Understanding OER and CC Licenses

1. Dr. Indira Koneru
eLearning Department
IBS India
E-mail: indkon@gmail.com
Indira.Koneru@ibsindia.org
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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3. Agenda
• Understanding OER & CC Licenses
• Exploring various OER
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4. Open Educational Resources (OER)
• “Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research
materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released
under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.”
(Hewlett Foundation)
• Technology-enabled, open provision of educational resources for consultation,
use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes
(UNESCO, 2002).
• “OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming
videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to
support access to knowledge” (Hewlett Foundation)
• Teaching-learning and research materials released with an open license to permit
reuse and repurpose in whole or in part
• Core of OER is how a resource is licensed for use, rather than the format of the
resource itself
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5. Creative Commons (CC) License
• Creative Commons founded by Lary Lessig et al. in 2001
• Provides easy-to-use open licenses for creative works
• Provide simple and flexible licenses
• Some Rights Reserved - authors reserve some rights & grant share,
use, repurpose permissions
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6. CC Licences
Four Basic Components Key Licenses
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All CC licenses require that users provide attribution (BY) to the creator

7. Most Open to Least Open CC Licence
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Creative Commons offers a core suite of six open licenses
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• CC BY Attribution – reuse, distribute, remix, repurpose even commercially,
provide appropriate credit
• CC BY-SA Attribution-Share Alike - reuse, distribute, remix, repurpose even
commercially, provide appropriate credit, but distribute your creation under the
same license
• CC BY-ND Attribution-NoDerivs - reuse, distribute even commercially, not to
modify material, provide appropriate credit
• CC BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial - reuse, distribute non-commercially,
provide appropriate credit
• CC BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike – reuse, distribute non-
commercially, under the same license, provide appropriate credit
• CC BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs - reuse, distribute non-
commercially, not to modify material, provide appropriate credit

8. Adapter's license chart
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Source: Creative Commons FAQ

9. CC Ported vs. Global License
• CC 3.0 earlier versions ported licenses are limited to local jurisdictions
• CC 4.0 licenses are ready-to-use around the world, without porting
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Facilitating online: A course leader’s
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Tony Carr, Shaheeda Jaffer and
Jeanne Smuts
2009
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10. 1 Billion Creative Commons Works
Source: https://blog.creativecommons.org
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11. How to attribute a CC Licensed Work!
• Use the acronym TASL
• Title – Copy the title of the work to be adopted
• Author – Copy author’s name and web page link, if available
• Source - Hyperlink the title to the original source / institution
• License – Copy the CC license name and hyperlink to the CC license deed page
• Flickr Image
• Navigate to https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
• Find a CC-Licensed image
• Click the CC Licence icon
• Copy the Creative Commons license deed & URL
• Copy the title and author name
• Copy the URL of the image and author’s page
• Open textbook
• Navigate to https://www.openstaxcollege.org/
• Click the ‘Faculty link’
• Click on the textbook
• Copy the License information
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12. OER Key Developments
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• Learning Object (Hodgins, 1994)
• Technical Standards (IMS, LOM, SCORM, 1995)
• Open Content (David Wiley, 1998)
• Creative Commons (Larry Lessig, 2001)
• MIT OCW (2001)
• UNESCO Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher
Education in Developing Countries (2002) – OER defined
• Open Courseware Consortium (2005)
• Open Learn (OU, 2006)
• COL and UNESCO guidelines on OER in HE (2011)
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13. 5 Rs of Open Content
Reuse - to use
the content in a
wide range of
ways (e.g., in a
class, in a study
group, on a
website, in a
video)
Revise - adapt,
adjust, modify, or
alter the content
itself (e.g.,
translate the
content into
another
language)
Remix - combine
the original or
revised content
with other OER
to create
something new
(e.g., incorporate
the content into
a mashup)
Redistribute -
share copies of
the original
content, your
revisions, or your
remixes with
others (e.g., give
a copy of the
content to a
friend)
Retain - make,
own, and control
copies of the
content (e.g.,
download,
duplicate, store,
and manage)
03/12/2016 13Source: http://www.opencontent.org/definition/

