How to create Open Educational Resources

1. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
License.
How to
create
OERs
Image source: http://www.glogster.com/mrpeters/oer-find-create-share/g-6lnf610coobj7d3pvcrt1a0
Ramesh Sharma . 09 October 2014

2. What you can create…
• Activities & Labs
• Assessments
• Audio Lectures
• Case Study
• Curriculum Standards
• Discussion Forums
• Full Course
• Games
• Homework &
Assignments
• Images & Illustrations
• Interactive Text
• Lecture Notes
• Lesson Plans
• Readings
• Resource Review
• Simulations
• Syllabi
• Teaching & Learning Strategies
• Textbooks
• Training Materials
• Unit of Study
• Video Lectures
Any materials associated with teaching and learning!

3. WikiEducator...
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4. Create / Edit the Page
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5. Add text, image etc to page...
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6. https://www.oercommons.org/
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7. Register
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8. Contribute Resources to
OER Commons
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9. Log in to your account...
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10. Add content...
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11. Check Summary...
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12. Your OERs...
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13. Submit a resource...
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14. PDF Course Schedule Builder
• The PDF Course Schedule
Builder (PDFCSB) is an
open-source tool that was
developed at the Faculty
Center for Teaching (FACT)
at Utah State University
(USU). The PDFCSB allows
instructors to create a
schedule for an online
course in a native PDF
environment--Adobe
Reader.
• See a demo here
• http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?
v=9QZQiwzsr2k
George Joeckel

15. Metadata
• In order for potential users to
find resources online, and to
understand the scope of a
resource, it is vital to include
relevant metadata. This is
information about the resource,
such as the author’s name, the
date the resource was created,
keywords, and the educational
context in which the resource
has previously been used.
• http://www.ucl.ac.uk/teachin
g-learning/
teaching_tools/oer/
how-to-create-OER
http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2009/03/30/metadata-guidelines-for-the-oer-programme/

16. Re-Purpose the content
• Jacqui Cain from
Tacoma Community
College, as part of a Bill
and Melinda Gates
foundation grant, re-purposed
Sherlock
Holmes stories to
create a full online
course in Remedial
English Image source:
http://www.wheresrunnicles.com/2010_01_01_archive.html

17. http://www.opentapestry.com/

18. Characteristics of OER:
licences and rights (2012)
See the video at http://youtu.be/rTF3TTt-UkU

19. Make sure to…
 Choose an appropriate License
– Be clear about your license choice and about what it
covers.
 Cite your sources!
– Include license info and link to license on website
 Make it adaptable!
– Make your content available in multiple file formats
(pdf, .ppt, .odt, .doc, etc)
– Ensure that users can download your content, not simply
access.
 Use Open Content!
– Promote open content by using open content and
remixing others’ work.
http://www.slideshare.net/epuckettrodgers/create-oer

20. Select an appropriate License
http://creativecommons.org/choose/

21. Choose an appropriate License
X X X
http://creativecommons.org

22. Where you can share your
resources
Jorum: find and share learning
and teaching resources
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
HumBox: storing, managing and publishing
your Humanities teaching resources on the
web http://humbox.ac.uk/

23. Where you can share your
resources
iTunes U Flickr

24. Where you can share your
resources
YouTube Google sites / Drive

25. Thank You!