3. Open Things…
• Open Access
• Open Content
• Open Course ware
• Open Source Software
• Open Education / e-Learning
• Open Educational Resources
• …and many more things
5. Beginning…
The term was first used at a
UNESCO conference in 2002,
although OERs were being
produced and used before
that time. For instance, the
MIT OpenCourseWare project,
which began in 2001, was one
of the first major initiatives of
the OER movement.
6. Open Educational Resources (OER) are
‘materials offered freely and openly to use
and adapt for teaching, learning,
development and research’.
- The Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/OCW-OER.aspx
7. Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and
learning materials that are freely available online
for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor,
student or self-learner. Examples of OER include:
full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures,
homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom
activities, pedagogical materials, games,
simulations, and many more resources contained in
digital media collections from around the world.
- OER Commons
http://www.oercommons.org/
8. OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the
public domain or have been released under an intellectual property
license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open
educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules,
textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools,
materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
9. Open Educational Resources
free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for
• teaching,
• learning,
• research, and
• other purposes.
10. Types of Open Educational Resources
• Courses
• Course materials
• Content modules
• Learning objects
• Collections, and
• Journals
11. open content / open practices
http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/tag/open-content/
33. Open Educational Resources for
Schools (OER4S)
http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/research-development/projects/open-educational-resources-for-schools-oer4s
58. Open Educational Practice (OEP)
A characteristic of Open
Educational Practice,
compared with
conventional forms of
professional practice, is
that it changes the
nature of relationships…
- Allison Littlejohn, Lou McGill, Isobel Falconer, Jay Dempster
http://littlebylittlejohn.com/do-oer-funded-initiatives-impact-professional-practice/
59. What this change is?
• Between academics and support staff (as people work
in multi-disciplinary teams, sharing areas of expertise);
• Amongst academics (as teaching practice shifts from
individual practice to cross-institutional and inter-
institutional collaboration);
• Between academics and students (as teachers and
learners (who may not be registered with a university)
interact in new ways);
• Between academics and organisations {including the
university where they are employed} (as university
activities open up).
65. Curate…
Create a specific collection of OER for easy access and sharing
http://www.scoop.it/t/open-learning-news
http://www.scoop.it/t/open-educational-resources-oer
