Friday, May 23, 2014

Create 3.1.1. Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Quest

Open Educational Resources may be found across nearly all subject areas, but understanding methods of integrating these resources into instructional activities remains a best practice. For this quest, create an entry in your blog in which you develop a definition of open educational resources and explain the various Creative Commons licenses one may encounter when searching for these resources.

Ok the definition from Open Educational Resources is

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.

But it is not as easy as that. If you find a source that you think is opensource you have to know where the source came from. Anyone could repost something and just call it opensource so you have to find the original source.

If you find something that is "For Educational use only" you still have to find the original source.

You always have to cite your sources and give credit. Open source does not mean just take and run.

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