Slide deck for use with K12 School Administrators at Calhoun ISD. Includes sections on: OER in Michigan, OER Basics, Common OER Myths, and activities tied to the OER for Administrators Playbook.
The aim of the Open Education Design - Course for Practitioners is to equip the participants with basic knowledge, practical advice and hands-on experience to prepare them for their own design of Open Educational Resources (OER).
During the 5-day course, the participants became familiar with open education design processes, methods and tools. They learned from OER experts and practitioners how to align open education with developmental and strategic goals, they got basic knowledge about OE concepts, about pedagogical and didactical issues as well as about content related issues in OE.
To empower the participants for making a crucial step from an idea to the implementation of concrete OERs, platforms and tools for open education design was addressed, followed with hands-on experience and a session on OER evaluation.
The OEL Toolkit is openly available and openly licensed. The guidance generated by the OEL Toolkit is of primary relevance to educators and developers working within Australian higher education institutions. The OEL Toolkit web application has been designed with a focus on ease of use. It provides relevant information for users seeking guidance on using, creating, modifying or sharing a specific Open Educational Resource.
This is a recording of a webinar where K-12 and higher ed instructors shared what they learned from getting rid of their textbooks and developing original, openly licensed materials for their classes.
This guide provides explains open educational resources (OERs) and surrounding issues for senior managers, learning technologists, technical staff and educators interested in releasing OERs to the education community.
A very brief overview of examples of OER, benefits, sources, and tools.
Open licensing of instructional materials such as textbooks, videos, and other related resources makes possible free sharing and remixing which reduces cost barriers for students. Creative Commons provides the legal infrastructure for easily sharing creative works including instructional materials but how do the different licenses indicate a resource can be re-used. Join us for an interactive session of playbook license scenarios where you test your knowledge of the OER re-use based on license type.
Use this checklist to make sure that your resource meets all the requirements for open licensing. Please note that it is very helpful to review this checklist BEFORE you begin development work so that you are designing your resource with open licensing requirements in mind from the beginning.
This link goes to the Strategic Action group on OER Commons where you can download a pdf version of the document or remix the editable version.
This website is designed to serve as a resource for educators interested in learning more about Open Pedagogy. The website includes examples of open pedagogy practices, which include both classroom-tested practices and budding ideas.
In CampGPT, educators experimented with generative AI-enabled tools like chatbots and image generators to learn and explore together. Their work and insights have been compiled in the Open Prompt Book from CampGPT. Throughout this prompt book, you’ll learn more about generative AI, what educators use it for, and key tips and tricks. The “Try It Out” links enable you to try the prompts in your own account (links for ChatGPT and Bard are provided). This means that, if you like an idea, you can start with the prompt in the book and then continue interacting with a chatbot to further adapt the output to your needs. In addition to the open prompts, we’ve included quotes from the educators from whom the ideas and prompts in this book were crowdsourced.
This is a supplementary video for the Commonwealth of Learning Open Textbook Manual. It shows how to create Lessons in OER Commons. The OER Commons Lesson Builder allows instructors to create resources that are viewable by students as lessons, and by teachers as lesson plans with supplemental instructional resources.
This guide provides a primer on copyright and use permissions. It is intended to support teachers, librarians, curriculum experts and others in identifying the terms of use for digital resources, so that the resources may be appropriately (and legally) used as part of lessons and instruction. The guide also helps educators and curriculum experts in approaching the task of securing permission to use copyrighted materials in their classrooms, collections, libraries or elsewhere in new ways and with fewer restrictions than fair use potentially offers. The guide was created as part of ISKME's Primary Source Project, and is the result of collaboration with copyright holders, intellectual property experts, and educators.* "Copyright license choice" by opensource.com is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
New America’s Education Policy program uses original research and policy analysis to help solve the nation’s critical education problems, crafting objective analyses and suggesting new ideas for policymakers, educators, and the public at large. We combine a steadfast concern for historically disadvantaged populations with a belief that better information about education can vastly improve both the policies that govern educational institutions and the quality of learning itself.
The Learning Accelerator develops “Problem of Practice” (PoP) guides that dig into the details of a specific challenge educators face, why it is important, what the research says, and offers actionable solutions, resources, and real-world examples of how others have succeeded.
In this PoP, educators and leaders can use this guide to help them work with Open Educational Resources (OER) to personalize lessons and meet student needs.
The Learning Accelerator develops “Problem of Practice” (PoP) guides that dig into the details of a specific challenge educators face, why it is important, what the research says, and offers actionable solutions, resources, and real-world examples of how others have succeeded.
In this PoP, educators and leaders can use this guide to explore an overview of implementing effective personalized professional development that supports curating and creating high-quality, rigorous OER curriculum, alongside concrete resources around competencies for educators.
The Learning Accelerator develops "Problem of Practice" (PoP) guides that dig into the details of a specific challenge educators face, why it is important, what the research says, and offers actionable solutions, resources, and real-world examples of how others have succeeded.
In this PoP, educators seeking to understand and use Open Educational Resources (OER) can use this guide to help them understand what OER is and search for high-quality, rigorous, and standards-aligned OER.
This interview with a school leader who recently started using OER ELA materials in his elementary school highlights the impact of the work and his lessons learned.