Finding Free and Open High
School & Univ. Curriculum
David Wiley, PhD
Instructional Psychology & Technology
Brigham Young University

Tremendous Need
education can end cycles of poverty

Affordable
educational resources need to be free

Flexible
so people can adapt resources to meet their needs

(c) Copyright, 2009
costs and adaptability are regulated via copyright

Berne Convention
automatically copyrights everything to the fullest extent

Sharing Is “Difficult”
granting rights for crayon drawings, etc.

CC License Options

Affordable and Flexible
creative commons gives us a mechanism

“Open Educational Resources”
creative commons licensed educational materials

Coming to High School...
tons of incredible high school level resources

Licensed under Creative Commons By-SA

Charter, Online School
commied to using only OER

Aggregating and Polishing
making the best OERs into coherent courses

Our Curriculum Is Free
we want you to use it!

hp://openhighschool.org/uhea
links to all the websites in this presentation

Thank You!
Questions? Comments?
david.wiley@byu.edu