Presentations at the "Make Your Future Summits" by Karen Fasimpaur and Barbara Soots

2. What are OER?
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OER = open educational resources
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Digital, free, and OPEN for anyone to use,
adapt, and redistribute

3. Why OER?
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Differentiating instruction is essential to
improving education.
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Textbooks are not the best tool for this.
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Technology coupled with high quality content is.
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Teachers and students need high quality
resources that they can use legally to build
upon.
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Teacher and student innovation is key.
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Sharing is good.

4. How is OER relevant to
education?
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Suitable for “remixing”
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Increases teacher professionalism
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Increases equity
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FREE

5. Remixing and the Common Core

We have a unique opportunity
Common Core + digital + open + teacher and
student innovation = a new era in curriculum
.

6. Traditional
copyright - Public domain -
all rights unrestricted
reserved use

7. Traditional
copyright - Public domain -
all rights unrestricted
reserved use
Copyright with
open licenses -
some rights
reserved

8. Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪
No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)
Recommended for education:
CC BY

9. http://content.k12opened.com

10. How to Find OER
1. If you know what you’re looking for, go directly
to the best source(s).
2. OER Commons search
3. Creative Commons search
.
4. Advanced Google Search
5. …and more

11. How You Can Open License
Your Own Work

Just write “licensed under Creative Commons
CC BY” on the work
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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

12. Thank you.
Karen Fasimpaur
karen@k12opened.com
First screen image credits:
Linux computer lab – Michael Surran
Linux penguin - Larry Ewing <lewing@isc.tamu.edu> with the GIMP
Books - Tizzie
Globe – NASA
Cloud background - Anca Mosoiu