Guide to Open Educational Resources OER Day Spokane April 22, 2013 Barbara Soots OER Program Manager Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction Digital Learning Department

OER are teaching, learning, and research resources. CC BY -SA NH Dictionary by Manchester Library

Use FREE of charge Reuse the resource Revise without permission Remix and Redistribute CC-BY Adapted from Traffic lights by Horia Varlan

Password: OER Laura Rachfalski

OER Rules: Give proper attribution to the author Obey the licensing restrictions CC BY-SA Rules for the Teacher by Michael Stout

Creative Commons licenses “some rights reserved”

OER may be used as an entire course, full curricular units, lesson plan components, supplemental material, or multimedia building blocks for creating new works. l CC BY-SA Bruce Peru Brainstorming by jeferonix

Supplement lessons with video and audio resources How taking a bath led to Archimedes’ Principle Mars Science Lab Abstract-nessShakespeare – The History of English

Experience interactive simulations and game-based learning Build an Atom phet.colorado.edu STEMware: Zombie Plague pbge.ucdavis.edu

Download required course readings manybooks.net librivox.org CC BY Books by shutterhacks

Address learning shifts highlighted in the common core and next generation science standards by filling gaps in existing curriculum National Archives: Docs Teach docsteach.org

Download or print a complete textbook and full-course materials.

CC BY-SA Confused by CollegeDegrees360

Where do you find OER? Results of 123 participants in OSPI OER Landscape survey 2012

Demo: Advanced search options CC BY Search Engine by Danard Vincente

“First-pass” look at resource should consider creator reputation, timeliness, license info, and accessibility. CC BY NC Detective by The Thinking Doll

Define parameters for the OER search. media ebook video/animation lesson plan/unit textbook/full course CC BY Adapted from Puzzle Path #1 by Magnus A

Building block OER includes music and sound effects, clip art, and photos. CC BY Adapted from Building Blocks by libertygrace0

Demo: Find CC licensed OER media elements.

Demo: General OER repositories curriki.org Interactives, videos, lesson plans, and units may be found in OER repositories and aggregated collections.

Many states have existing OER repositories.

For specific subject areas, search content specific repositories

Demo: Download and edit a complete textbook CK-12

Conditions are ripe to explore the use of Open Educational Resources

Districts spend $5.5 billion a year in instructional content. However, many students are still using textbooks 7 to 10 years old… Source: Out of Print: Reimagining the K-12 Textbook in a Digital Age CC BY-SA Money by 401(K) 2012

In 2012, Washington passed a bill directing OSPI to identify a library of openly licensed courseware

OSPI will suggest OER courseware to school districts that are less expensive, more current, and aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

1.Creation of a review process for OER material useful to districts and sustainable over time 2.Development of a vetted list of full-curriculum OER 3. OER awareness campaign directed toward district curriculum adopter decision-makers Important OSPI is NOT creating new OER content from scratch. OSPI is providing review of standards alignment and identification of potential resources – not an adoption mandate All materials OSPI builds, as part of this project, will be licensed CC BY WA OER Project Phase 1

Tools to Evaluate Quality Publisher’s Criteria Tri-State Rubrics OER Rubrics

Criteria for Review Consideration Resource is openly licensed under a Creative Commons or other license that permits ALL of the following, FREE of charge: Reuse: the right to reuse the content in its unaltered/verbatim form 30 Revise: the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself Remix: the right to combine the original or revised content with other content to create something new Redistribute: the right to share copies of the original content, the revisions, or the remixes with others PD Approved Business Stamp Open Clip Art Library

Criteria for Review Consideration Resource must be able to be housed in an open courseware repository or able to be accessed at no cost to school districts. 31 Terms of access will NOT be altered after a given time period. PD Clock Open Clip Art Library

Criteria for Review Consideration Resource must be a full-course Algebra 1 curriculum OR an Integrated Pathway Secondary Mathematics 1 curriculum aligned to the Common Core State Standards. 32 PD Math Processor Open Clip Art Library

Criteria for Review Consideration 33 PD Library Open Clip Art Library 11 th – 12 th grade English Language Arts unit aligned to the Common Core State Standards for writing. The unit must also cover one OR both of the following: Reading standards for literature Reading standards for informational text

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Demo: OER Rubric in action

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