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Open educational resources are materials used to support education that may be freely accessed, reused, modified and shared by anyone.
Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, learning objects, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
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Open educational resources: Opportunities and challenges.
The Open Educational Resources movement is part of a global effort to make knowledge available to all.
Open Educational Resources come in many shapes and sizes.
Open educational resources (OERs) are freely accessible, openly formatted and openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, education, assessment and research purposes.
Open Educational Resources should be Free as well "As mentioned previously, the adjective "open" does not express the essence of this freedom to engage.
Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge."
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2. Open Educational Resources are defined as "technology-enabled, open provision of educational resources for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes".
The Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiative, as the participants agreed to name it after the forum, is based on a philosophical view of knowledge as a collective social product to become a social property.
The Open Educational Resources (OER) Policy Registry will be a place for policymakers and open advocates to easily share and update OER legislation, OER institutional policies and supporting OER policy resources.
But learning how to use OER is important, and the time invested in learning how to incorporate open education resources is time well spent given the potential enhancements to student learning.
These investigations will be placed in the context of how rapidly changing information technologies have changed the landscape of information generation, modification and evolution, dissemination, evaluation and use, and contributed to the establishment of varieties of open educational activities.
In summary, I suggest we study humanities to? I hope we can work towards an OPEN and Online education model that offers humanities, science, mathematics, communication and the Arts that will educate a to produce a bright, informed and intellectual problem-solver.
On this same vein, the Wall Street Journal reported this past weekÂ in ?For most graduates a grueling job hunt Awaits?, that the top 5 majors companies are hiring from this year are engineering, business, accounting, computer science, while [sadly] the majors being least hired were from social studies, humanities, agriculture, health science and education (Weber and Korn, 2012).
The OECD defines sustainability of an OER project as the ability of the project to accomplish its goals and continue operations.
Yesterday, the State of SÃ£o Paulo approved PL 989/2011, which establishes a policy whereby educational resources developed or purchased with government funds must be made freely available to the public under an open copyright license.
In a post I published recently Why Tech Training for Faculty is a Waste of Time, I suggested that when training faculty in using the LMS platform Moodle, the focus should not be exclusive to the technical aspects, but include the why, and address pedagogical training.
As Ms. Solis put it in her speech, ??We?re stronger when we work together? [is] not just a statement of American values.
Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, learning objects, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
In California, legislation was signed last month that will provide college students text books at no cost, by way of openly licensed digital textbooks in three higher education systems.
This past week I?ve been following a number of blog posts and articles about MOOCs, Massive Open and Online Courses, of which Coursera?s model is based upon [edX I predict will be something different], yet there?s been much speculation, misconceptions, exaggerations and misinformation.
Yesterday, the State of SÃ£o Paulo approved PL 989/2011, which establishes a policy whereby educational resources developed or purchased with government funds must be made freely available to the public under an open copyright license.
The joint response urges the Commission to support the recommendations in the 2012 Paris OER Declaration, which was unanimously supported by UNESCO member nations at the World Open Educational Resources Congress on 20-22 June 2012.
As outlined in the meeting information pack the purpose of this inaugural meeting is to collaboratively: This is a bold move looking at what it might take to create free and open learning for tertiary education credentials using OER.
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In contrast to the OCW projects, content licenses are required to be open under a Creative Commons Attribution only license.
Some examples include David Wileyâ??s 2007 Introduction to Open Education; Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, led by George Siemens and Stephen Downes in 2008; Open Content Licensing for Educators; and many others.
The criteria I used for categorizing the types of learning are as follows? 1) The overall goal/purpose of the learning 2) How the learning is assessed or measured CriteriaÂ ? explained I chose the three criteria [above] after much deliberation ? each provides a viewpoint for differentiating and comparing online learning.
A crucial component of the California legislation is that the textbooks developed will be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY): The textbooks and other materials are placed under a creative commons attribution license that allows others to use, distribute, and create derivative works based upon the digital material while still allowing the authors or creators to receive credit for their efforts.
Stephen Downes commented suggesting that training of faculty be approached from a development perspective.
Adopting a culture of ?openness? requires a new mindset for teaching and learning.
I started by reviewing the instructional plan for this module, of which the Bhagavad Gita is one of the two topics.
(OECD), retrieved 18:55, 23 May 2007 (MEST) See also: Open source, electronic textbooks and Open content In July 2001, the UNESCO, in association with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and WCET, the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications, convened a forum on the Impact of Open Courseware (OCW) on Higher Education in Developing Countries.
While participating in the MOOC over the past two weeks, Open Educational Resources 12 [OER] and reviewing comments from educators from various sources, I realized that finding open education resources is not only time-consuming, but can be a daunting task.
