This document provides a roadmap for publishing open educational resources (OER). It outlines six activities for publishing OER: 1) determining what learning materials to publish openly, 2) choosing an open license, 3) reworking the materials, 4) clearing copyrights, 5) adding metadata, and 6) publishing the OER. For each activity, it provides considerations, tips from other projects, and links to additional supporting documents. It challenges participants to find three additional background documents on the topics and provide descriptions of them. The goal is to help educators and institutions understand the process of creating and publishing open, reusable learning materials.

1. Roadmap OER
Robert Schuwer
Fontys University of Applied Sciences
1

2. Introduction: raise hands!
2

3. Some questions
• Are you a teacher? Raise hands = YES
• Are you supporting teachers in creating digital learning
materials? Raise hands = YES
• Do you have experience with publishing OER? Raise
hands = YES
3
Ash Carter https://www.flickr.com/photos/secdef/6642240681/

4. Let’s start!
4
Phil McElhinney CC BY-SA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(running)#/media/File:Start_Jeremy_Wariner_2007.jpg

5. Activities
1. Determine which learning materials are to be
published open
2. Determine which open license to use
3. Rework the learning materials
4. Clear copyrights
5. Add metadata to make learning materials
retrievable
6. Publish the learning materials
5
Logan Ingalls http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scrum_task_board.jpg

6. Tip
• Look for expert support for specific tasks (e.g.
educational technology or copyright clearing).
• Look for collaboration with colleagues to profit of each
other strengths.
• Several collections of background materials are
available
– http://oerafrica.org/understanding-oer/resources-oer
– http://www.oeconsortium.org/resources/toolkits/ (will get a make-
over very soon!)
6

7. 1. What to publish open
• Considerations
– Policy
– Context
– Expected effort
– Expected cooperation from stakeholders
7

8. 2. What open license
• Creative Commons
• Share-Alike or not?
• Commercial or Non-Commercial use allowed?
– If so: what does commercial mean?
8

9. Tip
• The website of Creative Commons
(http://creativecommons.org/choose/?lang=en) provides
a neat tool to decide which license is the best use in your
context.
• Useful background documents:
– http://media.lanecc.edu/users/keene-wilsonm/oer/
– http://lanecc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=568436&sid=4686816
• On 23 April Webinar by Lisette Kalshoven on licenses
9

10. 3. Rework
• Selfcontained unit
• Instructions for use
• Inventory of copyright issues
• Testing
10

11. Instructions for use
• When: the position in the curriculum
• Who: the characteristics of the target group
• Vision: the educational viewpoint and pedagogical approach
• Topics: what topics are discussed in the learning materials.
• Learning activities: which types of learning activities are
expected from the learner.
• Role of the teacher: the role of the teacher using the learning
materials
• Time: the study load of the learning materials.
• Assessment: type of assessment assumed for the learning
materials.
11

12. Tip
• Search engines for OER
– http://search.creativecommons.org/
– http://bit.ly/searchOER
• Overview of directories with free images
– http://bit.ly/searchImage
– My favorite: http://pixabay.com/
• Lessons from project TESSA (Teacher Education in Sub
Saharan Africa)
– http://oerafrica.org/resource/oer-adaptation-and-reuse-across-
cultural-contexts-sub-saharan-africa-lessons-tessa-teacher
12

13. 4. Clearing copyrights
• Acquire permission from owner
• If not possible / not acquired for a component
– Replace by open version or create one yourself
– Determine value of component within the context: can it be done
without the component?
13

14. Tip
• OER Copyright and Licensing Toolkit
– http://oerafrica.org/resource/oer-copyright-and-licensing-toolkit
• Checklist for Fair Use
– http://www.lanecc.edu/library/don/checklist.pdf
14

15. 5. Add metadata
• Improves retrievability
• Elements:
– Title
– Description
– Language
– Keywords
• Role librarian!
15

16. Tip
• The following standards for metadata are commonly
used:
– Dublin Core: http://dublincore.org/
– Learning Object Metadata (LOM):
http://www.imsglobal.org/metadata/mdv1p3/imsmd_bestv1p3.html
16

17. 6. Publish OER
• Website institution
• Platform maintained by community
– MERLOT, OERCommons, Curriki
• ITunesU
• Youtube
• Provide adequate marketing
17

18. Challenge
• Search for three background documents for one or more of
the activities that were distinguished in this webinar (not
already available in the collections or tips that were mentioned
on one of the slides)
• Describe for each of the documents:
– The title and author
– A short description of the content
– Level of knowledge needed to understand the document (low, medium,
high)
– The URL where the document can be found
• Email the links and your descriptions to me before 10 May
(r.schuwer@fontys.nl)
18

19. Any Questions?
19

20. 20
@fagottissimo
bassoonvenlo
http://nl.linkedin.com/in/robertschuwer
robertschuwer.nl
+31 - 6 1446 9300
r.schuwer@fontys.nl