The document discusses open educational resources (OER) and why the author supports their use. It notes that differentiating instruction is important for improving education but textbooks are not suited for this, while technology coupled with high-quality content is better. It advocates for sharing educational resources freely and ensuring everyone has access to a high-quality education. The document also provides an overview of various open licenses, tools and content that can be used and contributed to as OER.

2. What I believe and why I got involved in Open Education Differentiating instruction is essential to improving education. Textbooks are not a good tool for this. Technology coupled with high quality content is. Sharing is good. Everyone deserves a free, high quality education. The current educational bureaucracy is not likely to embrace OER projects.

3. Open Educational Resources (OER) are: Digital Free and open Tools, content, and implementation resources For teachers, students, and lifelong learners

4. Mass collaboration has resulted in the most widely-used web server software the most popular encyclopedia sequencing of the human genome What could it do for education?

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

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

7. Tools Operating systems (= more affordable hardware) Ubuntu Xandros (eee PC) Wikis, blogs, and course management MediaWiki Wikispaces WordPress ( .com and .org ) Moodle

8. Tools (cont.) Productivity tools Open Office GIMP Audacity CamStudio More The OpenDisc SourceForge SchoolForge

9. Content – General Multimedia Photos and video The Open Photo Project Flickr (CC) Wikimedia Commons NextVista Music and sound ccMixter MusOpen The FreeSound project

10. Content – Education Wikibooks FreeReading Curriki Kids Open Dictionary OER Commons MIT OpenCourseWare Ebooks More...

11. How You Can Contribute If you publish something you are willing to share, open license it Publish on an open platform like Wikispaces Post photos (to Flickr or elsewhere) with an open license If you see a mistake in Wikipedia, FIX IT! Add something to a topic in Wikipedia or Wikibooks Write a definition in the Kids Open Dictionary Tell three people you know about OER

12. Thank you. Karen Fasimpaur www.k12opened.com [email_address] 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

13. Creative Commons: CC BY – You can use however you want; just cite the source. CC BY SA – You can use however you want, but you must cite the source AND license your work under a sharing license. CC BY NC – You can use only if it is noncommercial (you can’t charge $); cite the source. CC BY ND – You can use the work but you can’t change it or put it into a bigger work; also cite the source.

14. Others: GFDL – Share-alike license used by Wikipedia and others. Public domain – not copyrighted; you can use however you like. Custom licenses (e.g. morguefile and Stock.XCHNG)