This course introduces students to the ideas and practices surrounding teaching, learning and research at a world class research university like the University of Michigan, and the emerging role in these practices of Open Educational Resources, including open content such as opencourseware, open access initiatives, open publishing of research and learning materials as found in open journals, databases and e-prints, open textbooks, related open software efforts such as open learning systems, and emerging open teaching experiments.
In addition, these recommendations align with the Europe 2020 priorities, especially in increasing effective investments in education by encouraging free open access to publicly funded educational content.
Stephen Downes commented suggesting that training of faculty be approached from a development perspective.
In the government sector, numerous states in the U.S. see OER resources as an opportunity to lower costs in the cash strapped education system.
Something fresh, a collection of links that will direct readers to sites brimming with quality content in a breadth of disciplines.
However, there appears to be an abundance of mathematics, and science topics within the open learning resources and open online universities, and it?s more than a little scant on the arts, history, literary studies and languages.
Yesterday, we blogged about a group of foundations making a commitment to share their grant data regularly, openly, and in a usable format.
Yesterday, the State of SÃ£o Paulo approved PL 989/2011, which establishes a policy whereby educational resources developed or purchased with government funds must be made freely available to the public under an open copyright license.
What is the New Media Consortium?
Since 1986 free software has operated around 4 key principles of freedom/openness and in many respects these principles can and do transfer to OER:[4] 1.
25 Comments » Tags: california, OER, open educational resources, open policy, SB 1052, SB 1053 Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Open Society Foundations are pleased to announce the winners of the Why Open Education Matters video competition.
This course introduces students to the ideas and practices surrounding teaching, learning and research at a world class research university like the University of Michigan, and the emerging role in these practices of Open Educational Resources, including open content such as opencourseware, open access initiatives, open publishing of research and learning materials as found in open journals, databases and e-prints, open textbooks, related open software efforts such as open learning systems, and emerging open teaching experiments.
Yesterday, we blogged about a group of foundations making a commitment to share their grant data regularly, openly, and in a usable format.
Open licensing on publicly funded content ensures the greatest impact for the public dollar.
The goal of the New Zealand Open Educational Resources project is to increase the quality of eLearning materials, increase flexibility in their re-use and significantly reduce the duplication of investment in their design, development and production.
The level of ownership is also included in the term, where the creator [owner] is not working under a model of proprietorship but rather chooses the level of sharing he or she is comfortable with through a license.
Which means that we as educators need to adapt our pedagogy to morph accordingly ? think of the toddlers of today using iPads seamlessly ? soon enough we?ll be teaching those learners.
I started by reviewing the instructional plan for this module, of which the Bhagavad Gita is one of the two topics.
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If you peruse through Kahn Academy?s over 3,200 video lecturesÂ [all quite excellent] ? you?ll find the majority are related to math and science, (granted they are working on expanding the humanities side, and have even partnered with SmartArt), ? or how about Udacity (granted the founder S. Thrun is a math genius), or MIT OpenCourseWare (granted it?s a Computer Science school) , and Open Lectures [granted newly launched].
(OlDaily, Downes, 2012) Personal Learning Network If an educator [or learner] views and uses open education materials as a means to enrichÂ their own personal learning, or to develop a skill set, or in the case of an instructor enhance his or her teaching, motivation is triggered.
With all the courses and options available for online learning ? i.e. fully online courses taken for credit, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), open source videos through Kahn Academy and the likes, and though enriching [and beautiful in visual terms as per images in this post], the potential to get caught and entangled is great.
As the announcements of new online learning ventures multiply, though exciting, I am concerned that the possibility of the fading emphasis of studying such works asÂ Plato?s Cave,Â Soren Kierkegaard?s Journals, Niccolo Machiavelli?s The Prince, and on and on we could go.
[Donate banner] Last year we wrote about the introduction of an OER bill in Brazil.
Even though numerous platforms are striving to streamline the search process for educators, it is a challenge.
â??Now, learning something about any topic is easy, and universities no longer have a monopoly on how we educate ourselves.â?? Forsyth thinks that libraries, museums, governments, and news outlets still provide great value, but theyâ??re gradually waking up to the idea that they now have to compete.
One fundamental is the motivation of the learner, where the learner actively participates because he or she wants to learn and thus constructs knowledge based upon his or her input and activity/engagement in the course.
There is also open source, which generally refers to a [software] program or application where the source code is available to the public for use and/or modification from its original design.
I will use a three-credit World Literature course that I am working on now for this example.
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If you peruse through Kahn Academy?s over 3,200 video lecturesÂ [all quite excellent] ? you?ll find the majority are related to math and science, (granted they are working on expanding the humanities side, and have even partnered with SmartArt), ? or how about Udacity (granted the founder S. Thrun is a math genius), or MIT OpenCourseWare (granted it?s a Computer Science school) , and Open Lectures [granted newly launched].
Online Education ? a snapshot, CatherineCronin [downloadable table of online learning providers, though some information requires updating it is a useful tool].
