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2. What I believe and why I got involved in Open Education

Differentiating instruction is essential to improving education.

Textbooks are not a good tool for this.

Technology coupled with high quality content is.

Sharing is good.

Everyone deserves a free, high quality education.

The current educational bureaucracy is not likely to embrace OER projects.

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Open Educational Resources (OER) are:

Digital

Freeandopen

Tools, content, and implementation resources

For teachers, students, and lifelong learners

4.

Mass collaboration has resulted in

the most widely-used web server software

the most popular encyclopedia

sequencing of the human genome

What could it do for education?

5. Traditional copyright -all rightsreserved Public domain -unrestricted use Copyright with open licenses -some rights reserved 6.

Attribution (BY)Non-commercial (NC)

No derivatives (ND)Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)

Recommended for education:

CC BY or CC SA

7. Tools

Operating systems (= more affordable hardware)

• Ubuntu

• Xandros (eee PC)

Wikis, blogs, and course management

• MediaWiki

• Wikispaces

• WordPress ( .comand.org )

• Moodle

8. Tools (cont.)

Productivity tools

• Open Office

• GIMP

• Audacity

• CamStudio

More

• The OpenDisc

• SourceForge

• SchoolForge

9. Content General Multimedia

Photos and video

• The Open Photo Project

• Flickr(CC)

• Wikimedia Commons

• NextVista

Music and sound

• ccMixter

• MusOpen

• The FreeSound project

10. Content Education

Wikibooks

FreeReading

Curriki

Kids Open Dictionary

OER Commons

MIT OpenCourseWare

Ebooks

More...

11. How You Can Contribute

If you publish something you are willing to share, open license it

Publish on an open platform like Wikispaces

Post photos (to Flickr or elsewhere) with an open license

If you see a mistake in Wikipedia, FIX IT!

Add something to a topic in Wikipedia or Wikibooks

Write a definition in the Kids Open Dictionary

Tell three people you know about OER

12.

Thank you.

Karen Fasimpaur

www.k12opened.com

[email_address]

First screen image credits: Linux computer lab Michael Surran Linux penguin - Larry Ewing with the GIMP Books - Tizzie Globe NASA Cloud background - Anca Mosoiu