OCW, OER and Open Content Licensing

Open Education

Stephanie Verbeken@stephanie_vrbkn

Teaching & Learning Dept.KU Leuven

Presentation OER & OCW by Stephanie Verbeken is licensed under

a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium License.

Content

<1> Introduction <\1>

<2> Open Education / Opencourseware <\2>

<3> Copyrights & Licensing in Open Content <\3>

<4> Opencourseware @ KU Leuven <\4>

Introduction1

Who am I? • Instructional Designer @ KU Leuven

• Project assistant in the Educational Project "OpenCourseWare KU Leuven"

• Interests:• open learning and opencourseware

• open educational resources

• distance learning

• open content licensing

• teacher trainings

• Contact:• [email protected]

• @stephanie_vrbkn

• Slides will be provided to you at http://www.slideshare.net/stephanieverbeken

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Or... bias?

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Open EducationOpenCourseWare

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What is OpenCourseWare?

What is OpenCourseWare?

What is OpenCourseWare?

What is OpenCourseWare?

What is OpenCourseWare?

• Free– as in 'free beer'– as in 'freedom':

• REUSE: copy• REDISTRIBUTE: share

with others• REVISE: edit and adapt • REMIX: develop new

combinations

• Digital (online)• Accessible to anyone• Interdisciplinary use• Quality criterium

(social control)

Willem Van Valkenburg http://www.e-learn.nl/

What is OpenCourseWare?

OCW OER Open content

Open AccessWikimedia

OpenOfficeOpenSource

WikipediaSlideshare

YoutubeFlickr

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TextStatic images

Dynamic images VideoSound

Scientific ArticlesTables, graphs,

spreadsheet...

Open Courses

1Willem Van Valkenburg http://www.e-learn.nl/

OpenCourseWare Open Educational Resources

What is OpenCourseWare?"A course is package of educational materials starting a particular point in the

knowledge spectrum, designed to lead to greater understanding of the issue or topic"Willem Van Valkenburg http://www.e-learn.nl/

ENCYCLOPEDIA

searching for inform

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acquire knowledge

COURSESorganised wholes

processing knowledgefrom A to B

-seal:study guides to guide

course takers: how to get from A to B?OER

OCW

What is OpenCourseWare?

• could be an original sourse (or course)• because of the 'sharing character' of OER and

OCW– translation– combination of several courses (whether they are

orginal or not)– etc...

cfr. 4R's11David Wiley http://slideshare.net/opencontent

Overview of the most important players in the 'Open Education Market'

• OpenCourseWare Consortium

• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: $ !

• Massive Open Online Courses: aims large-scale participation

• OER Commons: knowledge base for use and development of OERs

• Learning Object Repositories: digital library for OERs

• Open Access (scientific articles)

• Directory of Open Journals (doaj)

• EdX (MIT/Harvard/Berkeley)

• Coursera

• Kahn Academy

Why be Open in education?

A lot (and good ) arguments:

• technical argument

• political argument

• economical argument

• evolutionary argument

• educational argument

By the way...

Something is in it for you...

Technical argument

Education and sharing can't be without one another!

knowledge, experiences, feedback, knowhow, criticism,

insights, respect, engagement,...

papers, practice examples, insights, criticism, respect, answers to questions, engagement,... (and sometimes hard questions)

Education = magic! one can share something without losing it.

David Wiley http://slideshare.net/opencontent

• Why should someone have to pay to get education!?

Open Access! Open publishing! Open courses!

Why Open Education matters.

David Wiley http://slideshare.net/opencontent

Political argument

• Will editors' businesses crash?– Research1 shows evidence that in many cases the

sale of books increases when an online version is offered open (and for free)

• Exposure – organisational level– individual level

1Hilton, J., Wiley, D. (2010). The short-term influence of free digital versions of books on print sales. Journal of Electronic Publishing, 13(1)

Economical argument

• Receiving feedback benefits for your own students

• Enhance innovation and creativity• 4R's of Openness

– reuse = copy– redistribute = sharing– revise = edit & adapt– remix = combine with other resources

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David Wiley http://slideshare.net/opencontent

evolutionary argument

• Presence in educational world... and way beyond

Educational argument

Over 260 institutions and organizations worldwide supporting open sharing in education!

• Presence in education world... and way beyond• (Re)orient students• Own students: stumble courses• Flipped classroom• ...

Educational argument

What's in it for you?

• OCW as a user• OCW as a content provider

– Be part of the Open Community– Exposure / Networking– Educational advantages

Copyrights & Open Licensing 3

Yeah... but... Opening up courses sounds great, but what happens with the licensing of content?

Who receives credits for the courses I develop?

What with using Copyrighted materials...?

First of all... ... I'm not a lawyer.

Secondly There is a solution!

www.creativecommons.org

Creative Commons Licensing =

"A simple, standardizedway to grant copyright

permissions to your creative work."

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P.S.: Education = creative

Easy-to-use, standardized licenses and public domain tools that allow creators to

publish their works on more flexible terms than

standard copyright

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etadata<span xmlns:cc=“http://creativecommons.org/ns#” xmlns:dc=http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”>

<span rel="dc:type" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc:title">My Photo</span> by <a rel="cc:attributionURL" property="cc:attributionName" href="http://joi.ito.com/my_photo">Joi Ito</a> is licensed under a

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License</a>.

<span rel="dc:source" href="http://fredbenenson.com/photo/”>Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at <a rel="cc:morePermissions" href="http://ozmo.com/revenue_sharing_agreement">OZMO</a>.

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Examples of use of CCL

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CC BY licensed OER sites

• PhET Interactive Simulations• Connexions• OpenStax College• Curriki• Open Course Library• Saylor.org• OER Africa

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Case_Studies

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Want to know more? Open Course (using Moodle) on OERs, copyright and Creative Commons licensing

See:

http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/About

(3 - 14 December 2012)

Think about it... • If you would open your educational resources, which license would be suitable in your context?o micro context?o macro context?

• Why?

1. think about it individually

2. discussion in the group

OpenCourseWare @ KU Leuven

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What is OpenCourse-Ware to us at KU Leuven?

• Open Courses, freely accessible

• Include all educational resources that are part of a course:o course texts and other materialso lectures (weblectures)o study guideo selftestso coursespecific materials

• Using a Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-SA

• No accreditation or qualification (university)

Pilot Courses in the Educational Project

• 5 pilot courses o Out of 8000+ Blackboard

courseso Different characteristics when it

comes to • didactics• content• (especially) target groups

• Technical: Development of a website (Plone), including all educational resourceso contento learning process

PentalfaProfessionalisation for

Flemish physicians (LLL)Faculty of Medicine

Moral Philosophy

Bachelors courseFaculty of Philosopy

Web Literacy

Bachelors + Masters courseFaculty of ArtsFaculty of Psychology & Educational Sciences

Instructional psychology and Technology Bachelors course + used in

Teacher Education at KU LeuvenFaculty of Psychology & Educational Sciences

Technology for SocietyGeneral course for several

Bachelors and Masters studiesFaculty of Engineering Science

The five pilot courses

The learning process in OpenCourseWare

• Study guide provides all information about acquiring knowledge and competences in open courseo exercices with keyso selftest with keyso FAQso (discussion forum?)

• Study guide ≠ ECTS-form:o advice in learning processo links to other OERs and

interesting materials

OCW KU Leuven Showcase

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Other OCW providing websites

• www.coursera.org

• http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

• www.udacity.com

• http://ocw.tudelft.nl

• and so so many more...

@stephanie_vrbkn@ocw_kuleuven

Contact

stephanie.verbeken@

[email protected]