"What the &%# is OER"

Editor's Notes

1. Introductions (each?) Dan: Today we’ll start by providing some definitions and context around OER, we’ll talk about Creative Commons and the licenses they provide that make OER possible, talk a little bit about Open as a framing ethos Robin: caring about access, but being thrilled by the possibilities in the pedagogy… Title - Introductions:  Access Definitions and Licenses CC-BY license example The "5 Rs" of OER CfA example of OER use — Saylor open textbook OER’s place in the larger Open movement      What the &$*% is OER? Thursday, December 8 @2:00pm Sandbox ColLABorative, 1230 Elm Street, Manchester, NH   Our newest event series is an exciting way to be exposed to higher education topics you’ve always wanted to learn more about!   Join us on December 8th for a presentation by Dan Blickensderfer from College for America and Robin DeRosa from Plymouth State University as they discuss Open Education Resources (OERs). They’ll help us understand what they are, how they are used, ways they can be adopted in the classroom, and what’s next for this growing trend in higher ed.   Space is limited, so please RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-the-is-oer-tickets-29895692822   If you cannot attend in person, please join via the livestream: http://avstream.snhu.edu:8134/livestream.html  
2.      ACCESS TO EDUCATION WITH ONLINE LEARNING AND OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: CAN THEY CLOSE THE GAP? onlinelearningconsortium.org/sites/default/files/v12n1_geith_0.pdf
3. OER Defined Open Licenses make OER possible Creative Commons CC-BY is one such license  What the *what* is OER?   [Great open course on OER: http://www.openwa.org/module-1/] Defining OER (Open Educational Resources)  CC definition: https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/education-oer/ "Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others."  Defining Creative Commons licenses, CC-BY in particular https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Least restrictive of the CC licenses  "You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. Under the following terms: Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use." 
4. Defining Creative Commons licenses, CC-BY in particular https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Least restrictive of the CC licenses  "You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. Under the following terms: Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use." 
5. Defining the "Open" in Open Content and Open Educational Resources The terms "open content" and "open educational resources" describe any copyrightable work (traditionally excluding software, which is described by other terms like "open source") that is licensed in a manner that provides users with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities: Retain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage) Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video) Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language) Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup) Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)
6. Use of OER is one part of CfA’s educational resource strategy. CfA offers low-cost, competency- and project-based degrees. We develop curriculum with the input of subject matter experts. We don’t require students to buy text books or other resources. An important part of our curriculum is a curated set of Project Resources. Project resources are a Project’s customized curriculum and they relate directly to the content and/or skills students need to complete a Project. We create some resources, we adopt some freely available resources, and we use OER Example: Accounting curriculum in our Management BA For our Accounting curriculum in our Management BA, we (the curriculum developer and the Accounting Subject Matter Expert) adopted select parts of the open Saylor Accounting textbook at https://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Managerial%20Accounting.pdf (along with several other open resources) as project resources.   
7. I want to pause and unpack the Open part of OER. Robin will go into greater detail about parts of this, particularly Open Pedagogy I feel like it’s important to center OER within a larger, multi-dimensional Open Movement The Open Movement includes: OER, Open Educational Resources, of course Open Source Software and Hardware (community access to the source code of computer software so others can further develop that code—similar to OER in licensing such as the MIT open software license) Open Access scholarly publishing (The OA movement aims to address issues of social inequality and sustainability caused by restricting the Public’s access to academic research) "Open Innovation" (the idea that all stakeholders benefit when companies partner with customers and universities to bring in external ideas into their product developments)  Open Pedagogy Robin will say much much more about this as a rockstar practitioner of Open Pedagogy David Wiley: “Using OER the same way we used commercial textbooks misses the point.” Example of Open Ped: “If all the materials you’re using in and with your class are open educational resources, you can start to imagine remixing them with open practices to provide you and your students with opportunities to spend your time and effort on work that is relevant to the workplace or adds value to the world or solves a problem instead of wasting it on disposable assignments.” http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2975 
8.  Why OER? One powerful reason to use OER is to help “bend the cost curve” for students. 
9. Transition– adopting OER is easy and we encourage it! BUT….that is only the beginning, my friends.... Transition to the OpenPed story....
10. Could be an OpenStax book or public docs or whatever
11. Rhizome slide
12. Gardner – personal cyberinfrastructure, tied to students not courses, lose the LMS Andrew- complexity of fac/student power Audrey- who is data for?
13. Not the LMS, not a template, control to the student
14. So we save students money while increasing access and value; So we transform our teaching using a critical, open pedagogy; Now what does this mean to us as SCHOLARS?