I’ve organized my blog into weekly topics. I’ve provided a brief summary of the materials investigated. Each week title is then linked to a board created in Pintrest. Feel free to take a look at the resources and repin them for your own use. I have also invited as many of the members of our cohort access to the boards by using the invite feature on Twitter. Visitors can contribute or redistribute the materials as needed. Any feedback would be appreciated.
Weeks in Review
- Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)-What are they? Why are they important? What does open mean?
- The four R’s (reuse, remix, redistribute and revise)
- The importance of sharing information to allow access to education to everyone regardless of location and economic status
- Copyright/copy left (What is the difference? Why are they needed? Where did these concepts originate from?)
- Creative commons (What is it? Who can contribute?)
- Aaron Swartz (Who was he? What his contribution to access of information on the internet? How did his contribution change the openness of information on the internet?
- Review of OER’s
- Critique of the Open University from the UK
- Using rubrics to assess the different criteria of OER’s
- Sharing- the moral imperative (Dean Shareski)
- Everyone has something to share- value what you create
- Curating information and dealing with resources as they enter
- Revisiting useful websites, blogs, posts and tweets from members of the cohort
- Social curation (What is it? How to use it? Using Pintrest as a social curation tool)