Found the “Definitions of OER” in the pdf attachment very interesting. The invitation only meeting taking place at Fort Baker here in the San Francisco area today (April 23 and 24th) is gone to further redefine OER for materials in the elementary and secondary school mathematics environment. While the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is funding the meeting, a number of OER projects sponsored by other funding organizations are present. Interestingly Hewlett’s only new investment in OER last year was the services of 2 consulting firms, which I would guess encouraged them to make OER projects more responsible for their own funding (at least a portion of it). OER projects supporting themselves in elementary and secondary school mathematics is becoming a reality. Funding organizations like Shuttleworth and Saylor are already encouraging this. Even CK-12.org has recently signed a agreement to have its materials as part of the package when you buy India’s version of the iPad.
At present most of the content and lessons in the elementary and secondary school OER math materials are open and “free to use”. Hopefully it stays that way, with the money part being associated with getting credit for taking tests on the materials. Thank you for the information on OER . Jim Kelly www.k-12math.info (A 5 star Merlott II educational resource) On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 6:48:01 PM UTC-7, Ramesh Sharma wrote: > > Dear OER Colleagues, > > > > In order to expand the author-base of school-level OER, the Commonwealth > of Learning CEMCA, in Delhi, has developed a fairly comprehensive list of > quality assurance criteria as guidelines for OER creators. > > > > This is a list of ideas worthwhile considering by school teachers as > beginner- > > authors of their own OER. It is not meant to be prescriptive, and we hope > it just about covers all the points they may find useful. As the final > stage of evaluation we would like to ask you to take this survey - to see > if any of the items can be removed as not worth suggesting to a prospective > new author. > > > > The survey is at > > https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/quality-OER-survey > > > > We appreciate group members are dispersed globally, and your views may > differ from each other. Your opinions and perspectives from all the various > regions around the world will help shape these guidelines for others > generally. We deeply value your input. > > > > You can email any additional comments, and we are very happy to cite your > contribution if you so wish. We'll let you know and ask you again > beforehand in such case. If you would like more background information, the > preceding results were published last year at > > > http://cemca.org.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/OERQ_TIPS_978-81-88770-07-6.pdf > > > > The guidelines list will be published with a CC-BY-SA open licence. > > > > Thank you sincerely for your time and professional efforts to help ~ > > > > Paul > > > > Paul Kawachi, FRSA > > Professor of Instructional Design > > Editor Asian Journal of Distance Education > > [email protected] <javascript:> > -- -- 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] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
