OER as Reuse

Greg Grossmeiergreg@grossmeier.nethttp://grossmeier.net

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Producing OER

Do our systems encourage reuse?

The universal question...

“How are my materials being used by others?”

“How are my materials being used by others?”

Not

“How often are my materials being downloaded?”

Not

“What is the rating of my material?”

“How are my materials being used by others?”

???

the OER Definition:

Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use, remix, improve and redistribute.

- Wikipedia

the OER Definition:

Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use, remix, improve and redistribute.

- Wikipedia

remix

Why?

Every course is differentEach student is different

Can we know how people are using

materials?

Music

http://remix.nin.com

What about the not-yet-popular

artists?

OER examples

Push

No Real Feedback.

But is it their job?

Filter

Ratings and Reviews

Push, Filter, Create

“When you publish your derived copy module, Connexions automatically adds a statement to the module that gives attribution to the original module and author. This statement is a link to the original module, so the reader can view the module on which your derived copy was based.”

Ratings, reviews, and lineage.

Old Model:Producer – Consumer

New Model:Prosumer

PublishFind

Remix

dScribeprocess

ccMixter's strengths

1. Brand recognition2. Central location3. Great Community Manager4. Contests5. Both popular and not-yet-popular artists.

oerMixter

1. OER is a strong brand2. At least the metadata is central3. A Community Manager is essential4. Contests = New Semesters ?5. Professors are becoming popular.

Walter Lewin

MIT OCW - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-01-physics-i-classical-mechanics-fall-1999/

Encourage the Walter Lewins of the world.

Why?even 60% of ccMixter is not remixed

People are actually recognizing high quality

educational material.

Be enablers.

Thank you.

Please upload your remixes tohttp://remix.grossmeier.net

Credits

Mindstorm NXT – jonathanjonl – CC:BY-SA

All screenshots included are for illustrative and educational purposes, used under fair use.

All (mashed up) logos/trademarks are owned by their respective entities.

All text was built upon others' work but this incarnation was written by Greg Grossmeier and

licensed under CC:BY-SA 3.0