Open educational resources (OER) have the potential to improve global education substantially. Open Tapestry helps users find, adapt, and share these resources with people across the world.

1. Leveraging Open Content for
Global Education

2. What is open content?
• 4 R's
o Reuse
o Revise
o Remix
o Redistribute
• Creative Commons
licenses

3. What is unique about global
education?
• Mobile is a big deal
• Connectivity is uncertain and uneven
• Multiple languages
• Cultural differences

4. Goals for online instruction
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Engagement

5. Needs
Discover
Share
Adapt
Track
Deliver

6. Discover
Problem: How do you find relevant
online learning resources?
• Standards Alignment
• Media Type
• License

7. Discover
Solution: Search, browse, & provide
recommendations
• Search & filtering
• Audience-focused portals
• Recommendations
• Search providers integration

8. Adapt
Problem: How do you adapt content for
instruction in your context?
• Grain size
• Language
• Context
• Assessment
• Sequencing

9. Adapt
Solutions:
• Use content where it is
• Simple, powerful
authoring tools
• Integrate with everyone (best breed
tools)

10. Deliver
Problem: How do you deliver
distributed learning content to your
learners?
• Coherence
• Interactivity
• Feedback
• User control

11. Deliver
Solutions:
• Educational mashups
• Integrate with existing
tools
• Mobile delivery

12. Track
Problem: How do you track usage and
effectiveness of distributed content?
• Resource needs improvement or
replacement?
• Context for interacting with learners?

13. Track
Solution: Integrated learning analytics
• Proxy-based analytics
• LMS integrations

14. Share
Problem: How do you support nurturing
online teaching and learning
communities?
• Authoring
• Learner support
• Evaluation
• Problem solving

15. Share
Solution: Integrate with existing
communities and best of breed tools
• Social bookmarking
• Discussion boards

16. Q&A
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17. Contact
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18. References
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• Creativecommons.org
• Horia Varlan via Flickr
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