2013 TICL presentation on OER, Creative Commons, and Nancy's Pearl Trees of resources.

2. http://slideshare.net/opencontent/
http://www.k12opened.com/about
David Wiley
Instructional Psychology &
Technology
Brigham Young University
#VSS2010 Workshop on Open
Educational Resources
Openness: Arguments &
Examples
Karen Fasimpaur
karen@k12opened.com
Open Content: Share, Remix,
Learn
ANOTHER ARROW FOR YOUR QUIVER

3. Why Be Open?

Knowledge should be accessible

Education improves knowledge

Education is sharing

Sharing is good

Continuous Improvement

Economics- The $5.00 Textbook

A Common Good- Better Together

4. Today’s Session
Why Open Educational Resources
Using Creative Commons
OER Sites & Resources
Iowa’s Opportunity with AEAPDOnline /
AEAK12Online

5. Assumptions About OER

Personalization and Differentiating instruction is
essential to improving education

Textbooks are not a good tool for this

Technology coupled with high quality content is

Teachers need high quality resources that they
can use legally to build curriculum, interactive
lessons, podcasts, multimedia presentations,
etc.

6. Assumptions About OER

But wait a minute…
http://todaysmeet.com/OERIA1to1

7. What is OER?
Open Educational Resources (OER)
are:

Digital, free, and OPEN for anyone to use,
adapt, and redistribute

Tools, content, and implementation
resources

For teachers, students, and lifelong learners

8. 4R Permissions

Reuse- copy verbatim

Revise- adapt and edit

Remix- combine with others

Redistribute- share with others

9. How is OER relevant to
education?

Suitable for “remixing” for differentiation

Suitable for “revising” for continuous
improvement

Brings equity

FREE

10. How is OER relevant to
Iowa education?
If…
…we are all trying to
address Iowa/Common
Core
…we are also all trying to
create more digital
learning experiences for
our students
>share-remix-improve<

11. Traditional
copyright -
all rights
reserved
Public domain -
unrestricted
use

12. Traditional
copyright -
all rights
reserved
Public domain -
unrestricted
use
Copyright with
open licenses -
some rights
reserved
“Give without giving away.”

13. Traditional
copyright
LIMITS
Internet
ENABLES
OER
ALLOWS

14. Non-commercial (NC) ▪ No derivatives (ND)
▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA) ▪ Attribution (BY)
Recommended for education:
CC BY

15. Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/
− CC BY – You can use however you want; just cite
the source.
− CC BY SA – You can use however you want, but
you must cite the source AND license your work
under a sharing license.
− CC BY NC – You can use only if it is
noncommercial (you can’t charge $); cite the
source.
− CC BY ND – You can use the work but you can’t
change it or put it into a bigger work; also cite the

16. Citing Sources

ALWAYS cite sources

Can be under the image or at the end in credits

Screen names are ok

(optional) Include source URL

17. Free to Copy, Distribute, Edit
We can share as never before
With OER

18. Free Copy, Distribute, Edit
We can educate as never before

19. How is OER relevant to
Iowa education?
If…
…we are all trying to
address Iowa/Common
Core & create more
digital learning
experiences for our
students
>share-remix-improve<
EFFICIENT

20. To Speed Education Innovation
Can we increase quality and decrease cost
of content creation/acquisition?

21. Let’s Have a Look
OER
Nancy’s OER PearlTrees
Twitter:
OER: http://pear.ly/b-CWr via
@pearltrees #resources
#blendedlearning #iablended

22. .
How You Can Open License
Your Own Work

Just write “licensed under Creative Commons
CC BY” on the work

Use the Creative Commons “
License Your Work” tool
− Will provide you with artwork
− Optional code you can put on a web site to be
accessed by open search engines

23. How is OER relevant to
Iowa education?
If…

Didn’t we agree it would
be more efficient,
effective and
innovations would
occur faster if we
shared in this work?
>share-remix-improve<
TOGETHER

24. Iowa is Ready
Repository for storing, sharing
and accessing content
A collection of
Curriculum
courses &
modules- a start
A method for
collaborating, sharing
and improving both
curriculum and teacher
effectiveness

25. Iowa is Ready
Shared Repository- iLearn
Sharing Courses & Modules
http://moodle.aeak12online.org/
Communities, AGORA & Seminar
Social Learning
Social Authoring
!
!

26. Social Authoring Model
Allows for different levels of contribution
Core Author Team
•
Subject Matter Experts &
Core Teachers
•
Create bulk of
lesson/course content
Contributing Authors
•
Contribute select content &
assignments
•
Alternative explanations,
activities discussions,
manipulatives, projects,
games…
Supporting Authors
•
Critique, review, pilot
•
Small content contributions
Source: http://nrocnetwork.org/professional-development/connectedPD

27. .
How You Can Contribute

If you publish something you are willing to
share, open license it.

Post with an open license

Publish on an open platform

Engage with others in Authoring

Engage with others in continuous improvement
through a AEAPD/K12Online

Tell three people you know about open
content and Creative Commons

28. .
How You Can Contribute
Let’s not reinvent the wheel.
Wish I could have used this photo via
but it is
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mshutch/543169396

29. .
How You Can Contribute
CONNECT, SHARE, COLLABORATE
AEAK12OnlineRequestForm
Better Together Iowa!
AEAPDOnline
AEAK12OnlineNews
AEAK12OnlineMoodle

30. Thank you.
Nancy Movall
K12 Online Learning Specialist
AEAPDOnline/AEAK12Online
nmovall@ghaea.org 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
Chimp- https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1110737796/chimpanzee_thinking.jpg-

32. Site You Can Search for OER
OER for K-12 Livebinder- content.k12opened.com
− Open-Licensed Clip Art, Photos, Music & Sound Effects
− Open-Licensed Textbooks
− Open-Licensed Online Courses
− Open-Licensed ELA Resources
− Open-Licensed Math Resources
− Open-Licensed Science Resources
− Open-Licensed Social Studies Resources

33. Content – Photos , Clip Art,
and Video

Photos
− Flickr (CC)‫‏‬ - Advanced search
− Wikipedia
− Wikimedia Commons
− Google Images – Advanced image search
− The Open Photo Project

Clip art
− WPClipArt
− Open Clip Art Library

34. Content – Education (cont.)
Other educational content

FlatWorld Knowledge

iLabCentral

Learning Registry

Tennessee Curriculum Center

Open Courseware Consortium

Iowa AEAOnline

35. Open-Licensed Online Courses

HIPPOCAMPUS: TEACHING WITH THE
POWER OF DIGITAL MEDIA
MIX your own media playlists using content from any collection

TRACK what media is "trending" this week for your subject
area

FIND what media is rated highest by other HippoCampus users

SHARE your customized HippoCampus with your students and
friends