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Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) refer to educational materials like textbooks, images, audio, and video that are licensed openly to be freely used, adapted, and shared. OERs can be revised, reused, remixed, and redistributed under open licenses like Creative Commons. They provide free access and permission for these "4R activities" to dramatically lower the cost of education. While using OER requires more initial work, it allows materials to be updated and personalized to student needs. OER is becoming more feasible as more materials receive peer review and institutions provide support for their creation and use.
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- 2. “What are OpenEducational Resources?” Open Educational Resources (OER) is a term used to describe educational materials including: Images Sounds and music Textbooks Entire course content Audio lectures Video micro-lectures That are either licensed under an open copyright license—for example, Creative Commons—or in the public domain. In both cases you have free (no-cost) access to the OER and free (no-cost) permission to engage in the “4R” activities when using them.
- 3. 4R’s •Revise: adapt andimprove the OER so it better meets your needs •Reuse: use the original or your new version of the OER in a wide range of contexts •Remix: combine or “mashup” the OER with other OER to produce new materials •Redistribute: make copies and share the original OER or your new version with others Dramatically-bringing-down-the-cost-of-education-with-oer – Center for American Progress David Wiley, Cable Green, and Louis Soares | February 7, 2012 licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License “Education is a matter of sharing and the open educational resources approach is designed specifically to enable extremely efficient and affordable sharing”
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- 5. Arguments for OER 1.Student Savings 2. Update materials as needed 3. Students not dropping classes because of textbook cost 4. Personalize and Engage with the materials 5. Integrate Disciplines 6. Instant access to materials From Campus Technology Complete Guide to OER Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Mocking bird argument by Chiltepinster
- 6. 1 Argument Against MoreWork…… And a few others of course Credibility of sources Materials not being kept up to date Uncertainty or confusion about licensing Enormous task if trying to create a whole course alone. "Hard Work", editorial cartoon by George Herriman from Sunday, November 24 1907 (LA Examiner) This media file is in the public domain in the United States.
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- 8. OER IS COMPLETELYFEASIBLE • More materials are being peer reviewed • More peer to peer support within institutions • Institutional support
- 9. Reference and Resources Schaffhauser,D., (2014). Complete guide to open educational resources. Campus Technology, 27(12), 19-24. Retrieved from: http://campustechnology.realviewdigital.com /? Faculty e-commons http://facultyecommons.org/category/besto pen/ Wiley, D., Green, C., Soares, L. (2012). Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER. Center for American Progress. Retrieved from: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/la bor/news/2012/02/07/11167/dramatically- bringing-down-the-cost-of-education-with- oer/