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) (Oct 2014)
• G1 Open Education and the Schools Sector.pdf ^(info) (Oct 2014)
• G2 Understanding Open Licensing.pdf ^(info) (Oct 2014)
• G3 Finding and Remixing Openly Licensed Resources.pdf ^(info) (Oct 2014)
• G4 Openly Licensing and Sharing your Resources.pdf ^(info) (Oct 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)