#GoOpen Campaign and the Utah OER Collective
The U.S. Department of Education’s #GoOpen campaign encourages states, school districts and educators to use openly licensed educational materials to transform teaching and learning.
As part of this movement, over 40 educators and stakeholders met at the Utah State Capital complex in January for the Utah Open Education Collective. Dr. David Wiley– an OER expert that travels worldwide to promote the use/development of OER– spoke to the group. He explained what qualifies as OER and how to find it.
Wiley shared that to be considered open, educational resources must be free and give users the right to do the 5 R's:
Retain: make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)
Reuse: use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
Revise: adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
Remix: combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)
Redistribute: share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)
As a group, the OER Collective examined and gathered open educational materials that were added to the OER collections in UEN eMedia. Over 150 resources were identified and added to the UEN OER collections. Educators can access the OER collections at http://www.uen.org/oer/.
