Using and developing OER

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Using and Developing Open Educational Resources

Pete Cannell

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Agenda• Being clear on the various versions of Creative Commons

(CC) licences• Obtaining the wording for a CC licence and attaching to a

resource• Raising your profile by distributing your CC materials for

highest impact• Ensuring that you can continue to access any materials you

produce• Monitoring usage of CC materials• Reducing workload by knowing:

•where to access CC resources and what can be done with these resources under the various licences•how to modify CC resources and redistributing

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The Project• Opening Educational

Practices in Scotland is a three year project led by the Open University in Scotland but involving all of the higher education sector.

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Introductions

Source: Pete Cannell with permission

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Thinking about Open: activity

acreelman.blogspot.com

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The 5Rs of openness • Retain – the right to make, own, and control copies of the

content• Reuse – the right 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 – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)

• Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new

• Redistribute – the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others

David Wiley http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221

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Why open? Activity• What do you perceive as the opportunities?• What are the challenges?

123freevectors.com commons.wikimedia.org

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Why open?• “Maintaining & building on institutional reputation globally;• Attracting new staff and students to institution – recruitment tool

for students and prospective employer partners;• Increased transparency and quality of learning materials;• Shares expertise efficiently within institutions;• Encourages high quality learning & teaching resources;• Supports modular course development;• Supports the altruistic notion that sharing knowledge is in line with

academic traditions and a good thing to do; • Likely to encourage review of curriculum, pedagogy and

assessment• Enhancing connections with external stakeholders by making

resources visible.” http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/265/2/goodintentionsbusinesscases.pdf, pp13-14

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Source: Finding and Using Open Educational Resources (OER): Implementing the Creative Commons CC BY License (slide 4) by Paul Stacey and Hal Plotkin, CC BY 4.0.

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What license?• Choose a license

• https://creativecommons.org/choose/

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Where can I find OER?• Slideshare• Google• YouTube• Wikipedia• Flickr• OpenLearn• Open Textbooks• Glasgow Caledonian• Edinburgh University• MIT Open Courseware

On many of these sites CC isn’t default but you can opt for CC

Search engines• CC Search -

http://search.creativecommons.org• Solvonauts - http://solvonauts.org• OEPS Hub – www.oeps.ac.uk

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Where can I find OER?

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Where can I find OER?

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Attribution

https://www.flickr.com/photos/123856341@N08/galleries/72157644783231073/

A quick and easy way to remember what information you need to include when reusing resources is by remembering an acronym: TASL. This stands for T(itle), A(uthor), S(ource), L(icense). TASL tells you what you need to include to ensure that you are appropriately acknowledging the source of the OER that you are using.

“Pink rose birthday cake” by Rexness is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

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Challenges revisited• Thinking about scenarios where you want to use

‘found’ materialCopyright, Fair Use, Creative Commons

en.wikipedia.org

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Open Educational Practice• Using OER puts a premium on good pedagogy

• Understand your ‘audience’• Select and curate• Think about how OER will be used – users,

context, links to other resources, support, rationale, links to assessment

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Making and Sharing: Activity• Which of these motivations and “barriers”, if any, resonate with

your experiences and thoughts about remixing OER? • What might motivate you to share material you have created? • What challenges might you, or have you, faced? • How could you, or did you, overcome these? • Who could you ask for help or advice? • Could these challenges be addressed at the time of creating the

resource? • What kinds of information do you think it would be useful to

include with a resource?• What challenges or concerns do you have about releasing your

own material? • How could you mitigate/address these?

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Making and sharingHow open?What formats? Accessibility? Devices?Audience?

Where?Humbox (Humanities materials); OpenLearn Works; Open Library of the Humanities.

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Table showing which license types can be remixed with each other from Frequently Asked Questions by Creative Commons and licensed CC BY 4.0

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OpenLearn Works• www.open.edu/openlearnworks

Will be relaunched asOpenLearn Create

• This is a public site provided by the Open University where other organisations can host OER. It is currently being upgraded to include a new authoring tool. OEPS is working with a number of partner organisations to develop new material on the site. screenshot from www.open.edu/openlearnworks

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OEPS Course – coming soon• Resource rich course which

covers the agenda of this workshop

• Currently in final stages of editing

• It will be form part of the OEPS community on www.oeps.ac.uk but will be hosted on OpenLearn Works

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Contact Us:Email:[email protected]

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