Derek France, Mike Sanders, Alison Stokes and Katharine Welsh

GEES Subject Centre

Fieldwork and technology NTF and the Open Fieldwork Project

30 June 2011

Aims for the Session

1. Fieldwork and technology NTF

2. Fieldwork and technology case studies

3. Fieldwork Education Resource Collection (FERC)

4. Making educational resources more open

Fieldwork and technology NTF

Open Fieldwork Project

Open Educational Resources (OER) Project funding from JISC / HEA

“Projects identifying, collecting and promoting collections of OER and other material around a common theme”

Fieldwork resources

1. Location-specific (e.g. virtual field trip)

2. Generic:a) Skills or techniques-based

b) General information or guidance (e.g. safety briefings, good practice guides)

http://www.openfieldwork.org.uk/api/

Explore the FERC!

Creative Commons

Can control whether:•Attribution should be given or not•Commercial use permitted or not•To allow derivatives to be made or not

The end user does not have to contact the owner

It is NON-TRANSACTIONAL

Creative Commons

http://creativecommons.org/

A way of licensing your material so that you keep copyright but allow other people to copy and distribute your work on the conditions you specify as long as they give you credit

Creative Commons

• Go to www.flickr.com/

• Search for “commercial jet”

• Pick an image and find the licence associated with it

• Can you find a way of only searching for images released under creative commons?

• When you have found an image can you find details of the CC licence it has been released under

Use of images in OER

• You’ve seen Flickr commons

• Have a look at the xpert attribution tool (you can Google “xpert attribution”):

• http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/attribution/

• Search for “earthquake” and see what is returned

Use of OS materials in OER

Available under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Unported licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ ). Sketch map from a resource created by Dr Gordon Clarke at Lancaster University. Sketch map based on Ordnance Survey map OL41 for the Forest of Bowland and Ribblesdale, scale 1:25,000 (ISBN 0319234703). The same attribution statement must be used if you reuse this image.

Author: Mike Sanders. Available under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ ). Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2011 which has been made available under the Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm). The same attribution statement must be used if you reuse this image and where possible a link back to the Open Government licence.

Look at this: Search for “os opendata” – then click “order” icon (bottom right)

Any final comments / thoughts / questions?