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Open Educational Resources
/ production workshop
/ february 2009< University of Michigan >< OER Africa >< Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology >< University of Ghana >
some license to re-mix, improve and redistribute.”
•the content (courses & learning assets)
•the delivery (electronic & print media)
•the use and reuse (copyright licensing)
What are the institutional goals for OER?
• share and make teaching and learning resources easier to reuse for your community and for people everywhere
• increase collaboration across institutions and disciplines through sharing educational content, courses, and curricula
• utilize innovative software tools and explore research opportunities
• support the mission of the university
• your students
• your faculty
• your alumni
• partner universities
• outside universities
• self-learners
• public knowledge centers
OER can benefit all these groups simultaneously
Who benefits from OER production?
• recognition :: faculty showcase work and connect with other researchers
• participatory learning :: students participate in helping with publishing, content creation
• curriculum development :: faculty and institutions increase curriculum collaboration with outside universities by opening and sharing resources
• transparency :: staff have a more transparent view of university efforts and materials, which allows them to participate in the education process and better assist faculty research and instruction
A few specific benefits.
The difference between OCW and OER.
OCW: Open CourseWare
OER: Open Educational Resources
•OCW focuses on sharing open content that is developed specifically to instruct a course (locally taught)
•OER includes any educational content that is shared under an open license, whether or not it is a part of a course
•OCW is a subset of OER
OCW // OER - overlap
OER
OCWsyllabi, lecture notes, presentation slides, assignments, lecture videos - all related to a course
OCW, single images, general
campus lectures, image collections,
singular learning modules, paper or
article
OER and eLearning: a relationship.
OER
•may exist in electronic or paper form
•may not contain enough context to be “instructional”
•are always licensed for reuse, redistribution, and re-mixing
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.