Overview:    

Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources released under an open license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OERs can be full courses, course materials, lesson plans, open textbooks, learning objects, videos, games, tests, software, or any other tool, material, or technique that supports access to knowledge.  (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition http://sparc.arl.org/issues/oer)

Objectives:

Participants will:

• Define Open Education Resources (OER)
• Access OER from numerous sites.
• Explain Creative Commons and licensing protocol

The “4 Rs”of Open Ed Resources

• Reuse: Content can be reused in its unaltered form.
• Revise: Content can be adapted, modified or altered.
• Remix: New content can be added to the original or revised content to create something new.
• Redistribute: Copies of the content can be shared with others in its original, revised or remixed form.

Open Education Resources Include:

• Full courses (free but no college credit given).
• Open textbooks which can be added to, rearranged, or otherwise adapted to a particular course
• E-books
• Lesson plans
• Videos
• Music
• Course materials
• Games
• Tests
• Software
• Anything that supports learning

Open Course Examples

• MIT Open CourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. They have some high school content and more is being developed.  http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/
• Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.  http://oyc.yale.edu/
• Open Learn from the UK’s Open University: Over 650 free courses, described as “excerpts” of the full courses taken by registered (tuition-paying) students. http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
• Saylor Foundation provides free, common core-aligned courses for students, parents, and teachers in math and English language arts.  http://www.saylor.org/educationlevels/k-12/
• CK 12 CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit that creates and
  aggregates high quality curated STEM content https://ck12.org/teacher/

Open Content

• Connexions: An educational content repository and a content management system optimized for the delivery of educational content. A place to view and share educational modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute. http://cnx.org/
• OER Commons: Huge collection of OERs of all types for both K-12 and college level courses. http://www.oercommons.org/
• CK 12 CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit that creates and
  aggregates high quality curated STEM content https://ck12.org/teacher/
• University of California-Berkeley’s central service for online video and audio.  http://webcast.berkeley.edu/

Open Textbooks

• CK12: provides open-source content and technology tools.  http://www.ck12.org/
• Open Culture: Repository of links to open textbooks. http://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks
• Curriki: Classroom teachers across the  world take part in a global community of sharing curriculum and best practices.  http://www.curriki.org
• WikiBooks:  Open-content textbooks collection.  http://en.wikibooks.org

Creative Commons

• Creative Commons licensed images, videos, and music
• Flickr Advanced Search: Be sure to scroll down to the bottom and click “Only search with Creative Commons licensed content.” http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced
• Fotopedia: Click “advanced options” in the upper right, and select the level of license you need under “license”. http://www.fotopedia.com/search/photos
• Open Clip Art Library: http://openclipart.org/
• Vimeo: Includes Creative Commons licensed videos. http://vimeo.com/creativecommons
• Internet Archive: freely available videos including news footage, movies, cartoons, and more. https://archive.org/details/movies
• Jamendo: offers more than 350,000 free music tracks licensed under Creative Commons, all available for streaming and unlimited download without ads http://www.jamendo.com/en/
• Google Advanced Search: has an option to limit your search by license, but be aware that the license may pertain only to the text, while the image(s) on a page may be under copyright.
• Find More at http://open4us.org/find-oer/

Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/

iTunesU  http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u

Khan Academy    http://www.khanacademy.org

National Academy Press  http://www.nap.edu

OER Consortium http://oerconsortium.org

Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/

Peer to Peer University https://p2pu.org/en/

PHET  http://phet.colorado.edu

Ten Websites for Science Teachers http://bit.ly/1vIKzJc

Udacity http://www.udacity.com/

Wiki Books http://en.wikibooks.org