This presentation will provide educators with specific applications for a collection of new Google tools. We will help educators understand how to use Google applications like Google Wave, Google Forms, and Google Voice as productivity tools. We’ll incorporate Google Earth and Google Maps as presentation tools. Google Sites will be shown as a publishing tool. Read the rest of this entry »

Drupal’s use is exploding in Higher Education. This session will introduce a new Drupal distribution designed to serve as a platform for building rich intranets for educational institutions. Read the rest of this entry »

As part of a three-year grant received by Purdue University Calumet’s School of Nursing to put the entire graduate program online, the Primary Investigators determined that instruction would be well suited to be put into the podcast format. With the use of iPod Touches provided by the grant, the podcast format allowed the students real time learning, flexibility, and mobility in their instruction. As a result, a podcast lab was created and implemented. Read the rest of this entry »

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This presentation will (1) introduce the open education movement and, specifically, open educational resources; (2) explain work done to identify and match OER to Open High School of Utah curriculum needs; (3) describe implications and recommend directions for instructional designers and teachers interested in working with and creating OER.

Purpose of the Presentation

A significant movement in education concerns the use of open educational resources. By “open” it is generally meant that the resource is available at no cost to others for adaptation and reuse in different contexts. These resources could include books, lesson plans, syllabi, slide shows, etc. There are several examples of individuals and institutions providing open educational resources. The open education movement is introduced, and we discuss how to find and organize open educational resources, specifically within the context of the  Open High School of Utah.

In addition, some frameworks for those interested in creating OER will be provided. The “open” in “open educational resources” is not a simple dichotomy; rather, there is a continuum of openness. We discuss four separate aspects of reuse and demonstrate how these describe different levels of openness. Licensing and technical aspects of open educational resources are also discussed

Presenter

John Hilton III is a doctoroal student in Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University.

The use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) by Tecnologico de Monterrey faculty through its Knowledge Hub search engine initiative in Mexico and world wide: Best Practices.

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