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Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning resources that have been openly licensed, and can be used for free. For OER, clear permission has been provided up front so that school staff, and anyone else, can use these resources to best suit their teaching aims, as well as the needs of their learners. Globally, educators are working to make, share and promote OER. The OER Guidance for Schools was commissioned by Leicester City Council, 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. | Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning resources that have been openly licensed, and can be used for free. For OER, clear permission has been provided up front so that school staff, and anyone else, can use these resources to best suit their teaching aims, as well as the needs of their learners. Globally, educators are working to make, share and promote OER. The OER Guidance for Schools was commissioned by Leicester City Council, 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. | ||
The Guidance is available at http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/openeducation and consists of four documents, as well as a range of supporting materials. The main four Guidance documents (G1-G4) are: | The Guidance is available at http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/openeducation and consists of four documents, as well as a range of supporting materials. The main four Guidance documents (G1-G4) are: | ||
* G1 Open Education and the Schools Sector - this covers OER, open education, OER freedoms and benefits of OER to schools. | * {{file|G1 Open Education and the Schools Sector.pdf}} - this covers OER, open education, OER freedoms and benefits of OER to schools. | ||
* G2 Understanding Open Licensing - this addresses copyright, fair dealing, different types of Creative Commons licences and the public domain. | * {{file|G2 Understanding Open Licensing.pdf}} - this addresses copyright, fair dealing, different types of Creative Commons licences and the public domain. | ||
* G3 Finding and | * {{file|G3 Finding and Remixing Openly Licensed Resources.pdf}} - this looks at search engines, OER sites, attribution and creating new resources legally by ‘remixing’ and making use of existing work that has been shared under Creative Commons licences. | ||
* G4 Openly Licensing and Sharing | * {{file|G4 Openly Licensing and Sharing your Resources.pdf}} - this provides information on OER school policies and processes, applying an open licence and ways of sharing OER. | ||
The Guidance is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), so that it can be shared and adapted openly, as long as attribution is given. Each document is available in a range of formats, to make accessing, using and remixing them as easy as possible: PDF (with a graphic design; zip archive file | The Guidance is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), so that it can be shared and adapted openly, as long as attribution is given. Each document is available in a range of formats, to make accessing, using and remixing them as easy as possible: | ||
* PDF (with a graphic design; zip archive file {{file|OER Guidance for Schools main.zip}}), and | |||
* Word/OpenOffice (without the graphic design, but all text and images, for easy editing; zip archive file {{file|OER Guidance for Schools editable docx.zip}}, {{file|OER Guidance for Schools editable odt.zip}}); | |||
* An archive file with the InDesign files and other graphic files is also available ({{file|OER Guidance for Schools graphics.zip}}). | |||
Alongside the four Guidance documents, there are a number of supporting documents (S1-S6): | Alongside the four Guidance documents, there are a number of supporting documents (S1-S6): | ||
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These supplementary documents are also available in the same zip archive file as the Guidance documents (as above: zip with PDFs available here; zip with editable versions in OpenOffice/Word available here). In order to obtain the complete set of OER Guidance for Schools documents, download one of these zip files. | These supplementary documents are also available in the same zip archive file as the Guidance documents (as above: zip with PDFs available here; zip with editable versions in OpenOffice/Word available here). In order to obtain the complete set of OER Guidance for Schools documents, download one of these zip files. | ||
There are also a number of additional documents created by other organisations that will be needed when doing some of the activities in supplementary document S1. The list of files needed is included in that document. For convenience, we have also bundled these additional files into a zip file ( | There are also a number of additional documents created by other organisations that will be needed when doing some of the activities in supplementary document S1. The list of files needed is included in that document. For convenience, we have also bundled these additional files into a zip file ({{file|OER Guidance for Schools additional.zip}}). | ||
'''In short:''' If you want all the resource materials in PDF format, download the following two zip archives: | '''In short:''' If you want all the resource materials in PDF format, download the following two zip archives: | ||
* | * {{file|OER Guidance for Schools main.zip}} | ||
* | * ({{file|OER Guidance for Schools additional.zip}}. | ||
If you want to edit the documents in Open Office Writer or Microsoft Office Word, download | If you want to edit the documents in Open Office Writer or Microsoft Office Word, download one of th following zip file: | ||
* | * {{file|OER Guidance for Schools editable docx.zip} | ||
* | * {{file|OER Guidance for Schools editable odt.zip} | ||
If you want to edit G1-G4 in Adobe InDesign, download the following zip file: | If you want to edit G1-G4 in Adobe InDesign, download the following zip file: | ||
* | * {{file|OER Guidance for Schools graphics.zip}}. | ||
The Guidance advocates the remixing of OER to create new OER; the documents themselves have been remixed using a range of other openly licensed resources, which are credited in the acknowledgements section of each document. Therefore, the OER Guidance both advocates and models OER practice. Guidance 1 (Open Education and the Schools Sector) advocates the three OER freedoms as complementary features; the Guidance documents themselves embody those three OER freedoms as follows: | The Guidance advocates the remixing of OER to create new OER; the documents themselves have been remixed using a range of other openly licensed resources, which are credited in the acknowledgements section of each document. Therefore, the OER Guidance both advocates and models OER practice. Guidance 1 (Open Education and the Schools Sector) advocates the three OER freedoms as complementary features; the Guidance documents themselves embody those three OER freedoms as follows: | ||
