OER Guidance for Schools

Introduction

The OER Guidance for Schools was originally commissioned by Leicester City Council in October 2014 and is part of the DigiLit Leicester project. The Guidance aims to support school staff in understanding and making use of open licensing, and creating and sharing their own OER. You can find out further information about the Guidance on the Introduction page. In November 2014, the African Virtual University translated the OER Guidance into French and Portuguese, for use during their teacher educator programmes. The most up-to-date version is available on at this Google Docs link, and we encourage you to access the Guidance there.

Download the OER Guidance for Schools

Current versions and roadmap (January 2015)

The most up-to-date version is available at this Google Docs link, and we encourage you to access the Guidance there. We are presently finalising the translations, and intend to re-create the designed versions (in InDesign).

Version 1 (October 2014)

The original guidance can be accessed at http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/openeducation and is also hosted on http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/OERGS. Note that these documents are currently not fully up to date, and we encourage you to use this this Google Docs link instead. The documents below will be updated, but they lag behind the version on Google Docs.

Main guidance documents, as PDF files:

• G0 Introduction to the OER Guidance for Schools.pdf ^(info)
• G1 Open Education and the Schools Sector.pdf ^(info)
• G2 Understanding Open Licensing.pdf ^(info)
• G3 Finding and Remixing Openly Licensed Resources.pdf ^(info)
• G4 Openly Licensing and Sharing your Resources.pdf ^(info)

Supporting documents, as PDF files:

• S1 OER Activities for Workshops the Classroom and for Self-study.pdf ^(info)
• S2 Remixing with Images.pdf ^(info)
• S3 Remixing with Wikipedia Text and Images.pdf ^(info)
• S4 Remixing with Shakespeare.pdf ^(info)
• S5 Share-Alike NonCommerical and Public Domain.pdf ^(info)
• S6 References and Links.pdf ^(info)

Zip files:

• OER Guidance for Schools main.zip ^(info) (G0-G4, S1-S6 as PDF files)
• OER Guidance for Schools additional.zip ^(info) (additional files needed, as PDF)
• OER Guidance for Schools editable docx.zip ^(info) (G0-G4, S1-S6 downloaded from Google Docs as docx)
• OER Guidance for Schools editable odt.zip ^(info) (G0-G4, S1-S6 downloaded from Google Docs as odt)
• OER Guidance for Schools graphics.zip ^(info) (G1-G4, as InDesign files)