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. The PDFs for the English-language version were updated in January 2015, and are up to date. We are presently finalising the translations to French and Portuguese (January 2015), and then intend to re-create the designed versions for those languages (in InDesign; Feb-Mar 2015). Consider contributing to the current version.

Downloadable files

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. All documents were updated in January 2015, to reflect any corrections / amendments since last October. In principle, the PDF documents below may lag behind the Google documents, so if you've spotted a mistake, or you want to access the latest versions, please consult the this Google Docs link.

Main guidance documents, G0-G4 all in one PDF, with cover:

• OER Guidance for Schools.pdf ^(info) (Jan 2014)

Main guidance documents, as individual PDF files:

• G0 Introduction to the OER Guidance for Schools.pdf ^(info) (Jan 2014, wiki)
• G1 Open Education and the Schools Sector.pdf ^(info) (Jan 2014, wiki)
• G2 Understanding Open Licensing.pdf ^(info) (Jan 2014)
• G3 Finding and Remixing Openly Licensed Resources.pdf ^(info) (Jan 2014)
• G4 Openly Licensing and Sharing your Resources.pdf ^(info) (Jan 2014)

Supporting documents, as PDF files:

• S1 OER Activities for Workshops the Classroom and for Self-study.pdf ^(info) (Oct 2014)
• S2 Remixing with Images.pdf ^(info) (Oct 2014)
• S3 Remixing with Wikipedia Text and Images.pdf ^(info) (Oct 2014)
• S4 Remixing with Shakespeare.pdf ^(info) (Oct 2014)
• S5 Share-Alike NonCommerical and Public Domain.pdf ^(info) (Oct 2014)
• S6 References and Links.pdf ^(info) (Oct 2014)

Zip files:

• OER Guidance for Schools main.zip ^(info) (G0-G4, S1-S6 as PDF files; Oct 2014)
• OER Guidance for Schools additional.zip ^(info) (additional files needed, as PDF; Oct 2014)
• OER Guidance for Schools editable docx.zip ^(info) (G0-G4, S1-S6 downloaded from Google Docs as docx; Oct 2014)
• OER Guidance for Schools editable odt.zip ^(info) (G0-G4, S1-S6 downloaded from Google Docs as odt; Oct 2014)
• OER Guidance for Schools graphics.zip ^(info) (G1-G4, as InDesign files; Oct 2014)

The English-language versions of October 2014 and January 2015 are available under the following licence:

CC BY 4.0

OER Guidance for Schools (October 2014), commissioned by Leicester City Council, produced by Björn Haßler, Helen Neo and Josie Fraser. Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The OER Guidance for Schools documents are available from http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/openeducation. (As far as the authors are aware the information contained within these documents is accurate on the date upon which they were produced. However, the information contained in the documents is not legal advice. If you require such advice, please seek advice from a suitably legally qualified professional.)

Version history

• October 2014: Original versions (English versions)
• January 2014:
  • Correction of one typo (G2), and minor layout corrections (English versions)
  • Release of all-in-one PDF with contiguous numbering (English)