Due to technical problems with the public voting on the Why Open Education Matters website which prevented some persons from submitting a vote, the third prize video has been awarded by the judging panel.
Access to affordable textbooks is extremely important for students, as textbook costs continue to rise at four times the rate of inflation, sometimes surpassing the cost of tuition at some community colleges.
Stephen Downes commented suggesting that training of faculty be approached from a development perspective.
A crucial component of the California legislation is that the textbooks developed will be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY): The textbooks and other materials are placed under a creative commons attribution license that allows others to use, distribute, and create derivative works based upon the digital material while still allowing the authors or creators to receive credit for their efforts.
In a post I published recently Why Tech Training for Faculty is a Waste of Time, I suggested that when training faculty in using the LMS platform Moodle, the focus should not be exclusive to the technical aspects, but include the why, and address pedagogical training.
By Lucy Watts Drawn from Richard Stallman's video "What is free software?".
Encourage the open licensing of educational materials produced with public funds.
From Wikibooks, open books for an open world < SI521 "Open Educational Resources at the University of Michigan" Open Textbook [Unreviewed changes are displayed on this page]This page may need to be reviewed for quality.
In California, legislation was signed last month that will provide college students text books at no cost, by way of openly licensed digital textbooks in three higher education systems.
Some examples include David Wileyâ??s 2007 Introduction to Open Education; Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, led by George Siemens and Stephen Downes in 2008; Open Content Licensing for Educators; and many others.
The content-people are relying on non-questioning epistemology and to social philosophy of â??equality of opportunityâ??.
A crucial component of the California legislation is that the textbooks developed will be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY): The textbooks and other materials are placed under a creative commons attribution license that allows others to use, distribute, and create derivative works based upon the digital material while still allowing the authors or creators to receive credit for their efforts.
Advanced Placement Environmental Science Environmental Sciences is an interdisiplinary field involving the study of our world, our culture, and the relationship of humans and the planet.
17. ^ "The Cape Town Open Education Declaration".
PL 989/2011 will set a powerful positive precedent for other countries to follow, and SÃ£o Paulo will be contributing to the worldwide movement to create a shared commons of high-quality Open Educational Resources.
Open in these contextsâ?? refers to a level of collaboration, and is associated with an object, application or program that is accessible with few barriers.
On this same vein, the Wall Street Journal reported this past weekÂ in ?For most graduates a grueling job hunt Awaits?, that the top 5 majors companies are hiring from this year are engineering, business, accounting, computer science, while [sadly] the majors being least hired were from social studies, humanities, agriculture, health science and education (Weber and Korn, 2012).
A crucial component of the California legislation is that the textbooks developed will be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY): The textbooks and other materials are placed under a creative commons attribution license that allows others to use, distribute, and create derivative works based upon the digital material while still allowing the authors or creators to receive credit for their efforts.
The hallmark of Connexions is the use of a custom XML format CNXML, designed to aid and enable mixing and reuse of the content.
Yesterday, the State of SÃ£o Paulo approved PL 989/2011, which establishes a policy whereby educational resources developed or purchased with government funds must be made freely available to the public under an open copyright license.
I suggest a two-pronged approach.Â First, for educators the concept of open needs to presented from a professional development standpointâ?? promoting OER ?training? as personal development that becomes part of the educatorâ??s personal learning network.
In California, Governor Jerry Brown has signed two bills (SB 1052 and SB 1053) that will provide for the creation of free, openly licensed digital textbooks for the 50 most popular lower-division college courses offered by California colleges.
Itâ??s not surprising many are confused about what OER really are, as this term is similar to open education, which refers to educational organizations that seek to eliminate barriers to entry.
The level of ownership is also included in the term, where the creator [owner] is not working under a model of proprietorship but rather chooses the level of sharing he or she is comfortable with through a license.
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Knowledge Dissemination in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Role for Open Educational Resources (OER)?.
It is possible, that champions can influence others, though alone they cannot change the entire culture of an institution without support from leadership.
Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who submitted a video for sharing their creativity, talents, and passion in helping explain and promote Open Educational Resources.
However, there appears to be an abundance of mathematics, and science topics within the open learning resources and open online universities, and it?s more than a little scant on the arts, history, literary studies and languages.
Creative Commons, an organisation that provides ready-made licensing agreements that are less restrictive than the "all rights reserved" terms of standard international copyright, is a "critical infrastructure service for the OER movement."[25]
Hewlett?s updated OER definition begins: ?OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.?
Since the textbooks produced in B.C. and California will be licensed under the CC BY license, their impact has the potential to spread far beyond the US and Canada, being reused and adapted by educators around the world.
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Hewlett?s updated OER definition begins: ?OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.?
California passes groundbreaking open textbook legislation It?s official.

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