Authoring and sharing open educational resources

Hans PõldojaTallinn University

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Outline

• Open Educational Resources: the concept, examples, lessons learned

• Authoring digital learning resources with simple online tools

• Adding metadata to learning objects

What are OER’s?

Open Educational Resources (OER) are digital materials that can be re-used for teaching, learning, research and more, made available free through open licenses, which allow uses of the materials that would not be easily permitted under copyright alone.

(Wikipedia, 2012)

Copyright(and why it doesn’t

work)

What is protected by copyright?

• Literary works

• Musical works, including any accompanying words

• Dramatic works, including any accompanying music

• Pantomimes and choreographic works

• Pictorial, graphic and sculptural works

• Motion pictures and other audiovisual works

• Sound recordings

• Architectural works

• Computer software

What is not under copyright?

• Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression (not written or recorded)

• Facts

• Ideas, principles and concepts

• Works for which copyright has expired

Duration of copyright

• Copyright protection starts from the time the work is created in a fixed form

• Copyright protection lasts authors’ lifetime and 70 years after death

Economic rights

• Reproduction

• Distribution

• Rental

• Broadcasting

• Public performance

• ...

• Attribution

• Anonymous or pseudonymous publishing

• Integrity of the work

• Withdrawal

• ...

Moral rights

Limitations

EU Copyright Directive lists a number of limitations that can be applied by the member states, including:

• Reproductions by public libraries, educational institutions or archives for non-commercial use;

• Use for illustration for teaching or scientific research, to the extent justified by the non-commercial purpose;

• Communication of works to the public within the premises of public libraries, educational institutions, museums or archives

(Directive 2001/29/EC)

Problems in the context of digital learning resources

• What extent of educational reuse is justified by the non-commercial purpose?

• Translation and modification of the work requires agreement from the author

Open Content Licences

http://creativecommons.org

Creative Commons licenses

• Attribution (CC BY)

• Attribution-Share Alike (CC BY-SA)

• Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND)

• Attribution-Noncommercial (CC BY-NC)

• Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)

• Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

License conditions

bAttribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor

aShare Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one

nNoncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes

dNo Derivative Works — You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work

Rights

sShare — to copy, distribute and transmit the work

r Remix — to adapt the work

Three “Layers” of licenses

(Creative Commons, 2012)

How to recognize CC licensed works?

Marking licenses

• If no license information is included with the work, then users must assume that all rights are reserved

• Title of the license, icon and link are added to openly licensed content

Creative Commons icons

OER initiatives

http://ocw.mit.edu

http://www.ocwconsortium.org

http://www.curriki.org

http://www.khanacademy.org

http://cnx.org

http://wikieducator.org

http://en.wikibooks.org

http://en.wikiversity.org

http://lemill.net

http://www.oercommons.org

http://lreforschools.eun.org

Task 1

Choose one of the OER initiatives and search for learning resources in your subject or area of interest.

OER Initiatives

• http://ocw.mit.edu• http://ocwconsortium.org• http://www.curriki.org• http://www.khanacademy.org• http://cnx.org• http://lemill.net• http://www.oercommons.org• http://lreforschools.eun.org

Learning resource authoring tools

http://lemill.net

http://exelearning.org

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/toolkits.htm

http://www.myudutu.com

http://wordpress.com

What to choose?

Learning resource authoring tool(eg. LeMill, eXe, ...)

vs

Generic content management system(eg. WordPress, ...)

Demo:

http://lemill.net

Open content

http://commons.wikimedia.org

Demo:

http://commons.wikimedia.org

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

Demo:

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

Embedding

Embedding external content

• Movies: YouTube, Vimeo, Khan Academy

• Presentations: SlideShare, Google Docs

• Mind maps: Spicynodes

• Timelines: TimeRime

• Maps: Google Maps

• Exercises: Quizlet

Embedding from

Embedding to

http://lemill.net

Metadata

(Hermann, 2002)

http://www.curriki.org

Tagging

References

• Directive 2001/29/EC, http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32001L0029:EN:HTML

• Hermann, T. (2002). Overview of LOM Draft 6.4. http://www.sreb.org/programs/EdTech/SCORE/SCORE_Users_Guide.pdf

• Wikipedia (2012). Open educational resources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources

Photos

• Adrian Nier, http://www.flickr.com/photos/adriannier/5604256326/

• Hamed Saber, http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamed/389212454/

• epSos .de, http://www.flickr.com/photos/epsos/5394616925/

• Laineys Repertoire, http://www.flickr.com/photos/76283671@N00/142605716/

• David Fulmer, http://www.flickr.com/photos/annarbor/4349879701/

Thank You!

Hans Põldoja

Researcher

Tallinn University, Estonia

hans.poldoja@tlu.ee

http://www.hanspoldoja.net

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