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Transforming Teaching and Learning withOpen Educational Resources (OER)
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Transforming Teaching and Learning with Open Educational Resources (OER)
Ahrash N Bissell, Ph.D.Special Projects ManagerMonterey Institute for Technology and
May, 2012
What are OER?
FreeOpenly licensed
Learning objects
Digital
Courses
Multimedia Sharable
AdaptableCrowd-sourced
Cutting edge
Mobile Accessible Libre
Remixable
What are OER?
BurdensomeLegally uncertain
Random objects
Internet-specific
Supplemental
Mixed-up mediaBreakable
Crowd-sourced
Incomplete
Not device optimized
In violation of accessibility lawsTime consuming
Non-interoperable
What are OER?
arematerials, tools, and media
used for teaching and learningthat are
free from copyright restrictionsor publicly licensed
for anyoneto use, adapt, and redistribute.
Copyright issues
When finding and using resources for your teaching and/or learning needs, are you concerned about copyright?
1) Not at all.2) Yes, a lot.3) Sometimes, depending on my needs.4) Not sure. Should I be?
“Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.”
Open Licensing
You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."
Creative Commons
Why OER?
Increased access...Increased efficiency...Greater transparency... Adaptation and remix...Increased relevance...Personalization and
empowerment...
Policies
Foundations
Educators and entrepreneurs
Growth and PartnershipsOER Drivers
Have you heard of or dealt with any policies or programs that promote or discourage OER?
If yes, enter a few details into the chat.
OER Commons
OER Collections
Other Projects
Even More Projects
Of the various initiatives described here, are there any that are of particular interest for further discussion?
If yes, enter your choice into the chat.
So, if OER are good, and they are free,
Living Up to the Promise
why isn’t everyone using them?
What are the two greatest hopes you have when searching for educational resources online?
What are the two greatest concerns?
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Educational resources should be...
curricular and relevant
complete
high quality
accessible and easy to use
flexible and modular
Educator's checklist
Research about OER
What about OER?
curricular and relevant?
complete?
high quality?
accessible and easy to use?
flexible and modular?
Educator's checklist
NROC and Hippocampus
• Resources need to work where teachers and learners actually use them:
• Online → Hippocampus
• At school → NROC Network
• The resources should be modular → think of Legos.
• The resources should support any form of instruction → online, offline, and hybrid.
NROC and Hippocampus
• Curricular content for both secondary and post-secondary
• Complete course foundations with a flexible learning object structure
• Sustaining membership to maintain and grow the repository
NROCNetwork.org
HippoCampus.org
NROC and Hippocampus
NROC and Hippocampus
Media rich
Editorially rigorous
Instructionally sound
NROC and Hippocampus
Live demo
How are we doing...?
Case studies
Case studies
Case studies
Case studies
Pass
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Sierra Vista case study
Pass
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Sierra Vista case study
www.NROCmath.org
1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Douglass Adams. The Salmon of Doubt. 2002.
A set of rules that describes our reactions to technologies:
