Presentation given by Una Daly, OCW Consortium, at the MERIT conference at Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill Community College in California.

1. advancing formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
Discovering High-Quality
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Una Daly
Community College Outreach Manager
OCW Consortium
July 20, 2012

2. Welcome
Please introduce yourself, what you
teach, and your interest in OER
– Una Daly, facilitator
• Community College Outreach Manager at
the OCW Consortium

3. Agenda
• Open Education Movement
• What is OER?
• The Power of OER for Learning
• Finding OER with OER Commons
• Other Sources of OER
• Usage considerations

4. Community Colleges & OER
• Enhance teaching & learning
• Expand access to education
• Join global open education
Dr. Martha Kanter movement
U.S. Undersecretary of
Education (2009-12)
Funded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

5. Open Courseware Mission
“Advance formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-
quality education materials organized as courses.”
Over 250 institutions, 46 Countries,
18,000 Courses, 4000 Translated

6. What are Open Educational
Resources?
U.S. Dept. of Education
– 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 repurposing by others.
cc-by donkyhotey/flickr
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7. Examples
Includes –
• Course materials
• Lesson Plans
• Modules or lessons
• Open CourseWare (OCW)
• Open textbooks
• Videos
• Images
• Tests
• Software
• Any other tools, materials, or techniques used
to support ready access to knowledge
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8. Characteristics of OER
• Digital
– Easily modified
– free distribution
• Open License
– Reuse, Revise, Remix,
Redistribute
• Low cost
– Lowers barriers to education

9. What is an Open License?
• Free: Free to access online, free to print
• Open: Shared, usable and re-usable: licensing that is less
restrictive than standard copyright
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10. Creative Commons licensing
• Works with existing copyright law
• Promotes sharing
• Internationally recognized
• Author/creator can specify re-uses
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11. Finding OER
• OER Repositories
– Content is located at repository
• OER Referatories
– Links to content contained in repositories

12. How to Search in OER Commons
Step 1: Go to http://oercommons.org
Step 2: Click on Advanced Search
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13. How to Search in OER Commons
Step 3: Type in Keywords for what you
teach
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14. How to Search in OER Commons
Step 4: Using Additional Search Criteria
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15. How to Search in OER Commons
Step 5:
Grade Level
Subject
Mar
Media Format
Material Type
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16. 10 minute : Activity
• Find and select resources for your
classroom
http://oercommons.org/oer

17. Evaluating OER
• R1: Degree of Alignment to Standards
• R2: Quality of Explanation of the Subject Matter
• R3: Utility of Materials Designed to Support
Teaching
• R4: Quality of Assessment
• R5: Quality of Technological Interactivity
• R6: Quality of Instructional Tasks and Practice
Exercises
• R7: Opportunities for Deeper Learning
• R8: Assurance of Accessibility
Achieve.org

18. Discipline-specific Sources
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19. K-12 OER Repositories
• Curriki
• CK-12
• PhET Interactive Simulations
• Connexions
• Khan Academy
• Open High School of Utah
Creatiive Commons Wiki
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Case_Studies/United_States

20. Finding Images, Videos, Music
search.creativecommons.org

21. How to Make Best Use of OER
• Enhance existing materials with OER
• Enhance an existing OER
– E.g. Translations, Images, etc.
• Replace existing materials with OER
• Invite students to generate OER
cc-by-nc-ndeslenkphoto
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22. Customize, Remix, and Organize
–Interoperability
–Accessibility
–License type
–Cultural relevance
–Translations
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23. Why Customize and Remix?
• Adapt the material to make it more accessible for
students with disabilities
• Insert cultural specific references to it easier to
understand
• Translate it into another language
• Correct any errors or inaccuracies
• Keep the OER up to date by adding recent discoveries
• Insert more media or links to other resources
• Adapt it for a different grade level
• Insert a different point of view to that originally given in
the material
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24. Making OER Sustainable
• Openly license your own work
• Contribute your work to OER
repositories
• Mentor others in use of OERs
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25. Thank you for attending!
Contact Information
Una Daly unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org

26. Photo credits:
Share
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4424154829/in/photostream/
IMG_4591 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/4700979984/ cc-by-sa
La belle tzigane http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/21063837 cc-by-sa
Asian Library Interior 5 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubclibrary/453351638/ cc-by-nc-sa
Petruhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/23724427/ cc-by-nc-sa
Opensourcewayshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4371000710/ cc-by-sa

27. Game Changer:
Open Education Changes the Rules