What I believe and why I got involved in Open Education Differentiating instruction is essential to improving education. Textbooks are not a good tool for this. Technology coupled with high quality content is. Sharing is good. Everyone deserves a free, high quality education. The current educational bureaucracy is not likely to embrace OER projects.

Differentiating instruction is essential to improving education.

Textbooks are not a good tool for this.

Technology coupled with high quality content is.

Sharing is good.

Everyone deserves a free, high quality education.

The current educational bureaucracy is not likely to embrace OER projects.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are: Digital Free and open Tools, content, and implementation resources For teachers, students, and lifelong learners

Open Educational Resources (OER) are:

Digital

Free and open

Tools, content, and implementation resources

For teachers, students, and lifelong learners

Mass collaboration has resulted in the most widely-used web server software the most popular encyclopedia sequencing of the human genome What could it do for education?

Mass collaboration has resulted in

the most widely-used web server software

the most popular encyclopedia

sequencing of the human genome

What could it do for education?

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 or CC SA

Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪

No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)

Recommended for education:

CC BY or CC SA

Tools Operating systems (= more affordable hardware) Ubuntu Xandros (eee PC) Wikis, blogs, and course management MediaWiki Wikispaces WordPress ( .com and .org ) Moodle

Operating systems (= more affordable hardware)

Ubuntu

Xandros (eee PC)

Wikis, blogs, and course management

MediaWiki

Wikispaces

WordPress ( .com and .org )

Moodle

Tools (cont.) Productivity tools Open Office GIMP Audacity CamStudio More The OpenDisc SourceForge SchoolForge

Productivity tools

Open Office

GIMP

Audacity

CamStudio

More

The OpenDisc

SourceForge

SchoolForge

Content – General Multimedia Photos and video The Open Photo Project Flickr (CC) Wikimedia Commons NextVista Music and sound ccMixter MusOpen The FreeSound project

Photos and video

The Open Photo Project

Flickr (CC)

Wikimedia Commons

NextVista

Music and sound

ccMixter

MusOpen

The FreeSound project

Content – Education Wikibooks FreeReading Curriki Kids Open Dictionary OER Commons MIT OpenCourseWare Ebooks More...

Wikibooks

FreeReading

Curriki

Kids Open Dictionary

OER Commons

MIT OpenCourseWare

Ebooks

More...

How You Can Contribute If you publish something you are willing to share, open license it Publish on an open platform like Wikispaces Post photos (to Flickr or elsewhere) with an open license If you see a mistake in Wikipedia, FIX IT! Add something to a topic in Wikipedia or Wikibooks Write a definition in the Kids Open Dictionary Tell three people you know about OER

If you publish something you are willing to share, open license it

Publish on an open platform like Wikispaces

Post photos (to Flickr or elsewhere) with an open license

If you see a mistake in Wikipedia, FIX IT!

Add something to a topic in Wikipedia or Wikibooks

Write a definition in the Kids Open Dictionary

Tell three people you know about OER

Thank you. Karen Fasimpaur www.k12opened.com [email_address] First screen image credits: Linux computer lab – Michael Surran Linux penguin - Larry Ewing <lewing@isc.tamu.edu> with the GIMP Books - Tizzie Globe – NASA Cloud background - Anca Mosoiu

Thank you.

Karen Fasimpaur

www.k12opened.com

[email_address]