Want to know which Creative Commons (CC) licence to use? Wondering how to cite and attribute Open Educational Resources (OER)? As part of COL’s Community of Practice platform, a new OER FAQ forum hopes to help answer questions about the many facets of OER. The forum covers over 100 FAQs on everything from the basics of Creative Commons licences to OER quality, OER policy and developing OER. As a community of practice, you will be invited to share and contribute your ideas on OER.
CATEGORIES
This category includes questions that are often posed by those new to the concept of open educational resources. Taken together, these questions provide a quick primer on OER.
This category includes questions that concern the effective use of OER within educational institutions.
This category includes questions that are often posed by those who wish to find and/or curate OER.
This category includes questions that are often posed by those who wish to create OER.
This category includes questions that concern the development of institutional or government policy to support the successful adoption, adaptation, or creation of OER.
This category includes questions that concern the quality of available OER.
This category includes questions often asked by those new to the idea of open licensing. Taken together, these questions provide a quick primer on Creative Commons licensing.
This category includes questions often asked by those considering applying an open license to their creative work.
This category includes questions often asked by those who wish to reuse or adapt openly-licensed materials.
This category includes questions often posed by those who wish to find, use, or create a specific type of OER known as open textbooks.
This category includes questions that distinguish OER from a variety of other terms that include the word "open" and that are often heard within educational contexts.
COL PROJECT TEAM
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) project team behind OERFAQ.Info is Ishan Abeywardena, Rajiv Jhangiani and myself. The project was led and initiated by Ishan a few months back. My role was to come up with (and curate) the first 100 OER FAQs and all the graphics and icons associated with this project. Rajiv played the critical role of reviewer and editor of the initial drafted 100 OER FAQs (and categories), which was further refined and improved. In short, we ROCKED as a team...Al-Hamdulilla.
Enjoy OERFAQ.Info site, and also join (if you can) by contributing your feedback, ideas and questions! This is a community project, which means it will Insya-Allah evolve with your input and ideas. Let's revive the OER movement again, which has kind of lost track in the era of MOOCs.
Join us into the future of OER :)
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