Lifelong Learning in the Open Jeff Gallant GALILEO, Affordable Learning Georgia

Tummons and Ingleby, “A-Z of Lifelong Learning,” 2014 “We define learning as the apparent modification of a person’s behavior through [their] activities and experiences, so that [their] knowledge, skills, and attitudes, including modes of adjustment, towards [their] environment are changed, more or less permanently.” Tummons and Ingleby, “A-Z of Lifelong Learning,” 2014 Lifelong Learning in the Open

Learning is personal change through experiences Learning is personal change through experiences. (We’ll get back to this later.) Lifelong Learning in the Open

What is OER? Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely-available educational resources with permissions given to share, remix, revise, and build upon them. Lifelong Learning in the Open

The 5R Permissions of Open Retain: You can keep the resource without a deadline. Reuse: You can use the resource in whichever way you need. Redistribute: You can send copies of the resource to others or host it on your own publicly-available site. Revise: You can change, edit, and update the resource. Remix: You can combine open resources together or put them into new formats. Lifelong Learning in the Open

How it Works: Creative Commons Licenses CC = Creative Commons BY = Attribution SA = Share-Alike NC = Non-Commercial ND = No Derivatives Example: CC-BY: You can use this resource however you like, so long as you attribute the original. Lifelong Learning in the Open

OER: Free for Life Creative Commons licenses are irrevocable: an open educational resource is free and open forever. Where it’s hosted may change, but the permissions still remain. No matter where you are in life, you can use OER! Lifelong Learning in the Open

Finding OER: Getting Started OpenStax: http://openstax.org Free and open textbooks on introductory college subjects / high school AP subjects OER Commons: http://oercommons.org/ All types of OER, from kindergarten to professional education MERLOT: http://merlot.org/ Another OER search database for all types of OER, includes older resources SkillsCommons: http://skillscommons.org/ Industrial and trade resources, focused on community colleges Open Textbook Library: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ A curated set of open textbooks for higher education subjects Lifelong Learning in the Open

Also included in the Georgia Knowledge Repository (GKR) GALILEO Open Learning Materials: USG-Created OER, Free and Open for All https://oer.galileo.usg.edu Also included in the Georgia Knowledge Repository (GKR) Lifelong Learning in the Open

Learning is personal change through experiences Learning is personal change through experiences. Don’t just use OER, join the movement and change your life! Lifelong Learning in the Open

Experiences in the Open Education Movement Rebus Community: https://projects.rebus.community Join the crowdsourced creation and review of new open textbooks OER Commons: http://oercommons.org/ Use authoring tools with publishing and Creative Commons built-in, share new OER using their database MERLOT: http://merlot.org/ Join the peer review subject teams YouTube: http://youtube.com/ Video uploading and publishing with Creative Commons built-in Lifelong Learning in the Open

THANK YOU! Jeff Gallant Email Jeff.Gallant@usg.edu