The document discusses open educational resources (OERs) and their use in practice. It describes the OER lifecycle as finding, creating/adapting, combining, using, and sharing resources. OERs can be retained, reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed according to the 5R framework. When creating OERs, appropriate open licenses like Creative Commons, open formats, and open source software should be used. Common tools for creating, editing and managing OERs are also listed.

1. Manuel Caeiro Rodríguez, PhD (mcaeiro@det.uvigo.es)
University of Vigo, Spain
Associate Professor
IEEE Senior member
4.1 OERs in Practice
EDUCATION SOCIETY
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Unit 4 – Applications for OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories

2. • OERs are
not static,
but living
beings
OER Life Cycle
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OER
Life
Cycle
1. Find
2.
Create/
Adapt
3.
Combine
4. Use
5. Share
-Online: search engines, repositories, websites
-Offline: lecture notes, class projects, colleagues
- Creating from scratch
- Adapting to a new context
- Aggregate resources
- Classroom, online, etc.
- Licesing

3. • Retain: make and own copies
• Reuse: use in a wide range of ways
• Revise: Adapt, modify and improve
• Remix: Combine two or more
• Redistribute: Share with others
OER Properties: The 5 Rs
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Defining the “Open” in Open Content and OER
by David Wiley CC BY, http://opencontent.org/

4. • What kind of license to use?
– CC BY
– NC
– SA
• What kind of format? Open Formats
• What kind of tool? Open Source Software
Include the source files!!
OER Disagreements
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5. Open Formats
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Multimedia Text
File
Compression
Audio Geospatial Other
JPEG ASCII tar ALAC KML HTML/XHTML
PNG PDF ZIP FLAC WMS JSON
VRML/X3D ePUB gzip Ogg WFS CSS
SVG
Office
Open XML
xz Vorbis KML XML

6. • Tools for creating and editing REA
– Audio: Audicity, Mplayer,
– Images: GIMP (Photoshop), Inscape (Illustrator), online
image editors (Photoshop express)
– LMSs and VLEs: Moodle, Sakai, Atutor, Claroline, Elgg
– CMS: Drupal, Joomla!
– Wikis: Docuwiki, Mediawiki
– Blogs: Wordpress
– Office: Open Office, Scribus, Google Docs
– Web authoring: eXe, Bluefish
– Video: Blender
Open Source Tools
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Subunit – 4.1 OERs: Properties, formats and tools
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OER Handbook for Educators by WikiEducator
CC BY-SA, http://wikieducator.org/

7. OER Ecosystem
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8. Manuel Caeiro Rodríguez, PhD (mcaeiro@det.uvigo.es)
University of Vigo, Spain
Associate Professor
IEEE Senior member
EDUCATION SOCIETY
http://ieee-edusociety.org/
Unit 4 – Applications for OERs
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories
4.1 OERs in Practice