oer: what is it, why should i care

OER: What Is ItWhy Should I Care

R. PiresTextbook Affordability Campus Coordinator

San Bernardino Valley College

1. The open education movement is here to stay and will soon be impossible to ignore.

2. Learn how to identify and distinguish between the different types of open licenses.

3. Discover how you can incorporate open educational resources (OER) into your classes to help students succeed and save money.

California Education Code Section 67423 defines OER as high-quality

teaching, learning, and research resources

reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license, such as a Creative Commons license,

permits their free use and repurposing by others,

and may include other resources that are legally available and free of cost to students.

Open educational resources include, but are not limited to, full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, faculty-created content, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.

1. The open education movement is here to stay and will soon be impossible to ignore.

United Nations

2002

UNESCOUnited Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

Coined the term open educational resources

materials used to support education that may be freely

accessed, reused, modified and shared

2012

World Open Educational Resources Congress facilitated by UNESCO adopted the Paris OER Declaration

calls on governments to openly license for public use;

publically funded educational materials

Support of OER based on the statement by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that everyone has a right to education

Executive and Legislative Branches

2014

President Obama’s administration fostered a culture of open government through the Open Government Partnership

and this included a commitment to open education

2015

U.S. Department of Education launched #GoOpen

campaign to encourage K-12 to use open educational resources and proposed regulation that

all intellectual content created with grant funds from the Department of Education have an open license and…

2015

Passage of Every Student Succeeds Act

allows states and local education agencies to channel block grant money focused on technology toward

open materials

California Legislation and Policies

2008

Report was commissioned on the

affordability of textbooks California Joint Legislative Audit Committee

2012

SB 1052 (Steinberg) established the California Open Educational Resources Council (COERC)

develop or curate OER instructional materials for

50 of the highest enrolled lower divisions courses across CCC, CSU, and UC systems and…

2012

SB 1053 (Steinberg) established California Open Online Library for Education (Cool4Ed.org)

repository for OER materials curated and developed by COERC

OER materials require a Creative Commons open license and…

2012

SB 1028 (2012) appropriated $5 million to support COERC and COOL4Ed, including private matching funds

faculty development of OER for

50 identified lower division courses

2013

CCC Board of Governors passed policy to require

Creative Commons open license

on intellectual property developed using publically funded grants and contracts

2015

AB 798 (Bonilla) OER Adoption Incentive Fund 3 million grant to CSU and CCC

supports the expansion of OER adoption

SBVC awarded 31K contingent on faculty adopting OER in 31 sections

2016

SB 1359 (Block) mandates identification of courses in the online schedule of classes starting January 2018 that

exclusively use OER and

communicate to students that digital OER materials are free of charge or may have a low-cost print version and…

2016

Governor Brown proposed $5 million in grant funding for

creation and implementation of

Zero-Textbook-Cost Degrees at CCC campuses

Is OER Here to Stay?

Should I Care?

2. Learn how to identify and distinguish between the different types of open licenses.

Open Educational Resource (OER) refer to

educational resources

lesson plans, quizzes, syllabi, instructional modules, simulations, etc.

freely available for use, reuse, adaptation, and sharing

The Wikieducator OER Handbook

What OER definitions have in common

open educational resources have

open copyright licenses which give

everyone, everywhere; the right to access, adapt and republish without limitations the use of materials

for non-commercial and often even commercial purposes Creative Commons

Online is not Open

Open might not be Free

Creators of Intellectual Works Retain Copyright and Ownership Rights

Copyrighted materials are not open educational resources

All intellectual work is protected under copyright laws when created and there is no need to register work or to label with a copyright symbol

User must seek permission from creator to use, copy, and publish content, images, videos, music, etc.

Fair use does not turn copyrighted intellectual works into open educational resources

Some free educational resources are free to access but not necessarily free to modify, revise, or remix

Therefore some free educational materials are open educational resources with limits

OER users must be familiar with the various open license options

Works which exist in the public domain are open educational resources

Intellectual materials whose copyright license has expired or has been forfeited, and

works created by the federal government are considered public domain and

therefore can be used openly without any restrictions or limits

Open educational resources are intellectual works which explicitly give users permission to

RetainReuseReviseRemixRedistribute

Creator gives advance permission to users conditions of use

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization used by creators of intellectual works to give users open usage permission

There are six different open licenses to choose from to communicate level of openness

http://creativecommons.org.au/content/whatiscc1.pdf

Let’s Practice

Examples

http://sociologylectures.weebly.com/1-sociological-perspective.html

http://freesociologybooks.com/

https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-sociology-2e (Details)

https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons?ytcheck=1

use of open educational resources require attributions

https://www.cccoer.org/attributing-oer/

3. Discover how you can incorporate open educational resources (OER) into your classes to help students succeed and save money.

www.valleycollege/oer

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