The Value of Open Educational Resources: Discover HippoCampus

Teaching, learning and research resources, In the public domain or, Released under a license that permits free use or re- purposing by others. For examples, see Creative Commons.org What are OERs? OERs include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, Streaming videos, audio, text, software, tools, or techniques Used to support access to knowledge.

Why OER? To benefit society by increasing access to quality educational resources at little or no cost to anyone seeking to learn. To share and leverage scarce educational resources To create more transparency among learning institutions To provide different means of access and reuse, depending on the source of the content.

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. “... sustainability problems plague open educational resources... the inherent contradiction in the idea of sustaining and upgrading a product that is given away.” The Promise of Open Educational Resources, Marshall S. Smith and Catherine M. Casserly, Change, September/October 2006 The Challenge of OER

Examples of OER Projects The principle funder of OER projects globally for the past 6 years

Learn More, Find Sources Explore OER Commons OERCommons.org

Cnx.org Enter your own content, mix and use others’ Add yours to a collection Merlot.org Search and find learning objects

Specialized Collections National Science Foundation Knowledge Media Laboratory

Open Courseware Downloadable lecture materials donated by university faculty around the world

OER Development Projects

International Collaborations

ARRA - New OER funding

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Unique Among OERs 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

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High School Course Foundations College Prep Physics I College Prep Physics II Algebra 1a Algebra 1b Curso de Algebra 1A (Spanish) Curso de Algebra 1B (Spanish) College Course Foundations US History I US History II American Government Religions of the World Psychology Elementary Algebra Introductory Calculus I Introductory Calculus II General Calculus I General Calculus II Calculo General I (Spanish) Calculo General II (Spanish) Statistics for the Social Sciences Introductory Physics I (algebra-based) Introductory Physics II (algebra-based) General Physics I (calculus-based) General Physics II (calculus-based) Non-Majors Biology Environmental Science Advanced Placement Course Foundations AP Environmental Science AP Physics B I AP Physics B II AP Physics C I AP Physics C II AP US History I AP US History II AP US Government and Politics AP Calculus AB I AP Calculus AB II AP Calculus BC I AP Calculus BC II AP Biology Coming in 2010 Algebra 1 (NEW) NROC Library 2009

Quality Editorially rigorous Media rich Instructionally sound

Flexibility Customizable by a teacher, a district, or a state Can be used within popular CMS’s and repositories

Curricular Correlated with state standards and popular textbooks Complete teaching materials

NROC Network Educators, designers, technologists, and administrators working together to promote the continuous improvement of online courses through collaborative development of high-quality content and instruction.

Member Use Options Adapt NROC material to:  Enhance an existing course  Launch a new course  Supplement Distribute as needed: Online courses Traditional classrooms Hybrid/blended Select media for iPod downloads

Seeding statewide repositories Making textbooks supplemental Cross-disciplinary studies Credit Recovery Jumpstarting dual enrollment & AP prep Blended Learning Reaching students with special needs Members’ Institutional Uses See cases studies for details…

Link to HippoCampus Make HippoCampus assignments Blog about it, add links to directory sites Introduce faculty to HippoCampus tools Offer feedback on HippoCampus Know of great content? Suggest HippoCampus as a sharing vehicle Consider other institutional uses possible through membership OER success is measured by usage. Share it---with LEARNERS!

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