These slides are used in an online workshop for an EC project where the consortium asked for an introduction to OER.

1. Open Educational Resources
- Introduction
Dr. Sandra Schön (Salzburg Research, AT)

2. Agenda
• Copyright and education
• OER definition and warm-up
• Examples for OER
• Open licenses of OER and examples of
usage
• How to license your ER
• Potential impact
• Important for an EC project

3. Three questions

4. Three questions
answers by

11. OER Definition (UNESCO)
„Open Educational Resources (OERs) are
any type of educational materials that are
in the public domain or introduced with an
open license.“
UNESCO – see http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-
knowledge/open-educational-resources/what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/

12. OER types

13. Open/Free licenses
e.g. by Creative Commons
Free usage, modifica0on, a2ribu0on (BY)
of copyright owner and license.
Free usage, modifica0on, a2ribu0on
of copyright owner and license (BY), re-publishing
under the same license („share alike“, SA)
Free usage without any further contraints –
see „Public Domain“
Mehr dazu: h2p://de.crea0ve.commons.org

14. OER is a solution for
restrictments of copyright
regulations

15. OER is also a solution for other
challenges as well

16. OER is also a solution for
other challenges as well, for example
• Up-date of materials through others
• Usage through others (impact)
• Clear framework for co-operation and
later usage of materials
• Possibilty to cooperate and make
something together

17. Popular OER initiatives

18. Wikipedia Wikipedia
http://de.wikipedia.org/

19. Wikiversity wikiversity
http://de.wikiversity.org

20. Wikibooks
http://de.wikibooks.org/
WikiBooks

21. OER licenses

22. Creative Commons
• Is not the only the provider of licenses
• CC is the most popular for texts, videos
and pictures
• There is a set of diverse Creative Commons
licenses, not all are open/free license

23. Three levels of license
Illustra0on: Drei-Schichten-Modells: CC BY 4.0 Interna0onal
Crea0ve Commons - h2ps://crea0vecommons.org/licenses/?lang=de
For lawyers
For machines / robots
Short version for
„normal people“)

24. As „Public Domain“ in the USA

25. Example: kindOERgarten.de and
how you can use the materials
http://kindOERgarten.de

26. Free usage, modification, attribution
of copyright owner and license (BY)

27. Example: Video of
COER17 used by others
Source: CC BY 4.0 Martin Ebner and Sandra Schön for iMooX.at

28. Free usage, modification, attribution
of copyright owner and license (BY), re-
publishing under the same license („share
alike“, SA)

29. Example: Modified Wikipedia Screenshot
composition with sketch available under CC BY SA 3.0 Sandra Schön - using a
Screenshot of Wikipedia in the background, original screenshot available under
http://wikipedia.de, licensed under CC BY SA 3.0, see
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode

30. There are also other options within
Creative Commons
No Derivation (ND) Non Commercial (NC)

31. There are also other options within
Creative Commons
No Derivation (ND)´ Non Commercial (NC)
Both are
not compliant
to OER !

32. Licensing educational
resources

33. All screenshots: CC BY 4.0 Interna0onal
Crea0ve Commons –
h2ps://crea0vecommons.org/choose/
Choosing a license

34. Potential impact

35. OER ermöglicht große Verbreitung
und Nutzung
CC 0 Quelle:
h*ps://pixabay.com/de/comic-cartoon-frau-zeigt-tshirt-192959/

36. OER ermöglicht große Verbreitung
und Nutzung
Quelle: h2p://ascenicroute.com/about/
Quelle:
h*p://www.centerforinnersciences.org/members-speak/how-to-be-
simple /
Quelle: via: h*p://www.fao.org/3/a-i4768e.pdf /

37. What is important for
an (EC) project?

38. Important
• All authors/originators/creators have to
agree to an open license and of the way of
attribution
• All used materials should be made by your
team or is public domain / OER with fitting
licenses
• Best way to start with is the proposal /
project description and/or the consortium
agreement

39. Contact
Dr. Sandra Schön
Salzburg Research mbH
sandra.schoen@salzburgresearch.at

40. Add-On
Re-Mixing resources

41. Combinations of materials
License of result/
compilation
License of source