Notepad:OpenEducation Discussion

Open Education Resources Workshop Track.

GOALS FOR THE DAY: 1.	What’s TRU up to and how does this impact us? 2.	Capacity building?

1.	Terry Anderson, Athabasca Open Scholars: values include ubiquity and persistence (your notes don’t disappear at the end of the course), “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, that wants it down.” Robert Frost Resource gateways include: ➢	OERCommons.org ➢	Online Books ➢	Creative Commons ➢	Saylor.org ➢	Virtual Canuck ➢	ResearchGate ➢	Sherpa/Romeo

2.	Irwin Devries (Ph.D.), OL and OERu •	Open design & development •	OERs: exams, videos, projects •	Notion of “disappearing ink” – textual material that has no persistence (incl. texts that are rented and end after 6 months, but also assignments that are disposable.) •	OSS design