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Session Description
Session Description
Explore how schools have leveraged high-quality, open content to benefit students, then learn how to do this in your campus or district. Walk away with a roadmap detailing how to go open with open educational resources (OER) available from vendors and the community.
Explore how schools have leveraged high-quality, open content to benefit students, then learn how to do this in your campus or district. Walk away with a roadmap detailing how to go open with open educational resources (OER) available from vendors and the community.
Why OER Matters
Why OER Matters
Saves cost for students
Grants access to more quality choices
Gathers more contributors and reviewers
Helps pre and post learning for students
Limits or eliminates copyright violations
Setting the Standard...the ISTE Standard
Setting the Standard...the ISTE Standard
Citizen 3c.
Citizen 3c.
Mentor learners in safe, legal and ethical practices with digital tools and the protection of intellectual rights and property.
Mentor learners in safe, legal and ethical practices with digital tools and the protection of intellectual rights and property.
What's Happening with OER in Texas?
What's Happening with OER in Texas?
Quick Stats
Quick Stats
42% of Texas administrators have implemented some form of OER within their district, and
12% more are considering it.
44% of the technology leaders in Texas consider OER to be one of the high growth digital initiatives.
Source: SpeakUp Survey
Defining OER
Defining OER
Senate Bill 810 defined OER as:
Resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that allows for free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with others
The legal definition of open educational resources, as defined by SB 810, also identifies these resources as full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, or any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
What That Means
What That Means
The key phrases in the definition are “free,” “reuse,” and “modify.” In order for a resource to be considered an open resource, it has to not only be free, but the user must also have the rights to reuse all or part of it for his own purpose. Let’s take, for example, a high school English literature teacher preparing to teach a unit on Shakespeare who finds the play As You Like It, on the OER Commons website.
In order for this resource to truly be an openly-licensed material, the entity that is hosting this resource would grant the teacher the rights to use and adapt all or part of the play. You will notice that the license allows you to remix and share the resource so it qualifies as an OER.
Repository & Review Service
Repository & Review Service
Thanks to the Texas Legislature, school districts will have more options with free Open Education Resources such as:
Establishment of an OER repository that educators can use to share created materials. Teachers, districts and the State can contribute to the repository.
Creation of an instructional materials review service that will compare materials based on price, technical requirements, TEKS alignment, and editorial reviews.
What Does It Look Like in Schools?
What Does It Look Like in Schools?
Texas Spotlight: El Paso ISD
Texas Spotlight: El Paso ISD
El Paso ISD is a #GoOpen Launch district. They have partnered with CK-12 to develop Flexbooks. El Paso has created quite a collection of Flexbooks in all four core subject areas.
At the launch of their CK-12 partnership, Tim Holt (@timholt2007), Executive Director of Blended Learning, said, “Instead of us matching our curriculum to a pre-made textbook, we’ve done it the other way. We’ve made the textbook to match our curriculum.”
Where Can I Find OER Curriculum Examples?
Where Can I Find OER Curriculum Examples?
As an example, Pearson has a sixth grade math course available which a district could use as is or adapt to meet the district’s specific learning goals. This course could easily be inserted into a district learning management system and be reworked and adjusted to meet the district’s curriculum design.
How Do I Get Started? An OER Roadmap
How Do I Get Started? An OER Roadmap
Needs assessment
Consider these important points:
Stakeholders and Steering committee
Planning and Implementation Timeline
Scope of OER Project
Website and online support
Online resources
Timeline
Defining Success
How to Assess Success
OER & Creative Commons Licensing
OER & Creative Commons Licensing
Ready to Remix?
Ready to Remix?
Did you know that Creative Commons Copyright licenses allow you to remix content available on the Web? It all depends on the type of Creative Commons license the creator has established.
OER licensed content must be free for any individual to use, licensed for unlimited distribution, and allow for adaptation, translation, remixing, and improvement.
Find a rich variety of images, audio, and video licensed as Creative Commons. You can also find content via Google Image Search as well as use Chrome extensions, Image Google Search.
Why Use CC for OER?
Why Use CC for OER?
A few reasons:
A few reasons:
Makes content more accessible, adding to the 800 million CC-licensed works
Save money, less expensive since CC works avoid copyright fees, administrative costs, and makes it easy to share education resources online
Empowers educators to reuse, remix, and adapt resources since permission has been granted
Enhances equity for all users who have access
Digital multimedia sharing made easy
Legal because copyright violations are lessened, expectations for reuse are clear
Strategy: Create OER Materials with Students
Strategy: Create OER Materials with Students
Use OER resources and/or create your own OER with colleagues and/or students.
Use OER resources and/or create your own OER with colleagues and/or students.
Activity - Implementing the Strategy
Activity - Implementing the Strategy
Description
Description
In this activity, you will have the opportunity to create your own OER resource, drawing upon the wisdom of the room.
Top three favorite ebook creation tools:
Google Docs ePub export – This tool provides for an easy way to create ePub-formatted ebooks. You can also export to Word, ODF, or PDF.
Book Creator – It allows you to create a simple ePub without media or an enhanced ePub with video, audio, and more embedded. You cannot yet import Google Docs ePubs into Book Creator.
OneNote - Microsoft OneNote makes digital textbook creation easy. Students can work together on a single OneNote notebook that is organized into “notebook, section groups, sections, and pages.”
Task
Task
Create an ePub or PDF document using your tool of choice. Follow this outline.
When complete, submit it online. Add "OER: [Your Title]" to the title with a short description.
Reflection: Implementation Barriers
Reflection: Implementation Barriers
Take a moment to reflect on your experiences with your group then share out to the large group
Take a moment to reflect on your experiences with your group then share out to the large group
Research & Resources
Research & Resources
A variety of resources cite research describing the learning strategy.
OER Tools
OER Tools
CK-12 - Get standards-aligned digital textbooks on STEM subjects. FREE
College Open Textbooks - Peruse this library of free digital textbooks that includes both K-12 and higher education. FREE
Lumen Learning - Set up a full online course using all the tools and resources available here. FREE
OER Commons - Find full courses and all associated materials. FREE
Open Culture Textbooks (FREE)
Merlot - Read through peer reviews to find suitable, high-quality learning materials. FREE
Other Curated Resources
Open Educational Resources - Curated by technology specialist Brenda Sargent.
OER's - Curated by learning technologist Paul Styles.
A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.
A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.
– Parker J. Palmer
– Parker J. Palmer
OER Research Journals
OER Research Journals
You can find a list online of OER Journals, and as well as in the Directory of OpenAccess Journals.
Google Sites
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