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

2. 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
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3. Learning is personal change through experiences
Learning is personal change through experiences. (We’ll get back to this later.)
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4. What is OER?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely-available educational resources with permissions given to share, remix, revise, and build upon them.
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5. 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.
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6. 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.
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7. 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!
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8. Finding OER: Getting Started
OpenStax:
Free and open textbooks on introductory college subjects / high school AP subjects
OER Commons:
All types of OER, from kindergarten to professional education
MERLOT:
Another OER search database for all types of OER, includes older resources
SkillsCommons:
Industrial and trade resources, focused on community colleges
Open Textbook Library:
A curated set of open textbooks for higher education subjects
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9. Also included in the Georgia Knowledge Repository (GKR)
GALILEO Open Learning Materials: USG-Created OER, Free and Open for All
Also included in the Georgia Knowledge Repository (GKR)
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10. Learning is personal change through experiences
Learning is personal change through experiences. Don’t just use OER, join the movement and change your life!
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11. Experiences in the Open Education Movement
Rebus Community:
Join the crowdsourced creation and review of new open textbooks
OER Commons:
Use authoring tools with publishing and Creative Commons built-in, share new OER using their database
MERLOT:
Join the peer review subject teams
YouTube:
Video uploading and publishing with Creative Commons built-in
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12. THANK YOU!
Jeff Gallant