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OER: What Is ItWhy Should I Care
R. PiresTextbook Affordability Campus Coordinator
San Bernardino Valley College
1. The open education movement is here to stay and will soon be impossible to ignore.
2. Learn how to identify and distinguish between the different types of open licenses.
3. Discover how you can incorporate open educational resources (OER) into your classes to help students succeed and save money.
California Education Code Section 67423 defines OER as high-quality
teaching, learning, and research resources
reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license, such as a Creative Commons license,
permits their free use and repurposing by others,
and may include other resources that are legally available and free of cost to students.
Open educational resources include, but are not limited to, full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, faculty-created content, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
1. The open education movement is here to stay and will soon be impossible to ignore.
United Nations
2002
UNESCOUnited Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
Coined the term open educational resources
materials used to support education that may be freely
accessed, reused, modified and shared
2012
World Open Educational Resources Congress facilitated by UNESCO adopted the Paris OER Declaration
calls on governments to openly license for public use;
publically funded educational materials
Support of OER based on the statement by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that everyone has a right to education
Executive and Legislative Branches
2014
President Obama’s administration fostered a culture of open government through the Open Government Partnership
and this included a commitment to open education
2015
U.S. Department of Education launched #GoOpen
campaign to encourage K-12 to use open educational resources and proposed regulation that
all intellectual content created with grant funds from the Department of Education have an open license and…
2015
Passage of Every Student Succeeds Act
allows states and local education agencies to channel block grant money focused on technology toward
open materials
California Legislation and Policies
2008
Report was commissioned on the
affordability of textbooks California Joint Legislative Audit Committee
2012
SB 1052 (Steinberg) established the California Open Educational Resources Council (COERC)
develop or curate OER instructional materials for
50 of the highest enrolled lower divisions courses across CCC, CSU, and UC systems and…
2012
SB 1053 (Steinberg) established California Open Online Library for Education (Cool4Ed.org)
repository for OER materials curated and developed by COERC
OER materials require a Creative Commons open license and…
2012
SB 1028 (2012) appropriated $5 million to support COERC and COOL4Ed, including private matching funds
faculty development of OER for
50 identified lower division courses
2013
CCC Board of Governors passed policy to require
Creative Commons open license
on intellectual property developed using publically funded grants and contracts
2015
AB 798 (Bonilla) OER Adoption Incentive Fund 3 million grant to CSU and CCC
supports the expansion of OER adoption
SBVC awarded 31K contingent on faculty adopting OER in 31 sections
2016
SB 1359 (Block) mandates identification of courses in the online schedule of classes starting January 2018 that
exclusively use OER and
communicate to students that digital OER materials are free of charge or may have a low-cost print version and…
2016
Governor Brown proposed $5 million in grant funding for
creation and implementation of
Zero-Textbook-Cost Degrees at CCC campuses
Is OER Here to Stay?
Should I Care?
2. Learn how to identify and distinguish between the different types of open licenses.
Open Educational Resource (OER) refer to
educational resources
lesson plans, quizzes, syllabi, instructional modules, simulations, etc.
freely available for use, reuse, adaptation, and sharing
The Wikieducator OER Handbook
What OER definitions have in common
open educational resources have
open copyright licenses which give
everyone, everywhere; the right to access, adapt and republish without limitations the use of materials
for non-commercial and often even commercial purposes Creative Commons
Online is not Open
Open might not be Free
Creators of Intellectual Works Retain Copyright and Ownership Rights
Copyrighted materials are not open educational resources
All intellectual work is protected under copyright laws when created and there is no need to register work or to label with a copyright symbol
User must seek permission from creator to use, copy, and publish content, images, videos, music, etc.
Fair use does not turn copyrighted intellectual works into open educational resources
Some free educational resources are free to access but not necessarily free to modify, revise, or remix
Therefore some free educational materials are open educational resources with limits
OER users must be familiar with the various open license options
Works which exist in the public domain are open educational resources
Intellectual materials whose copyright license has expired or has been forfeited, and
works created by the federal government are considered public domain and
therefore can be used openly without any restrictions or limits
Open educational resources are intellectual works which explicitly give users permission to
RetainReuseReviseRemixRedistribute
Creator gives advance permission to users conditions of use
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization used by creators of intellectual works to give users open usage permission
There are six different open licenses to choose from to communicate level of openness
http://creativecommons.org.au/content/whatiscc1.pdf
Let’s Practice
Examples
http://sociologylectures.weebly.com/1-sociological-perspective.html
http://freesociologybooks.com/
https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-sociology-2e (Details)
https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons?ytcheck=1
use of open educational resources require attributions
https://www.cccoer.org/attributing-oer/
3. Discover how you can incorporate open educational resources (OER) into your classes to help students succeed and save money.
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