A presentation by Bill Warters at the 3rd International Summit on Conflict Resolution in Education held in Cleveland Ohio March 26-27, 2010.

1. CRE Resource Creation
and Discovery via
CREducation.org
Presented by Bill Warters
Wayne State University
w.warters@wayne.edu

2. Agenda
 Introduction to CRETE
 Overview of Open Educational Resources
“movement”
 Walk through some of what we’ve collected/created
on the CREducation.org site
 Review a fun (and freely available) video game -
Cool School
 Introduce you to eXe, the open-source e-learning
editor (and give away copies!)
 Think together about ways to create more sharing
among the Conflict Resolution community
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4. CRETE Mission - broadly defined
CRETE works with teacher
education at pre-service and
in-service levels to develop
teachers’ critical skills in
conflict education and
classroom management.
On the web at www.creducation.org 4 Funded by FIPSE Project P116B040920, JAMS Foundation, Gund Foundation

5. CRETE Training Topics
 Critical concepts and skills include:
 Understanding Conflict
 Conflict Styles
 Emotions and Conflict – Handling Anger
 De-escalating Angry Students
 Positive Discipline and Dealing with Disruptive Students
 Classroom meetings to Establish Classroom Management
 Bullying Prevention – What Can Teachers Do?
 Building Students’ Collaborative Negotiation Skills
 Using Peer Mediation to Your Advantage
 Dialogue and Diversity Conflict
 Restorative Practices in Schools
On the web at www.creducation.org 5 Funded by FIPSE Project P116B040920, JAMS Foundation, Gund Foundation

6. www.creducation.org
On the web at www.creducation.org 6 Funded by FIPSE Project P116B040920, JAMS Foundation, Gund Foundation

7. Wayne State Colleagues
 Dina Mein - Technology Resource Center Director
 Joe Gadja - Server caretaker
 Adrienne Alluzo - librarian doing cataloging
 Matt Decker - Technology Advisor
 Anne-Marie Armstrong - learning modules,
manual (years 1-2)
 Kathleen Doyle - program manager, calendar,
manual
 LaCesha Clark (new - replacing Anne-Marie)
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8. CREducation.org
Visitor Stats
8,330
unique visitors
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9. The Open Source/Open Access Movement
Public Domain: Michael Reschke
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OERlogo.svg 9

10. Resource Control and Containment
 Much Energy has been expended
exploring ways to control and
constrain the use of video, audio,
pictures and text that, while
appropriate for educational use
purposes, due to copyright
restrictions, should only be made
accessible at certain moments,
durations, locations, and for users in
certain roles or statuses...
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11. Focus has been on Digital Rights
Management
 This is a very complex area, especially when
you apply it to the Research and
Education context.
 Critics say that DRM has been unbalanced
in favor of the rights of the content creator/
owner in contrast to the rights of the user/
consumer.
 The term DRM itself has become contested
As already noted, many DRM opponents consider "digital rights
management" to be a misnomer. They argue that DRM manages
rights (or access) the same way prison manages freedom and often
refer to it as "digital restrictions management". Alternatively, ZDNet
Executive Editor David Berlind suggests the term "Content
Restriction, Annulment and Protection" or "CRAP" for short
11 from wikipedia entry on DRM

12. A Shift Occurring in Content Use Goals?
We are experiencing a profound shift away from
containment and control of resources and toward
systems that will enable the following educational
content uses....
Locate, Collate, Rate,
Annotate, Educate
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13. What do we mean by open?
“...educational materials and resources offered freely
and openly for anyone to use and under some
license to re-mix, improve and redistribute.”
• free, as in no fees, does not mean open
• open access does not mean openly licensed
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14. Enter Creative Commons Licensing
http://creativecommons.org/videos/get-creative
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15. Copyright and Copyleft
Copyleft
Public Domain Creative Traditional
Commons Copyright
licensing
©
No rights Some rights All rights
reserved reserved reserved
Unrestricted Choice of restriction Exclusive restrictions
redistribution and on redistribution and on redistribution and
modification modification and modification
Share-Alike
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16. Permission to ReUse - with restrictions
Nice
Primer on
CC!
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Sharing_Creative_Works
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17. Open Courseware (OCW) Movement
Most
downloads on
iTunes U
MIT OCW

