Demystifying Open Educational Resources

Introductions Overview of the OER landscape Ten years later How to find and implement OERs Key OER initiatives Next steps Overview

OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. Atkins, Daniel E.; John Seely Brown, Allen L. Hammond ( ). A Review of Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities.” Menlo Park, CA: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. p. 4. Definition (OER)

Open Educational Resources (OER) are an important element of an infrastructure for learning. U.S. Department of Education

OERs in the Modern Era 2009 Open High School of Utah American Graduation Initiative & $2B in funding University of the Peopl e 2007 Cape Town Declaration Source: WikiEducator. (2012). OER Timeline. Open University OpenLearn 2006 “Open Educational Resources” Coined By UNESCO 2002 OpenCourseWare Consortium 2008 Open Course Library MITx Wikipedia Creative Commons MIT OpenCourseWare “Open Content” David Wiley s William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Support

Gerd Kortemeyer February 26, 2013 Educause Review Ten Years Later Why OERs have not noticeably Affected Higher Education and Why We Should Care

Why Open Education Matters Director & author: Nadia Mireles Producers: This video is under CC by 3.0 licensehttp://nadiamireles.blogspot.com/

The OER Landscape Open Educational Resources

Do you… Talk about your courses with your peers? Borrow course materials, teaching techniques, sources? Share your materials?

OER is all of these things! At it’s heart, OER is about doing these sorts of things! And, it’s about encouraging sharing of materials and practices and clearly communicating what you’re allowing others to do with your materials

What are you allowed to do? Instead of “All Rights Reserved ” Can someone else use your materials? Can someone build upon or modify your materials? Can they use those materials commercially? Do they have to share any materials they develop the same way you shared your materials? Do these sound familiar? These are the basics of Creative Commons Licenses A “standard” way providing permissions to your work

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources

Resources for Community Colleges

Open Course Library

MERLOT

Saylor Foundation

Kaleidoscope Project

20 Million Minds

MITOpenCourseware

OpenLearn

What is the NSC? A consortium of ten leading community colleges, in nine states, organized to: Develop nationally portable, certificate-level programs in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Build a national model for multi-college cooperation in the design and delivery of high-quality occupational programs responsive to labor-market needs

NSC Industries Composite Materials Cyber Technology Electric Vehicle Development and Repair Environmental Technology Mechatronics

STEM READINESS: 45-hour online course co-developed with Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative (OLI) and CAST designed to quickly refresh “rusty” skills for TAA and dislocated workers entering certificates directly. Closely working with industry partners to develop real-life workplace scenarios. Math – 15 Hours Critical Thinking and Workplace Communication – 15 hours Professional Skills – 15 Hours FAST TRACKS: Accelerated 8-10 week “on-ramp” designed to quickly build key skills for lower level learners immediately prior to entry in the Credit Certificate programs. This part will be backward designed from STEM Bridge and will be offered in intensive format 4-5 days per week. NATIONAL STEM CONSORTIUM STEM BRIDGE

To access the STEM Bridge course, visit Carnegie Mellon University, Open Learning Initiative: see-our-free-open-courses/

Open Learning: Bridge to Success Bridge to Success is made possible through a Next Generation Learning Challenge grant awarded to Anne Arundel Community College, the Open University (UK), University of Maryland University College (UMUC) and Massachusetts Institution of Technology (MIT). NGLC is led by EDUCAUSE in partnership with The League for Innovation in the Community College, the International Association of K-12 Online Learning and the Council of Chief State School Officers. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation helped design the Next Generation Learning Challenges and fund the initiative.

Bridge to Success Courses and Resources Courses Learning to Learn Succeed with Math Resources Instructor’s Toolkit Student’s Toolkit Math Anxiety Webshop

Learning to Learn

Succeed with Math

labspace.open.ac.uk/b2s

For more information about Bridge to Success, visit:

Next Steps…

Jean M. Runyon, Dean Learning Advancement and the Virtual Campus Anne Arundel Community College For more information: