NCCE 2010 Session 8 - Open Education Resources

Open Education Resources; Share, Remix, Learn

Karen Fasimpaur

http://www.k12opened.org/

http://www.k12opened.com/wiki/index.php/Open_content

Differential education is essential to improving education, text books are not good for this; sharing is good but how do we deal with copyright? How can we reshape the resources we have at hand to meet the needs of our students?

Open Educational Resources are:

• digital, free and OPEN
• tools content and implementation resources
• for teachers, students and lifelong learners

Criteria for fair use

• nature of use (educational)
• purpose and character of use
• amount of use
• effect on market for work

Open source response is the Creative Commons Licenses (http://creativecommons.org/) of which there are various flavors but the bottom line is that it is open to virtually any use freely. Sharealike licencse (copyleft) can have unintentional consequences . . . if you have an item which is more restricted you can't use SA in conjunction with that piece.

Where can we get the resources?

• Photos
  - flickr (http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons) 134 million photos at the time of this posting. Search by using the advanced search function.
  - google images - use advanced search to filter by license to utilize open license images
  - wikipedia (best for historical content) - click on the image to find source and license information.
  - nasa.gov - great image repository of public domain space imagery
• Clipart
  - wpclipart.com (http://wpclipart.com/) high quality copyright free clipart imagery
  - open clip art library (http://openclipart.org/)
• Multimedia
  - muse open (http://www.musopen.com/) open source classical music
  - cc mixter (http://ccmixter.org/) more modern clips and tracks that will appeal to the students a bit more than the classical.
  - free sound project (http://www.freesound.org/) not music but almost any kind of other sound that could be desired
• Presentation
  - free reading.net (http://www.freereading.net/index.php?title=Main_Page) hi quality reading intervention
  - wikibook (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page) free library of educational textbooks (10000 books currently)
  - Kids Open Dictionary (http://dictionary.k12opened.com/) a open source dictionary writing towards a kids point of view. A neat took included is a quick and easy glossary builder for a unit (can export to moodle glossary module).

Why creative commons vs public domain? Public domain doesn't need a source citation. CC instead of public domain retains a set of rights . . . PD gives up all rights. Also, CC gives a source to the media.

How can I make my material Open License? Easiest way is to simply mark it with the CC logo or mark it as Creative Commons