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Week 2 Find and evaluate OER
Exploerer_1.0 Learning to (Re)Use Open Educational Resources
Week 2 Find and evaluate OER
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Contents Week 2 Find and evaluate OER
2.1 What do you do? 2.2 About licensing 2.3 Your OER places 2.4 An OER rubric
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Photo Credit: About to fly away by Thomas Tolkien,
CC BY-NC 2.0
This week you are invited to jump in and:
learn about Creative Commons licences
explore and add to your treasure chest of open
resources
think about how you may go about evaluating the
quality of open resources.
2.1 What do you do?How do you go about preparing for a class? Do you have a look at
the textbooks you have at home or in the library? Do you go
online? Do you ask your colleagues to share ideas?
Activity 1Allow about 15 minutes
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Take a few minutes and jot down your thinking in answer to the
questions above.
Provide your answer...
In the video below, we’ve asked a language teacher the same
question. Watch the video and then have a look at your notes: are
your experiences similar to hers?
Watch the video at YouTube.com.
How do you go about preparing your class?
2.2 About licensingIt is common enough to assume that because something is online,
it is also free to use. But is it, really? Do you normally ask the
person who uploaded their materials online whether you can use
them in your class, in your presentation, in your report…? Of
course not! That’s what Creative Commons licences do: they
let you know exactly how an author would like you to use their
materials while they retain copyright. The following image explains
what each of the licences allows you to do.
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Source: How to Attribute Creative Commons Photos, by FOTER.
View description - Uncaptioned figure
These licences can be combined. For example, the image
reproduced right above this paragraph has been released under a
CC BY-SA licence, which means that it can be reused in this
course as long as it is attributed and shared under the same terms.
The author has not added any restrictions with regard to adapting
the resource (note that we have cropped it from the original) or
using it for commercial purposes.
What is important for you to understand is that only resources
allowing for adaptation are actual OER; if you can’t adapt it, then
it’s not open. See the slide below: a resource with a No-Derivatives
(CC-ND) licence stops you from making any changes to it,
therefore it is not open.
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Source: Creative Commons Licenses, by Paul
Stacey, CC BY 4.0
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Watch Josie Fraser talking about Creative Commons licences and the decisions we make when choosing which licence
to use.
Activity 2Fancy playing a game? Follow the instructions in the link and
remix four different media types to create a new resource.
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2.3 Your OER placesAlthough research tells us that open content is hard to find, there is
a growing number of repositories and search engines to help you
locate what you need.
Here are some suggestions:
OER Commons contains 50,000 learning materials in
a variety of subjects ranging from preschool to adult
education.
OpenLearn is the home of free learning materials
from The Open University.
OpenStax CNX offers thousands of textbook-style
resources in a host of disciplines that can be viewed,
downloaded, adapted and shared.
PhET is a collection of free interactive simulations for
Math and Science from the University of Colorado.
For language learning materials, head over to the
Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning at the University of Texas.
iBerry The Academic Porthole helps you connect
to information and resources in Higher Education.
Open Education Europa contains a very useful list
of European repositories of OER classified by country,
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If you are looking for images, Photos for Class allows you to
directly search properly attributed, Creative Commons, age-
appropriate images from Flickr; Unsplash contains photos
licensed Creative Commons Zero, and Pixabay gives you
access to hundreds of thousands of public domain images,
including vectors and art illustrations.
Activity 3Allow about 15 minutes
What websites would you recommend to other people?
Imagine you are helping to crowdsource a list of must-go online
places: think of at least one link to your preferred repositories/sites
and make a note of it below. Perhaps your colleagues at work
would be interested in giving you a hand.
Provide your answer...
2.4 An OER rubricOnce you find an openly licensed resource (an image, a lesson, a
unit, etc.), how do you decide whether you are going to use it in
class or not?
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The questions below, adapted from Achieve, suggest some
aspects you may want to consider when evaluating the quality of
teaching and learning resources.
Quality of explanation of the subject matter
How thoroughly is the subject matter explained?
Are the main ideas clearly identified for the students?
Utility of materials designed to support teaching
Are materials comprehensive and easy to understand
and use?
Are suggestions for ways to use the materials with a
variety of learners included?
Quality of technological interactivity
If interactive, is this feature purposeful and directly
related to learning?
If interactive, do materials create an individualised
learning experience (i.e. do they adapt to students
based on what they do?)
Opportunities for deeper learning
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problems, learning how to learn, communicating
effectively, etc.?
Assurance of accessibility
Are the materials fully accessible for ALL students, i.e.
visually impaired, print disabled, etc.?
Source: Rubrics for Evaluating Open Education Resource (OER) Objects by Achieve, CC BY 3.0
Activity 4Allow about 30 minutes
What aspects do you consider when you are evaluating a resource
for teaching?
Provide your answer...
You can now move on to Week 3 Reuse in action.
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Uncaptioned figureDescriptionThe image shows four Creative Commons licences. (From left to right) Attribution (by) You may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits in the manner specified by these. Non-commercial (NC) You may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only for noncommercial purposes. No Derivative Works (ND) You may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based on it. Share Alike (SA) You may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs the original work. Below the badges is a notice that reads: A licence cannot feature both the Share Alike and No Derivative Works options. The Share Alike requirement applies only to derivative works.
Back to Session 1 Figure 2
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Uncaptioned figureDescriptionThe slide is in three columns. The first column has ‘least free’ at the bottom with an arrow pointing upwards to ‘most free’ at the top of the column. The middle column shows the creative commons licences available: the most free at the top of the column is Public domain; next is By, then BY SA; BY NC; BY NC SA; BY ND and finally, the least free is BY NC ND. The third column has an arrow against the first five licences with the word OER. The last two licences (BY ND and BY NC ND) have an arrow against them and the words Not OER.
Back to Session 1 Figure 3
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