18. OCW Domestic

19. OCW International
As of Feb 2006...
Over 150 universities in China participate in the
China Open Resources for Education initiative,
with over 450 courses online. http://
www.core.org.cn/cn/jpkc/index_en.html
Eleven universities in France formed the
ParisTech OCW project, which offers over 130
courses. http://graduateschool.paristech.org/
Seven universities in Japan formed the Japanese
OCW Alliance that offers over 140 courses.
http://www.jocw.jp/

20. Consortium of OCWs
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21. The OER Commons

22. Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org
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23. Open Journal Systems map
OJS is a popular publishing platform, but not the only one

24. Public Knowledge Project
• Open Journal
Systems
• Open Conference
Systems
• Open Monograph
Press
• Support for Open
Archives Initiative

25. I Focus mainly on Open Source tool for educators...
Xerte Moodle
Simile
VUE eXe OpenLearn
Pachyderm
Ivanhoe Elgg
LeMill Curriki Omeka
Seque MediaMatrix
Collex Mahara
Kaltura
Sophie Send2Wiki
Cohere OCW in Motion

26. Moodle Intro Movie made by an Enthusiast
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_o1fMQsfzoQ
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27. Who Uses Moodle?
In the U.S., Moodle has been adopted by many Liberal Arts Colleges, such as Bryn Mawr,
Carlton, DePauw, Lewis and Clark, Macalester, Reed, and Smith, as well as numerous
larger schools such as U.C.L.A., San Francisco State, The University of Georgia, The
University of Minnesota, and many others. Moodle doubled its growth among US
community colleges last year.
In addition to its extensive use in schools in Australia and New Zealand, Moodle is widely
used in Europe, especially in Spain and the U.K. One of the largest Moodle installation in
the world is the Open University in the U.K. with over 200,000 students using Moodle.
There are 251 registered sites with more than 10,000 users. The site with the most users
is moodle.org with 49 courses and 404,074 users.

28. Moodle is surprisingly popular as corporate LMS
• LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (LMS)
The good, the bad, the ugly ... and the truth by Steve Wexler, Lance Dublin, Nancy Grey, Sheila
Jagannathan, Tony Karrer, Margaret Martinez, Bob Mosher, Kevin Oakes, and Angela van Barneveld (2007)
http://www.elearningguild.com/content.cfm?selection=doc.36

29. Many Moodle Modules

30. www.creducation.org
On the web at www.creducation.org 30 Funded by FIPSE Project P116B040920, JAMS Foundation, Gund Foundation

31. Topical Pages Draw on our open access Catalog
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32. The Full Catalog
New:
Special iPhone
Browser
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33. http://www.oaister.org/
OAIster is a
global shared
catalog indexing
more than 900
collections
Results
from our
collection!
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34. Now in Libraries Worldwide!
 OCLC, the library cooperative
that runs the wonderful
Worldcat.org online library, is
now integrating the OAIster
collection into their First Search
library database package
 All Libraries with First Search
get this - part of the base
package. This means most
colleges and public libraries...
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36. Global Projects Section
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37. Directory of CRE Organizations
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38. Partner Institutions Map
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39. Conference
Presentation
Slides
Click to view
Choose
presentation
Menu to
embed
Play
as full
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screen

