Unleashing the OER 101 Workshop! WOW!

OER 101 WORKSHOP

This 2-day workshop was conducted at Wawasan Open University (WOU) from 26th – 27th April, 2012. It provides an introduction to the understanding of Open Educational Resources (OER), and how OER can be found, reused, remixed and created. During these two days, we explored and discussed together the concept of OER, Creative Commons, business models, and variety of OpenCourseWare (OCW) case studies and content development tools. During the hands-on sessions participants built their own customized Google search engine, and explored Google Blogger to build a mock-up course for OER fusing their own content with OER and OCW. In the final session, we discussed how to move forward with OER at WOU...Top secret :)

The OER 101 Workshop

LINKS SHARED DURING THE OER 101 WORKSHOP

Here is easy access to all the links discussed or explored during the workshop (WOW!!!):

1. Open Educational Resources (OER)

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• OER Commons
• OpenCourseWare Consortium
• MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
• Open Yale Courses
• JHSPH OpenCourseWare (OCW)
• OpenLearn (The Open University)
• USQ OpenCourseWare
• SJTU Open Courseware
• Saudi Arabia?
• National Centre for e-Learning & Disctance Learning
• KFUPM Open Courseware
• King Khalid University OCW
• Qassim College of Medicine OCW
• Pakistan?
• Virtual University of Pakistan
• Iran?
• Farabi Institute of Higher Education OCW
• Indonesia?
• The University Indonesia
• University of Sumatera Utara
• UG OCW
• Malaysia?
• Universiti Teknologi Malaysia  OCW
• Open University Malaysia OER
• All Open CourseWare (OCW)?OCW Master List of courses (250+)

Open Textbooks (e-books)

• Project Gutenberg
• Open Textbook Catalog
• Flat World Knowledge
• College Open Textbooks
• Community College Consortium of OER
• CK-12 FlexBooks
• Wikibooks
• ManyBooks.net
• 20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks
  

MOOCs & Open Teaching

• MOOC Guide
• What is a MOOC? (Video)
• UDACITY
• Coursera
• P2PU
• University of the People
• Sharing to Connect, Interact and Learn!

         (Online Talk by Zaid Ali Alsagoff)


Learning Repositories

• iTunes U
• EDU - YouTube
• MERLOT
• Khan Academy
• Academic Earth
• CMU OpenLearningInitiative
• Connexions
• WikiEducator
• Wikiversity
• Extreme Learning
• Curriki
• Internet Archive
• OER Africa
• MEDtube
• Quora
• Wolfram Alpha
• 101 OER Resources
• MORE OER (250+)

2. Copyright & OER

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• Creative Commons Video
• Creative Commons (CC) Licenses
• CC Comparison Table
• Open Educational Resources Licensing Continuum
• Article: http://edtechfrontier.com/tag/connexions/
• CC License Selection Tool
• If license used incorrectly will I be sued?
• OER Risk Management Calculator

3. Finding OER

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• Google Custom Search
• 2 Great Starting Points!
• OER COMMONS
• OCW Consortium
• Other Good OER Search Engines?
• OCW Finder
• Xpert
• OER Recommender
• Temoa
• Curriki Search
• University Learning = OCW+OER = Free
• Knowledge Finder
• Jorum
• OER Dynamic Search Engine
• Discover Ed
• Folksemantic
• OER Glue
• Einztein
• iBerry
• Social Curation Tools
• http://www.delicious.com/zaidlearn/
• Create Your Own Customized OER Search!: Google Custom Search
• Article: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/01/google-custom-search-for-openfree.html    

4. OER Case Studies

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• New Initiative: MITx (Article)
• Salman Khan talk at TED 2011
• Tools Salman Khan Used to Create the Videos?
• Introduction Video: Coursera
• OER Case Studies
• Flickr Creative Commons
• OER Funding Models

5. Creating & Sharing OER

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• Turning a resource into OER (video):

• OER Development Cycle?(Source 1 and 2)
• OER Educator Handbook
• Alternative to University LMS:
• Edmodo         
• Schoology
• Wiki tools:
• Google Sites
• Google Docs
• Wikispaces
• Wetpaint     
• Blogging Tools:
• Blogger
• WordPress
• Tumblr
• Posterous
• Authoring Tools:
• Slideshare (slidecast example)
• Prezi
• Create Online Crossword Puzzles!
• WizIQ (web conferencing)
• Create Cartoons, Movies & Animations:
• Xtranormal
• Go Animate
• Toondoo
• Desktop Authoring Tools:
• Courselab
• Exe
• Use your iPad to Create OER On-The-Fly:
• Educreations
• Explain Everything
• Social Media Tools and tips
• 200+ Learning Tools
• Just in Time Training To You (JiT2U) on Social media and Web 2.0
• OER Gurus
• Stephen Downes
    Home: http://www.downes.ca/
    Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/presentations   
• George Siemens
    Home: http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/
    Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/gsiemens
• David Wiley
    Home: http://davidwiley.org/
    Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/presentations
• Stian Håklev
    Home: http://reganmian.net/blog
    Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/houshuang/presentations    
• Curt Bonk
    Home: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/
    Presentations: http://www.trainingshare.com/workshop.php
• Recommended OER resources (starting points):
• Open Educational Resources - Educator Handbook
• A Basic Guide to OER
• UNESCO-COL Guidelines for OER in Higher Education 

BEEN OERing SINCE 2005!

I have been practicing and promoting Open Educational Resources (OER) ever since I was involved in the first IIEP discussion forum on Open Educational Resources (24 October - 2 December 2005), and even back then I made enough noise to be mentioned for my contribution.

Although, in basically all my workshops and presentations since then have explored and promoted OER, I had never done a full-blown OER workshop before the WOU one. Please, don't ask me why! However, when WOU invited me to do one OER workshop, I just had to say 'YES'. 

The 2-day workshop went well (most of the 25 participants stayed until the end without falling asleep...LOL!), and I believe I will be invited to many more institutions in the near future to conduct OER 101 workshops?

Why? OER is in my DNA...:)