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Mon PM - What is OER?

Day's Objectives

Define open educational resources
Identify resources that are openly licensed, public domain, and all rights reserved copyrighted
Distinguish different types of Creative Commons licenses

OER Defined

There are many OER Definitions created by a variety of organizations and foundations.

OER Definition 1

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching, learning, and research resources released under an open license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OERs can be textbooks, full courses, lesson plans, videos, tests, software, or any other tool, material, or technique that supports access to knowledge. -by Hewlett Foundation

OER Definition 2

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. -by UNESCO

The "Why Open Education Matters" video is by Opa Bukola

The "Password: OER" video by Laura Rachfalski

Mini-Lecture: Copyright, Open License, & Public Domain

Mini Lecture Copyright, O...& Public Domain PRLS 2019

Activity: Sorting Resources By Rights of Use

First, in teams, you will be sorting different types of resources into public domain, copyright, or Creative Commons categories.
We will share our findings and discuss as a group.

Curate Resources with Scrible

While the focus of this workshop is on finding no-cost and OER materials as replacements to costly commercial course materials, it is important to remember the overall course design process, which always starts with the Student Learning Outcomes. It is recommended that you have your course syllabus on-hand as you search for your course materials.

Today, we will share with you one of the tools we recently discovered to curate resources. It is named scrible and allows you to bookmark (collect), annotate (mark up), and highlight your resources. Let's view the video below that give us a good overview of scrible.

The video "scrible Overview" is by scrible

1. Create an educator scrible account

2. Add the scrible Chrome Extension or Install the scrible Toolbar

3. Practice

Let's use your hawaii.edu account for ease of use. Be sure you are logged into your email in the browser before clicking on the Google logo.

This video details on how scrible can annotate web pages, automatically generate a citation, save resources to your own library, and can create a bibliography.