Open Educational Resources may be found across nearly all subject areas, but understanding methods of integrating these resources into instructional activities remains a best practice. For this quest, create an entry in your blog in which you develop a definition of open educational resources and explain the various Creative Commons licenses one may encounter when searching for these resources.
When I first started detaching at GaVS, I really did not
know the difference between Open Educational Resources (OER) and Creative
Commons (CC). I assumed, as I had heard from all of my colleagues in my face to
face to school, “If it’s for educational purposes it’s OKAY.” While I was
applying in the spring of 2016 for a Development position I was able to learn
more about what could be used while developing a course and what I could not.
According to the article Education/OER
Creative Commons (CC) strives to make as many resources available to educators
by breaking down barriers between people who create resources and those in
education.
According to OER Commons, “Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning
materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are
an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses,
course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and
classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more
resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.”
OER allows
for materials to be used freely. It is best practices in action – sharing
resources that are good, collaborative teaching for the good of students. Being
able to reuse good materials helps educators and students alike and it the cores
of Copyright and educators have a clear understanding of where they stand. Full
regulations can be found be found here.
In it’s pursuit
of OER CC allows the following to happen for education:
- CC enables translation of educational resources into different languages.
- CC enables educational resources to evolve and be improved through peer and student edits
- CC enables easier discovery of educational resources on the web.
Creative
Commons is the license that developers palce on their work to indicate how it
can be used. There are various licenses that are placed on work, which dictates
how it can be used. Fortunately for educators (as seen by the image below) if
used correctly almost all CC material is free to use.
Attribution –
requires that users give credit to the source in what ever method was requested
Share
Alike - allows others to copy,
paste, transform, etc upon the resource for commercial purposed.
Non-Commercial
– free use and copy as long as it is not for commercial use.
No derivatives
– may only use in its original form.
Image can be
found here
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