overview of openaccess, open educational resources (OER), creative commons*, fair use* and more (*not meant to be legal advice) #oaweek14

1. Free on the internet!
Resources you can use!
▪ How much data? The internet in realtime – 5/28/2014 4:30PM
http://pennystocks.la/internet-in-real-time/ Robin Fay @georgiawebgurl

3. What is OER
Open Educational Resources :
Any kind of teaching materials – textbooks,
syllabi, lesson plans, videos, readings, exams
even classes (think MOOCS, but not all!)
Robin Fay @georgiawebgurl

4. Open is…
Open even goes beyond just resources –
sharing data (open data), sharing
manufacturing (open manufacturing), sharing
software (open source)
Robin Fay @georgiawebgurl

5. WWhhaatt aarree tthheeyy??
“OER are teaching, learning and research resources
that reside in the public domain or have been released
under an intellectual property licence that permits
their free use or re-purposing by others. Open
educational resources include full courses, course
materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos,
tests, software, and any other tools, materials or
techniques used to support access to knowledge”.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, supporter of the worldwide Open
Educational Resources (OER) movement

6. OOEERRss ppaarrtt ooff tthhee ooppeenn wwoorrlldd
Opensource – software that is available for use under a license.
Examples include Wordpress, OpenOffice, others.
Open Access – databases and collections of resources (such as Open
Journals, that are often scholarly in nature) – accessible and freely
shared ; generally licensed under a more open (ShareAlike) license or
Public Domain
Open Systems / Open Process – Often thought of as transparency –
processes are
Open Data – Data that is collected and shared; Open data can be
downloaded and used by anyone.
MOOCs – MOOCs are Massive Open Online Classes that anyone can
sign up for. Often content is released as OER (hint: a good treasure
trove!)

7. OOEERR aarree……
• free to use & publicly available.
• generally released under a license like creative
commons. This license tells you what you can do
(reuse, alter, use in educational or commercial work)
• often licensed using creative commons; the
credit/citation is called attribution
• Collaborative. Works that can built upon, but in
doing so you should consider resharing it publicly if
possible
• Part of a larger global movement toward openness
– openaccess, open education, etc.
• not just teaching materials!

9. Open Educational Resources
Open Content / Open educational resources (OER) / Open
Courseware are educational materials which are discoverable
online and openly licensed that can be:
Shared
Shared freely and
openly to be…
Used
Improved
Redistributed
… used by
… redistribute and
share again.
… adapt / repurpose/ anyone to …
improve under some type
of license in order to …

10. Why uussee OOppeenn EEdduuccaattiioonnaall RReessoouurrcceess??
1. Save time! Spend less time creating content – especially
graphics (Don’t recreate the wheel).
2. Explore new ways of teaching a topic or provide new
approaches (more support for learning styles)
3. Sharing OER content contributes to scholarship as a whole
but can also help elevate your scholarly reputation (and
help your career).
4. Engage in a global community of sharing and using
educational resources (and increase your network of
colleagues).
5. Learn. Continue your own professional development

11. WWaayyss ttoo uussee OOEERR
Include OER content when feasible.
Develop case study OER with students and release them.
Offer a range of learning materials to students for the same content
Encourage your students to search for OER materials to support their
own learning. (You never know, they might find something you can
use next year!)
Embed the use of OER as part of your module/course review process.

12. IInntteelllleeccttuuaall PPrrooppeerrttyy RRiigghhttss ((IIPPRR))
Intellectual property rights includes all types of licensing and
copyright. In terms of digital products, we often become
aware of IPR with DRM (Digital Rights Management)
especially with digital music or ebooks. Digital Rights
Management is special licensing code (metadata) attached
to a file. It says that you have the legal right to access a
particular file.

