Teaching and Learning Resources Portal/Distance Technologies/OER

TRU Open Ed Resources, Pt.1--Terry Anderson 1. Open Scholars

-want to create persistent resources--still available after course end date

-Open Data Commons: NSERC, SSHRC grants require researchers to post data here

--Institutional Repository

--if it's not licensed, it's not open: license publications at Creative Commons. This doesn't mean you're giving up copyright. "Attribution" is the "gold standard" of OERs.

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.

-Directory of Open Access Journals

-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

TRU Open Ed Resources Pt.2—Ron McGivern

--open access is part of our TRU Strategic Priorities

-open learning educational credit bank

-TRU Provost Fellow in Teaching and Learning: Melissa Jakubec

-open and flexible learning environments-e.g. Major in Criminology is Blended—contains some required OL courses—for budget reasons

-open access is required, as well as laddering so if people leave early they get a credential, aren’t just a ‘drop out’: exit and entry points

-OL mandate is to seek OER path first in curriculum development

Open Ed Resource universitas: Collaboration & Transformation Irwin DeVries

OERu=a global partnership, no longer using the word "university" -committed to free courses & programs based on OERs: content is free, but feedback and support is not. It would be offered on a "fee for service" model that would cost less than usual tuition (why?)

-OERu located on WikiEducator

-unbundles local education