2. What I believe and why I got involved in Open Education
- Differentiating instruction is essential to improving
education.
- Textbooks are not a good tool for this.
- Technology coupled with high quality content is.
- Everyone deserves a free, high quality education.
- The current educational bureaucracy is not likely to embrace
OER projects.
3.
- Open Educational Resources (OER) are:
- Tools, content, and implementation resources
- For teachers, students, and lifelong learners
4.
- Mass collaboration has resulted in
- the most widely-used web server software
- the most popular encyclopedia
- sequencing of the human genome
- What could it do for education?
5. Traditional copyright -all rightsreserved Public domain
-unrestricted use Copyright with open licenses -some rights
reserved 6.
- Attribution (BY)Non-commercial (NC)
- No derivatives (ND)Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)
- Recommended for education:
7. Tools
- Operating systems (= more affordable hardware)
- Wikis, blogs, and course management
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- WordPress ( .comand.org )
8. Tools (cont.)
9. Content General Multimedia
10. Content Education
11. How You Can Contribute
- If you publish something you are willing to share, open license
it
- Publish on an open platform like Wikispaces
- Post photos (to Flickr or elsewhere) with an open license
- If you see a mistake in Wikipedia, FIX IT!
- Add something to a topic in Wikipedia or Wikibooks
- Write a definition in the Kids Open Dictionary
- Tell three people you know about OER
12.
First screen image credits: Linux computer lab Michael Surran
Linux penguin - Larry Ewing with the GIMP Books - Tizzie Globe NASA
Cloud background - Anca Mosoiu 13.
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- CC BY You can use however you want; just cite the source.
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- CC BY SA You can use however you want, but you must cite the
source AND license your work under a sharing license.
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- CC BY NC You can use only if it is noncommercial (you cant
charge $); cite the source.
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- CC BY ND You can use the work but you cant change it or put it
into a bigger work; also cite the source.
14.
- GFDL Share-alike license used by Wikipedia and others.
- Public domain not copyrighted; you can use however you
like.
- Custom licenses(e.g. morguefile and Stock.XCHNG)