LINC 90B - Open Education Resources

Institution:

Foothill College

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Description:

Formerly: LINC 215 Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) and the use of public domain learning materials for teaching. Build educators knowledge and skills necessary to find, adapt, repurpose and create accessible OER for use in their classes. Specific topics covered include OER terminology, OER best practices and case studies, copyright and fair use issues as they pertain to OER, sources andrepositories of public domain learning materials in various disciplines,technical issues regarding accessibility of public domain learning materials,and uses of Creative Commons licenses, tools and standards available to develop, organize and disseminate public domain learning materials, searching techniques for identifying public domain learning materials, professional collaboration strategies, criteria for assessing the suitability of public domain learning materials for use various disciplines, lesson plan development than incorporates use of the identified public domain learning materials. Repeatability: May be taken six times for credit. One hour lecture. GE Area: Non-GE Applicable

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.foothill.edu

Phone Number:

(650) 949-7777

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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