Given at the Berlin 8 Conference on Open Access. http://www.berlin8.org

1. OER as Reuse
Greg Grossmeier
greg@grossmeier.net
http://grossmeier.net
Except where otherwise noted, this presentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.

4. Producing OER

7. Do our systems
encourage reuse?

8. The universal question...

9. “How are my materials
being used by others?”

10. “How are my materials
being used by others?”

11. Not
“How often are my
materials being
downloaded?”

12. Not
“What is the rating of my
material?”

13. “How are my materials
being used by others?”

14. ???

15. the OER Definition:
Open educational resources are educational
materials and resources offered freely and
openly for anyone to use, remix, improve
and redistribute.
- Wikipedia

16. the OER Definition:
Open educational resources are educational
materials and resources offered freely and
openly for anyone to use, remix, improve
and redistribute.
- Wikipedia

17. remix

18. Why?
Every course is different
Each student is different

19. Can we know how
people are using
materials?

20. Music

22. http://remix.nin.com

23. What about the
not-yet-popular
artists?

25. OER examples

26. Push

30. No Real
Feedback.

31. But is it their job?

32. Filter

36. Ratings and
Reviews

37. Push, Filter, Create

38. “When you publish your derived copy module, Connexions
automatically adds a statement to the module that gives attribution
to the original module and author. This statement is a link to the
original module, so the reader can view the module on which your
derived copy was based.”

42. Ratings, reviews,
and lineage.

43. Old Model:
Producer – Consumer
New Model:
Prosumer

45. Find Publish
Remix
dScribe
process

46. ccMixter's strengths
1. Brand recognition
2. Central location
3. Great Community Manager
4. Contests
5. Both popular and not-yet-
popular artists.

47. oerMixter
1. OER is a strong brand
2. At least the metadata is central
3. A Community Manager is
essential
4. Contests = New Semesters ?
5. Professors are becoming
popular.

48. Walter Lewin
MIT OCW - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-01-physics-i-classical-mechanics-fall-1999/

49. Encourage the Walter
Lewins of the world.

50. Why?
even 60% of ccMixter is not remixed

51. People are actually
recognizing high quality
educational material.

52. Be enablers.

53. Thank you.
Please upload your remixes to
http://remix.grossmeier.net

54. Credits
Mindstorm NXT – jonathanjonl – CC:BY-SA
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educational purposes, used under fair use.
All (mashed up) logos/trademarks are owned by
their respective entities.
All text was built upon others' work but this
incarnation was written by Greg Grossmeier and
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