An overview of Open Educational Resources and how they can be used in K-12 education; see http://www.k12opened.com/about for more resources.
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2. 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.
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Open Educational Resources (OER) are:
Digital
Freeandopen
Tools, content, and implementation resources
For teachers, students, and lifelong learners
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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?
5. Traditional copyright -all rightsreserved Public domain
-unrestricted use Copyright with open licenses -some rights
reserved 6.
Attribution (BY)Non-commercial (NC)
No derivatives (ND)Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)
Recommended for education:
CC BY or CC SA
7. Tools
Operating systems (= more affordable hardware)
Ubuntu
Xandros (eee PC)
Wikis, blogs, and course management
MediaWiki
Wikispaces
WordPress ( .comand.org )
Moodle
8. Tools (cont.)
Productivity tools
Open Office
GIMP
Audacity
CamStudio
More
The OpenDisc
SourceForge
SchoolForge
9. Content General Multimedia
Photos and video
The Open Photo Project
Flickr(CC)
Wikimedia Commons
NextVista
Music and sound
ccMixter
MusOpen
The FreeSound project
10. Content Education
Wikibooks
FreeReading
Curriki
Kids Open Dictionary
OER Commons
MIT OpenCourseWare
Ebooks
More...
11. 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
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Thank you.
Karen Fasimpaur
www.k12opened.com
[email_address]
First screen image credits: Linux computer lab Michael Surran
Linux penguin - Larry Ewing with the GIMP Books - Tizzie Globe NASA
Cloud background - Anca Mosoiu