What can Open Access offer me as a teacher?: A guide to Open Access and to education resources you can use for teaching and professional development

A guide to Open Access and to Open Education Resources for teaching and professional development.
Stian Håklev & Clare Brett
MT Technology Day, October 20, 2010

Who we are…
Introductions:
To us….
To you…
What are you teaching?
Specializations?

What do you already know…
About Open Source, or Open Educational Resources?
What understanding would you like to leave with from today’s session?

Overview
What do we mean by “Open”? Why does it matter?
Open Access (OA) and Open Educational Resources (OER's): What are they? And why are they important?
Interesting curriculum resources and how to find them.
New tools for lifelong professional development: the Peer-to-Peer university; Twitter, WikiEducator
Creative Commons & Copyright:--developing and publishing your own material
Small group discussions on strategies and issues about using these resources in your classroom
This will be an interactive session, where your questions are welcome.

Three pillars of openness Openness as a transformative value

Free as in speech/beer

free software

creative commons

ccmixter

flickr cc

Different meanings of open

Three pillars of openness
Open license
Open files/data
Open collaboration

the story of a seed

a story enabled by openness

What is Open Access? Green OA

What is Open Access? Green OA Gold OA

Why is OA important for me as an educator?
It’s the only way to get access to research after you leave OISE.

What are Open Educational Resources (OER’s)?
Any kind of learning resources available online, usually with an open license
Three main purposes:
direct learning for independent self-learners
resource base for reuse, objects you can reuse when teaching
transparency, seeing how others do things, becoming inspired

Why Open Resources now?
The increasing importance of the lifelong learning agenda.
The new generation of easy-to-use Web-based tools and services provides opportunities to offer potentially more effective OER.
There are means to retain copyright and still share for educational purposes, making it easier for authors and institutions to provide OER through the set of Creative Commons licenses
Creative Commons also enables such copyright structures in an internationally standardized way.

Activity 1: in small groups
Identify the main advantages that you see of having OA and OER’s
Identify the main challenges you see for implementing OA and OER’s .

Interesting curriculum resources for the discerning teacher and how to find them.

Links to Educational OER repositories
DiscoverEd: http://discovered.creativecommons.org/search/
Knowledge Hub: http://www.temoa.info/
OER Commons: http://www.oercommons.org/
ICT Digital Literacy: http://www.ictliteracy.info/K12-Resources.htm

Canadian OER resources:
Lesson plans with Canadian Content
Image collection

New projects and research
http://collegeopentextbooks.org/
http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page
Curriki: http://www.curriki.org/

Multicultural/multilingual OER
Can be a great resource for students with different mother tongues and cultures

ind textbook fpag

ind textb content

“Accidental” OER
Incredible resources available not “meant” for teaching
Needs a “curator”

youtube main

soc images

Invite science into the classroom
Open notebook science
Distributed collaborative “amateur” science networks

Activity 2: In small groups by teaching specialization: P/J, J/I, I/S :
Brainstorm in groups using sites we have looked at to:
Identify the main challenges you see to a) accessing these resources, b) expanding this approach to educational content.
Do you think OER’s provide a useful way to develop resources and provide access to them
Summarize your group’s ideas and present these to the whole group.

New directions for lifelong professional development: the Peer2Peer University, Twitter, WikiEducator

More informal ways of PD
Blogging
Twitter
Massive online open courses
Social networks
Podcasts
Wikis
Sharing your own materials

Connectivism course

Activity 3: In small groups
Discuss the value you see of getting professional development via emerging initiatives like P2P versus traditional PD structures.
Identify and list the positives and negatives that you see.

References and Resources
Curriki: http://www.curriki.org/
Article on recent teacher contributions and awards to curriki
Open High School of Utah - an entire online publicly funding high school using only OER http://www.openhighschool.org/ http://ocw.openhighschool.org /
http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy - 1600 ten-minute videos about math, science and all other subjects.
http://videolectures.net/ OpenCourseWare appropriate for some high school students who want to "stretch themselves”
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ ICDL - International Childrens Digital Library. Not openly licensed but free. Great for multicultural approaches - over 50 languages represented
http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia
http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page : WikiEducator - huge repository of OER, also for K12, and teacher collaboration, international.
http://p2pu.org : P2PU - for teacher development
http://twitter.com/#!/dougpete/ontario-educators List of Ontario Educator Tweeters
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/citscitoolkit/projects/ Citizen science - huge archive of distributed "citizen science" projects
http://www.doaj.org/ Directory of OA Journals:
http://www.opendoar.org / Directory of OA Repositories
http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Student_Generated_Content : Student-generated OER projects

Contact Information
Stian Håklev: [email_address]
Website: http://reganmian.net/blog
Clare Brett [email_address]
Website: http://grail.oise.utoronto.ca/blog/clare/publications-presentations/

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