Open Educational Resources (OER) are a rapidly rising trend in classrooms, libraries, and DIY education circles. Building upon the ideas of open source and access, OER offer a rich, collaborative source of learning materials for k-12, and DIY education. Make the move from traditional textbooks and classroom resources and discover how to leverage the power of OER and open websites in your classrooms to help your students grow and learn together. This session will cover the growth of OER class resources, DIY education, and many open web portals. Numerous sites, tools, and resources will be shared in this session.

2. Open Education Resources
and the Open Web:
Collaborating & sharing for student success
Heather Braum
NExpress Coordinator & Resource Sharing Librarian
Northeast Kansas Library System
hbraum@nekls.org

3. LibGuides Resource Site
http://goo.gl/eSnp83

4. Symbaloo of Session Links
http://goo.gl/9g9r6b

5. Disclaimers....

6. How many of you
collaborate with other
teachers on curriculum?

7. Are textbooks ever up to
date in your classroom?

8. Do you need new ideas or
ways to learn new content --
or offer extra content
to students?

9. Is there ever
enough money to support
the needed resources for
students & teachers?

10. Have you heard of
Open Source
Software?
Open Access
Journals?
Open Education
Resources?

11. What are OER?
The term Open Educational Resource(s)
(OER) refers to educational resources (lesson
plans, quizzes, syllabi, instructional modules,
simulations, textbooks, videos, podcasts, etc.)
that are freely available for use, reuse,
adaptation, and sharing by educators and
students, without need to pay royalties or
license fees.
--Understanding OER,Africa: http://goo.gl/LMyvI
--Wikieducator, http://goo.gl/Ba7B7

12. Why open education matters
video: http://goo.gl/uxWER
More @ Five-Minute Film Festival:Why Open Education Matters:
http://goo.gl/Pp4Pc

13. Understanding Creative
Commons

14. Wikipedia’s
Creative
Commons
License, http://
goo.gl/JWoJ

15. How does OER work?

16. Use the work verbatim (unaltered) without
asking for permission
REUSE
--Wikieducator, http://goo.gl/xtsHV

18. Combine the (verbatim or altered) work with
other works for enhanced effect
REMIX
--Wikieducator, http://goo.gl/xtsHV

19. Share the verbatim, reworked, or remixed work
with others.
REDISTRIBUTE
--Wikieducator, http://goo.gl/xtsHV

20. Create and share and contribute your own
content to the OER community.
CREATE

21. The Costs
Time
Energy
Research
Learning
Curve
Control
Unfamiliarity

22. Why should you care about OER?

23. Types of OER

24. Assignments

25. Complete Courses

26. Games

27. Lectures

28. Lesson Plans

29. Podcasts

30. Quizzes

31. Syllabi

32. Tests

33. Textbooks

34. Units

35. Videos

36. How could these resources
be useful?

37. General Sources for OER

38. Project Gutenberg
www.gutenberg.org

39. Wikipedia
www.wikipedia.org

40. OER Commons
www.oercommons.org

41. Connexions
www.cnx.org

42. Curriki
www.curriki.org

43. Khan Academy
http://www.khanacademy.org

44. CK-12
www.ck12.org/teacher

45. TED Education
education.ted.com

46. SmArt History
smarthistory.khanacademy.org

47. KS Dept. of Education
http://goo.gl/jcR0qC

48. OER Livebinder
http://goo.gl/D2yGI

49. eTexts/Curriculum:
http://goo.gl/7SJrf

50. Full Course Sources

51. EdX
www.edx.org

52. OpenCourseWare
www.ocwconsortium.org

53. iTunes U: available as an app
or in the iTunes Store

54. Coursera
www.coursera.org

55. Open Course Library
www.opencourselibrary.org

56. Open Michigan
open.umich.edu

57. Explore 3 of the resources
(10 min.)

58. Open Web Resources
Special thanks to Gary Price @infodocket

59. Math, Time, Geography, Social
Studies, History, Flags, Weather

60. Planefinder
www.planefinder.net

61. Shipfinder
http://shipfinder.co/

62. Mondowindow
www.mondowindow.com

63. Trafficland
http://trafficland.com/mapnav.jsp

64. History, Current Events,
Government

65. C-SPAN Video Library
www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary

66. TV News (internet archive)
http://archive.org/details/tv

67. Nathan Hale’s
Hazardous Tales
hazardoustales.blogspot.com

68. History Pin
www.historypin.com

69. State & Federal Govt. Resources

70. Kansas Historical Society
Education Portal
http://goo.gl/EmzSJ

71. Kansapedia
http://goo.gl/65vxf

72. Kansas Memory
http://goo.gl/7nsPz

73. State Library of Kansas
kslib.info/librarians/eor.html

74. Holton HS Library
http://www.holton.k12.ks.us/hhslib

75. Brief Tour of the State
Library Resources

76. National Archives
http://goo.gl/4NKxW

77. Library of Congress
www.loc.gov/teachers

78. PBS LearningMedia
www.pbslearningmedia.org

79. Smithsonian Education
www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/

80. U.S. Dept. of Interior
http://goo.gl/W10Pd

81. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
digitalmedia.fws.gov/cdm/

82. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
http://goo.gl/ck7m4

83. National Park Service
http://goo.gl/8phK3

84. USGS
gallery.usgs.gov

85. U.S. Forest Service
www.fs.fed.us/photovideo

86. U.S. Government Photos
http://goo.gl/0e5ua

87. Foreign Language, World Culture,
Music

88. TuneIn Radio
(around the world)
http://goo.gl/nbRK8

89. Science, Climate, Dates

90. WeatherSpark
weatherspark.com

91. Math, Demographics, Geography

92. Data of all kinds
http://goo.gl/JfLMh

93. Geography -- Various Sources

94. TopoMapper
http://goo.gl/GVQ7b

95. Privacy, Life Online, Legal

96. Terms of Service Tracker
http://goo.gl/xjBVW

97. Cities, History, Math, Science

98. Building Images & Plans
www.emporis.com/

99. Sports, This Day In History,
People, Math

100. Baseball Stats
www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/

101. Math, Economics, History

102. LAPL Menu Collection
http://goo.gl/MgMMC

103. NYPL What’s on the menu?
menus.nypl.org

104. History, Nature

105. Arkive
www.arkive.org

106. Coding and Programming

107. Scratch
scratch.mit.edu

108. Alice
www.alice.org

109. Codecademy
www.codecademy.com

110. Khan Academy
www.khanacademy.org/cs

111. AppInventor
appinventor.mit.edu/

112. Explore 3 of the resources
(10 min.)

113. How could these resources
be used in your classrooms?

114. Any sites to add?

115. What is one idea from this
presentation you can take
back to your classroom?

117. Resources for more information
1. The OER Handbook for Educators: http://goo.gl/fetBX
2. Course:The “How-Tos” of OER Commons: http://goo.gl/luP6O
3. Course: Introduction to Open Educational Resources http://goo.gl/j48mE
4. Open Content: School Libraries a ‘Natural Fit’ to Lead Adoption: http://
goo.gl/xh1Ro
5. Index of OER Resources, http://goo.gl/Jjrc4
6. Coursera launches with new OER strategies, http://goo.gl/ybBSX
7. Skip the Tuition: 100 Free Podcasts from the Best Colleges in the World,
http://goo.gl/yGpr
8. Take Any College Class for Free: 236 Open Courseware Collections,
Podcasts, andVideos, http://goo.gl/sDOR0
9. How open education can transform learning, http://goo.gl/BH0mr
10. Wikirriculum:The Promises and Politics of an Open Source Curriculum:
http://goo.gl/Xq5t1
11. OEDB Course Portal http://oedb.org/open/
12. 12 Open Educational Resources: From Khan to MIT http://
goo.gl/kpUH4
13. A guide to open educational resources http://goo.gl/DJKO4

118. All images used are under CC license
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Global_Open_Educational_Resources_Logo.svg
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Opensource.svg
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Access_logo_PLoS_white.svg
4. http://wikieducator.org/File:Recyclethis-185807557.jpg
5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gracewong/312922826/sizes/l/
6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/-bast-/349497988/
7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/andosteinmetz/2901325908/sizes/z/
8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/timothygreigdotcom/2317076337/sizes/l/
9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcocrupivisualartist/6791503461/sizes/l/
10. http://www.flickr.com/photos/zwhiterussian/4242440431/sizes/l/
11. http://www.flickr.com/photos/fordschool/6910474403/sizes/l/
12. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougbelshaw/4469401518/sizes/l/
13. http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidsilver/4275611246/sizes/l/
14. http://www.flickr.com/photos/superkimbo/3121817029/sizes/o/
15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alstonfamily/1606272681/sizes/l/
16. http://www.flickr.com/photos/amsd2dth/3808844153/sizes/l/
17. http://www.flickr.com/photos/filmsoftime/7430143552/sizes/l/
18. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rzganoza/4186516481/sizes/l/
19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cybass/176867465/sizes/z/
20. http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/2512983749/sizes/l/
21. http://www.flickr.com/photos/quoteseverlasting/8740562293/sizes/l/

119. Contact me
• Presentation Information: http://goo.gl/eSnp83
• includes lists of the resources, slides, & more
information & will continue to grow!
• Contact information:
• Email: hbraum@nekls.org
• Twitter: @hbraum
• http://about.me/hbraum