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What I believe and why I got involved in Open Education
Differentiating instruction is essential to improving education.
Textbooks are not a good tool for this. Technology coupled with high quality content is. Sharing is good. Everyone deserves a free, high quality
education. The current educational bureaucracy is not
likely to embrace OER projects.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are:
Digital Free and open Tools, content, and implementation resources For teachers, students, and lifelong learners
Mass collaboration has resulted in
the most widely-used web server software
the most popular encyclopedia
sequencing of the human genome
What could it do for education?
Traditional copyright -
all rights reserved
Public domain - unrestricted
use
Copyright with open licenses -
some rights reserved
Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪
No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)
Recommended for education:
CC BY or CC SA
Tools
Operating systems (= more affordable hardware) Ubuntu Xandros (eee PC)
Wikis, blogs, and course management MediaWiki Wikispaces WordPress (.com and .org) Moodle
Tools (cont.)
Productivity tools Open Office GIMP Audacity CamStudio
More The OpenDisc SourceForge SchoolForge
Content – General Multimedia
Photos and video The Open Photo Project Flickr (CC) Wikimedia Commons NextVista
Music and sound ccMixter MusOpen The FreeSound project
Content – Education
Wikibooks FreeReading Curriki Kids Open Dictionary OER Commons MIT OpenCourseWare Ebooks More...
How You Can Contribute
If you publish something you are willing to share, open license it
Publish on an open platform like Wikispaces Post photos (to Flickr or elsewhere) with an
open license If you see a mistake in Wikipedia, FIX IT! Add something to a topic in Wikipedia or
Wikibooks Write a definition in the Kids Open Dictionary Tell three people you know about OER
