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Who We Are

The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education.  

We seek to instill openness as a feature of education around the world, allowing greatly expanded access to education while providing a shared body of knowledge upon which innovative and effective approaches to today’s social problems can be built.

The Opportunity

Decreased Cost

Increased access

Higher percentage of

individuals educated

Open Education Consortium Services & Activities

Access the members forum to discuss policy development, find ways open educational resources are used at institutions, learn more about open licensing and post questions

Participate in Open Education Week, the annual, global event to promote open education and its impact

Discover new projects in our case study library

Attend or present at the annual Open Education Global Conference

Join the open education professional directory. Find other professionals in your region and across the world.

Learn about effective implementation strategies, innovative thinking and new developments through our webinar series.

What is Open Education?

Open Education encompasses resources, tools and practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access and effectiveness worldwide.

Open Education combines the traditions of knowledge sharing and creation with 21st century technology to create a vast pool of openly shared educational resources while harnessing today’s collaborative spirit to develop educational approaches that are more responsive to learner’s needs.

• Education builds the future.• Education is sharing.• Open allows more rapid building and

sharing at a larger scale.

Open Education starts with basic ideas:

Open EducationTerms Open Educational ResourcesOpenCourseWareOpen Educational PracticeOpen Textbooks

= Free and Open

Free no cost

OpenNo cost + permission to modify

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OER are teaching, learning, and research materials that permit their free use and re-purposing by others

OER are building blocks for

innovation in higher education

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OER Allows Higher Education

to reconsider approaches to teaching and

learning

Faculty do it all Faculty don’t have to do it all

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Resources can come from everywhereInteractivity and learning support can come from anywhere

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CC-BY-NC-SA by USAID images

What does OER look like?

http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/

http://phet.colorado.edu/

http://sccmath.wordpress.com/mat12x-fall-2014/

Where do I find OER?

Open.163.com

What about quality?

How do I use openly licensed works?

Free no cost

OpenNo cost + permission to modify

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Conditions CC licenses

Attribution

ShareAlike

NonCommercial

NoDerivatives

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Most restrictiveSlides 11-14 by Creative Commons, CC-BY 3.0

This photo is licensed CC-BY-NC • You are free to use, modify and distribute,

except for commercial use• You must give attribution to Chris Stroup and

Flikr

http://open.umich.edu/education/lsa/physics140/fall2007

Attribution

http://open.umich.edu/education/lsa/physics140/fall2007This course is licensed CC-BY • You are free to use, modify and distribute

all or any part of this course, including for commercial use

• You must give attribution to the University of Michigan and cite the source

MOOCsMOOCs offer fully online courses to anyone without cost to the learner.

These courses are generally large scale, up to thousands of students.

They offer interactivity through frequent, built in assessments and sometimes peer discussion and guidance from teaching assistants.

Users tend to be already highly educated (surveys indicate +/- 70% already have at least one post-secondary degree)

Data gathered from users allow interesting research into online learning habits and preferences.

Content is almost always fully copyrighted.

Most MOOCs offer free access, but do not grant permission to modify, translate, broadcast or re-distribute; they are free, but not open.

Example, Coursera terms of serviceYou may access the course for personal use only, you may not modify or reuse

without permission. Anything you contribute to the course can be used, modified, distributed by Coursera without notification or further permission from you.

This may be fine if what you want is to follow a free course. However, if you want to make any modification, use it in a classroom, show content to a group, etc. you need to get permission as you would with any fully copyrighted work.

How do I attribute an open work?

Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0

OER are building blocks for

innovation in higher education

bdesham http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdesham/2432400623

most free

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advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.

Share http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4424154829/in/photostream/IMG_4591 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/4700979984/ cc-by-saLa belle tzigane http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/21063837 cc-by-sa

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Karen and Sharon http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookebocast/209420446/ cc-by-nc-saLearn http://www.flickr.com/photos/heycoach/1197947341/ cc-by-nc-saDiscussion http://www.flickr.com/photos/djof/294059951/cc-by-nc-sa

Photo credits:

Free no cost

OpenNo cost + permission to modify

By Adam Bartlett http://www.flickr.com/photos/atbartlett/2432704579/

By Sean MacEntee http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/4518528819/

Activity

• Think of a situation for which you would like to find materials

• Find 3 examples of CC licensed works (photos, videos, presentations, courses) on a specific topic of your choosing

• Identify the license terms

• Consider what you can do with the materials. Will they meet your purposes? How much modification would you/can you do?

• Group of 2-3: Share what you found and your experience locating it

Videolectures.net

Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/featured

YouTube: http://youtube.com/

Example 1: CC Search: http://search.creativecommons.org/

Activity

• Think of a situation for which you would like to find materials

• Find 3 examples of CC licensed works (photos, videos, presentations, courses) on a specific topic of your choosing

• Identify the license terms

• Consider what you can do with the materials. Will they meet your purposes? How much modification would you/can you do?

• Group of 2-3: Share what you found and your experience locating it

Some OER sites to try:www.cnx.orgwww.jorum.ac.ukwww.merlot.orgwww.oeconsortium.orgwww.oercommons.orgwww.opensourcelibrary.org

Other sites:CC Search: http://search.creativecommons.org/ YouTube: http://youtube.com/ Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.netVideoLectures: http://www.videolectures.net

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Thank you!