1. Open Educational Resources: A Remix Jim Julius SDSU Course Design Institute May 27, 2009 1

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3. Objectives  What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?  Why are OERs considered important by so many?  Where can you find OERs?  NOT: Mechanics of incorporating OERs into your own courses.  NOT: Creating and sharing OERs. 3

4. 4 To remain human and liveable, knowledge societies will have to be societies of shared knowledge. Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO

5. 5 Challenges…  Challenges facing societies –Globalization –Rise of knowledge-intensive societies  Demand for increasingly skilled population  Challenges to education systems –Extend reach of education –Improve quality and flexibility  Could technology offer the solution?

6. 6 New developments…  An important convergence –Increasing connectivity –Growing numbers of low-cost devices –Expanding body of open digital content  Together they facilitate the sharing of knowledge

7. 7 Open Educational Resources: a definition  Web-based materials offered freely and openly for use and reuse in teaching, learning and research (UNESCO, 2002)  Only open if they are released under an open licence  Includes any tool, material or technique used to support access to knowledge  Contribute to building a culture of sharing

8. create share use freely re-use openly vibrant interactive community connected innovative up-to-date efficient effective open education

9. today’s textbook pipeline authoring editing quality control publishing distribution

10. open education ecosystem authoring editing quality control publishing distribution feedback peers users learning

11. Enabler: new IP intellectual property and copyright make content safe to share common legal vocabulary inspiration:open-source software (Linux)

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16. 16 MERLOT http://merlot.org http://merlot.org  Strategic goal: improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer-reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses  CSU is “sustaining partner”; many other state systems and prominent institutions are partners

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18. 18 MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu http://ocw.mit.edu  1999: faculty response to challenge of online education  2000: OCW initiated  Goal: make accessible all primary course material on the web  2002: launched 50-course pilot  2009: almost 1,900 courses available

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20. 20 Rice University Connexions http://cnx.org http://cnx.org  Individual response to limitations of traditional textbooks  The vision: “textbooks adapted to many learning styles and translated into myriad languages… textbooks that are continually updated and corrected by a legion of contributors” (Rich Baraniuk)  500+ textbooks, 1 million unique users/mo., 45 million hits/mo., 190 countries

21. open education opportunities open access free on-line low-cost in print never out-of-print high-quality continuously updated translated democratic

22. More OERs to consider  Video / audio / lecture –http://learner.orghttp://learner.org –http://youtube.com/eduhttp://youtube.com/edu –http://bigthink.comhttp://bigthink.com –http://ted.comhttp://ted.com –http://itunesu.pbworks.com/http://itunesu.pbworks.com/  Other collections of learning objects/resources –http://curriki.orghttp://curriki.org –http://oercommons.orghttp://oercommons.org  Search images, music, and more –http://search.creativecommons.org/http://search.creativecommons.org/ 22