OER Presentation for Monroe Community College

1. Open Educational Resources
Monroe Community College
Online Learning Day
June 20th, 2013
Kathleen Stone
Coordinator of Curriculum and Instructional Design/Course Conversion Manager
Empire State College
Center for Distance Learning
Kathleen.Stone@esc.edu
Twitter: @KathleenAStone
Gmail: Kathleen.A.Stone@gmail.com

2. Image by opensourceway available on Flickr under CC-BY-SA

3. Open vs. Free
• Free
▫ No financial exchange for the
product or service.
▫ Copyright law still applies.
• How is “open” different?
▫ Open includes free as in no
charge AND free as in
freedom to:
 reuse
 revise
 remix
 redistribute
Image on WikiEducator by Recyclethis CC-BY
At its core it is a
Philosophy – a way of
looking at how we
create knowledge and
move forward as a
society.

4. Creative Commons
• In order to easily facilitate the 4 R's, there needs
to be a common language that creators can
use to convey their wishes for how their works
can be used.
• Does not take away copyright from the owner –
provides you with “permission” without
having to ask for it

5. Creative Common Licenses
• CC = Creative Commons
• BY = Attribution
• SA = Share Alike
• NC = Noncommercial
• ND = No Derivatives
License Abbreviations

6. Finding OER: Searches

7. Finding OER: Searches

8. Finding OER: Searches
• Google Advanced Search

9. Finding OER: Lists and Repositories
• MERLOT
• http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
• Connexions
• http://cnx.org/
• The OrangeGrove
• http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/ho
me.do

10. Video
Vimeo
• Creative Commons License search
• No captioning
• Can search downloadable

11. Video
YouTube
• No CC search
• Does have CC-BY license option
• Has captioning/transcript capabilities
• Edit in YouTube

12. Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
c-MOOC's X-MOOC
• Radically different idea about
how people learn in a digitally
connected and networked
society.
• It's all about the learners and
connections not the content!
• Siemens and Downes- 2008
Connectivism and Connective
Knowledge
http://youtu.be/eW3gMGqcZQc
• Coursera
• Udacity
• edX
• Focus is on the content - uses
an LMS, automated feedback
and exams.
http://youtu.be/601pU_Oib7o