Open Educational

Resources

S. Gallow, April 2014

What is OER anyway?

• Open Educational Resources

• Full courses, materials, modules, textbooks, videos,

images, etc.

• Reside in the public domain OR have an open license

• Allows for free use-repurposing by others

Benefits

• Free

• Accessible on-line

• Variety of Resources available: images, videos, full courses, syllabi, course modules, textbooks, etc.

• Accessible to everyone

• Allows for collaboration across the country & around the globe

• Cuts down on the number of times the wheel needs to be re-invented

Challenges

• So many resources, so little time to look through all

of them

• Need to check quality of resources

• Few resources developed specifically for pre-college

• Difficult to find “exactly” what you want

• Licensing is confusing– need to be sure to double-

check!

Resources

Start here:

Find OER (Open Professionals Education Network)

• General

• Photo/Image

• Video

• Audio/Music

• Education

• Recorded Lectures & Video Tutorials

• Simulation/Animation

• Open Textbook

• Module Course Components

• Complete Courses

How do we know it’s

ok to use?

• Public Domain

• The term of copyright for the work has expired.

• It never had copyright protection.

• The work was explicitly donated to the public domain.

• The work is a work of the U.S. Government.

• Creative Commons Copyright Licenses

Next steps

How can we support each other as we integrate Open

Educational Resources (OER) into our curriculum?