Slides of the webinar organised within the I-LINC project learning event 'First Steps for use of technology in the classroom – Towards Digital Citizenship and Inclusion'

1. This project was financed with the support of the European Commission. This publication is the sole responsibility of the author and
the Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
OER – Open Educational Resources
finding, reusing, sharing
Viola Pinzi, European Schoolnet, Brussels
eTwinning learning event, Open Source Education, 14/06/16

2. Content of this module
 Definition of OER
 Openness
 CC and licenses
 Selecting resources
 Use and adapt
 Share back

3. Content of this module
Question 1
Do you use OER or resources
created/shared by other teachers?
a. Rarely
b. Sometimes
c. Often
d. Almost every day

4. UNESCO’s Definition of OER
Definition of OER
- teaching, learning and research materials
in the public domain OR released under
an open license
- no-cost access
- possible to adapt and redistribute with no
or limited restrictions
UNESCO, 2012, Paris OER Declaration

5. Openess of the process: up or down?

6. Openess level: up or down?
Question 2
What is more open?
a. Reuse
b. Reuse and restribute only
c. The whole flow

7. Dimensions of openness David Wiley (2007):
Reusing
use the original content
Revising
adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself
Remixing
combine or revised with other content to create something new
Redistributing
make and share copies of the original content, your revisions, or
your remixes
Retaining
make, own, and control copies of the content

8. Getting Started - Are you CC savy?
Source: How To Attribute Creative Commons Photos - http://foter.com/blog/how-to-attribute-creative-commons-photos/ by Foter – CC BY-SA

9. Getting Started - Are you CC savy?
Question 3
Which is the most open license?
a.BY
b.BY-SA
c. BY-ND
d.BY-NC
e.BY-NC-SA
f. BY-NC-ND

10. Strategy 1
Use a dedicated CC search engine
For example
http://search.creativecommons.org/?lang=pl
Strategy 2
Use advanced search preferences in
search engines
For example Google
Strategy 3
Use one of the dedicated repositories
As proposed in the Task 2
Getting started - Finding and selecting
Source: screenshots
http://search.creativecommons.org, www.google.com, lreforschools.eun.org

11. Work with it – Using, revising and remixing
Tip
Keep track of your resources, attributions and of everything you do with them
What modifications are possible?
• ND > No Derivatives > only use as it is
• SA > Share Alike > derivative work allowed with same license
How?
• Analysis of the resource and your needs
• Context, content and methods (didactic aspects)
• Plan the use and potential modifications
• Attribution of the resource (TASL)
• Compile and remix materials from different sources

12. Share and republish – From OER to OEP
What is OEP?
• Open Educational Practices
• Everyday practice to mass initiatives
How?
• Portals to share materials
• Access to open textbooks
• Students assignment online
• Open access courses as MOOCs

13. Share and republish – Redistributing
Redistributing
share copies of the original
or modified content with others
How?
• Choose the channel
• Choose the right license for new resource
• Include a meaningful description (metadata)
• Include all the attribution (originals and yours)

14. Thank you!
Contact: Viola.pinzi@eun.org
Source
langoer.eun.org/resources
Going open with LangOER
• Handbook
• Open courses
Authors
Malgorzata Kurek, Anna Skowron
Jan Dlugosz University, Poland
All images used unless stated otherwise,
are taken from the Public Domain via Pixabay
(http://pixabay.com/)
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