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Looking to create and share your own OER?

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Looking to create and share your own OER?

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This document gives a walk-through of the steps necessary to begin building an Open Resource!

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Feb. 24, 2016 byLauren Anstey
When it comes to creating and sharing your own OER, there are four steps to the process:

1. Identify or create an educational resource to share as OER

2. Create an open license (such as a Creative Commons (CC) license) for your work

3. Mark your resource with the license you've created

4. Make your resource available for others to access

Identification or Creation of a Resource to Share
This page focuses on some pointers and resources for achieving these steps.

So you have (or are planning to create) a course, module, learning object, video, photo, etc. that you would like to share with others as an OER. Any educational resource has the potential to be shared as an OER. but before you share, there is one key question to ask yourself and that is: Am I within my rights as an author of this content to licence it under a creative commons licence?

In answering this question for yourself, consider:

What institutional policies have impact upon your rights as an author? The UWOFA Collective Agreement outlines rights related to Intellectual Property for faculty, as an example.

Are there co-authors of the work who also hold rights?

​Was the resource created for or as part of a commissioned work? If so, what were the terms of agreement regarding copyright?

Creating an Open Licence
Once you've determined that you have a resource to share, creation of a resource is as simple as licensing and sharing it as per the Creative Commons (CC) licence of your choosing.

Once you've determined that you have a resource to share, creation of a resource is as simple as licensing and sharing it as per the Creative Commons (CC) licence of your choosing. The following video is a tutorial on how to select and create a Creative Commons license for your work:
Marking your Resource with your Licence

Creating OER: Selecting and Creating a CC License by WesternuTSC (CC BY)

The following resource from Creative Commons details how to mark your OER with the license you've created for it:
Make your Resource Available to Others
Download: Licensing and Marking your Content

The final step in creating your own OER is to share it with others using avenues through which they might easily locate and access the resource. Consider sharing the resource through:

the same OER repository through which you first found the resource you've used

a discipline or resource specific repository

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This resource consists of four mini units on Open Educational Resources (OER). Mini-units are designed to introduce learners to the following questions: (1) What are OER? (2) What is a Creative Commons (CC) license?, (3) How do I locate, evaluate, and use OER?, and (4) How do I create my own OER?

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Here is a helpful guide into how you can tag your creations with the Creative Commons License markers. It gives tips for text, images, audio, and video.

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This platform has wonderful interactive activities for students!  This resource can also be easily linked into various Learning Management Systems for student utilize.

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This was extremely helpful in understanding the varying degrees of creative common licenses.

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What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons License Types Basics Explained

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This platform allows for the 5Rs to be followed with use of images! The images are released free of copyrights, so feel free to download, distribute, and modify!

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Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash

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Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.

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This platform allows for the 5Rs to be followed with use of images! The images are released free of copyrights, so feel free to download, distribute, and modify!

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4.5 million+ Stunning Free Images to Use Anywhere - Pixabay - Pixabay

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Find your perfect royalty-free image or video to download and use. ✓ Royalty-free ✓ No attribution required ✓ High quality images.

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What I like about this video, is the fact that organizations in America are able to collaborate with organizations in Africa to share their open resources and build off of one another. I would say that OERs could be put into the "collaboration" category in our digital toolkits!

Students benefit when teachers can reach outside of the confines of their own classrooms and create something updated, engaging, and innovative.

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The original video is here: https://vimeo.com/43437812, posted by  Laura Rachfalski.

SBCTC simply added the caption to the video and re-uploaded it.

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This website is full of videos, lesson plans, interactive activities, and more! It's as simple as copying a link to share assignments with your students!

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PBS LearningMedia | Teaching Resources For Students And Teachers

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Inspire your students with thousands of free teaching resources including videos, lesson plans, and games aligned to state and national standards.

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"A call to action:

As this bounty of content enters our schools, this is a pivotal moment, friends.  The mandate is to be ready and to take the lead in making sense of the content and resources that will be making their way into our schools in a big way.

The opportunity, especially for school libraries with little or no budgets, is to leverage this free content to promote access and equity, to create new user-friendly collections, and to embed the best into instruction school-wide.

We are going to need to ensure that our teacher partners can effectively search for and integrate the stuff they need.  We will need to curate workflow tools as well as stuff." -Joyce Valenza

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At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. The Twiter feed shows the buzz around the trending event and it shows school librarians were at the table. As the initiative moves forward, it is critical for us to choose to be at the head of this particular table. Hosted at […]

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OER Commons- K-12 Remote Learning Resources

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OER Commons- K-12 Remote Learning Resources

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This link categorizes resources between Elementary, Middle School, and High School remote learners. A pro to this resource, is how detailed the lessons can be! A con would be the mere fact that Elementary Math has 1,196 resources, while English Language Arts has only 22 resources. Being an open and available hub of learning is wonderful, but what you're looking for is not always guaranteed to even be there.

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ISKME's digital librarians have curated collections of kindergarten through high school resources and full courses to help leverage OER for your students. Whether you are looking for resources your students can complete at home, or dynamic content to inspire your own teaching and learning practice, this hub, organized by education level, subject, and content provider will help you discover the resources you need.

Explore the grade level, subject, and provider collections below. Once you click on a collection, you can refine the collections by selecting different fields, such as material types, on the left side of the page, under Filter Resources.

If you are interested in accessing OER Commons from your LMS via an LTI integration. Please fill out and submit the form here.

Get started using our OER authoring tool, Open Author. This video walks you through how to author and remix; including how to add and format content, import and attach resources, embed media, add co-Created by ISKME. Licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. authors, check for accessibility, describe your resource, select a license, align to standards, publish, and download.

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ISKME's digital librarians have curated collections of kindergarten through high school resources and full courses to help leverage OER for your students. Whether you are looking for resources your students can complete at home, or dynamic content to inspire your own teaching and learning practice, this hub, organized by education level, subject, and content provider will help you discover the resources you need.

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Although this video was geared more toward higher-education, I found it helpful to see the output of what OER can provide. How much do our schools truly spend on textbooks? How much would we be saving if we successfully curated OER to assist with our curriculum?

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A Review of the Effectiveness & Perceptions of Open Educational Resources As Compared to Textbooks

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A big takeaway from this article is when Wolpert-Gawron lists her criteria for effective OER:
1) Encourages creation, not just consumption.
2) Inspires interaction.
3) Allows sharing, commentating, and collaboration.