{"id":7281,"date":"2019-08-04T09:49:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T23:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/?p=7281"},"modified":"2019-08-05T14:29:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T04:29:26","slug":"open-educational-resources-and-your-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/blog\/2019\/08\/04\/open-educational-resources-and-your-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Educational Resources and Your Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: left top;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:90px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:3.5%;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"425\" title=\"OER Banner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2019\/08\/Library-update-3.png\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-7285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/files\/2019\/08\/Library-update-3-200x61.png 200w, https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/files\/2019\/08\/Library-update-3-400x121.png 400w, https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/files\/2019\/08\/Library-update-3-600x182.png 600w, https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/files\/2019\/08\/Library-update-3-800x243.png 800w, https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/files\/2019\/08\/Library-update-3-1200x364.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/files\/2019\/08\/Library-update-3.png 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:31px;margin-left:0px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:34;line-height:1.4;\">What are OERs?<\/h1><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Open Educational Resources\u00a0are defined by UNESCO in the\u00a0<em>2012 PARIS OER DECLARATION<\/em>\u00a0as:<\/p>\n<p>teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. Open licensing is built within the existing framework of intellectual property rights as defined by relevant international conventions and respects the authorship of the work (UNESCO, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/oer\/paris-declaration\">https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/oer\/paris-declaration<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-2 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" alt=\"Open Educational Resources Logo, shows white hands extending from a book\" title=\"Global Open Educational Resources Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2019\/08\/Global_Open_Educational_Resources_Logo.svg.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-7282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/files\/2019\/08\/Global_Open_Educational_Resources_Logo.svg-200x133.png 200w, https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/files\/2019\/08\/Global_Open_Educational_Resources_Logo.svg-400x267.png 400w, https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/files\/2019\/08\/Global_Open_Educational_Resources_Logo.svg-600x400.png 600w, https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/files\/2019\/08\/Global_Open_Educational_Resources_Logo.svg-800x534.png 800w, https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/files\/2019\/08\/Global_Open_Educational_Resources_Logo.svg-1200x801.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/files\/2019\/08\/Global_Open_Educational_Resources_Logo.svg.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:31px;margin-left:0px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:34;line-height:1.4;\"><strong>Why use and create OERs for your teaching?<\/strong><\/h1><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>The replacement of commercial textbooks with open access resources in your course can provide opportunities for your students and you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>increase student satisfaction by easing the financial burden of textbook costs<\/li>\n<li>improved student engagement with the curriculum by providing access to current, relevant and global learning resources to enhance their learning experiences<\/li>\n<li>enhance your teaching and research profile through open publication of your research and teaching materials<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-4 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"max-width:600px;max-height:360px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:60%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qVbsZUN20Qk?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-5 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><h2>Want to know more or get involved?<\/h2>\n<p>Find out about the Library\u2019s open education activities:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Open Textbook Initiative<\/strong>\u00a0developed by the\u00a0RMIT\u00a0University Library is a shared resource for Australian and New Zealand universities to promote finding, using, adapting and creating open educational resources\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/emedia.rmit.edu.au\/oer\/\">https:\/\/emedia.rmit.edu.au\/oer\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Library Open Educational Resources Team<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>supports\u00a0RMIT\u00a0teaching staff in finding, adopting and adapting open resources;<\/li>\n<li>supports\u00a0RMIT\u202fauthors to develop open texts;<\/li>\n<li>adapts existing open educational resources for a local audience;<\/li>\n<li>delivers training on finding and using open educational resources in teaching.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,171,157,160],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apps-online-tools","category-designing-assessment","category-designing-learning","category-learning-and-teaching","category-news-and-events","category-professional-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7281"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7309,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281\/revisions\/7309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7281"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandteachinghub.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=7281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}