Teaching and Learning Resources Portal/Distance Technologies/OER
1. Open Scholars
-want to create persistent resources--still available after course end date
2. Open Access Journals are still peer-reviewed -they're going to depend on SSHRC (or other gov't funding)--but less of it. Then the resources will be used by more people.
you can't copyright an idea
copyright has restricted scientific development; patents would be more the issue now (my idea--drugs).
3.OERs:
oercommons.org
onlinebooks (u penn)
Creative Commons
Google Advanced Search
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
P2PU
Khan Academy
4. Open Educational Practice -developing and applying open/public reaches and teaching, research and service practice -how do you implement oERs? select, reuse, evaluate
-in BC, there's an Open Textbook Initiative: BC Campus Open Ed
saylor.org "free education"--Saylor University