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Flicks for FreeTeaching in a World

of Open Educational Resources

Terri Bays February 5, 2008

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What’s an “OER” anyway? Term first adopted at

UNESCO's 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries, a forum funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

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Referring to...?Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and, under some licenses, to re-mix, improve and redistribute.

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Such as. . .?• Learning content: full courses, course materials,

content modules, learning objects, collections, and journals.

• Tools: Software to support the creation, delivery, use and improvement of open learning content

• Implementation resources: Intellectual property licenses to promote open publishing of materials, design-principles, and localization of content.

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Free ≠ Open (≠Libre)

Attribution

Non-Commercial

Share-Alike

NoDerivatives

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So, What’s Out There?OER Portals:• OER Commons• OCW Consortium• Merlot

Medium-Specific Sites:

• Flickr• Listening to Words

Gov’t Sites:• National Institutes of

Health• Library of Congress• NASA

• Connexions• Open Video Project

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Or do an OER Search. . .

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Incorporating OERs in Undergraduate Teaching

• Why “open” matters• Why “derivatives” matter

• Why “redistribution” matters

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Integrating Different Learning Styles and

Techniques• Multiple Approaches to the same subject

• Asynchronicity• Access to Disciplinary “Folklore”

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Remix: From Encounter to Engagement

• Substitute Current Figures for Pilgrims

• Compose “Profiles”

• Anatomize Profile Elements

• Create Marginalia for Other Texts

Image Courtesy of Laura Gibbs, http://www.mythfolklore.net/2003frametales/weeks/week09/images/ell_chaucer.htm

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Promoting Undergraduate Research

• Search period/area newspapers for evidence of various phenomena

• Subject that evidence to the analytical tools of your discipline

• “Translate” the account into a different language or mind-set

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Publication as Motivation

• Remix to relate a theme from video to an issue in your discipline

• Use video as model for “educational video” production on another topic

• Critique video and publish “review”

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SHARE!

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On-Campus Assistance• Identifying OERs in Your Field–Reference Librarian—Linda Sharp

• Technical Assistance–Learning Technology Lab–OIT

• Publication–Notre Dame OCW Project

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Thank You!

Terri Bays tbays1@nd.edu