The Introduction to the Making More of Open Ed Resources Project.

1. Making More of Open
Educational Resources
MMOER

2. This media file is in the public domain in the
United States. This applies to U.S. works where
the copyright has expired, often because its first
publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923.

3. • To undertake a collaborative action research
with adult tutors to explore the most effective
ways of making use of open educational
resources.

4. How can tutors in Community
Learning settings work most
effectively to source, adapt and adopt
existing Open Educational Resources
to enrich their own delivery?

5. It is anticipated that the following sub questions will be addressed:
 How can collaboration aid content search?
 How far do tutors currently have skills required for adaptation?
 Which platforms are most effective for aggregation and presentation of
resources?

6. If I join, how much time will I have to
commit?
• 1) initial half day meeting (today)
• 2) online research in your own time
(minimum 2 hours but you may wish to do more)
• 3) participation in online forum
• 4) mid-project face-to-face meeting

8. Overview
• Introduction
• About us - Results of initial survey and stating
personal aims.
• Explore OER
• About Action Research
• RRRR
Coffee Break
• Project Timetable
• XT learn
• Action Planning

9. Why are we here?

11. Your motivation for taking part

12. What subject areas do you teach?
• Crafts
• Bookkeeping and Accounts/curriculum
manager
• ICT
• ESOL, IT
• ICT, Maths GCSE, L3 Award in Education and
Training

13. Are there any topics for which you would really
like to find resources?
• IT/Cyber Security , ECDL L1/L2
• ESOL
• Maths and Education

14. Sounds
interesting and
will make me
look into this
more effectively

16. What do you hope it will do for:
• your teaching / work
•your career
•you personally?
What do you bring to the project?
Eg Subject, teaching, E Learning,
education
Why are you planning to
get involved in this project?

17. About OER
• Exercise
• Definitions

18. • Open source software
• Open research
• Open data
• Open access publications
• Open courses
• Open Educational Resources (OER)
.
• Open APIs

19. 5 Rs
• Retain -
• Reuse -
• Revise -
• Remix -
• Redistribute -

20. 5 Rs
• Retain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the
content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)
• Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways
(e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
• Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the
content itself (e.g., translate the content into another
language)
• Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content
with other open content to create something new (e.g.,
incorporate the content into a mashup)
• Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original
content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g.,
give a copy of the content to a friend)

21. • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

23. • https://open4us.org/find-oer/

24. • http://xtlearn.net/L/2778/1/M/

25. • https://stirringlearning.wordpress.com/page/
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