Supporting teaching & learning with Open Educational Resources
FUTURE READY SEATTLE 2016
Open by MIKI Yoshihito | CC BY
Barbara Soots OER Program Manager Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction barbara..soots@k12.wa.us | Melinda N. Boland Senior Manager, OER Products & Services ISKME | OER Commons |
Agenda
OER are…
Open Educational Resources (OER) reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and �re-purposing.
OER are not…
Any free resources on the internet FREE is not the same as OPEN.
Strictly digital resources �OER is a license not a delivery platform.
A replacement for copyright�Open licenses are just a set of permitted uses that the copyright holder clarifies.
OER are not one specific type of resource
Image and audio resources
Books in the public domain
Video and audio lectures
Interactive simulations
Game-based learning programs
Lesson plans
Textbooks
Online course curricula
Professional learning programs
The 5 Rs of OER
Reuse — copy verbatim
Redistribute — share with others
Revise — adapt and edit
Remix — combine resources
Retain — make, own, & control copies
What’s Next…
Internet�Enables
Huge potential to shift costs and increase access to educational materials, but...
Copyright�Forbids
Digital Technology
BOOKS
SCRIBBLES
DOODLES
MOVIES
ARTICLES
MUSIC
BALLETS
PHOTOGRAPHS
SOFTWARE
PLAYS
SCULPTURE
ARCHITECTURE
PAINTINGS
WEBSITES
What’s protected by copyright?
Look familiar?
Download and print this?
Make adaptations?
Share this with my colleagues?
Repost and distribute this �material and any adaptations I make on a wider scale?
Who do I contact for answers to these questions?
Do I have permission to:
Open licenses put the “open” in OER and help avoid you becoming a copyright detective!
The Detective by Paurlan - CC BY
OER clearly define user permissions
What’s Next…
Washington School Directors’ Association Featured Policies
Washington Efforts�WSSDA New Instruction Materials Model Policy
…the new policy and procedure recommend that districts encourage their [OER] use by teachers. OER materials are subject to the same selection and adoption processes as more traditional materials.
WSSDA Policy and Legal News April 2015
OSPI Copyright and Open Licensing Policy
Clarify usage permissions
Public access to publicly funded materials
Model for school district policy
Applies to materials created by all OSPI staff, contractors, and grantees
#GoOpen
OER Commons
Discover, Share, Create
Refine by topic, standard, type of material
View online or download
Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials
PhET
https://phet.colorado.edu
Student Achievement Partners
http://achievethecore.org
Organizations with OER �
Full-Course OER�CK-12
Full-Course OER�Utah Department of Education
Full-Course OER�Learn Zillion
Full-Course OER�Open Up Resources (formerly K-12 OER Consortium)
Share district-developed resources
OER Commons
Curriki
Canvas Commons
Microsoft - OER Search
Edmodo Spotlight
Amazon Inspire
Smarter Balanced Digital Library
OpenEd
State Repositories
Individual Developers
Teachers Pay Teachers
Better Lesson
Share My Lesson
Read Works
PBS Learning Media
This is only a small portion of the sites, repositories, and search engines out there that educators will use to find instructional materials of ALL license types.
Know your need, search critically, review with recognized rubrics for the evaluation of instructional materials, and understand your level of permitted use!
What’s Next…
Cost shift from textbooks to other critical areas
Up to date, innovative materials
Collaboration and partnerships
Continual quality improvement and standards alignment
Support for independent and differentiated learning
Solve legal concerns with distribution and adaptation
Benefits of OER
OER…
“… because we would like other districts to be able to download or copy/use whatever we have created, we are fine with taking off the “Do Not Copy” watermark and would like to include a Creative Commons (CC) license at the bottom instead. “
Everett Public Schools
Encourage Sharing of Resources
Promote Innovative Uses of Materials
All students can have access to high quality learning materials that have the most up-to-date and relevant content because OER can be freely copied and distributed to anyone.
Equals by sandeep loomba | CC BY
OER promote equity
Equals by sandeep loomba | CC BY
OER empower districts and teachers as creative professionals by giving them the ability to adapt and customize learning materials to meet the needs of their students without worrying about copyright.
Up by inallyourways| CC BY NC
OER empowers districts
Finding target resources
Evaluating quality and alignment
District policies that don’t recognize OER as an option
Access and security issues
Challenges with OER
What’s Next…
Raise awareness of the existence of OER and the benefits for your students, teachers and parents.
Provide institutional & district support for successful adoption of OER.
Explore funding to support the development or redevelopment of OER curriculum.
Collaborate with other States / Districts �
Key by Peaches and Cream | CC BY
Keys to supporting OER
Visit OER Project website
Visit OER Project website
What’s Next…
Group Discussion
Small groups; 10 min
Searching for OER at OER Commons
Report back
Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keep in Touch
Barbara Soots
OER Program Manager
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Learning and Teaching Department
http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer
@waOSPI_OER
Melinda Boland
Senior Manager, OER Products & Services
ISKME | OER Commons
@OERCommons
Portions of slide deck adapted from earlier versions of presentation by Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons and Meredith Jacob, Creative Commons United States and American University Washington College of Law