{"id":6464,"date":"2017-11-07T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T09:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/?p=6464"},"modified":"2017-11-06T17:13:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:13:29","slug":"open-education-resources-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/2017\/11\/07\/open-education-resources-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Education Resources for teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Open Educational Resources (OERs) are, as the name implies, educational resources that are made openly available (usually through an open licence such as one of the Creative Commons licences &#8211; for more information please see the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> creative commons website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">). This permits their use and\/or re-purposing by others, whilst maintaining attribution of the original author.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this sense, OERs embrace the ideal of openness and desire to exchange knowledge, taking the idea that education should be freely shared with everyone and not locked away behind institutional or national walls. Article 26 of the United Nation\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/universal-declaration-human-rights\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> states that everyone has the right to education.\u00a0 OERs can be seen as one method for working towards this goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6466\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/8250851747_882df179fa.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6466\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6466\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/8250851747_882df179fa.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Archive: The Blue Marble&quot; flickr photo by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/nasamarshall\/8250851747 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/8250851747_882df179fa.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/8250851747_882df179fa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/8250851747_882df179fa-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/8250851747_882df179fa-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/8250851747_882df179fa-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/8250851747_882df179fa-450x450.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Archive: The Blue Marble&#8221; flickr photo by NASA&#8217;s Marshall Space Flight Center https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/nasamarshall\/8250851747 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><b>So why would you wish to use OERs? <\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You might want to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Utilise resources that you may not have either the time or skill to create yourself. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Avoid \u2018re-inventing the wheel\u2019, if the content you want to create already exists there&#8217;s no benefit to recreating it yourself. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meet a specific teaching need.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quickly improve the richness of your educational content. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Be stimulated by \u00a0peers\u2019 fresh perspectives.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Where can you find OERs?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So you may now have decided you\u2019d like to use OERs, but how best to find them? The fact that there\u2019s much content available is great, but it can sometimes \u00a0make locating what you need a challenge. Here are some tips to help you find OERs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oercommons.org\/curated-collections\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OER Commons<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0is a vast online library of OER content. You can use its inbuilt search engine to specify content by subject, educational level, media format, material type and accessibility. There is also an option to use what are called \u2018collections\u2019, which are curated groups of OERs based around a certain topic or area. If you register for a free account you can also \u00a0join user groups which share content or even create your own group!<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6467\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/pasted-image-0.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6467\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6467 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/pasted-image-0-1024x574.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.oercommons.org\/ \" width=\"550\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/pasted-image-0-1024x574.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/pasted-image-0-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/pasted-image-0-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/pasted-image-0-100x56.png 100w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/pasted-image-0-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/pasted-image-0-200x112.png 200w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/pasted-image-0-450x252.png 450w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/pasted-image-0-600x336.png 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/pasted-image-0-900x505.png 900w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2017\/11\/pasted-image-0.png 1491w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OER Commons https:\/\/www.oercommons.org\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a good place to look for image and video resources. It is \u00a0one of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/wiki\/Our_projects\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wikimedia Foundation\u2019s projects<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u00a0hosts <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Statistics\">over 40 million<b><\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> files. Most of the resources are divided into categories and then further divided into subcategories to allow you to find appropriate content. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Project Gutenberg<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> can be an excellent choice for full texts, such as novels, especially older titles which are no longer covered by copyright. You can either search their catalogue or look through \u2018bookshelves\u2019 which are collections of books based around a particular topic or theme. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SlideShare<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a service run by LinkedIn that holds a large repository of slideshow content created by users \u00a0on a huge variety of topics. Many of these slideshows have been Creative Commons licensed in such a way that they can be used as they are \u00a0or altered to fit your teaching. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Making and learning about OERs at Sussex<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During last year\u2019s Digital Innovation Week, Sussex staff and students captured photos from around campus and shared them onto Wikimedia under a creative commons licence. You can see these photos at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Home_at_University_of_Sussex\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Home_at_University_of_Sussex<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, for \u00a0Digital Discovery Week (6th-10th November) there will be a workshop on Wednesday 8th November, led by National Teaching Fellow <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/vivrolfe.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Dr Vivien Rolfe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ukopentextbooks.org\/people\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UK Open Textbook Project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the subject of \u2018Using open textbooks for teaching\u2019.\u00a0 For more details please visit the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sussex.ac.uk\/ddw\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Digital Discovery Week page.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Educational Resources (OERs) are, as the name implies, educational resources that are made openly available (usually through an open licence such as one of the Creative Commons licences &#8211; for more information please see the creative commons website). This<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/2017\/11\/07\/open-education-resources-teaching\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4935],"tags":[98243],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6472,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions\/6472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}