40. Blog with us!
 Demo Video
 explains
process
creducation.org/cre/goto/blogvid/

41. Conflict Resolution Day
 Third Thursday of Oct. each year. October 21 in
2010.
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42. A Cooperative Project with ACR Ed Section
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43. A Cooperative Project with ACR Ed Section
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44. CR Interactives Collection
www.creducation.org/cre/crday/games/
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45. Ask an Expert Webinars
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46. Cool School
 Developed with funds from the Federal Mediation
and Conciliation Service
 Now available in the public domain
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47. Cool School In-game Video Clip
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48. http://www.curriki.org/
Get Cool School and more at Curriki
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49. CRE Learning Modules
 Based on CRETE Skills
Infusion Matrix
 Designed to reinforce
learning through interaction
 Intended for Re-use
 Easy to Update with New
Information
 Feedback Form at end
 More on the way...
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50. Current Collection includes more than a
dozen modules
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51. Example from CREducation.org
http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/learning_modules_and_activities
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52. Modules are Built with a Free Tool
 Called eXe
 Open source tool from New Zealand, features still
being added - built on the Firefox browser platform
 We developed our own “theme” to give a consistent
look to the project
 Demonstration
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53. ? ?
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See examples of Learning Modules created with eXe at
http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/learning_modules_and_activities

54. What is eXe?
The eLearning XHTML editor (eXe) is an
authoring environment to assist teachers
and academics in the design, development
and publishing of web-based learning and
teaching materials
Without the need to become proficient in
HTML or complicated web-publishing
applications.

55. Why eXe?
eXe is…
- Free for use
- Small programme
- Open source programme
- Object oriented
- You can run eXe on Windows from a
USB stick or CD-ROM without installing…

56. Why eXe?
eXe aims…
to provide an intuitive, easy-to-use tool that
will enable teachers to publish professional
looking web pages for learning

57. Why eXe?
eXe is a tool…
that provides professional web-publishing
capabilities that can be easily referenced or
imported by learning management systems
SCORM compatible
(Sharable Content Object Reference Model)

58. Why eXe?
eXe has…
been developed as an offline authoring tool
without the requirement for connectivity
eXe's WYSIWYG functionality enables users
to see what the content will look like when
published online.

59. Why eXe?
eXe can integrate
- Text, images, movies…
- Webpages
- Flash
- Java Applets
- Hotpotatoes
- Exercices, tests, quiz…
-…

60. Website + download
http://www.exelearning.org/

61. Tutorial
http://wikieducator.org/Online_manual

62. First steps

63. The Outline Pane
The Authoring Window
The IDevice Pane

68. IDevices
Image Gallery
Free Text Area
External website
Cloze Activity
Activity Preknowledge
Wiki article Case Study RSS
True/False Question
Objectives
SCORM Quiz Multi-select Question
Java applet Image Magnifier
Reading Activity Reflection
Multi-choice Question

69. iDevice Descriptions

71. http://creducation.org/cre/goto/modules

72. Other Open Source Tools We Use
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73. Trainer/Partner Support Site
 Based on Drupal - an open source “content
management” platform
 Just in early stages, but core content is
loaded
 Provides a place to nurture the skills of our
core team of emerging trainers
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74. CREd ePortfolio Tool
 Based on Mahara - an open source project
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75. Intro Video about Mahara
http://mahara.org/features
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76. LeMill - Another learning resources
site for educators
http://lemill.net/
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77. Note: Commercial product, not open source, but standards-based
Udutu - online course builder and host

78. Learn More - Find More
 See handout for some search tools
 Wikiversity offered a course last year on
“Composing free and open online educational
resources”
 http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/
Composing_free_and_open_online_educational_resources
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79. http://www.folksemantic.com/
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80. Building Our CREd Ability
 Bloggers - our “Committee of Correspondence”
 “Ask an Expert” online chat sessions (could include
video and slides from presenters)
 Content Discovery - materials you know of that the
broader group could benefit from - add to catalog
 Content creation - use eXe and make modules to
share with others
 Pilot testers to try out portfolios, perhaps create
student authored peer-reviewed publication
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81. Think Pair Share
 Building our CRETE CREd Ability
 Sharing existing content
 Creating new, specially tailored content
 Ideas on how to make this happen...
Contact Bill Warters at
webmaster@creducation.org
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