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Paperless Handouts

http://www.workshophandouts.com/moodleoer (moodleoer is case sensitive)

About me…

•  Curriculum Director of Montana Digital Academy

•  13 Years in the Social Studies, Speech, Debate, Computer Science and Journalism Classroom

•  Blended Learning Advocate •  Educational Technology Advocate

Who am I?

I am not a guru…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/avlxyz/3449574196/sizes/m/

T h e P r o b l e m …

The problem…

By SaltyGal

The workaround…

By Guy Schmidt

•  Not very flexible •  Not remixable •  Doesn’t really fit into a Moodle or any

other LMS •  Potential copyright/licensing issues •  Not scalable •  Not sharable

What’s wrong with that?

A decent start…

•  Open Education Resources •  What is an OER? – Free and open for anyone to use and adapt

and redistribute

•  Distinction between OERs and free materials? – Adaptation and redistribution

Enter… OERs

Licensing?

Karen Fasimpaur

Traditional copyright - all rights reserved

Public domain -

unrestricted use

Licensing?

Karen Fasimpaur

Traditional copyright - all rights reserved

Public domain -

unrestricted use

Copyright with open licenses -

some rights reserved

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

Recommended for education: CC BY

Karen Fasimpaur

Creative Commons: – CC BY – You can use however you want; just cite the

source.

– CC BY SA – You can use however you want, but you must cite the source AND license your work under a sharing license.

– CC BY NC – You can use only if it is noncommercial (you can’t charge $); cite the source.

– CC BY ND – You can use the work but you can’t change it or put it into a bigger work; also cite the source.

Karen Fasimpaur

I m p l i c a t i o n s f o r O E R s i n t h e c l a s s r o o m

•  Usually required by the license •  Generally a credit to the name of the

author (or screen name if there are issues) is more than enough

•  URL is nice, but optional •  If using the source in a more formal way

(research paper, research project, etc., so a proper citation)

Always cite sources!

•  Chief question: “Do I have to share materials back out under a similar license?”

Carefully Consider Licensing

Ro l l yo u r ow n O E R s !

•  If you are a content creator, consider openly licensing your materials

•  Post materials openly, or, consider sharing on platforms like MoodleShare, an open wiki, etc.

•  Always post syllabi and other documents you construct with licensing information

Publish Your Materials!

E x a m p l e s

OER Commons

Curriki

Wikimedia Commons

PBS Learning Media

Kahn Academy

CK-12 Flexbooks

HippoCampus/NROC

MIT Open Courseware

Open High School of Utah Open Courseware

Moodle Share

Thank you! J