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Finding and Using Open Educational Resources
David WileyInstructional Psychology & Technology
Brigham Young University
http://slideshare.net/opencontent
This presentation, including URLs, &c.
Open Educational Resources?
Let’s begin by defining terms
Open, adj.
Describes educational artifacts
Open Textbooks
Open Educational Resources
Open Courseware
(Open Source Software)
Open, adj.
Teaching materials freely shared with permissions to engage in the “4R” activities
The 4Rs
Reuse – copy verbatimRedistribute – share with others
Revise – adapt and improveRemix – combine with others
Communicate 4Rs Permissions
Since this overrides default copyright,you must use a copyright license
Offers easy to use 4R’s licenses
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CC Licensed Items Online (Millions)
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While Nouns Differ…
The operationalizing actions are the same
Open, adj.
Generous, sharing, giving
Your Inner Two-year Old
Overcoming the impulse to scream“Mine!”
Law and Policy “Enable” Us
To shout “Mine!” ever more loudly,convulse ever more uncontrollably,
and hit each other with ever larger toys
Society’s Siren Song
“Be selfish. Keep it to yourself.It’s legal. It’s ok.”
Education Is Not Immune
This kind of thinking is accepted in our schools and programs
Role of Openness in Education?
A terrible, insidious question
Openness is the only means of doing education.
If There Is No Sharing…
There is no education
Education, n.
A relationship of sharing
Successful Educators
Share most thoroughly with the most students
Expertise Is Nonrivalrous
Can be given without being given away
“He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.”
Thomas Jefferson
Teachers Would Be Like Bees!
They could only teach once
Expressions Are Different
To give a book you must give it away
Expressions Are Different
To give a book you must give it away
Expressions Are Different
Digital expressions are nonrivalrous
n’t^
E.g., Online Book
We can all read simultaneously
An Indescribable Advance
The first time in human history
Expertise and Its Expressions
Give without giving away
Unprecedented Capacity
We can share as never before
Unprecedented Capacity
We can educate as never before
Why and Where?
Why would I want to use OER?Where can I find OER?
http://ck12.org/
CK-12
http://openhighschool.org/
Open High School of Utah
http://oercommons.org/
OER Commons
http://bit.ly/aIEiGF
Open Educational Resources Handbook for Educators
BYU IS - IPT 515R
Finding and Using Open Educational Resources
http://google.com/
Each and Every Interaction
Recorded and stored for analysisto improve quality of service / experience
Even the Grocer!
Almost every industry uses data more effectively than we do
If We Had This Kind of Data…
Education could engage in continuous quality improvement, too!
What Kind of Data?
When they logged in, read, and workedHow long they logged in, read, and worked
Pathway information, Item-by-item analytics,&c.
Curriculum Use
Curriculum Redesign
StudentPerformance
Data
Data Describing Curriculum
Performance
Data Supporting
Strategic Tutoring
FeedbackLoop
Open, adj.
Increasing (1) access and (2) local control
More Open We Are
The better / less expensive / more efficienteducation will be
