1. Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0

2. Who We Are
The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide
community of hundreds of higher education
institutions and associated organizations
committed to advancing open education and its
impact on global education.
We seek to instill openness as a feature of
education around the world, allowing greatly
expanded access to education while providing a
shared body of knowledge upon which innovative
and effective approaches to today’s social
problems can be built.

3. The Opportunity
Decreased
Cost
Increased
access
Higher
percentage of
individuals
educated

4. Open Education Consortium Services & Activities
Access the members forum to discuss policy development, find ways
open educational resources are used at institutions, learn more about
open licensing and post questions
Participate in Open Education Week, the annual, global event to
promote open education and its impact
Discover new projects in our case study library
Attend or present at the annual Open Education Global Conference
Join the open education professional directory. Find other professionals
in your region and across the world.
Learn about effective implementation strategies, innovative thinking
and new developments through our webinar series.

6. What is Open Education?
Open Education encompasses resources, tools and
practices that employ a framework of open sharing to
improve educational access and effectiveness worldwide.
Open Education combines the traditions of knowledge
sharing and creation with 21st century technology to
create a vast pool of openly shared educational resources
while harnessing today’s collaborative spirit to develop
educational approaches that are more responsive to
learner’s needs.

7. Open Education starts with basic ideas:
• Education builds the future.
• Education is sharing.
• Open allows more rapid building and
sharing at a larger scale.

8. Open Education
Terms
Open Educational Resources
OpenCourseWare
Open Educational Practice
Open Textbooks
= Free and Open

9. Free
no cost
Open
No cost +
permission to modify
By Adam Bartlett http://www.flickr.com/photos/atbartlett/2432704579/
By Sean MacEntee http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/4518528819/

10. OER are teaching, learning, and
research materials that permit
their free use and re-purposing by
others

11. OER are building blocks for
innovation in higher
education
bdesham
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdesham/2432400623

12. OER Allows
Higher Education
to reconsider
approaches to
teaching and learning

13. By Luther College Photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/luthercollegearchives/1485877774/ CC-BY-NC-ND
Faculty do it all  Faculty don’t have to do it all

14. Resources can come from everywhere
Interactivity and learning support can come
from anywhere

16. http://CC-BY-NC-SA by USAID images www.flickr.com/photos/usaid_images/6462458071/

22. What does OER look like?

23. http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

25. http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/

29. http://phet.colorado.edu/

30. http://sccmath.wordpress.com/mat12x-fall-2014/

31. Where do I find OER?

47. Open.163.com

55. What about quality?

62. How do I use openly licensed works?

63. Free
no cost
Open
No cost +
permission to modify
By Adam Bartlett http://www.flickr.com/photos/atbartlett/2432704579/
By Sean MacEntee http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/4518528819/

65. Conditions CC licenses
Attribution
ShareAlike
NonCommercial
NoDerivatives

67. most free
Most restrictive
Slides 11-14 by Creative Commons, CC-BY 3.0

71. This photo is licensed CC-BY-NC
• You are free to use, modify and distribute, except
for commercial use
• You must give attribution to Chris Stroup and Flikr

72. http://open.umich.edu/education/lsa/physics140/fall2007

73. http://open.umich.edu/education/lsa/physics140/fall2007 This course is licensed CC-BY
Attribution
• You are free to use, modify and distribute all or
any part of this course, including for
commercial use
• You must give attribution to the University of
Michigan and cite the source

74. MOOCs
MOOCs offer fully online courses to anyone without cost to the learner.
These courses are generally large scale, up to thousands of students.
They offer interactivity through frequent, built in assessments and
sometimes peer discussion and guidance from teaching assistants.
Users tend to be already highly educated (surveys indicate +/- 70% already
have at least one post-secondary degree)
Data gathered from users allow interesting research into online learning
habits and preferences.
Content is almost always fully copyrighted.

75. Most MOOCs offer free access, but do not grant permission to modify,
translate, broadcast or re-distribute; they are free, but not open.

76. Example, Coursera terms of service
You may access the course for personal use only, you may not modify or reuse without
permission. Anything you contribute to the course can be used, modified, distributed
by Coursera without notification or further permission from you.
This may be fine if what you want is to follow a free course. However, if you
want to make any modification, use it in a classroom, show content to a
group, etc. you need to get permission as you would with any fully
copyrighted work.

79. How do I attribute an open work?

80. Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0

81. OER are building blocks for
innovation in higher
education
bdesham
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdesham/2432400623

82. most free
Most restrictive
Slides 11-14 by Creative Commons, CC-BY 3.0

84. advancing formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
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
Photo credits:
Karen and Sharon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookebocast/209420446/ cc-by-nc-sa
Learn http://www.flickr.com/photos/heycoach/1197947341/ cc-by-nc-
Asian Library Interior 5 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubclibrary/453351638/ cc-by-nc-
sa
Petru http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/23724427/ cc-by-nc-sa
Opensourceways http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4371000710/ cc-by-sa
sa
Discussion http://www.flickr.com/photos/djof/294059951/
cc-by-nc-sa

86. Free
no cost
Open
No cost +
permission to modify
By Adam Bartlett http://www.flickr.com/photos/atbartlett/2432704579/
By Sean MacEntee http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/4518528819/

89. Activity
• Think of a situation for which you would like to find materials
• Find 3 examples of CC licensed works (photos, videos,
presentations, courses) on a specific topic of your choosing
• Identify the license terms
• Consider what you can do with the materials. Will they meet
your purposes? How much modification would you/can you do?
• Group of 2-3: Share what you found and your experience
locating it

90. Videolectures.net

91. Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/featured

92. YouTube:
http://youtube.com/

93. Example 1: CC Search: http://search.creativecommons.org/

94. Activity
• Think of a situation for which you would like to find materials
• Find 3 examples of CC licensed works (photos, videos,
presentations, courses) on a specific topic of your choosing
• Identify the license terms
• Consider what you can do with the materials. Will they meet
your purposes? How much modification would you/can you do?
• Group of 2-3: Share what you found and your experience
locating it

95. Some OER sites to try:
www.cnx.org
www.jorum.ac.uk
www.merlot.org
www.oeconsortium.org
www.oercommons.org
www.opensourcelibrary.org
Other sites:
CC Search: http://search.creativecommons.org/
YouTube: http://youtube.com/
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net
VideoLectures: http://www.videolectures.net

96. By Opensourceway http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4812651268

97. Thank you!