Webinar on Sharing Open Educational Resources: State OER Projects
The International Association of K-12 Online Learning, the Council of Chief State School Officers, the State Educational Technology Directors Association, and EducationCounsel hosted a webinar showcasing state Open Educational Resources initiatives across the country. The discussion featured state projects and discussions with nationally recognized experts about sharing high-quality open educational resources. Open instructional materials can promote personalization and better instruction as educators share and collaborate.
Presenters:
- Cable Green, Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
- Gary Lopez, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
- Jeff Mao, Maine Learning Policy Technology Director
Link to recording:
Webinar notes:
Examples of OER projects and resources shared during the webinar:
- Roxy Mourant: Alaska’s Learning Network – statewide: www.aklearn.net
- Moderator (Cable Green (WA State)): Open Course Library: http://www.opencourselibrary.org
- Moderator (Cable Green (WA State)): our open policy: http://www.sbctc.edu/general/admin/Tab_9_Open_Licensing_Policy.pdf
- Moderator (Cable Green (WA State)): our tech plan: http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/general/a_strategictechplan.aspx
- Joshua Marks (Curriki): www.i2geo.net is a Curriki based community to share geometry objects.
- Moderator (Cable Green (WA State)): http://www.ednovo.org/site/home.html
- Moderator (Cable Green (WA State)): all of our open course library courses http://www.opencourselibrary.org/ will all be released as ANGEL courses, and Common Course Cartridge courses … and we’ve applied for a FIPSE grant to break the courses down into smaller, tagged chunks
- Moderator (Cable Green (WA State)): Gary’s great work is here: http://www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc/
- Moderator (Cable Green (WA State)): Our Course Design teams are: http://opencourselibrary.wikispaces.com/What+will+grant+participants+do
- Moderator (Cable Green (WA State)): Gary’s NROC Math: http://www.nrocmath.org/
- Moderator (Susan Patrick): LearningBeyondTextbooks.org is a great website for OER Advocacy – if you haven’t visited, check out the website that has great info on OER communicated in a way for policy makers to understand . . .
- Moderator (Cable Green (WA State)): Great idea – support faculty / teachers who want to engage OER – who want to share – you don’t need to mandate anything – just move some resources to support those who are willing to make the change – I’m about to roll-out a system-wide (34 colleges) grant to incent faculty to adopt OLI courses: http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
- Moderator (Cable Green (WA State)): http://www.curriki.org/
- Moderator (Cable Green (WA State)): my blog on this conversatin: http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu
- Moderator (Cable Green (WA State)): http://blog.xplana.com/reports/digital-textbook-sales-in-u-s-higher-education-%E2%80%93-a-five-year-projection/
Webinar questions
- Jennifer V. Jones, Rutgers: Pls say a few words re: quality control of materials since the must all be shared and accessible. In other words, are there standards for what’s made available and accessible?
- Melissa Hagemann: to address Jennifer’s question, many OER projects have developed programs which can be used for quality control. One used by Connexions is their lenses http://cnx.org/content/m33939/latest/ whereby a learned society or university can create a lense which they use to mark the OER content within the CNX repository which meets their standards.
- Richard Culatta: Cable, do you do anything to track who else is using your materials?
- Moderator (Cable Green (WA State)): @ Richard – he asked how we are tracking our materials — we haven’t released the first 42 courses yet – they are still in development… but I am very interested in RDFA tracking – so our faculty know who (and where) is using their content… part of P&T
- Karim Nurani AcrossWorld: The challenge that we see is the overall awareness of OER in CC and High school — what steps can be taken to improve this?
- Karim Nurani AcrossWorld: I was recently at the CNX event and the questions around sharing still concerns potential authors & contributors , who are still concerned of not being paid for their work- do you see a hybrid model that would allow for future OER authors to reap a financial benefit?
- Karl Nelson: Are there any states formally collaborating with other states? Or is all the activity funneled through other organizations (MITE, Curriki, CK-12)?
- Jennifer V. Jones, Rutgers: Many teacher PD models include creating an on-line repository of lesson plans; how might this shift in thinking from owning curriculum materials to sharing [them] include teachers?
