Open Educational Resources - Make Your Future summits - NCCE 2013
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What are OER?
OER = open educational resources Digital, free, and OPEN for anyone to use,
adapt, and redistribute
Why OER?
Differentiating instruction is essential to improving education.
Textbooks are not the best tool for this. Technology coupled with high quality content is. Teachers and students need high quality
resources that they can use legally to build upon.
Teacher and student innovation is key. Sharing is good.
How is OER relevant to education?
Suitable for “remixing” Increases teacher professionalism Increases equity FREE
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Remixing and the Common Core
We have a unique opportunity
Common Core + digital + open + teacher and student innovation = a new era in curriculum
Traditional copyright -
all rights reserved
Public domain - unrestricted
use
Traditional copyright -
all rights reserved
Public domain - unrestricted
use
Copyright with open licenses -
some rights reserved
Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪
No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)
Recommended for education:
CC BY
http://content.k12opened.com
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How to Find OER
1. If you know what you’re looking for, go directly to the best source(s).
2. OER Commons search
3. Creative Commons search
4. Advanced Google Search
5. …and more
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How You Can Open License Your Own Work
Just write “licensed under Creative Commons CC BY” on the work
Use the Creative Commons “Choose a License” tool Supplies license artwork Optional code you can put on a web site to be
accessed by open search engines
Thank you.
Karen Fasimpaur
@kfasimpaur
#oer
First screen image credits:
Linux computer lab – Michael SurranLinux penguin - Larry Ewing <[email protected]> with the GIMPBooks - TizzieGlobe – NASACloud background - Anca Mosoiu
Washington OER Project2013 NCCE Conference – Leadership SummitsFebruary 27, 2013
Barbara SootsOER Program ManagerOffice of Superintendent of Public InstructionDigital Learning [email protected]
OER may be used as anentire course, full curricular
units, lesson plan components, supplemental material, or multimedia building blocks
for creating new works.
lCC BY-SA Bruce Peru Brainstorming by jeferonix http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreywarren/174755307/in/photostream
Conditions are ripe to explore the use ofOpen Educational Resources
Districts spend $5.5 billion a year in instructional content.However, many students are still using textbooks7 to 10 years old…
Source: Out of Print: Reimagining the K-12 Textbook in a Digital Age
CC BY-SA Money by 401(K) 2012 http://www.flickr.com/photos/68751915@N05/6551534889
In 2012, Washington passed a bill directing OSPI to identify a library of openly licensed courseware
OSPI will suggest OER courseware to school districts that are less expensive , more current, and aligned to the Common Core State Standards.
Many states have existing OER repositories…
CC BY-SA Confused by CollegeDegrees360 http://www.flickr.com/photos/83633410@N07/7658298768
1. Creation of a review process for OER material useful to districts and sustainable over time
2. Development of a vetted list of full-curriculum OER
3. OER awareness campaign directed toward district curriculum adopter decision-makers
WA OER ProjectPhase 1
Important•OSPI is providing review of standards alignment and identification of potential resources – not an adoption mandate
•All materials OSPI builds, as part of this project, will be CC licensed
Tools to Evaluate Quality
Publisher’s Criteria
Tri-State/EQuIP Rubrics
OER Rubrics
Rubric OptionsAchieve OER Rubrics
Evaluate individual OER “building block” assets Any combination of 8 rubrics may be used
Tri-State Quality Review Rubric
Evaluate complete unit/lesson Would not capture some of the richness of smaller stand-alone OER assets never created to address all the rubric dimensions of a full lesson
CCSS Publisher’s CriteriaRubric is written in broader strokes better to evaluate full curriculum and assess CCSS instructional shifts.
IndividualAsset
Unit /Lesson Plan
Full Curriculum
OER Project Website
http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer
Website: http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer
Twitter: waOSPI_OER
Email: [email protected]
Materials Review Information:http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer/review.php
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