LE9

Welcome to Learning Event 9 🎯

Don't Reinvent the Wheel 🌟

Learning Event 9 focuses on leveraging Open Educational Resources (OER) and Creative Commons (CC) licensed materials in your courses. Why create content from scratch when high-quality, openly licensed resources are already available? Discover, integrate, cite, and remix these resources to enrich your teaching and enhance student learning.

Why Use OER?

Open learning encourages collaboration, networked learning, and transparency by enabling others to reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute educational materials. By incorporating OER into your courses, you foster access, creativity, and connection for both educators and learners.

Focus

What are OER?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely available teaching, learning, and research resources, released with licenses that allow for free use, adaptation, and distribution. These include books, courseware, videos, animations, and more.

Creative Commons Licensing:
Creative Commons (CC) licenses provide a standardized way for content creators to share their work, granting permissions that go beyond traditional copyright.

David Wiley’s 5 Rs of OER:

1. Retain – The right to own and control copies of the resource.
2. Reuse – The right to use the content in its unaltered form.
3. Revise – The right to adapt or modify the content.
4. Remix – The right to combine content with other materials to create something new.
5. Redistribute – The right to share original, revised, or remixed content with others.

By understanding these principles, educators can maximize the potential of OER to transform teaching and learning.

READ 📖

1. Seven Things You Should Know About Open Educational Resources – Educause
   “OER are typically electronic resources, often in multimedia formats, released under a Creative Commons or similar license that supports open use.”

2. Open Educational Resources (OER): Resource Roundup – Edutopia
   “High-quality OER can save teachers significant time and effort while advancing student learning.”

3. A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licenses – Wikimedia
   “Creative Commons licenses enable creators to share their work in a way that meets their publishing needs and user expectations.”

WATCH 🎥

1. Open Education Matters: Why Is It Important to Share Content? (3:31)
2. Why Open Education Matters (2:27)
3. Creative Commons Licenses Explained (5:32)

DISCUSS 💬

How can we deliver better learning experiences to more students by using open learning and OER?

DO ✍️

Integrate OER into Your Teaching

• Identify high-quality OER for your course content.
• Properly cite OER and CC-licensed materials.
• Consider licensing and sharing your own content under a Creative Commons license.

Self-Check:

• Do you know the six Creative Commons licenses and what they allow?
• Have you identified opportunities to integrate OER into your courses?
• Are you properly citing and attributing the creators of OER you use?

Share Your Work!

We’d love to hear about the OER you used or created as part of this Learning Event. Email us at hello@digitallyliterate.net to share your experiences!