Waukesha Hippocampus Staff Development Presentation

Discover HippoCampus!

New ContentNew Functionality

Customizable Teaching/Learning Experience

http://www.hippocampus.org/?user=myWaukSD

Teaching, learning and research resources,

In the public domain or,

Released under a license that permits free use or re-purposing by others.

For examples, see Creative Commons.org

What are OERs?

OERs include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks,

Streaming videos, audio, text, software, tools, or techniques

Used to support access to knowledge.

To benefit society by increasing access to quality educational resources at little or no cost to anyone seeking to learn

To share and leverage scarce educational resources

To create more transparency among learning institutions

To provide different means of access and reuse, depending on the source of the content

Why OER?

OER Check List

What you are looking for in OER . . .

• curricular

• complete

• quality

• easy to use

• teaching tool

PLAYLIST STUFF GOES HERE!!

New HippoCampus

• Content from NROC’s new Algebra I—An Open Course, plus Khan Academy and University of Colorado’s PhET

• Ability to customize the site, including creating individual playlists of content aggregated from across the collections

• Fresh teaching blog content every month

• New design to facilitate searching for and displaying content