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1.Discovering OER OER Creative Commons Finding OER MIT Case Study 2.Creating OER Strategies Tools 3.Moving Forward

DISCOVERINGOER?1

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela Source:

Open Education "...is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge."

Why Open Education Matters!

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“Open Educational Resources (OER) are materials used to support education that may be freely accessed, reused, modified and shared by anyone.” - Stephen Downes Open Educational Resources (OER) More OER definitions:

OER? 4Rs: OER Diagram: 4Rs:  Reuse  Revise  Remix  Redistribute

Types of OER? Open Teaching Assessment Open Courseware (OCW) Open Textbooks Open Source Software Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) Videos Learning objects Images Podcasts Music Accreditation Credits Games Learning Repositories Open Journals Libraries

Alternative copyright Licensing A range of financial models Affordances of the Internet Change in philosophy What has enabled OER? Source (slide 6): SOCIAL TECHNICAL LEGAL FINANCIAL

Benefits of OER? 1.Freedom of access; both for yourself and others. 2.Freedom from proprietary systems and corporations. 3.Contributes to the local and global community. 4.Encourages pedagogical innovations (beyond the textbook). 5.Sharing development costs of learning resources among institutions. 6.Co-creation empowers more collaboration, creativity and critical thinking. 7.Accessibility of resources previously unavailable to specific groups of people. 8.Saves time and effort through the reusing and remixing of resources. 9.Potentially beneficial to developing nations. 10.Lowers costs to students. Adapted from:

Challenges of OER? 1.Quality varies. 2.Varying degrees of time commitment. 3.Teachers sometimes not rewarded by the system for their efforts. 4.May not meet accessibility requirements for persons with disabilities. 5.Need to check accuracy before use. 6.May need a high degree of customization (or localization). 7.Technical requirements vary and some require you to use a particular software. 8.Requires varying degrees of continual financial support. 9.Licensing and obtaining copyright clearance can be difficult. 10.Some institutions may be concerned about ‘giving it away’. Adapted from:

OER Funding Models Source: Endowment Membership Donations Conversion Institutional Government Sponsorship Contributor

OER Commons

Open CourseWare (OCW) “OpenCourseWare, or OCW, is a term applied to course materials created by universities and shared freely with the world via the internet.” Source:  The movement started in 1999 when the University of Tübingen in Germany published videos of lectures online.  The OCW movement only took off, however, with the launch of MIT OpenCourseWare at MIT in October 2002.

OPEN CONTENT OER Difference between OCW and OER? OCW Focuses on sharing open content that is developed specifically for a course. OER Includes any educational content that is shared under an open license, whether or not it is a part of a course. OCW is a subset of OER. OCW Adapted from (Slide 10):

260+ Universities and associated organizations worldwide 13,000+ Courses in 20 languages

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)

OpenLearn (The Open University)

Open Yale Courses

Saudi Arabia?

Alfaisal University

Middle East Technical University

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

All Open CourseWare (OCW)? World OCW KINGS? No.CountryOCW 1.Spain27 2.USA25 3.Taiwan19 4.Japan18 5.South Korea7 ALL OCW * Updated 09/11/2012 Of Course! Of Course!

Open Textbooks (e-books) An open textbook is an openly-licensed textbook offered online by its author(s) or through a non-profit or commercial open- licensed publisher. Minimum baseline rights allow users to: Use the textbook without compensating the author; Copy the textbook, with appropriate credit to the author; Distribute the textbook non-commercially; and Shift the textbook into another format (such as digital or print). Many authors also grant rights such as to: Add, remove or alter content in the textbook, often on the condition that derivative works must have the same license; Copy and distribute the textbook without giving credit to the author; and Use the textbook commercially. Source: Image:

Project Gutenberg

Flat World Knowledge

College Open Textbooks

Wikibooks

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