OER’s fall under the Open Education Movement. This movement was broken down in four parts
- Open Educational Recourses
- Open Courseware
- Open Textbooks
- Open Learning
- Retain: Make, own and store copies of your own materials
- Reuse: Use the content is various ways (i.e. In class, online, in a video etc)
- Revise: Modify, adjust or adapt the content
- Remix: Combining two or more resources to create new content
- Redistribute: Share your original content, or remix of other content
There are many open resources available for educators; iTunes U, EngageNY and OpenStax. In Michigan we have the Michigan Open Book Project. This is funded by TRIG and the Michigan Department of Education.
I think OER’s are great for personalized, differentiated instruction. It allows teachers to collaborate and create in a global environment. It is clear that the built in tools in macOS and iOS are perfect for developing OER’s, and when you add iBooks Author to the mix, the possibilities are endless.
Go Open Resources:
1.Go Open Culture: http://www.openculture.com
2.US Department of Education: https://tech.ed.gov
3.Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org
4.MIT Open Courseware: https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
5.Open Education Consortium: http://www.oeconsortium.org
6.MI Open Project: http://textbooks.wmisd.org/dashboard.html
7.EngageNY: https://www.engageny.org
8.CK-12: https://www.ck12.org/c/measurement/#/view_books
9.OpenStax: https://openstax.org/subjects
10.Launch Packet: https://tech.ed.gov/open/districts/launch/