OpenLearn online course: Creating open educational resources

Are you interested in creating your own open educational resources? This free course, Creating open educational resources, will help you to write a learning course and provide you with links to various resources for open-learning materials. You will learn about the different purposes of self-instruction and receive advice about the techniques and strategies to help the learner. After studying this course, you should be able to: state personal motivation for producing and using OERs evaluate some examples of educational resources for active open learning plan a structured learning experience using a range of resources produce, release and use OER understand how to evaluate teaching resources.

Material Type: Full Course

Open Washington How to use Open Educational Resources Self-Paced Workshop

This course walks you through techniques to incorporate Open Educational Resources (OER) into your teaching practice. The course will cover the fundamental aspects of OER including open licensing and public domain. It focuses on providing practical guidance in locating and applying openly available resources. It is expected that upon completion of this course participants will be able to Describe the meaning of open educational resources. Differentiate the concepts of open licensing, public domain, and all rights reserved copyrights. Identify resources that are openly licensed or in the public domain. Distinguish the different types of Creative Commons licenses. License works using a Creative Commons license. Find open educational resources and properly attribute a work offered under a Creative Commons license. This training is not facilitated.

Material Type: Full Course

SUNY's Tools of Engagement Project: Open Education Resources (OER)

The SUNY Tools of Engagement Project (TOEP): On-demand Discovery Learning Professional Development is designed to encourage faculty & staff to explore new instructional technologies.

Material Type: Reading, Unit of Study

OpenLearnCreate's MSOE Making Sense of Open Education course

On completion of this open course participants will have expanded their ability to: Describe the value of open educational practices (OEP) in their teaching and learning contexts Give examples of appropriate open educational resources (OER) for their practice Describe user permissions related to each of the Creative Commons license types Find and curate high quality OER for a course or small project Connect with other practitioners interested in exploring use of open educational resources and practices in their teaching

Material Type: Full Course

Blended Content Studio – Emergency Online Teaching at WSU Vancouver

A practical guide to creating blended learning, with lots of videos to illustrate steps and concepts. Written for higher ed, but definitely usable for anyone.

Material Type: Lesson, Visual Media

Author: Mike Caulfield

The Ultimate Guide to Copyright, Creative Commons, and Fair Use for Teachers, Students, and Bloggers

Copyright is important for all teachers, students, and bloggers to know about. And it doesn’t have to be as complicated as you think. We’re here to break down the basics of copyright and other related topics like fair use, public domain, and Creative Commons.

Material Type: Reading

Authors: Kathleen Morris, Ronnie Burt, Sue Waters