Curriculum 2.0: How to Find Awesome Open Source Curricula Online Presented by: Kim Jones, Joshua Marks and Christine Loew Curriki ISTE 2010 | Denver, CO
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Today’s Presentation Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OERs) What are they? Why use them? Where to find them? Introduction to using Curriki to: Find OERs Create OERs Share OERs Collaborate – Hands on activity
Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) - What are they? Open Educational Resources are: Digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research” (OECD, 2007). Educational materials and resources offered under some licenses to freely re-mix, adapt, improve and redistribute. All about sharing, so that teachers and learners can share what they know Not a product, but a community process.
Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) – Why use them? OER provides solutions for schools and districts, including: Content that is affordable, open, customizable, interactive and engaging Collaborative environment for teachers and learners Un-tethered learning that transcends the classroom OER brings innovations in technology to education Digitization Online Searchable Resources Networking Communities of Practice Crowd-Source model Collaboration Worldwide Free and Open …… Creative Commons Licenses App Store Shared Repository of Content User ratings Community Assessment/Peer Review Free distribution Open Access Free Hosted Services
Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) – Where to find them? CK-12 The Flexbook model Connexions Content commons or small modules Merlot For faculty & students of higher education OpenCourseWare MIT course materials OERCommons Network for OER content resources OpenLearn LearningSpace (content) & LabSpace (collaboration)
An open resource repository A Personal content management tools set A Curriculum development and publishing platform A Group collaboration tool A local and global community process A movement to empower educators A way to reduce costs for learning resources What is Curriki.org?
FIND OERs Browse by Subject Advanced Search Filters Browse by State Standard
CREATE OERs Create collections and add resources of any media type Wiki or HTML pages Image files Audio Files (Pod casts) Video Files (We convert and stream) Interactive games (SWF files) Archive files and “Learning Objects” SCORM and Content packages Web links resources Files and documents of any type Or use one of our lesson plan and activity templates
CREATE OERs Forms and Templates
Copyright & Licensing Creative Commons Licenses Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa) Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc) Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd) Attribution Share Alike (by-sa) Attribution (by )
COLLABORATE with OERs
OERi in the Classroom Professional Development
Activity: “Build-up” the Inbox collection and add your contribution.
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Any Questions? Thank You! Kim Jones Executive Director Joshua Marks Chief Technology Officer Christine Loew Program Manager This presentation and other resources can be accessed on the ISTE 2010 Curriki Group: Curriculum 2.0 session evaluation available at: