Some notes from our class on Open Educational Resources. Lots of open resources listed below to check out!

  • Used in remote areas (South Africa)
  • Embeddable content (youtube/tweet)
  • Wed resources
    • some have copy rights
      • copyright is applied by default
    • fair dealing — for teaching
      • for the purposes of education
      • can share a single page of a book, but copying an entire book would fall under copyright
        • can look at the guidelines through class slides
  • Public Domain – copy right no longer held after a certain amount of time
    • ie. Moby Dick
  • Creative Commons: a licencing tool for people who want to share materials
    • Content with the CC logo is openly allowed to be reused and copied WITH proper attribution
      • Wikipedia – just need to cite where you got it
      • Phet: downloadable interactive simulations for students
      • flickr
      • Vimeo
      • Internet Archive
      • Khan Academy
      • OER Commons (oercommons.org)
      • Curriki
      • Siyavula (entire textbooks)
      • Archive.org
  • Teachers Pay Teachers : teachers create resources and sell them to other teachers
    • not open technically
    • curriculum
    • lessons
  • Movement in BC towards creating free opensource textbooks
  • creativecommons.org/openeducation??? (see slides for video)
  • For google searches, you can go into Settings –> Advanced search –> Usage rights –> free to use, then will bring up openly licensed resources