Open Educational Resources

Deborah Van PettenReference LibrarianFebruary 28, 2015

TIES Conference

What are they

Different types

Why use OERs

What to look for

Where to search

How to Evaluate OERs

Open Educational Resources (OERs)

“Teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student, or self-learner.

What are OERs?

◦ 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.”

ISKME, OER Glossary. OpenStax CNX. Oct 11, 2007 http://cnx.org/contents/f7700b15-98c6-4297-841a-25adab46eca9@4@4.

Different Types of OERs

Trends in College Pricing http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing

◦ Students spend an average of $1200 a year on textbooks.

Fixing the Broken Textbook Market http://www.uspirg.org/reports/usp/fixing-broken-textbook-market

◦ 65 % of students surveyed reported that they had decided against buying a textbook because it was too expensive

◦ Almost 50% of students surveyed reported that the cost of textbooks impacted how many/which

classes they took each semester

Why use OERs?

Professors adapt the materials to fit their classes

Students have access to the open textbook on the

first day of class

Students are more engaged in their learning

Students experience deeper learning

Why use OERs?

5 R’s – David Wiley

Creative Commons license

Sustainability

Evaluations/Reviews

OERs and What to Look for

◦ Retain – the right to make, own, and control copies of the content

◦ Reuse – the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)

◦ Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)

◦ Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)

◦ Redistribute – the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)

This material was created by David Wiley and published freely under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license at: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221

5 R’s by David Wiley

◦ By By (most free)

◦ BY-SA Share alike

◦ BY-NC Non-commercial

◦ BY-ND No derivatives

◦ BY-NC-SA Non-commercial/Share Alike

◦ BY-NC-ND Non-commercial/No derivatives (least free)

https://creativecommons.org/licenses

Creative Commons Licenses

•OER RepositoriesoDirectory of OER Repositories - https://oerqualityproject.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/directory-of-oer-repositories/oOpen DOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) - http://www.opendoar.org/

•OER Search EnginesoOER CommonsoFREE – Federal Repository for Educational Excellence - http://free.ed.gov/

•State InitiativesoOrange Grove - http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/home.dooOpen Michigan - http://open.umich.edu/education

Substainability and Evaluations/Reviews

Affordable Learning Georgia http://affordablelearninggeorgia.org/◦ Find Textbooks tab > ALG Open Textbooks for Top 50

Courses (USG)

Merlot http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

OpenStax http://openstaxcollege.org/

Internet Archive https://archive.org/

Creative Commons (images/media) http://search.creativecommons.org/

Where to look for OERs

1.) Pick one of the web sites from the previous slide

2.) Search for an OER for one of your classes

In-class Activity

Information Literacy – CRAAP Test https://www.csuchico.edu/lins/handouts/eval_websites.pdf

OER Evaluation Criteria http://affordablelearninggeorgia.org/about/textbook_transformation_grants_round_1_information_for_grantees

Achieve OER Rubrics and Evaluation Tool (K-12) http://www.achieve.org/oer-rubrics

Evaluating OERs

http://www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org/about/textbook_transformation_grants_round_2_information_for_grantees

Clarity, Comprehensibility, and Readability

Content Accuracy and Technical Accuracy Adaptability and Modularity

Appropriateness  Accessibility  Supplementary Resources

 

OER Evaluation Criteria

http://www.achieve.org/oer-rubrics

◦ Rubric I. Degree of Alignment to Standards

◦ Rubric II. Quality of Explanation of the Subject Matter

◦ Rubric III. Utility of Materials Designed to Support Teaching

◦ Rubric IV. Quality of Assessment

Achieve OER Rubrics and Evaluation Tool

◦ Rubric V. Quality of Technological Interactivity

◦ Rubric VI. Quality of Instructional Tasks and Practice Exercises

◦ Rubric VII. Opportunities for Deeper Learning

◦ Rubric VIII. Assurance of Accessibility

Continued

1.) Choose one of the evaluation tools mentioned during this session to evaluate the OER you chose for one of your classes

2.) How well did your OER rate?

In-Class Activity

Comments?

Questions?

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