Open and Open Educational Resources for K-12 - OOE13

Open Learning and OER in K-12

More discussion, less presentation

• What would you like to talk about tonight?

• What does “open” mean to you?

• Have you used open resources?

• If so, what value do you find in them?

• Have you open licensed your own content?

• What hopes do you have for OER?

• What concerns or challenges do you have?

Open means many things….

Mobile use Free, legal content for multimedia projects

Differentiation

Alternative to textbooks

Teacher and studentflexibility and choice

Teacher innovationand professionalism

MORE

Collaboration

Sharing

Agency

Voice

Connected learning

What are OER?

• OER = open educational resources• Digital, free, and OPEN for anyone to use,

adapt, and redistribute

Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪ No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)

Recommended for education:CC BY

http://content.k12opened.com

www.k12opened.com/community

How You Can Participate

• Join our OER Community of Practicek12opened.com/community

• If you publish something you are willing to share, open license it.

• Join open learning communities like Twitter, cMOOCs, etc.

• Tell three people you know about open content and Creative Commons.

How You Can Open License Your Own Work

• Just write “licensed under Creative Commons CC BY” on the work

• Use the Creative Commons “Choose a License” tool– Supplies license artwork– Optional code you can put on a web site to be

accessed by open search engines

Thank you.

Karen [email protected]