1. Who are you? As you join us, please feel free to introduce yourself in the chat: Your name Your affiliation or place of residence Your role or interest in this webinar Transforming Teaching and Learning with Open Educational Resources (OER) sponsored by

2. Transforming Teaching and Learning with Open Educational Resources (OER) Ahrash N Bissell, Ph.D. Special Projects Manager Monterey Institute for Technology and Education abissell@montereyinstitute.org May, 2012

3. What are OER? Free Openly licensed Learning objects Digital Courses Multimedia Sharable Adaptable Crowd-sourced Cutting edge Mobile Accessible Libre Remixable

4. Burdensome Legally uncertain Random objects Internet-specific Supplemental Mixed-up media Breakable Crowd-sourced Incomplete Not device optimized In violation of accessibility laws Time consuming Non-interoperable

5. are materials, tools, and media used for teaching and learning that are free from copyright restrictions or publicly licensed for anyone to use, adapt, and redistribute.

6. Copyright issues When finding and using resources for your teaching and/or learning needs, are you concerned about copyright? 1) Not at all. 2) Yes, a lot. 3) Sometimes, depending on my needs. 4) Not sure. Should I be?

7. “Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.” Open Licensing You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." Creative Commons

8. Why OER? Increased access... Increased efficiency... Greater transparency... Adaptation and remix... Increased relevance... Personalization and empowerment...

9. Policies Foundations Educators and entrepreneurs Growth and Partnerships OER Drivers

10. Have you heard of or dealt with any policies or programs that promote or discourage OER? If yes, enter a few details into the chat.

11. OER Commons

12. OER Collections

13. Other Projects

14. Even More Projects

15. Of the various initiatives described here, are there any that are of particular interest for further discussion? If yes, enter your choice into the chat.

16. So, if OER are good, and they are free, Living Up to the Promise why isn’t everyone using them?

17. What are the two greatest hopes you have when searching for educational resources online? What are the two greatest concerns? Enter your thoughts into the chat

18. Educational resources should be...  curricular and relevant  complete  high quality  accessible and easy to use  flexible and modular Educator's checklist

19. Research about OER

20. What about OER?  curricular and relevant?  complete?  high quality?  accessible and easy to use?  flexible and modular? Educator's checklist

21. NROC and Hippocampus

22. Resources need to work where teachers and learners actually use them: Online → Hippocampus At school → NROC Network The resources should be modular → think of Legos. The resources should support any form of instruction → online, offline, and hybrid. NROC and Hippocampus

23. Curricular content for both secondary and post-secondary Complete course foundations with a flexible learning object structure Sustaining membership to maintain and grow the repository NROCNetwork.org HippoCampus.org NROC and Hippocampus

24. Media rich Editorially rigorous Instructionally sound

25. NROC and Hippocampus Live demo

26. How are we doing...?

27. Case studies

31. Passing Sierra Vista case study

32. Passing Sierra Vista case study

33. www.NROCmath.org

34. 1.Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2.Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3.Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. Douglass Adams. The Salmon of Doubt. 2002. A set of rules that describes our reactions to technologies:

35. Ahrash N Bissell Special Projects Manager abissell@montereyinstitute.org www.montereyinstitute.org Thank you! Questions?