5Rs of OER
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Open Education Resources
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Simply put, Open Educational Resources (OER) are education materials that can be freely downloaded, edited, and shared to better serve all students.
OER can be shared at no cost and include legal permissions for the public to freely use, share, and build upon the content. The internet was created to share information. It makes it incredibly easy to share and permit multiple readers to read simultaneously. Daivd Wiley offered the example of loaning a a DVD. If you loan someone a DVD, they can watch it where they are, but you can't; however, if you share a YouTube video, any number of people can watch that video at any time.OER are possible because:
- education resources are for the most part created using digital technologies, and digital resources can be stored, copied, and distributed for little or no cost;
- the internet makes it easy for anyone with access to the web to share digital content; and
- Creative Commons licenses are simple to apply and work within copyright law. These licenses offer a means to retain copyright and legally share education resources with the world.
Examples of open textbooks in a number of disciplines can be found at OpenStax,the Open Textbook Library or the BC Open Textbook Project. Other times, OER are aggregated and presented as digital courseware. To see examples of open courseware, visit the Open Education Consortium and MIT OCW.
A newer participant in the OER realm is eCampus Ontario, "a not-for-profit corporation, is funded by the Government of Ontario to be a centre of excellence in online and technology-enabled learning for all publicly-funded colleges and universities in Ontario." They support the creation of OER and have searchable database of examples and tools https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/
Also soon, you will be able to search the entire Creative Commons, which currently is in beta form and is limited to images, but soon you will also be able to search for OER, as well. When the new CC Search is done, it will search the entire Commons – all of the public domain and CC licensed works on the Internet.
Once you have found resources you wish to use, you may want to make sure that you can in fact mix them together. Public Domain resources are free of copyrights and so are free to mix and adapt. Most creative commons license will have permissive allowances, but the most restrictive of them, the ones that include ND, do not. To see which CC licensed works can be remixed with other CC licensed works, revisit the CC Remix Chart below. Where there is a green check at the intersection of two CC licensed works, you can remix those two works. Where you see a black X, you cannot remix those two CC licensed works.
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Relationship between OA and OER
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Open Access permits the 5Rs of OER to flourish.
It encourages and promotes sharing of information, reuse, and remixing of these works. It allows the OER to be adapted for a specific locality, and translated into different languages, or updated with ease, when new discoveries are made.
Open means that there is no gated access sometimes called Faux -pen access, where you need to log in, and give up some personal data, in exchange for access. In faux-pen access, resources though free to read, may be copyrighted or have restrictive terms of use that don't allow for re-use and sharing. The internet enables sharing; Copyright forbids it. Open access gives permission to share.
Like OER, Open access promotes the ethical use of information. Unless, given to the Public Domain, where no stipulations are made, attribution is requested in the most open of licenses to show the originator of the work. Creative Commons most permissive 4 licecenses ( that is Not the ND licdenses) show educators that the material held their can be used and adapted without fear of breaking copyright. It just makes it easier, when you know exactly what you are dealing with. It takes the guess work out of the equation.
