Open Education Resources Carol Myers Director College Technology December 11, 2009

What is OER? Free –Creative Commons Licensing –GNU Almost Free –Advertising Cheap

Types of Resources Textbooks Instructional materials Course delivery methods

Textbooks Open (Free) –Quality –Collaborative opportunity Almost Free –Advertising—sometimes Low Cost –WebAssignWebAssign

Instructional Materials Web based PVCC iTunesU Library’s OneClick Digital

Library Course Pack Scholarly articles, reports and more in proprietary Library databases 44,000 scholarly monographs from academic presses in proprietary Library databases Images, streaming video, and audio files from proprietary Library databases Scholarly articles, reports and more freely available on the Internet

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