Understanding and creating open educational resources

1. Ramesh Sharma
6 March 2013
National Workshop on OER
Commonwealth of Learning & Indira Gandhi National Open University

2. Networked Teacher

3. Networked Teacher
The Couros diagram of the networked teacher
illustrates the many ways that teachers
interact with students, colleagues, peers and
other resources, both human and digital
across the Internet. In each case, these
interactions are software and network-
enabled.

4. Software Applications
What is important is for networked teachers
to assemble a personal learning toolkit of
software applications that will allow them to
communicate with peers, assemble and
manage digital resources, publish and share
digital resources with others.

5. With these tools you'll be able to explore the
Internet, keep notes and capture ideas from
web sites you visit.

6. Ways to build a Personal Learning
Toolkit
• seek advice from others who may have more
knowledge
• explore free or open source tools
http://blog.iwayvietnam.com/tuanta/2011/01/27/open-source-status-report-reveals-good-health-and-
profits/

7. http://www.open-ed.net/

8. http://www.oerasia.org/module-1/building-a-personal-learning-toolkit

9. OER Handbook for Educators 1.0
Editor - David Wiley

10. Exploring personal learning tools
Image Source:
http://elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?aid=2379624

11. Browse the web and clip web pages
for future reference
Open source tools Free to use tools
http://nevernote.sourceforge.net/ http://evernote.com/

12. Document creation and sharing
Open source tools Free to use tools
http://www.openoffice.org/ https://www.google.com/intl/en/drive
/start/apps.html

13. Research tool for organizing
bibliographic references
Open source tools Free to use tools
http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ http://www.zotero.org/

14. Social networking, micro blogging
tool for real-time connection to peers
Open source tools Free to use tools
http://identi.ca/ https://twitter.com/

15. Social bookmarking service to share
useful web bookmarks with peers
Open source tools Free to use tools
http://freelish.us/ https://www.diigo.com/

16. Blogging service for posting articles,
journal entries, notes and images
Open source tools Free to use tools
http://wordpress.org/ https://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g

17. Internet telephone and web presence tool
for one-to-one or small group discussions
Open source tools Free to use tools
http://www.linphone.org/ http://www.skype.com/en/

18. Online web conferencing and white-
boarding with peers or students
Open source tools Free to use tools
http://www.bigbluebutton.org/ http://www.wiziq.com/

19. open-source audio editing tool
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/d
ownload/index.php

20. open-source image editing tool
http://www.gimp.org/ http://www.getpaint.net/

21. open-source learning management
systems
https://moodle.org/ http://www.sakaiproject.org/

22. open source content management
systems
http://drupal.org/ http://www.joomla.org/

23. Wikis
https://www.dokuwiki.org/wiki:dokuwiki http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

24. Blogs
http://www.movabletype.org/ http://wordpress.org/

25. Open source office programs
http://www.openoffice.org/ http://www.abisource.com/

26. Free to use online office suites
https://www.google.com/intl/e http://member.thinkfree.com/membe
n/drive/start/apps.html r/goLandingPage.action

27. Web authoring tools

28. video and animation programs
http://www.blender.org/ http://kinodv.org/

29. An Open Educational Resource (OER)
project
http://wikieducator.org/User:Kalpanagu http://wikieducator.org/User:Rashk
pte#Guide_for_newly_enrolled_Distanc ath#My_Projects_on_Wikieducator
e_Learners

30. Exploring OER projects and their goals
• The purpose and
objectives of the project
• The target groups or
audiences for the project
• The kinds of OERs the
project provides
• The technology
requirements for using
the OERs
• The value the OER
project provides

31. Begin to plan your own OER project

32. Establishing an OER strategy
• Instructor-focused OER strategy
• Student-focused OER strategy
• Personal OER strategy

33. Reviewing existing OER projects and
their resources
• Scope of existing
educational resources
• Quality of existing
materials
• The manner in which OERs
are made available on the
web
• Forms and formats of
existing resources,
including their CC licenses
• Potential for reuse and
remixing existing resources
in your context