Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange Hunting, Gathering, and Growing Open Educational Resources: "A significant movement in education concerns the use of open educational resources. By “open” it is generally meant that the resource is available at no cost to others for adaptation and reuse in different contexts. These resources could include books, lesson plans, syllabi, slide shows, etc. There are several examples of individuals and institutions providing open educational resources. The open education movement is introduced, and we discuss how to find and organize open educational resources, specifically within the context of the Open High School of Utah."

Hunting/Gathering/Collecting

John Hilton is emphasizing the reusability component of open coursware, something I brought up during the roundtable discussion with instructure. I hadn't made the important reusability/open content connection before now.

Reusable content needs to be modified for particular contexts, rather than phoning it in. Someone, maybe Gladwell, wrote about art that is created through gradual refinement rather than in a burst of genius (see Chris Lott post) and open courseware's reusability would tend to promote this sort of growth.

David Wiley's 4rs of Openness:

Reuse

Redistribute

Revise

Remix--take two or more existing resources and combine them to create a new resource (e.g. take audio lectures from a course and combine them with a slideshow from another course to create a new course).

** Creative Commons is a key enabler of open educational resources

-attribution
-share alike
-noncommercial
-no derivative works

Commercial schools, teaching for profit, can't use many Open resources.

Q: what's the relationship between fair use and open content?
A: (me) Fair use is being eaten alive by corporations