students with disabilities
• Insert cultural specific references to it easier to
understand
• Translate it into another language
• Correct any errors or inaccuracies
• Keep the OER up to date by adding recent discoveries
• Insert more media or links to other resources
• Adapt it for a different grade level
• Insert a different point of view to that originally given in
the material
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24. Making OER Sustainable
• Openly license your own work
• Contribute your work to OER
repositories
• Mentor others in use of OERs
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25. Thank you for attending!
Contact Information
Una Daly unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org
26. Photo credits:
Share
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4424154829/in/photostream/
IMG_4591 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/4700979984/ cc-by-sa
La belle tzigane http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/21063837 cc-by-sa
Asian Library Interior 5 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubclibrary/453351638/ cc-by-nc-sa
Petruhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/23724427/ cc-by-nc-sa
Opensourcewayshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4371000710/ cc-by-sa
Open Educational Resources: One-Day workshop on the use, re-use and re-purpose of OER by the Commonwealth of Learning is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.