Open educational resources are some of the most powerful tools available for teachers to use today. These that are resources that are free to use by all. My favorite provider of OER is MIT Opencourseware.
Open educational resources can have several different types of creative commons licenses.
The can be:
- Attribution only: This type of license allows anyone to use the work as long as they give the original author due credit.
- Noncommercial: This type of license allows anyone to use the work for noncommercial purposes. This includes copying, distributing, displaying, and modifying the work.
- Share alike: This type of license allows anyone to copy, distribute, display, or modify work as long as the new work is also share alike.
- No derivative: Anyone can copy, distribute, or display the work. However, users may not modify this work.
I use open educational resources in my class in a number of ways. I use videos from MIT OCW for in class demonstrations and for homework assignments.
Another one of my favorite open education resources for teaching physics are direct measurement videos from CERC Carleton. These are under the creative commons license for attribution, noncommercial, share alike. Here is an intro activity for teaching with direct measurement videos provided by CERC Carleton.
One thing that I did learn from the Georgia Teacher Open Online Training was how to search specifically for Open Educational Resources. This will be a tremendous help for me in the future.
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