A link to the discoverED initiative that aims to be a sort of search engine for Open Educational Resources http://discovered.creativecommons.org/search/
A GREAT site on how to use web 2.0 technology for education
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/
The Educause '7 things you should know about...' series is a good introduction to many new technologies: http://www.educause.edu/7things
A site devoted to teaching about how to use Creative Commons materials in education
http://learn.creativecommons.org/ Also see http://creativecommons.org/choose/ for a guide on how to license your own work under Creative Commons.
A GREAT site on how to use web 2.0 technology for education
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/
The Educause '7 things you should know about...' series is a good introduction to many new technologies: http://www.educause.edu/7things
A site devoted to teaching about how to use Creative Commons materials in education
http://learn.creativecommons.org/ Also see http://creativecommons.org/choose/ for a guide on how to license your own work under Creative Commons.
A good site on how to use various tools for education, explained in simple English http://www.commoncraft.com/
Good site to learn how to use Digital Images in your educational work
Some useful links on best practice in online education provided at http://cnx.org/content/search?words=online%20pedagogy
New toolkit from JISC on the issues of intellectual property rights and the internet at http://www.web2rights.org.uk/
OERs - "how to use" guides
ReplyDeleteOpen educational resources (OER) are learning materials that are freely available for use, remixing and redistribution.
Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone and available under a license that allows users to use, remix, improve and redistribute. Open educational resources include:
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 including searching and organization of content, content and learning management systems, content development tools, and on-line learning communities.
Implementation resources: Intellectual property licenses to promote open publishing of materials, design-principles, and localization of content.
Well, internet can be used as a tool to educate and share information. The search engines, archives, forums, blogs and also video calling can provide peers to communicate and share real time visual information. This can be an efficient way to teach and acquire information in a more flexible and optimistic way.
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ReplyDeleteOER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
One report, the OLCOS Roadmap 2012, notes that there is no established definition of OER and prefers to identify three core attributes:
•that access to open content (including metadata) is provided free of charge for educational institutions, content services, and the end-users such as teachers, students and lifelong learners;
•that the content is liberally licensed for re-use in educational activities, favourably free from restrictions to modify, combine and repurpose the content; consequently, that the content should ideally be designed for easy re-use in that open content standards and formats are being employed;
•that for educational systems/tools software is used for which the source code is available (i.e. Open Source software) and that there are open Application Programming Interfaces (open APIs) and authorisations to re-use Web-based services as well as resources.