Content for Nuthin', Flicks for Free Teaching the CSEM in a World of Open Educational Resources Terri Bays April 7, 2008 Notre Dame Open courseware Pilot Project • Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning 353 DeBartolo Hall • Notre Dame, IN 46556 • [email_address] Telephone 574-631-6787 • Fax 574-631-8047

What’s an “OER” anyway? Term first adopted at UNESCO's 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries, a forum funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Notre Dame Open courseware Pilot Project • Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning 353 DeBartolo Hall • Notre Dame, IN 46556 • [email_address] Telephone 574-631-6787 • Fax 574-631-8047

Term first adopted at UNESCO's 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries, a forum funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Referring to...? Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and, under some licenses, to re-mix, improve and redistribute. Notre Dame Open courseware Pilot Project • Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning 353 DeBartolo Hall • Notre Dame, IN 46556 • [email_address] Telephone 574-631-6787 • Fax 574-631-8047

Such as. . .? Learning content: full courses, course materials, content modules, learning objects, collections, and journals. Tools: Software to support the creation, delivery, use and improvement of open learning content Implementation resources: Intellectual property licenses to promote open publishing of materials, design-principles, and localization of content. Notre Dame Open courseware Pilot Project • Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning 353 DeBartolo Hall • Notre Dame, IN 46556 • [email_address] Telephone 574-631-6787 • Fax 574-631-8047

Learning content: full courses, course materials, content modules, learning objects, collections, and journals.

Tools: Software to support the creation, delivery, use and improvement of open learning content

Implementation resources: Intellectual property licenses to promote open publishing of materials, design-principles, and localization of content.

Free ≠ Open (≠Libre) Notre Dame Open courseware Pilot Project • Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning 353 DeBartolo Hall • Notre Dame, IN 46556 • [email_address] Telephone 574-631-6787 • Fax 574-631-8047 Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike No Derivatives

So, What’s Out There? OER Portals: OER Commons OCW Consortium Merlot Medium-Specific Sites: Flickr Listening to Words Slide Share Gov’t Sites: National Archives Library of Congress EPA Connexions Open Video Project Notre Dame Open courseware Pilot Project • Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning 353 DeBartolo Hall • Notre Dame, IN 46556 • [email_address] Telephone 574-631-6787 • Fax 574-631-8047

OER Portals:

OER Commons

OCW Consortium

Merlot

Medium-Specific Sites:

Flickr

Listening to Words

Slide Share

Gov’t Sites:

National Archives

Library of Congress

EPA

Connexions

Open Video Project

Or do an OER Search. . . Notre Dame Open courseware Pilot Project • Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning 353 DeBartolo Hall • Notre Dame, IN 46556 • [email_address] Telephone 574-631-6787 • Fax 574-631-8047

Incorporating OERs in Undergraduate Teaching Why “open” matters Why “derivatives” matter Why “redistribution” matters Notre Dame Open courseware Pilot Project • Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning 353 DeBartolo Hall • Notre Dame, IN 46556 • [email_address] Telephone 574-631-6787 • Fax 574-631-8047

Why “open” matters

Why “derivatives” matter

Why “redistribution” matters

Integrating Different Learning Styles and Techniques Multiple Approaches to the same subject Asynchronicity Access to Disciplinary “Folklore” Notre Dame Open courseware Pilot Project • Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning 353 DeBartolo Hall • Notre Dame, IN 46556 • [email_address] Telephone 574-631-6787 • Fax 574-631-8047

Multiple Approaches to the same subject

Asynchronicity

Access to Disciplinary “Folklore”

Remix: From Encounter to Engagement Substitute Current Figures for Pilgrims Compose “Profiles” Anatomize Profile Elements Create Marginalia for Other Texts Image Courtesy of Laura Gibbs, http://www.mythfolklore.net/2003frametales/weeks/week09/images/ell_chaucer.htm

Substitute Current Figures for Pilgrims

Compose “Profiles”

Anatomize Profile Elements

Create Marginalia for Other Texts

Promoting Undergraduate Research Search period/area newspapers for evidence of various phenomena Subject that evidence to the analytical tools of your discipline “ Translate” the account into a different language or mind-set Notre Dame Open courseware Pilot Project • Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning 353 DeBartolo Hall • Notre Dame, IN 46556 • [email_address] Telephone 574-631-6787 • Fax 574-631-8047

Search period/area newspapers for evidence of various phenomena

Subject that evidence to the analytical tools of your discipline

“ Translate” the account into a different language or mind-set

Publication as Motivation Remix to relate a theme from video to an issue in your discipline Use video as model for “educational video” production on another topic Critique video and publish “review” Notre Dame Open courseware Pilot Project • Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning 353 DeBartolo Hall • Notre Dame, IN 46556 • [email_address] Telephone 574-631-6787 • Fax 574-631-8047

Remix to relate a theme from video to an issue in your discipline

Use video as model for “educational video” production on another topic

Critique video and publish “review”

SHARE! Notre Dame Open courseware Pilot Project • Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning 353 DeBartolo Hall • Notre Dame, IN 46556 • [email_address] Telephone 574-631-6787 • Fax 574-631-8047

On-Campus Assistance Identifying OERs in Your Field Reference Librarian—Linda Sharp Technical Assistance Learning Technology Lab OIT Publication Notre Dame OCW Project Notre Dame Open courseware Pilot Project • Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning 353 DeBartolo Hall • Notre Dame, IN 46556 • [email_address] Telephone 574-631-6787 • Fax 574-631-8047

Identifying OERs in Your Field

Reference Librarian—Linda Sharp

Technical Assistance

Learning Technology Lab

OIT

Publication

Notre Dame OCW Project

Thank You! Terri Bays [email_address] Notre Dame Open courseware Pilot Project • Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning 353 DeBartolo Hall • Notre Dame, IN 46556 • [email_address] Telephone 574-631-6787 • Fax 574-631-8047