Open educational resources (OER) allow instructors to feel like super heroes by delivering high-quality, low-cost content. OER can be taken, reused, revised and remixed as long as its open license is followed. OER is compiled and edited by instructors for other instructors, presented predominantly online, and constantly updated. However, OER faces challenges such as issues with technology acceptance, inconsistent platforms between repositories, the time required to find, review and adapt content, reluctance to evaluate or share third-party content, questions around content ownership, and a lack of centralized repositories.
2. When you use OER:
• You feel like a super hero delivering high
quality content at “no cost”
• Why a super hero?
Super Hero by demandaj published
under a CC BY-NC-SA-2.0 license
• Open source material can be
taken, reused, revised, remixed, republished, and reorganized as needed as long as you follow the
creative commons license
• Digital course content is compiled and edited by the
instructor for other instructors
• Content is presented and delivered predominantly in
multimedia friendly formats through the Internet
• Digital OER textbooks, text readings are reduced
and condensed compared to regular textbooks
• Updating is instant and constant on an on-going
basis
• OER Repositories are often “peer reviewed” for
quality
3. Tools To Supply A OER Super Hero
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Digital Public Library of America
Merlot
Connexions
PhET
P2PU
MIT Open Courseware
Cool Toy Pics of the Day by rosefirerising is published under a
Open Stax College
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license
Open Learning Initiative
http://open4us.org/faq/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
http://open4us.org/resources/cc-by-license-implementation-deep-diveresources/
License Chooser tool:
• http://creativecommons.org/choose/
4. Challenges to Using and Contributing
• Technology—OER is viewed as a new technology and doesn’t have wide
to OER
acceptance as publisher content
• OER Repositories—Are not built on the same platform such as HTML vs.
XML and sharing to an OER Repository requires manual recreating of
content since SCORM uploads are not standard.
• Time—takes an enormous amount of time to find OER, confirm the
creative commons licenses and then adapt the OER for your specific
needs.
• Quality Assessment—OER is voluntary, there is a reluctance to “share”
and the reluctance to “accept other work as equivalent as publisher
created work”
Super Villain by tikigod published
under a CC BY-NC-ND-2.0 license
• College and University Property—who actually “owns” the content
created within a college or university system.
• academic freedom often prevent the acceptance and sharing of
open access licenses
• Following or Creating a different CC BY license for each OER published
• No Central OER repository--Videos: YouTube, Vimeo or the Internet
Archive, Audio/Podcasts: Soundcloud or the Internet Archive.
Presentations: Slideshare, Documents: Google Drive
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5. Creative Commons Attribution
• OER-Benefit verses Cost Brenda M. Perea is licensed under
a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Editor's Notes
TechnologyTimeQuality Assessment-Reluctance to “share” and the reluctance to “accept other instructors work”Policies on academic freedom, open access licenses (CC BY)Development of a master course with core competencies coveredEvolving Online/Hybrid Pedagogy QualityDiffering learning management systemsResistance to being required to publish Online/hybrid courses as OEREvolving Online/Hybrid Pedagogy Differing learning management systems