Existing resources

OER Course Collaboratory

An international OER remix for OER course electives

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Objectives

The purpose of this page is to: Compile an inventory of existing teaching materials including courses and tool kits that are available for future remix for a postgraduate elective on OER Identify existing materials which are available in editable file formats and content licenses which enable remix.

Existing courses on OER

Course Title	Institution	Instructors /Facilitators	Learning Hours	License	Description
Introduction to Open Education	Brigham Young University	David Wiley	?	?	Graduate course utilising an innovative learning model.  The course includes direct skills instruction combined with project-based learning and collaborative problem solving. In addition, the course is a large muti-player role-playing game where learners assume particular roles and work progressively through increasingly complex problems called quests. There are no precribed texts and the course utilises open access materials available on the Internet.
Composing free and open online educational resources	Wikiversity	Teemu Leinonen and Hans Poldoja	40 - 60 hours	CC-BY-SA	The course aims to support participants in developing the skills to find, create and share free and open education resources online. The course schedule contains weekly readings and assignments. Participants are required to maintain a reflective blog  demonstrating understanding and critical assessment of assigned readings. Participants ade encouraged to include original thoughts and synthesis of each other's ideas.
Copyright for Educators	P2P University	Delia Browne	?	CC-BY-SA	The course aims to help educators identify copyright issues in education and provide a firm grounding in copyright, exceptions and, licensing.  The course is taught around practical case studies faced by teachers when using copyright material in their day to day teaching and educational instruction. Case studies are supported by open access resources available on the Internet.
Toward Open Eudcation	Online Program Development Fund (OPDF) Grant BCcampus.ca	Co-ordinator Brain Lamb	?	?	The creation of an open course for educators that will help them to explore and hopefully resolve some of the issues faced when using an OER. The course is being developed in collaboration with The Univeristity of British Collumbia ,College of the Rockies, The University of Victoria, Royal Roads University and Capilano University, who will be sharing their experiences in the form of case studies.
Integrating OER in the classrooom	Curriki	Self-instruction	?	CC-BY (However some elements use more restrictive licenses)	Curriki worked with 6 distinguished professors to develop this course on integrating open educational resources into the classroom. The course is broken into 6 chapters that cover an introduction to OER, licensing, searching/finding OER, creating your own OER, using OER in the classroom and mixing and remixing with OER. The chapters can be used in sequence or independently.

Professional development workshops

• Open Textbook workshop developed by the Community College Open Textbook Collaborative to assist institutions to discover and select, adopt and use open textbooks.
• Learning4Content, provides free training in wiki skills to build capacity among educators in the creation of open content.

OER training resources

Tutorials & Toolkits

• Open Education Content, developed under the OLCOS project
• Introduction to OER, by Judy Baker
• Introduction to OER Tutorials, by Judy Baker
• UNESCO OER Toolkit, by Philipp Schmidt

Open textbooks on OER

• OER Handbook for Educators, also available for purchase at Lulu.com

Open access research on OER

• A review of the the Open Educational Resources movement: Achievements, challenges and new opportunities. Atkins, D., Seely Brown, J., Hammond, A. (2007). Online: http://www.hewlett.org/download?guid=745fe08c-54de-102c-ae2b-0002b3e9a4de.
• IRRODL, Vol 10, No 5 (2009), Special Issue on Openness and the Future of Higher Education.
• Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources, OECD Research project. No cost access, but sadly published under all-rights reserved copyright.
• Open Learning, Vol, 24, No 1 (2009), Special Issue on Open Education Resources,
• Open Educational Resources: the Way Forward. Deliberations of an international Community of Interest, Susan D' Antoni, UNESCO. No cost access, but sadly published under all-rights reserved copyright.
• Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace Susan D' Antoni & Catriona Savage, UNESCO.

User submitted examples of pedagogical approaches and OER courses

Course Title	Institution	Instructors /Facilitators	Learning Hours	License	Description
Sofia Project	Foothill College	Judy Baker	Self-paced	CC-BY	Eight community college level courses: Creative Typography, Elementary Statistics, Physical Geography, Enterprise Network Security, Introduction to Java Programming, Introduction to Macromedia Flash, Musicianship II, Webpage Authoring
COMP8440 Free and Open Source Software Development	Australian National University	Dr Andrew Tridgell and Bob Edwards	Video and slides	Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License	This course aims to teach students about FOSS in a very practical manner. Students will learn about FOSS by studying and participating in real projects, with practical tutorial sessions making up most of the course time. The course will be run over five intensive days at the ANU in Canberra, and will be led by a lecturer with 20 years of experience in developing FOSS software. Interspersed with the practical sessions will be a series of lectures explaining important aspects of FOSS development.

External links

• Open educational resources (Wikiversity)