Open Educational Resources - Make Your Future summits - NCCE 2013
2. What are OER?
OER = open educational resources
Digital, free, and OPEN for anyone to use,
adapt, and redistribute
3. 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.
4. How is OER relevant to
education?
Suitable for “remixing”
Increases teacher professionalism
Increases equity
FREE
5. Remixing and the Common Core
We have a unique opportunity
Common Core + digital + open + teacher and
student innovation = a new era in curriculum
.
10. 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
11. 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
12. Thank you.
Karen Fasimpaur
karen@k12opened.com
First screen image credits:
Linux computer lab – Michael Surran
Linux penguin - Larry Ewing <lewing@isc.tamu.edu> with the GIMP
Books - Tizzie
Globe – NASA
Cloud background - Anca Mosoiu