This document discusses open educational resources (OER) which are digital materials that can be freely used, adapted, and shared. OER allow for differentiated instruction and innovation by teachers and students using high-quality, legally shareable content. They are well-suited for remixing under initiatives like Common Core and increase equity, teacher professionalism, and access to free resources. The document provides information on finding OER through sources like OER Commons, using open licenses like Creative Commons, and openly licensing one's own work.

2. What are OER?
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OER = open educational resources
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Digital, free, and OPEN for anyone to use,
adapt, and redistribute

3. Why OER?
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Differentiating instruction is essential to
improving education.
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Textbooks are not the best tool for this.
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Technology coupled with high quality content is.
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Teachers and students need high quality
resources that they can use legally to build
upon.
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Teacher and student innovation is key.
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Sharing is good.

4. How is OER relevant to
education?
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Suitable for “remixing”
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Increases teacher professionalism
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Increases equity
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FREE

5. Remixing and the Common Core
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We have a unique opportunity
Common Core + digital + open + teacher and
student innovation = a new era in curriculum
.

6. Traditional
copyright - Public domain -
all rights unrestricted
reserved use

7. Traditional
copyright - Public domain -
all rights unrestricted
reserved use
Copyright with
open licenses -
some rights
reserved

8. Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪
No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)
Recommended for education:
CC BY

9. http://content.k12opened.com

10. How to Find OER
1. If you know what you’re looking for, go directly
to the best source(s).
2. OER Commons search
3. Creative Commons search
.
4. Advanced Google Search
5. …and more

11. How You Can Open License
Your Own Work
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Just write “licensed under Creative Commons
CC BY” on the work
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Use the Creative Commons “Choose a
License” tool .
− Supplies license artwork
− Optional code you can put on a web site to be
accessed by open search engines

12. Thank you.
Karen Fasimpaur
karen@k12opened.com
First screen image credits:
Linux computer lab – Michael Surran
Linux penguin - Larry Ewing <lewing@isc.tamu.edu> with the GIMP
Books - Tizzie
Globe – NASA
Cloud background - Anca Mosoiu