Sustainability Strategies For OER

A webinar in partnership with Athabasca University

9-March-2015

Paul Stacey, Associate Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons

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What do we do?

5Rs: The Powerful Rights of OER

• Make, own, and control your own copy of the contentRetain

• Use the content in its unaltered formReuse

• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the contentRevise

• Combine the original or revised content with other OER to create something newRemix

• Share your copies of the original content, revisions, or remixes with othersRedistribute

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least freeNot OER

OER

Sustainability

Sustainable Plate by Socially Responsible Agriculture Project CC BY-NC-ND

Sustainable text by michael pecirno CC BY-ND

Are the current ways we provide

education sustainable?

a) Yes

b) No

Are OER:

a) External free content we get from

others?

b) A new internal teaching and

learning practice?

c) Neither?

d) Both?

Three distinctly different views:

1. Historical

2. Contemporary

3. Business

OER Sustainability

1. Stephen Downes, Models for Sustainable Open

Educational Resources, 2006

http://www.downes.ca/post/33401

2. David Wiley, On the Sustainability of Open

Educational Resource Initiatives in Higher

Education, 2007

http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/38645447.pdf

Historical

Contemporary – vers. 1

Contemporary – vers. 2

Contemporary – vers. 2

Business

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Business

Which of the three views of

sustainability most interest

you?

a) Historical

b) Contemporary

c) Business

Paul Stacey

Creative Commons

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