Presented at the Educational Design and Engagement fair at King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh. December 10th 2015

1. Open Resources for Open
Presentations
Stuart Nicol
Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

2. Welcome
Aims for today
1) Know more about OER when you leave than
when you came in
2) Create a fully attributable, shareable artifact

3. https://youtu.be/p6p5FEt9
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https://youtu.be/da3vQ1Wr4FA?t=52s

4. Some definitions
• Intellectual property rights (IPR) are the rights given to
persons over the creations of their minds (usually for a set
period of time).
• Copyright is an area of IPR that covers the rights of authors
of creative works.
• A license is the permission, or authorisation, to re-use a
copyrighted work.
• A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several open
licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise
copyrighted work.
• By applying an open license to a copyrighted work, rights
holders give permission for others to copy or change their
work in ways that would otherwise infringe copyright law.

5. What is an OER?
An OER is a freely available and openly licensed digital
resource.
“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside
in the public domain or have been released under an
intellectual property license that permits their free use and 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”
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

6. What an OER is not?
Open Access and Open Data
• Open Access refers to publications released under an open license
(e.g. open access journals).
• Open Data refers to data that is freely available to use and republish.
• OER specifically refers to using materials for teaching & learning
released under an open license.
Materials without stated copyright or open reuse license
Materials available on the web without explicit copyright statement or
open license shouldn’t be considered OERs.
• The absence of a copyright statement does not necessarily mean
that the material is free to use or adapt.
• OERs should always display a license containing the terms of reuse.

7. Creative Commons licenses

8. Edinburgh's OER vision
1. For the common good: Teaching and learning
materials exchange to enrich the University and the
sector;
2. Edinburgh at its best: Showcasing openly the highest
quality learning and teaching;
3. Edinburgh’s treasures: Making available online a
significant collection of unique learning materials
available openly to Scotland, the UK and the world,
promoting health and economic and cultural well-
being.

9. What our guidelines say
OER aligns with the University’s mission
“Use, creation, and publication of OERs is consistent with the
University’s reputation, values and mission to ‘Make a significant,
sustainable and socially responsible contribution to Scotland, the
UK and the world, promoting health and economic and cultural
wellbeing.’”
Everyday teaching & learning material exchange
“It is expected that OERs used, created or published by individual
staff and students will normally be single units or small collections
[...] rather than whole courses.”

10. Our support for OER
• OER support service: centrally support service.
– Advice / staff and student training sessions /
awareness raising
• Open.Ed website
– Showcasing Edinburgh’s OERs / how-to guides /
news and information. In the future will also
include sharing & searching tools.
– open.ed.ac.uk (launch January 2016)

12. Aim: Create an ‘infographic’ from open resources
Focusing on:
• Where to source openly
licensed resources
• How to attribute Creative
Commons licensed
materials
• Signpost where and how
to share and license your
work
http://piktochart.com

13. Activity 1: What is your strategic vision in one
sentence and 3 key words (10 mins)
By AIGA [Public domain], via Wikimedia
On the theme of:
“Using the digital to
capture the
international”

14. Activity 2: Search for 3 suitable images
that visually support your message

15. A good rule of thumb is to use the acronym TASL,
which stands for Title, Author, Source, License:
• Title - What is the name of the material?
• Author - Who owns the material?
• Source - Where can I find it?
• License - How can I use it?
• Lastly, is there anything else I should know before
I use it?
What attribution information do I need?

16. It’s a good idea to keep track of attribution
information as you go (and keep it if possible).
But is that enough information?
Keep track of resources resources you
use
Attributing Creative Commons Materials by ccAustralia & CCI ARC, licensed under CC BY 2.5

17. Search for images (15 mins)
CC Search provides a useful ‘meta-search’ over a
number of media platforms:
http://search.creativecommons.org/

18. Activity 3: Create
team infographic
panel (10 mins)
with image
attribution applied
http://piktochart.com

19. Make sure you get the attribution right
The Creative Commons Wiki provides detailed information on
how to correctly attribute resources in a number of contexts:
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Best_practices_for_attribution
Good: "Creative Commons 10th Birthday
Celebration San Francisco" by tvol is
licensed under CC BY 4.0
Average: Photo by tvol / CC BY
Incorrect: Photo: Creative Commons

20. The license tells you to be reasonable:
“You may satisfy the conditions in (1) and (2) above in any reasonable
manner based on the medium, means and context in which the
Licensed Material is used. For example, it may be reasonable to satisfy
some or all of the conditions by retaining a copyright notice, or by
providing a URI or hyperlink associated with the Licensed Material, if
the copyright notice or webpage includes some or all of the required
information.”
There is no one right way; just make sure your attribution is
reasonable and suited to the medium you're working with. That being
said, you still have to include attribution requirements somehow, even
if it's just a link to an About page that has that info.
Don't make it too complicated
Best practices for attribution by Creative Commons, licensed under CC BY 4.0

21. Attributing Creative Commons Materials by ccAustralia & CCI ARC, licensed under CC BY 2.5

22. Powerpoint templates
Team Link
1 http://edin.ac/1LCGocB
2 http://bit.ly/1ijesQC
3 http://edin.ac/1LCGwZN
4 http://bit.ly/1kT5qeV
5 http://edin.ac/1LCGBfW

23. Share &
feedback

24. Sharing OERs
• Ensure that the material is your own work, or contains only openly
licensed work shared under the agreed terms. The copyright service will
be able to help if you are unsure about copyright issues
(copyright@ed.ac.uk)
• Choose the most appropriate license for your material. The Creative
Commons website license chooser is a useful tool for choosing &
generating the license text and image:
http://creativecommons.org/choose/. Some platforms allow you to
choose and generate a license in the upload workflow (Flickr, YouTube,
Vimeo, etc.).
• University of Edinburgh should be stated as the licensor so that the
resource can be correctly attributed:
© The University of Edinburgh.

25. Where should I share my OER?
There are several options for sharing your OER
depending on subject area and target audience.

26. OER
Repository
JORUM
MERLOT
Xpert
OERCommons
TESConnect
Social Media
Youtube
Flicker
iTunesU
Slideshare
SoundCloud
OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare
OpenLearn
TU Delft OCW

27. Examples: SlideShare & Flickr
Many platforms incorporate CC licensing
options. SlideShare & Flickr both allow you to
apply a default license across an account or
change for each uploaded resource.
• http://edin.ac/1J7bWpq
• http://edin.ac/1KbBdAl