OER Types, Topics, and Licensing - By the Numbers

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-08-27

Summary:

Use the link to access the complete list of open educational resources (OER) organized by subject, grade, materials types, formats, popularity, and licensing.  “The data below is drawn from OER Commons, a site that provides one of the best directories for finding open educational resources. OER Commons makes it easy to search by resource provider, topic, grade level, media format and license type – all important for teachers and learners looking for free and openly licensed educational materials.  So what’s available for what topics in what formats? ...  Thousands of activities, lessons, readings, videos -- that's all good news. But if you peer closely at the kinds of resources that are available and the formats that they're in, you get an interesting picture of some of the priorities in openly-licensed content. It isn't just that the topics skew STEM. It's the dearth of primary-level materials. It's the amount of test-prep (often AP-test-prep) content. It's the preponderance of PDFs. And even with somewhat clearer language regarding licensing (‘no strings attached’ and ‘read the fine print’ as opposed to Creative Commons' terminology), the continuing confusion surrounding copyright affordances for classroom usage.”

Link:

http://hackeducation.com/2012/08/23/oer-types-by-the-number/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.licensing oa.comment oa.copyright oa.oer oa.usage oa.formats oa.education oa.disciplines oa.oer_commons oa.libre

Date tagged:

08/27/2012, 11:08

Date published:

08/27/2012, 07:08