This module provides faculty in higher education with an introduction to the use and creation of Open Educational Resources. It is intended for faculty who are new to the principles of Open Education. Several of the examples in this module relate to higher education in Canada, but you are encouraged to adapt the resources you suit your context.It can be used as part of a course on open education and would benefit from an expanded discussion of Open Pedagogy, an additional module on Open Access, and a module on Developing Open Policies for higher education institutions.

Module 1 is designed using open resources from WikiMedia, The Learning Portal, and other Creative Commons licensed materials. This module has been developed to provide an overview of OER and its history for faculty who are just getting started. (But mostly it was designed to see how this authoring tool works so that I can share the tool with our faculty!)

Find out what quarks are, how they were discovered and why they are very important in relation to protons and neutrons. There are different types of quarks which you'll learn about in this GCSE / K12 "Radioactivity" video from the Virtual School.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are a relatively new phenomenon which is fast gaining academic credibility as well as the attention of policy makers on a global scale. With increased funding by governmental and non-governmental organisations paired with generous philanthropy, the volume of rich OER available freely to the masses has grown exponentially. As with any new academic movement, the initial challenge for the OER movement was to spread this new philosophy into mainstream academia whereby the use of OER in teaching and learning becomes accepted practice. With strong advocacy by Open Distance Learning (ODL) institutions buttressed by organisations such as the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and UNESCO, OER is currently achieving this objective and is rapidly gaining acceptance as a credible source of knowledge in many an academic community. The whole philosophy of OER rests on a foundation consisting of two fundamental concepts which are (i) free and open access to knowledge; and (ii) the ability to freely adapt and re-use existing pieces of knowledge. Even though the OER movement has been quite successful in firmly planting the first concept in the academic community, the second concept of re-use and adaptation is still to take flight on a larger scale. Although there are many inhibitors to the wider adoption of the re-use concept of OER, one of the major inhibitors is the current lack in capacities among the various stakeholders to effectively utilise existing technologies to adapt and re-use OER. This in turn has created a community of passive OER consumers who are not contributing to the expansion of the movement. The objectives of this report are to (i) explore the current technology landscape with respect to both proprietary as well as Free and Open-source Software (FOSS) technologies; (ii) identify techniques, actual and in development, for re-use of OER materials; and (iii) discuss the implementation in the context of a typical ODL agency. This peer-reviewed report is a detailed catalogue of technologies available to teachers as well as learners for the re-use of OER material in the forms of text, HTML, audio, video and data. It also compares the technologies based on access, openness, usability and availability. The report will serve as a resource for teachers and learners for re-using OER mater.

مع تطور التكنولوجيا و الويب، أصبح من السهل لاي متصفح إيجاد المعلومات و المراجع و أصبح البعض يستعملها دون الاهتمام بالملكية الفكرية و دون التأكد من صحة و نجاعة هذه المعلومات. من أجل حماية الكاتب واتاحة فرص أكبر للمستعمل والتشجيع على اصدار محتوى تعليمي ذي جودة، انتشرت حركة الموارد التعليمية المفتوحة في العالم.
- فماهي هذه الموارد؟ وماهي تراخيص الملكية الفكرية التي تحكم استخدامها؟
- كيف يمكن للأستاذ ان يجدها بسهولة على الوب؟
- كيف تساعده على الابتكار في ظل منهج التعليم المتمركز حول المتعلم؟

كل هذه الأسئلة يطرحها هذا العرض الذي قدم في الملتقى الثاني عشر للتميز لمركز التميز في التعليم و التعلم بجامعة قطر.