How to create OERs

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What you can create…

• Activities & Labs• Assessments• Audio Lectures• Case Study• Curriculum Standards• Discussion Forums• Full Course• Games• Homework &

Assignments• Images & Illustrations

• Interactive Text• Lecture Notes• Lesson Plans• Readings• Resource Review• Simulations• Syllabi• Teaching & Learning Strategies• Textbooks• Training Materials• Unit of Study• Video Lectures

Any materials associated with teaching and learning!

WikiEducator...

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Create / Edit the Page

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Add text, image etc to page...

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https://www.oercommons.org/

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Register

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Contribute Resources to OER Commons

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Log in to your account...

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Add content...

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Check Summary...

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Your OERs...

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Submit a resource...

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PDF Course Schedule Builder

• The PDF Course Schedule Builder (PDFCSB) is an open-source tool that was developed at the Faculty Center for Teaching (FACT) at Utah State University (USU). The PDFCSB allows instructors to create a schedule for an online course in a native PDF environment--Adobe Reader.

• See a demo here• http://www.youtube.co

m/watch?v=9QZQiwzsr2k

George Joeckel

Metadata• In order for potential users to

find resources online, and to understand the scope of a resource, it is vital to include relevant metadata. This is information about the resource, such as the author’s name, the date the resource was created, keywords, and the educational context in which the resource has previously been used.

• http://www.ucl.ac.uk/teaching-learning/teaching_tools/oer/how-to-create-OER

http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2009/03/30/metadata-guidelines-for-the-oer-programme/

Re-Purpose the content

• Jacqui Cain from Tacoma Community College, as part of a Bill and Melinda Gates foundation grant, re-purposed Sherlock Holmes stories to create a full online course in Remedial English

Image source: http://www.wheresrunnicles.com/2010_01_01_archive.html

http://www.opentapestry.com/

Characteristics of OER: licences and rights (2012)

See the video at http://youtu.be/rTF3TTt-UkU

Make sure to… Choose an appropriate License

– Be clear about your license choice and about what it covers.

Cite your sources!– Include license info and link to license on website

Make it adaptable!– Make your content available in multiple file formats

(pdf, .ppt, .odt, .doc, etc) – Ensure that users can download your content, not simply

access. Use Open Content!

– Promote open content by using open content and remixing others’ work.

http://www.slideshare.net/epuckettrodgers/create-oer

Select an appropriate License

http://creativecommons.org/choose/

Choose an appropriate License

http://creativecommons.org

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Where you can share your resources

Jorum: find and share learning and teaching resources

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

HumBox: storing, managing and publishing your Humanities teaching resources on the web http://humbox.ac.uk/

iTunes U Flickr

Where you can share your resources

YouTube Google sites / Drive

Where you can share your resources

Thank You!