What are OERs? Why OERs? How to develop OERs? What are open licences? WikiEducator and OER Foundation.

1. Open Educational Resources
Ramesh Sharma

2. Jamia Millia Islamia
Academic Staff College
9 November 2012

3. Come…let’s think!
What is OER?
Why OER?
What are open licenses?
What are challenges?
How to create OER?
OER Foundation
WikiEducator
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4. Have you heard about some of these terms:
Open Acess
Open Content
Open Course ware
Open Source Software
Open Education / e-Learning
Open Educational Resources
…and many more things

5. Open Access focuses on sharing content, usually of
scholarly nature, without a requirement for the use
of an Open license

6. Open Access
Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
OA removes price barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and
permission barriers (most copyright and licensing restrictions).
http://bit.ly/oa-overview
Peter Suber
Director, Harvard Open Access Project

7. open content / open practices
http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/tag/open-content/

8. Open Course Ware (OCW)
Sharing open content
that is developed specifically for a course offering

9. syllabi, lecture notes,
presentation slides,
OCW assignments, lecture videos -
all related to a course

10. eLearning

11. Come…let’s think!
What is OER?
Why OER?
What are open licenses?
What are challenges?
How to create OER?
OER Foundation
WikiEducator
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12. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) defines Open
Educational Resources (OER) as ‘materials offered freely
and openly to use and adapt for teaching, learning,
development and research’.
http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/OCW-OER.aspx

13. Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching
and learning materials that are freely available
online for everyone to use, whether you are an
instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER
include: full courses, course modules, syllabi,
lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and
classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games,
simulations, and many more resources contained in
digital media collections from around the world.
OER Commons
http://www.oercommons.org/

14. OER further defined…
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and
research resources that reside in the public domain or have been
released under an intellectual property license that permits their free
use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include
full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos,
tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to
support access to knowledge (Atkins, Brown, & Hammond, 2007).
Atkins, D.E., Brown, J.S. & Hammond, A.L. (February 2007). A Review of
the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements,
Challenges, and New Opportunities. Report to The William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation. p. 4.
Cited at http://wikieducator.org/Educators_care/Defining_OER

15. OER defined:
OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in
the public domain or have been released under an intellectual
property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by
others. Open educational resources include full courses, course
materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software,
and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support
access to knowledge.
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

17. Open Educational Resources
free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for
•teaching,
•learning,
•research, and
•other purposes.
The term was first used at a UNESCO conference in 2002, although
OERs were being produced and used before that time. For instance,
the MIT OpenCourseWare project, which began in 2001, was one of
the first major initiatives of the OER movement.

18. Types of Open Educational Resources
• Courses,
• Course materials,
• Content modules,
• Learning objects,
• Collections, and
• Journals

22. Come…let’s think!
What is OER?
Why OER?
What are open licenses?
What are challenges?
How to create OER?
OER Foundation
WikiEducator
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27. Come…let’s think!
What is OER?
Why OER?
What are open licenses?
What are challenges?
How to create OER?
OER Foundation
WikiEducator
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28. There are many types...

29. Creative Commons: licenses

30. Creative Commons

32. What are open licenses?

33. Freedom ~ Restrictions: a spectrum
Public All Rights
Domain Reserved
least restrictive most restrictive

36. Come…let’s think!
What is OER?
Why OER?
What are open licenses?
What are challenges?
How to create OER?
OER Foundation
WikiEducator
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37. http://wikieducator.org/images/d/d7/PID_386.pdf

40. http://knowledgecommission.gov.in/downloads/documents/wg_open_course.pdf

43. Come…let’s think!
What is OER?
Why OER?
What are open licenses?
What are challenges?
How to create OER?
OER Foundation
WikiEducator
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45. * Google Image Search
http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search
* discoverEd http://discovered.creativecommons.org
* Creative Commons http://search.creativecommons.org
* Flickr http://flickr.com/creativecommons/
* Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org
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46. Come…let’s think!
What is OER?
Why OER?
What are open licenses?
What are challenges?
How to create OER?
OER Foundation
WikiEducator
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49. Come…let’s think!
What is OER?
Why OER?
What are open licenses?
What are challenges?
How to create OER?
OER Foundation
WikiEducator
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50. http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

52. Thank You!