14. How can we use OER?
Use OER to:
• enhance an existing course or offering by adding OER
• improve existing materials by replacing it with OER
• create new part of materials by using or re-purposing OER
• create new courses by using, re-using and repurposing OER
• assign OER-based learning activities to students
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15. Why OER?
• Increase access to quality education
• Save costs for students
• Eliminate duplication of effort & reduce faculty learning content
development time
• Adaptation and repurposing build capacity (technology-enabled
teaching-learning) among educators
• Update and revise whenever required
• Promote collaborative teaching-learning practices
• Enhance institution’s and faculty reputation
• Social responsibility (individual or organization) – “quality education
for all”
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16. OpenStax saved students $77 million in 2016
• OpenStax textbooks:
• peer-reviewed
textbooks
• in use in 2,500 courses
• uses philanthropic
grants to produce high-
quality textbooks
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Source: http://news.rice.edu

17. Sources of OER
• Open Education Consortium
• OER Consortium
• OER Commons
• OpenStax College
• Open Textbooks, BC Campus
• Saylor
• Open Textbook Library University of
Minnesota
• Open Textbooks SUNY
• Open Access Textbooks
• MERLOT
• Open.Michigan
• University of Edinburgh
• MIT OCW
• John Hopkins OCW
• Tufts OCW
• OER Arcia
• COL DOER
• Open Education Europa
• Open Learn , UK OU
• CMU OLI
• MOOC
• Yale Open Courses
• DOAB
• DOAJ
• Flickr Images
• NPTEL
• NROER
• Spoken Tutorial, IITB
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18. Open Education Initiatives in India
• NPTEL National Programme on
Technology Enhanced Learning (7 IITs &
IISc)
• Virtual Labs - remote-access to Labs in
Science & Engineering
• IIT Bombay
• ET Research Resources
• Teaching Resources
• Spoken Tutorial – learn FOSS (Free and
Open Source Software) CC BY-SA 4.0
• ePathshala – (MHRD & NME-ICT) e-
content in 71 subjects at PG level)
• MOOC
• NPTEL - seven IITs and IISc
• IITBombayX
• Partners
• IIMBx
• ISB
• SWAYAM
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19. Open Textbooks
• OpenStax (Rice University)
• BC Open Textbooks
• CK-12 FlexBook® textbooks: open source digital textbooks
• University of Minnesota Open Textbooks
• College Open Textbooks: not a content provider, provides links to
open textbooks
• Open SUNY Textbooks: State University of New York libraries
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20. Open Courseware
• MIT OCW
• John Hopkins OCW
• Tufts OCW
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21. Open Online Courses
• Open Learn , UK OU
• CMU OLI
• Open Course Library
• Saylor Academy
• Yale Open Courses
• NPTEL Online Courses
• OERu
• MOOC (edX, FutureLearn,
Coursera, Canvas, Udacity, NovoEd,
Moodle etc.)
• Moodle.net: free content and
courses shared by Moodle users
with CC BY 4.0 License
• courses you can download and use
• courses you can enrol in and
participate
• ATEP CC BY 4.0 License
• ATEP - Biotechnology Module A
• ATEP - Biotechnology Module B
• Guest access / download and restore
on your Moodle
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22. Publish Your Course on
• To publish your course on Moodle.net,
your site needs to be registered with
moodle.org
• Course Administration > Publish
• Advertise this course for people to join
• Share this course for people to download
• Select hub – Moodle.net
• Upload to this course to hub
• Provide course publication
information – Name, URL, short name,
description, language, publisher name
& e-mail, creator, other contributors,
tags, license, subject, audience,
educational level, creator notes etc.
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To be approved by the hub administrator before it
appears in the course listing

23. Creating & Sharing OER
• Share your own content as OER
• Create content on MS Word /
PPT
• Add tags
• Add Creative Commons license
• CC License Chooser
• Publish content on external
platforms Or
• Upload file to Moodle
• Choose a CC license (file picker)
• Add CC license with button and
link to license deed in the
description box
• Display description on the
course page
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24. Open Education Week, March 27-31, 2017
• Raise awareness
• Host a local event / webinar
• Submit a video about your open
education work
• Tweet highlights / benefits of
open education
(#openeducationwk)
• Submit your event by filling out
the short form by February 28th,
2017
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