Open Educational Resources
- 1. Open Educational Resources Ramesh Sharma
- 2. Jamia Millia Islamia Academic Staff College 9 November 2012
- 3. Come…let’s think! What is OER? Why OER? What are open licenses? What are challenges? How to create OER? OER Foundation WikiEducator Image source: http://www.bihardays.com/
- 4. Have you heard about some of these terms: Open Acess Open Content Open Course ware Open Source Software Open Education / e-Learning Open Educational Resources …and many more things
- 5. Open Access focuses on sharing content, usually of scholarly nature, without a requirement for the use of an Open license
- 6. Open Access Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. OA removes price barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and permission barriers (most copyright and licensing restrictions). http://bit.ly/oa-overview Peter Suber Director, Harvard Open Access Project
- 7. open content / open practices http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/tag/open-content/
- 8. Open Course Ware (OCW) Sharing open content that is developed specifically for a course offering
- 9. syllabi, lecture notes, presentation slides, OCW assignments, lecture videos - all related to a course
- 10. eLearning
- 11. Come…let’s think! What is OER? Why OER? What are open licenses? What are challenges? How to create OER? OER Foundation WikiEducator Image source: http://www.bihardays.com/
- 12. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) defines Open Educational Resources (OER) as ‘materials offered freely and openly to use and adapt for teaching, learning, development and research’. http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/OCW-OER.aspx
- 13. Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world. OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/
- 14. OER further defined… Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge (Atkins, Brown, & Hammond, 2007). Atkins, D.E., Brown, J.S. & Hammond, A.L. (February 2007). A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities. Report to The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. p. 4. Cited at http://wikieducator.org/Educators_care/Defining_OER
- 15. OER defined: OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. - The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- 17. Open Educational Resources free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for •teaching, •learning, •research, and •other purposes. The term was first used at a UNESCO conference in 2002, although OERs were being produced and used before that time. For instance, the MIT OpenCourseWare project, which began in 2001, was one of the first major initiatives of the OER movement.
- 18. Types of Open Educational Resources • Courses, • Course materials, • Content modules, • Learning objects, • Collections, and • Journals
- 22. Come…let’s think! What is OER? Why OER? What are open licenses? What are challenges? How to create OER? OER Foundation WikiEducator Image source: http://www.bihardays.com/
- 27. Come…let’s think! What is OER? Why OER? What are open licenses? What are challenges? How to create OER? OER Foundation WikiEducator Image source: http://www.bihardays.com/
- 28. There are many types...
- 30. Creative Commons
- 32. What are open licenses?
- 33. Freedom ~ Restrictions: a spectrum Public All Rights Domain Reserved least restrictive most restrictive
- 36. Come…let’s think! What is OER? Why OER? What are open licenses? What are challenges? How to create OER? OER Foundation WikiEducator Image source: http://www.bihardays.com/
- 43. Come…let’s think! What is OER? Why OER? What are open licenses? What are challenges? How to create OER? OER Foundation WikiEducator Image source: http://www.bihardays.com/
- 45. * Google Image Search http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search * discoverEd http://discovered.creativecommons.org * Creative Commons http://search.creativecommons.org * Flickr http://flickr.com/creativecommons/ * Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org 45
- 46. Come…let’s think! What is OER? Why OER? What are open licenses? What are challenges? How to create OER? OER Foundation WikiEducator Image source: http://www.bihardays.com/
- 49. Come…let’s think! What is OER? Why OER? What are open licenses? What are challenges? How to create OER? OER Foundation WikiEducator Image source: http://www.bihardays.com/
- 52. Thank You!