On March 30, 2012, I, and my co-presenter, Kathy Lein, presented on Open Educational Sources at 4th Annual Denver Transfer Initiative Faculty Academy Conference

1. IT'S A FREE WORLD:
OPEN ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
SHERRY JONES & KATHY LEIN
4TH ANNUAL DENVER TRANSFER INITIATIVE
FACULTY ACADEMY CONFERENCE
MARCH 30, 2012
ACCESS THIS PRESENTATION AND ALL
LINKS: http://bit.ly/open2012

2. WHAT IS OPEN ACCESS/
OPEN SOURCE/OPEN CONTENT?
"OPEN ACCESS" REFERS TO THE MOVEMENT OF RENDERING
WORKS ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC (DEMOCRATIZING
ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE)
"OPEN SOURCE" REFERS TO A PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE SOURCE
FROM WHICH TO OBTAIN PUBLIC DOMAIN WORK (AKA
"OPEN CONTENT")
MANY PUBLISHERS, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ARE
ACTIVELY CONVERTING TRADITIONAL TEXTS INTO
DIGITAL TEXTS TO PROMOTE THE OPEN ACCESS CULTURE

3. OPEN TEXTS REPOSITORIES
• OER COMMONS - Access to hundreds of free texts,
lecture notes, lesson plans, videos, activities,
assessments, etc. from organizations, publishers, colleges
and individual authors who are trying to make it easier for
everyone to get an education. Here are 2 examples:
o FLATWORLD (free textbooks that instructors can
edit, add to, delete from to customize their course)
 General Psychology (ch. 3 & 4 examples)
o CONNEXIONS (free textbooks and other resources -
you can also create here)
 many, many more
o Click HERE and search for your subject

4. OPEN TEXTS REPOSITORIES (CON'T)
• MERLOT (University of California) - Extensive Collection
of open materials
o Search for OPEN TEXTS
o Read about MERLOT's open textbook initiative here:
MERLOT

5. FIND/VERIFY PUBLIC DOMAIN,
CREATIVE COMMONS, OPEN ACCESS
• PUBLIC DOMAIN CALCULATOR (CHARTS)
• PUBLIC DOMAIN SHERPA (Q & A CALCULATOR)
• PUBLIC DOMAIN SEARCH (APPROPEDIA)
• CREATIVE COMMONS SEARCH (CC)
• OPEN DOAR (OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES SEARCH)

6. OPEN E-BOOKS
• OPEN LIBRARY (1 MILLION+ OPEN E-BOOKS)
• E-BOOKS@ADELAIDE (MULTI-FORMAT)
• PROJECT GUTENBERG (MOST MULTI-FORMAT)
• OPEN SHAKESPEARE (MULTI-FORMAT)
• READ PRINT LIBRARY (SOCIAL MEDIA E-BOOKS)
• LITFY (SIMILAR TO READ PRINT LIBRARY)

7. OPEN SHORT STORIES
• CLASSIC READER (ANNOTATE TEXTS ON SITE)
o SEARCH AND ANNOTATE A SHORT STORY
• THE INTERNET CLASSICS ARCHIVE (MIT ARCHIVE
OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE)
• EAST OF THE WEB (SHORT STORIES BY
INDEPENDENT AND NOVICE WRITERS; UK BASED)
• BOOK TRUST (UK READING AND WRITING CHARITY)

8. OPEN IMAGES/PHOTOS/CARTOONS
• PUBLIC DOMAIN PICTURES (SEARCH ENGINE)
• TAG GALAXY (SEARCH ENGINE BASED ON FLICKR)
o SEARCH FOR INFINITY POOL
• PICASA (CREATIVE COMMONS, PUBLIC DOMAIN)
• EDUPIC (SCIENCE GRAPHICS)
• WE BLOG CARTOONS (CARTOONS FOR BLOGS)
• PANORAMIO (IMAGES TAGGED ON GOOGLE MAP)
o SEARCH FOR AMSTERDAM