13. Intellectual PPrrooppeerrttyy RRiigghhttss ((IIPPRR))
This resource was created by the University of Plymouth, Learning from WOeRK
project. The project is funded by HEFCE as part of the HEA/JISC OER release
programme.
This resource is licensed under the terms of the Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share
Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales license (
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/).
The resource, where specified below, contains other 3rd party materials under their
own licenses. The licenses and attributions are outlined below:
1. These contents are based on , A staff guide to Open Educational Resources, developed by the
Unicycle project, based at Leeds Metropolitan University
•The name of the University of Plymouth and its logos are unregistered trade marks of
the University. The University reserves all rights to these items beyond their inclusion
in these CC resources.
•The JISC logo, the and the logo of the Higher Education Academy are licensed under
the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution -non-commercial-No Derivative Works
2.0 UK England & Wales license. All reproductions must comply with the terms of that
license.
©University of Plymouth, 2010, some rights reserved

14. FAIR USE – a copyright exemption
In US copyright law, a doctrine that brief excerpts of
copyright material may, under certain circumstances,
be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism,
news reporting, teaching, and research, without
the need for permission from or payment to the
copyright holder.
Examples of fair use include commentary, search
engines, criticism, parody, news reporting, research,
teaching, library archiving and scholarship. It provides
for the legal, unlicensed citation or incorporation of
copyrighted material in another author's work under a
four-factor balancing act (wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use)

15. PUBLIC DOMAIN - not copyright
Public domain is unrestricted access – essentially either the
copyright expired, is not copyrightable (ideas, facts, etc.),
is assigned public domain by its creator.
these are generally public domain:
•all works published in the U.S. before 1923
•all works published with a copyright notice from 1923
through 1963 without copyright renewal
•all works published without a copyright notice from
1923 through 1977
•all works published without a copyright notice from
1978 through March 1, 1989, and without subsequent
registration within 5 years
•the default term is life of the author plus 70 years

16. http://www.unc.edu/~

17. CREATIVE COMMONS – an easier way to assign copyright
CC = Creative
Commons BY
(what kind of
license)
Attribution – Credit
ND= Unchanged, can not be altered
NC = Noncommercial
SA= Sharealike = you must reshare it under
its original license

18. CREATIVE COMMONS – an easier way to assign copyright
Attribution – Credit
ND= Unchanged, can not be altered
NC = Noncommercial
SA= Sharealike = you must reshare it under
its original license
CC All rights reserved = entirely copyright,
you can not use it without explicit
permission

19. FFiinnddiinngg OOEERR –– IImmaaggeess
• Google Image Search
• Flickr
• Public domain resources

20. Searching in Flickr by rights – Advanced search
https://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/

21. Searching in Flickr by rights – Advanced search

22. Searching in Flickr by rights using basic search
Search first, and filter

23. Google Images
• Search and filter
Or use advanced search

24. Google Images Advanced

25. Other places to find images
Other sources
Smithsonian Institution Public Domain Images
New York Times Public Domain Archives
Project Gutenberg, a collection of public domain electronic books
Librivox, public domain audio books
Prelinger Archives; a vast collection of advertising, educational, industrial,
and amateur films

26. Internet Archive
Public Domain
Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)
Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa)
Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc)
Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd)
Attribution Share Alike (by-sa) Attribution (by)

27. Open Education Resources - The Khan Academy

28. Aggregating content: OER Commons

29. Resources
• Open Educational Resources open4us.org/
• Merlot http://www.merlot.org/
• NTER https://www.nterlearning.org/
• Wiselearn http://wiselearn.dpi.wi.gov/wi-digital-learning-open-education-resources
• College Open Textbooks http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
• Orange Grove http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/home.do
• GALILEO / Affordable Learning / GA Textbooks http://www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org/
• OER Commons https://www.oercommons.org/
• Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/
• Open Yalehttp://oyc.yale.edu/
• North Carolina LOR http://www.nclor.org/nclorprod/access/home.do
• Washington k-12 but may be of interest for Sci/English/Math skills
• https://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer/library/
• https://www.oercommons.org/
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