Become a part of the global open content movement!

@jbj / http://www.profhacker.com Manchester Community College, 21 May 2014

Agenda• What does OER mean?

Should I care? • How can I find OER? • How can I use OER? • How can I make OER? • Final thoughts

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“Open”

• Open access refers to content—for research, teaching, or any other purpose—that is publicly available. (Ex: Neo-Victorian Studies)

• Open source software refers to software with publicly available source code, licensed for reuse. (Ex: Firefox, Zotero)

–United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) http://jbj.io/1jzvCZ6

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open

license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy,

use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio,

video and animation.

Finding OERhttps://flic.kr/p/6f3poB

To the Computers!

• Please try some of these tools to find a couple of Open Educational Resources relevant to you

• Add one or two to the Google Doc

• Report out

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Using OERs

• Bootstrap a new course

• Freshen a particular topic or unit

• Find additional support for diverse student needs

• Flipped classrooms

• Standardize common courses in a department/program

• Curate collections of Open Educational Resources

• Peer review Open Educational Resources

How Can I Create OER?https://flic.kr/p/9vAtxa

The Costs of “Open”https://flic.kr/p/4xDhoW

Thanks.!

Jason B. Jones!@jbj!jason.b.jones@gmail.com!http://www.profhacker.com!!

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