Effective Use of Open Educational Resources
In the Classroom
Kimberly E. Stott, PhD
Drexel University Online
OER Live Action Quiz
• What is OER?
• What is the value of OER to students/faculty?
• Name three sources of OER.
What are Open Educational Resources?
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What are OERs?
• Open Educational Resources are “teaching,
learning, and research resources that reside in
the public domain or have been released
under intellectual property license that
permits their free use or repurposing by
others” (Atkins, Brown, & Hammond, 2007, p.
4).
What are the Benefits of OER to Faculty & Students?
What is the Value of OER?
• To Faculty
– Free and easy access
to the creative works
of others without
having to seek
copyright permission
to use them.
• To Students
– Classroom material
that is creative and
innovative and
different
– Reduced expense
when OER replaces
textbooks
Three Sources of OER?
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Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/
Merlot
Wisc-Online https://www.wisconline.com/
TED Talks
http://www.ted.com/talks
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
YouTube and YouTubeEDU
Openstax
http://cnx.org/
https://www.youtube.com
Creative Commons
• Allows people to share, mix,
and build upon the works of others
• Uses six primary licenses to allow people to
share works under certain conditions and for
specific uses (Orange County Public Schools,
2010).
Creative Commons
• Enables sharing of:
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Educational materials
Images
Video
Sounds
Music and spoken word
Text (Orange County Public Schools, 2010).
Merlot
Started by California State University as an effort to
share educational resources across the system, Merlot is
now an open and “curated collection of free… online
teaching, learning, and faculty development services
contributed and used by an international education
community” (Merlot, 2015).
From http://www.merlot.org
Merlot
Can be used to build, share, and find educational
materials.
From http://www.merlot.org
OpenStax College
• OpenStax College offers students free textbooks .
• These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional
content developers.
• Can adopt a course as is or modify it to meet your
needs.
• Free online books. Low –cost print versions.
From https://openstaxcollege.org
OpenStax CNX
Allows you to view and share free educational material in
small modules that can be organized as courses, books,
reports or other academic assignments (CNX, 2015).
cnx.org
Wisc-Online
The site began as a collaborative effort of the 16 colleges in the
Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) to create a digital
library of learning objects for use in the WTCS colleges. WiscOnline is now an open source of learning objects for the world
(Wisc-online, 2015).
From https://www.wisc-online.com
Example 1: Creative Commons Embed in an Academic Course
Example 1: Creative Commons Embed in an Academic Course
Example 1: Creative Commons Embed in an Academic Course
Example 1: Creative Commons Embed in an Academic Course
Example 2: Creative Commons Embed in a Faculty Training Program
New Faculty Orientation Unit on Fair Use &
Copyright
Example 2: Creative Commons Embed in a Faculty Training Program
New Faculty Orientation Unit on Fair Use &
Copyright
Example 3: OpenStax Embed in a Faculty Training Program
Source: Ragan, L. (2007, August 28). Best practices in online teaching. Retrieved from the OpenStax-CNX website:
http://cnx.org/content/col10453/1.2/.
Example 3: OpenStax Embed in an Academic Course
What are Your Favorite Sources of OER?
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How Have You or Will You Use OER in Your Classroom?
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Questions?
Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something or getting
something from them. That is only valid for information sharing.
Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in
helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about
creating learning processes.
- Peter Senge
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