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Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS/A toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS tools (view source)
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====Create your own OER as a part of using this tool-kit====
====Create your own OER as a part of using this tool-kit====
Identify an area which you are very keen to learn more about, or where you feel you need resources. Your own work as a teacher may require you to have materials for classroom teaching-learning processes, or for sharing with colleagues for mutual learning, or simply for your self-development. It will be much more meaningful learning, if as a part of using this tool-kit, you could access, create, re-purpose and publish a OER on a topic which you want to learn/ know more about. The topic could be from the subject you teach (a science topic like ‘Light’ or a mathematics topic such as ‘number system’ or a geography topic as ‘forests’), or a larger issue in education ('Challenges of teaching in inner-city public schools'), or larger social issue ('global warming'). You could create this OER in English or in your own native language (where the need for such an OER may be even greater).
Identify an area which you are very keen to learn more about, or where you feel you need resources. Your own work as a teacher may require you to have materials for classroom teaching-learning processes, or for sharing with colleagues for mutual learning, or simply for your self-development. It will be much more meaningful learning, if as a part of using this tool-kit, you could access, create, re-purpose and publish a OER on a topic which you want to learn/ know more about. The topic could be from the subject you teach (a science topic like ‘Light’ or a mathematics topic such as ‘number system’ or a geography topic as ‘forests’), or a larger issue in education ('Challenges of teaching in inner-city public schools'), or larger social issue ('global warming'). You could create this OER in English or in your own native language (where the need for such an OER may be even greater).
==== How to license your work as OER ====
After you create or re-purpose your OER, it is essential to provide the necessary license to ensure it is OER. If you do not specify any licence, by default, it is treated as having the traditional 'All rights reserved' copyright, which means others will not be able to freely re-use or revise the same.
In case you are creating an OER, as the author you have full freedom to specify an open license. The 'Creative Commons' licenses are popular since they are easy to use and understand. You can refer to their site for more information, before you [https://creativecommons.org/choose/ chose an appropriate license]. This toolkit uses the CC BY license which allows users to freely re-use, revise, remix and redistribute, giving credit to the author of the toolkit. You could use [[wikipedia:Creative_Commons_license#Seven_regularly_used_licenses|any of these three CC licenses]] that are accepted as 'open
<u>Acronym - Description</u>
# CC BY - Attribution alone
# CC BY SA - Attribution + ShareAlike
# CC 0 - Freeing content globally without restrictions
====Assumption about the user of this tool-kit====
====Assumption about the user of this tool-kit====
The toolkit assumes that you have a basic comfort in using computers, you can start and shut down a desktop computer. It assumes very basic familiarity with the commonly used applications on a computer, such as file explorer, web browser and text editor. The toolkit assumes similar basic comfort in using a feature mobile phone (aka ‘smart phone’).
The toolkit assumes that you have a basic comfort in using computers, you can start and shut down a desktop computer. It assumes very basic familiarity with the commonly used applications on a computer, such as file explorer, web browser and text editor. The toolkit assumes similar basic comfort in using a feature mobile phone (aka ‘smart phone’).