9. OPEN AUDIOBOOKS/PODCASTS
• LIBRAVOX (AUDIOBOOKS AS MP3S OR OGGS)
• RADIOLAB (SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)
• HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY WITH NO GAPS
(PHILOSOPHY)
• THE PARTIALLY EXAMINED LIFE (PHILOSOPHY)
• HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS
(HISTORY)
• DOUBLETWIST PODCASTS (SEARCH SERVICE)
• PODCAST SEARCH SERVICE (SEARCH SERVICE)

10. OPEN VIDEOS
• ACADEMIC EARTH (MULTI-DISCIPLINARY)
• OPEN UNIVERSITY (MULTI-DISCIPLINARY)
• HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MULTI-DISCIPLINARY)
• MIT WORLD (MULTI-DISCIPLINARY)
• GAPMINDER (TRENDS AND STATISTICS)
• TED (THEORIES)
• BIG THINK (THEORIES)
• DOCUMENTARY HEAVEN (DOCUMENTARIES)
• KHAN ACADEMY (MULTI-DISCIPLINARY)
• HIPPOCAMPUS (MULTI-DISCIPLINARY)

11. OPEN INTERACTIVE
PANORAMAS/WORLDS/VISUALS
• THE SCALE OF THE UNIVERSE 2 (SCIENCE AND
ASTRONOMY)
• AROUNDER (360 VIEW OF WORLD LOCATIONS)
• PHOTOSYNTH (TURN PHOTO INTO 360 VIEW)
• GOOGLE ART PROJECT (360 VIEW OF MUSEUM)
o SEARCH FOR RIJKSMUSEUM
• BLOOM'S DIGITAL TAXONOMY (INTERACTIVE)
• DANTE'S INFERNO (INTERACTIVE)

12. OPEN RESEARCH ENGINES
• WOLFRAM ALPHA (COMPUTATION)
o TYPE IN A FORMULA, AND/OR PHRASE
• QWIKI (INTERACTIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA)
o SEARCH FOR NETHERLANDS
• SWEET SEARCH (PEER-REVIEWED SOURCES)
• WORDNIK (CONTEXT-RICH DICTIONARY)

13. OPEN LIBRARIES/ARCHIVES
• HATHITRUST (MULTI-VIEW COLLECTIONS)
o SEARCH HYPERREALITY, BEETHOVEN
• INTERNET ARCHIVE (MULTIMEDIA)
• CALISPHERE (PRIMARY SOURCES)
• UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LIBRARY
o SEARCH NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, LANGUAGE
• LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (COLLECTIONS)
• IBIBLIO (PUBLIC ARCHIVE)

14. OPEN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
• DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS (DOAJ)
(SEARCH ALL OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS)
• OXFORD JOURNALS (90 OPEN JOURNALS)
• SPRINGER OPEN CHOICE (E-TEXTS AND APPS)
• PQDT (DISSERTATION AND THESES)

15. BOOKMARKERS FOR OPEN CONTENT
• PEARLTREES (MINDMAPPER OF LINKS)
• SYMBALOO (BOOKMARK DASHBOARD)
• JOG THE WEB (CREATE GUIDES TO WEBSITES)
• PINTEREST (ONLINE PINBOARD)
• CURATOR'S CODE (WE AS CURATORS OF THE WEB)

16. PUBLISH YOUR OWN OPEN CONTENT!
• PUBLIC DOMAIN MARK (PD PUBLISHING)
• CC0 (CC PUBLISHING)
• READIUM (BROWSER ADD-ON FOR PUBLISHING)
• ISSUU (BOOKS AND E-BOOKS PUBLISHING)
• YUDU (SIMILAR TO ISSUU)
• TED-ED (SUBMIT BEST TEACHING LESSON TO TED)

17. QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?
CONTACT US:
SHERRY JONES & KATHY LEIN
SHERRY.JONES@CCD.EDU & KATHY.LEIN@CCD.EDU
ACCESS THIS PRESENTATION AND ALL LINKS HERE:
http://bit.ly/open2012
THANKS FOR COMING!