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What are OER?
What are OER?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational resources that are shared freely or under licensing restrictions set by the creator for use in educational settings. These resources can include, among other materials, lesson plans, syllabi, curriculum maps, instruction modules, simulations, quizzes and other assessments.
The world's more famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) OER is Wikipedia, where information on just about any topic is freely shared with the world. In addition to the Wikipedia project, other OER projects have been created by various groups including universities and other educational organizations. Generally, their primary purpose is to provide open sourced courses, lessons and activities at the collegiate as well as the primary and secondary educational levels.
Other well known OER projects
Other well known OER projects
Benefits of Using OER
Benefits of Using OER
With OER you are free to:
- Reuse - Use the work verbatim (unaltered), without having to ask permission.
- Revise - Alter or transform the work to meet your needs
- Remix - Combine the (verbatim or altered) work with other works for enhanced effect
- Redistribute - Share the verbatim, reworked, or remixed work with others.
- Retain - Keep access to the materials after the learning event
(Wiley, 2007)
There are many benefits to using OER; one of the most important being the shift from being a consumer of content to being a producer of content. Instead of being locked into a vendor's concept of educational reality, you can produce and disseminate content that is always current and can be adapted, remixed and/or reused in new and innovative ways.
There are 6 steps to creating and and disseminating OER: Find the resources, compose them to work in your learning resource, adapt the resource to fit your environment. Make it personal, local and/or relevant to your audience! Next, use your new resource in your classroom, online or wherever the learning is taking place. Share your new resource with others so they can reuse them and finally, make sure the license you use gives credit to you and/or the owner of the materials you have used.
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