At a recent meeting to discuss the agenda for moving OER forward, the predictable topics of quality, effectiveness, and cost came up in the context of defining the value proposition of OER. David Wiley rightfully pointed out that we don’t
Khan Academy math
Sal Kahn through his Khan Academy has built a tremendous collection of over 1800 open-licensed videos offering instruction in math and science. They cover topics in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, statistics calculus, and more and are licensed under CC BY SA.
Shareable media sets
Awhile back, I was thinking about the idea of shareable media sets — collections of open-licensed photos, diagrams, maps, audio, video, etc. that could be used by teachers or students in word-processed documents or presentations or used to create web
Media sets for remix
There are so many great open resources that teachers can use in creating multimedia projects (reports, PPTs, web pages, wikis, etc.) with their students, but they take a lot of time to find and correlate. As a part of a
A new way to search and new ways to think about sharing
I’m not sure when this came out, but Google Advanced Search now has a filter for licenses. I also stumbled upon a really brilliant survey about sharing from a group called Latitude. If you haven’t already, you really should take