Maybe I can help with this question by providing facts that I have gathered. What is missing in my understanding is, I don't understand the exact criteria for OERs. Namely, do the resources have to be in the public domain to be considered an OER or is a creative commons copyright sufficient?
The Kahn Academy is not pubic domain, but they allow free use of their materials according to Cc BY-NC-SA 3.0. This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6kwIBI3j98&feature=plcp says that they want people to use their resources and tools "in any way that they see fit." At their website they have the logo for the creative commons copyright CC-BY-NC-SA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) http://screencast.com/t/KeJVjIe9BZ screenshot of the cc by-nc-sa 3.0 logo from the web page. About The Khan Academy "It is our mission to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. With this in mind, we want to share our content with whoever may find it useful." A free world-class education for anyone anywhere. The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere. All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge. http://www.khanacademy.org/about On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Valerie Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim is doing some great work on Math resources. > > He has a question that I'm hoping someone else can answer better than I > can. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jim Kelly <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:08 PM > Subject: You Tube applications and OER use? > To: Valerie Taylor <[email protected]> > > > Is a You Tube math demonstration like KhanAcademy.org’s lesson on > subtraction of whole numbers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNqG4ChKShI > considered an OER resource? > > > Since CK-12 changed the content under the URL links that it used for the > 2010 6th – 11th grade materials to “create” its 2012 materials, I will > need to redo all the links in http://www.K-12math.info . At the same time > it might be a good idea to keep track of the distribution of Khan (or James > Sousa ) materials. > > > Appreciate your thoughts. Thanks. > > > jim kelly > > -- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > > -- À Á Â Ã Ç É Ê Í Ó Ô Õ Ú Ü à á â ã ç é ê í ó ô õ ú ü ? / -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
