1. Open Educational Resources
in the context of teacher
education
Nicky Watts, Sheffield Hallam University

2. Introduction and background
•Local teachers and pupils, teacher • For more information:
educators and PGCE students •Project website
involved in: www.digitalfutures.org
•sharing and developing good •Project blog
practice in teaching www.deftoer3.wordpress.com
•understanding more about digital
•Twitter @deftoer3
literacy
•Slideshare
•developing guidance on Open
www.slideshare.net/deftoer3
Educational Resources in the
school context •Contact:
•Project outputs will be shared via
an open textbook (pulling together a.gruszczynska@shu.ac.uk;
case studies and supporting r.p.pountney@shu.ac.uk
resources) and the "Digital
Bloom" installation

3. Key terms: Open
Educational Resources
… digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators,
students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching,
learning and research (OECD, 2007).
Create Remix License Share
… teaching, learning and research resources that reside in
the public domain or have been released under an
intellectual property license that permits their free use or
re-purposing by others. (Atkins et al. 2007).

4. Frameworks for digital literacy
• Digital literacy as a continuum between the purely
social and the purely technological
• Move from the singular ‘literacy’ to the plural
‘literacies’ to emphasise the sheer diversity of
existing accounts (Lankshear and Knobel, 2008).
• Digital literacies as "the constantly changing
practices through which people make traceable
meanings using digital technologies" (Gillen and
Barton, 2011).

5. Intersections of digital
literacy and creativity