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The Value of Open Educational Resources:Discover HippoCampus
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.
Why OER?
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.
Afghanistan
Australia
Austria
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Netherlands
Peru
Puerto Rico
Russian Federation
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Spain
Colombia
France
Iran
Japan
Korea
Lebanon
Mexico
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
Venezuela
Vietnam
Growing Globally
2003 2008
.“ . . . sustainability problems plague open
educational resources . . . the inherent
contradiction in the idea of sustaining and
upgrading a product that is given away.”
The Promise of Open Educational Resources, Marshall S.
Smith and Catherine M. Casserly, Change,
September/October 2006
The Challenge of OER
Examples of OER Projects
The principle funder of
OER projects globally
for the past 6 years
Learn More, Find Sources
Explore OER Commons
OERCommons.org
Cnx.org
Enter your own content, mix and use others’
Add yours to a collection
Merlot.org
Search and find learning objects
Specialized Collections
National Science Foundation
Knowledge Media Laboratory
Open Courseware
Downloadable lecture materials donated by university faculty around the world
OER Development Projects
International Collaborations
QuickTime™ and a decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
ARRA - New OER funding
“Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.”
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Unique Among OERs
• Curricular content for both secondary and post-secondary
• Complete course foundations with a flexible learning object structure
• Sustaining membership to maintain and grow the repository
NROCNetwork.org
HippoCampus.org
HippoCampus.org: Free for Individuals
High School Course Foundations
College Prep Physics ICollege Prep Physics IIAlgebra 1a Algebra 1b Curso de Algebra 1A (Spanish)Curso de Algebra 1B (Spanish)
College Course Foundations
US History IUS History IIAmerican GovernmentReligions of the WorldPsychologyElementary AlgebraIntroductory Calculus I Introductory Calculus II General Calculus I General Calculus IICalculo General I (Spanish)Calculo General II (Spanish)Statistics for the Social Sciences Introductory Physics I (algebra-based)Introductory Physics II (algebra-based)General Physics I (calculus-based)General Physics II (calculus-based)Non-Majors BiologyEnvironmental Science
Advanced Placement Course Foundations
AP Environmental ScienceAP Physics B IAP Physics B IIAP Physics C IAP Physics C IIAP US History IAP US History IIAP US Government and PoliticsAP Calculus AB IAP Calculus AB IIAP Calculus BC IAP Calculus BC IIAP Biology
Coming in 2010Algebra 1 (NEW)
NROC Library 2009
Quality
• Editorially rigorous
• Media rich
• Instructionally sound
Flexibility
Customizable by a teacher, a district, or a state
Can be used within popular CMS’s and repositories
Curricular
Correlated with state standards and popular textbooks
Complete teaching materials
NROC Network
Educators, designers, technologists, and administrators working together to promote the continuous improvement of online courses through collaborative development of high-quality content and instruction.
Member Use Options
Adapt NROC material to:
Enhance an existing course
Launch a new course
Supplement
Distribute as needed:• Online courses
• Traditional classrooms
• Hybrid/blended
• Select media for iPod downloads
Seeding statewide repositories
Making textbooks supplemental
Cross-disciplinary studies
Credit Recovery
Jumpstarting dual enrollment & AP prep
Blended Learning
Reaching students with special needs
Members’ Institutional Uses
See cases studies for details…
• Link to HippoCampus• Make HippoCampus assignments• Blog about it, add links to directory sites• Introduce faculty to HippoCampus tools• Offer feedback on HippoCampus • Know of great content? Suggest HippoCampus as a
sharing vehicle• Consider other institutional uses possible through
membership
OER success is measured by usage.
Share it---with LEARNERS!
Terri Rowenhorst. NROC Membership Director
OER site: Free for individuals! www.hippocampus.org
For more information:www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc
