What Is Openness?
Learning Objectives
Once you’ve completed this module, you’ll be able to:
- Define the term Open Educational Resource and explain the principle of Openness in legal, technical, and societal contexts.
- Explain how OERs can be used in teaching and learning.
- Discuss the benefits and opportunities versus the costs and risks of using OERs.
Three things make OER different from (and we would argue, better than) any freely available, online educational resources:
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The values and principles behind creating and sharing them.
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The methods and best practices that flow from those values and principles.
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The Creative Commons license that makes it all legal.
As an introduction to the idea of Open Educational Resources (OER) please watch this video, which was the second place winner in the 2012 Why Open Education Matters video competition, sponsored by the Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Open Society Foundations. Password: OER (3:05).
This tutorial is openly licensed under the Creative Commons
OER Up To Speed by Sarah Morehouse is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
The original work is located at https://subjectguides.sunyempire.edu/oeruptospeed.
This resource is a derivative work of the original OER 101 course created by Sarah Morehouse, Mark McBride, Kathleen Stone, Beth Burns, Greg Ketchum. That course was housed in CourseSites and was licensed CC BY.
For an HTML or XML backup of the current version of the course, please email librarian@sunyempire.edu.
If you've made a copy, revision or remix, I would love to hear about it! Email me at librarian@sunyempire.edu.
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