the potential of open resources for your classroom

The Potential of

Open Resources

for Your Classroom

Introductions

• Karen Fasimpaur, P2PU School of Ed

• Jane Park, Creative Commons/P2PU School of Open

• Verena Roberts, Alberta Distance Learning Centre (ADLC)

• Jason Neiffer, Montana Digital Academy

Open source software

Open access

Open culture

Open educational resources

Open content

Open data

Open science

Open research

Open licensing

Open textbooks

Open courseware

Open policy

Open assessment

Open badges

Open means different things to

different communities.

“OER are teaching, learning, and

research materials that reside in the public

domain or have been released under an

intellectual property license that permits

their free use and re-purposing by others.”

- The Hewlett Foundation

4 R’s

Reuse

Revise

Remix

Redistribute

In a digital world, teachers and

students alike are creators of

copyrighted content.

With Creative Commons,

creators can grant copy and

reuse permissions in advance.

leastfree

Most free

Least free

http://creativecommons.org/choose

Open Educational Resources (OER)

http://search.creativecommons.org

http://schoolofopen.org

Benefits of OER for k12

Verena Roberts

@verenanz

Using Open Educational Resources reminds me of the story, "If you Give a

Mouse aCookie"by Laura Numeroff and Illustrated by Felicia Bond

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:If_you_Give_a_Mouse_a_Cookie.jpg



The book is known for its playful, circular

pattern. A boy gives a cookie to a mouse. The

mouse asks for a glass of milk. He then

requests a straw (to drink the milk), a mirror

(to avoid a milk mustache), nail scissors (to

trim his hair), and a broom (to sweep up).

Next he wants to take a nap, to have a story

read to him, to draw a picture, and to hang

the drawing on the refrigerator. Looking at the

refrigerator makes him thirsty, so he asks for

a glass of milk. The circle is complete when

he wants a cookie to go with it.

Retrieved from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Give_a_Mouse_a_Cookie



Breaking the Pattern....

SHARING - Leaving the Island

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nihoa,_Northwestern_Hawaiian_Islands,_USA-2012.jpg

Discovering the

open waters....

Focusing on the parts

that are harder to get

to....





http://thefitnesstutor.com/no-need-to-reinvent-the-wheelanother-rant/

You don't have to reinvent the wheel















Benefits

Saves time

Leaves more time to spend with students

Create and remix more meaningful

content

remixed video: http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/11tf

original video: http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/10gl

http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/11tf

http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/11tf

http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/10gl

http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/10gl

We are not all good at everything.

You can remix contribute and add to

something that has already been

started.....

To encourage authentic learning

experiences and connections.

Move away from static textbooks

http://www.flickr.com/photos/selltextbooks/4061590976/



Create books that come to life....

http://www.speedofcreativity.org/search/learning/feed/rss2/



Model 21st Century Learning

Monkey See - Monkey

Do

Learning Together

http://www.flickr.com/photos/familymwr/4910190922/



Sustainable Learning Environments

for all

Opportunities for:

interdisciplinary,

intergenerational

and

international learning

Focus on student created content

http://www.coetail.com/bsheridan/2013/04/29/creating-a-stop-motion-remix/?share=1











Leads to self-directed learning and

connected learning

http://classroomaid.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/connected-learning.jpeg





Ahead of the Game.

Horizon Report k12...

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2012-horizon-K12-preview.pdf









Benefits of OER in k12

• Breaking a Pattern - Change

• Promotes sharing of resources.

• Discover new ideas and content

• More time to spend on learning!

• Encourages authentic learning experiences

• Learners of all ages

• Sustainable Learning Environments for all

• Self-directed & connected learning

experiences

• Ahead of the Game - Innovators

Where can you find the best OER?

http://content.k12opened.com

Some of my favorite OER…

www.freereading.net

http://dictionary.k12opened.com

http://mathispower4u.yolasite.com

http://phet.colorado.edu

www.ck12.org

www.curriki.org

www.p2pu.org/school-of-ed

How You Can Open License Your Own Work

• Just write “licensed under Creative Commons CC BY” on the work

• Use the Creative Commons “Choose a License” tool

– Supplies license artwork

– Optional code you can put on a web site to be accessed by open search engines

• Share on an OER site like Curriki

OER at Montana Digital Academy

Jason Neiffer Curriculum Director

Montana Digital Academy

About me…

• First Curriculum Director of Montana Digital Academy

• 13 years in the social studies, speech, debate, computer science and journalism classroom

• Long-time Moodle user

• Part time blogger: http://www.techsavvyteacher.com

• Professional development speaker

• Doctoral candidate at the University of Montana

• Shameless self promotion: http://www.neiffer.com

http://www.montanadigitalacademy.org

http://www.techsavvyteacher.com

http://www.neiffer.com

Montana Digital Academy is Montana’s statewide virtual school with three progams:

• Original credit courses • Credit recovery courses • Middle school world langauge workshops

ESTABLISHED IN

2010


About MTDA

Open Tools

In Beta: Teacher blogging platform replacing student announcements. We use EduBlogs as our enterprise WordPress system.


We use the very powerful Content Management System Joomla to run our main website. We serve 70,000 page view a month.

We use Moodle, the premere open source learning management system. We use MoodleRooms as our enterprise Moodle host.

Moodle Joomla Word Press

Traditional Models


Barter Buy

Build Buddy

Evolution to OER

Financial

Flexibility

Quality

Philosophy


Open High School OCW Open Course Library

Connexions CK-12 Georgia Virtual Learning

NROC


Our Libraries

Results

Majority of new courses use OER or repurposed free online resources

Decrease in per-student costs

Increase curricular flexibility

Ability to share with partners


Next steps…

Develop/release our own OER

Encourage partner face-to-face districts to

adopt OER

Build staff capacity to

adapt, modify and use OER

Use OER in regular

development cycle



Email:

[email protected]

Twitter:

@techsavvyteach

Thank you!

Websites:

www.montanadigitalacademy.org

www.techsavvyteacher.com

www.neiffer.com

Google Plus:

gplus.to/techsavvyteacher

Questions and comments

Thank you!

• Karen Fasimpaur [email protected], @kfasimpaur

• Jane Park [email protected], @janedaily

• Verena Roberts [email protected], @verenanz

• Jason Neiffer [email protected], @techsavvyteach