Open educational resources (OERs) are free, open, and digital, so they can be modified and redistributed freely by anyone. OERs are all about sharing! Come see how OERs, including ebooks, movies, photos, simulations, presentations, and online courses, are being used by teachers and students across all subjects to engage learning. Presented at NCCE 2013, February, 2013, in Portland, OR.

2. www.k12opened.com/about
content.k12opened.com

3. 
What is a particularly powerful learning
experience you’ve been a part of in a
classroom situation?
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Outside of the classroom?
Credit: Dan Zelazo

4. ?
Credit: Flick user albertogp123

5. What I believe and why I got
involved in open resources
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Differentiating instruction is essential to
improving education.
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Textbooks are not a good 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.

6. 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

7. How is OER relevant to
education?
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Suitable for “remixing” for differentiation
− Examples
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Increases teacher professionalism
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Increases equity
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FREE

8. 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
.

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. 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
Teacher’s Domain)

14. Citing Sources
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ALWAYS cite sources
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Can be under the image or at the end in credits
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Screen names are ok
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(optional) Include source URL

15. More Formal Citation Formats
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MLA
Author’s name, the name of the work, publication/site,
the date of creation, and the medium of publication
Bronayur. “Hershey, PA sign.” Wikipedia, Jan. 9, 2007. JPG file.
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APA
Name of the organization, followed by the date. In
brackets, provide a brief explanation of what type of
data is there and in what form it appears. Finally,
provide the project name and retrieval information.
Hershey, PA sign. (Jan. 9, 2007). [Photo of Hershey, PA sign, JPG].
Wikipedia. Retrieved from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hershey_Pennsylvania_1.JPG

16. http://content.k12opened.com

17. 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

18. How You Can Contribute
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If you publish something you are willing to
share, open license it.
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Post photos (to Flickr or elsewhere) with an
open license. .
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Publish on an open platform like Wikispaces.
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Innovate and collaborate with others on social
media and on P2PU.
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Tell three people you know about open
content and Creative Commons

19. 
What is one resource or tool that you learned
about today that you can take back to use to
help differentiate your classroom?
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Questions

20. 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