A presentation on the benefits and challenges of OER for an OER MOOC course.

1. OER
Benefit Verses Cost
March 3, 2014
Brenda M. Perea

2. When you use OER:
• You feel like a super hero delivering high
quality content at “no cost”
• Why a super hero?
Super Hero by demandaj published
under a CC BY-NC-SA-2.0 license
• Open source material can be
taken, reused, revised, remixed, republished, and reorganized as needed as long as you follow the
creative commons license
• Digital course content is compiled and edited by the
instructor for other instructors
• Content is presented and delivered predominantly in
multimedia friendly formats through the Internet
• Digital OER textbooks, text readings are reduced
and condensed compared to regular textbooks
• Updating is instant and constant on an on-going
basis
• OER Repositories are often “peer reviewed” for
quality

3. Tools To Supply A OER Super Hero
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Digital Public Library of America
Merlot
Connexions
PhET
P2PU
MIT Open Courseware
Cool Toy Pics of the Day by rosefirerising is published under a
Open Stax College
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license
Open Learning Initiative
http://open4us.org/faq/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
http://open4us.org/resources/cc-by-license-implementation-deep-diveresources/
License Chooser tool:
• http://creativecommons.org/choose/

4. Challenges to Using and Contributing
• Technology—OER is viewed as a new technology and doesn’t have wide
to OER
acceptance as publisher content
• OER Repositories—Are not built on the same platform such as HTML vs.
XML and sharing to an OER Repository requires manual recreating of
content since SCORM uploads are not standard.
• Time—takes an enormous amount of time to find OER, confirm the
creative commons licenses and then adapt the OER for your specific
needs.
• Quality Assessment—OER is voluntary, there is a reluctance to “share”
and the reluctance to “accept other work as equivalent as publisher
created work”
Super Villain by tikigod published
under a CC BY-NC-ND-2.0 license
• College and University Property—who actually “owns” the content
created within a college or university system.
• academic freedom often prevent the acceptance and sharing of
open access licenses
• Following or Creating a different CC BY license for each OER published
• No Central OER repository--Videos: YouTube, Vimeo or the Internet
Archive, Audio/Podcasts: Soundcloud or the Internet Archive.
Presentations: Slideshare, Documents: Google Drive
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5. Creative Commons Attribution
• OER-Benefit verses Cost Brenda M. Perea is licensed under
a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.