1. Supporting information literacy and
study skills with Open Educational
Resources (OER)
Vivien Sieber & Miriam Tarron

2. Who has used OERs?

3. Open Education & OER
• MIT Open Courseware Initiative (OCI) (2002)
• Open Educational Resources UK
• JISC/HEA projects:
“What do we need to do to share and reuse
courseware?” 2009-10
• Open University
• Jorum (Repository)
• Dependent on CC licences

4. Advantages?

5. Advantages
• Sharing and reuse
• Reinventing the wheel
• E-learning expensive / costs
• Learn from others
• 24/7 online

6. Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/
• Nonprofit
• Increase sharing & collaboration
• 4 types of licence (6 combinations)
• Author retains copyright

8. Attribution allows
• Distribution
• Modify, remix, derivative works
• Commercial use
• Must give credit for the original creation
• Most accommodating of licenses

9. Attribution Share Alike
• Distribution
• Modify, remix, derivative works
• Commercial use
• Must give credit for the original creation
• Must use the same license as original on
derivative works (commercial allowed)

10. Attribution No Derivatives
• Distribution
• Commercial use
• Must give credit for the original creation
• No derivative works, must be passed
intact

11. Attribution Non-Commercial
• Distribution
• Modify, remix, derivative works
• No commercial use
• Must give credit for the original creation
• Must use the same license as original on
derivative works

12. Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
• Distribution
• Modify, remix, derivative works
• No commercial use
• Must give credit for the original creation
• Must use the same license as original on
derivative works i.e. Non-commercial

13. Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
• Distribution
• No modification, remix, derivative works
• No commercial use
• Must give credit for the original creation
• Must use the same license as original on
derivative works i.e. Non-commercial

15. CC - BY Creative Commons
Attribution
CC – BY - ND Creative Commons
Attribution
No Derivatives
CC – BY - SA Creative Commons
Attribution
Share Alike
CC – BY - NC Creative Commons
Attribution
NonCommercial
CC – BY – NC - SA Creative Commons
Attribution
NonCommercial
Share Alike
CC – BY – NC - ND Creative Commons
Attribution
NonCommercial
Share Alike
No Derivatives

16. • Choose and agree a search term

17. Live search or screen grab
http://www.jorum.ac.uk

18. Jorum

20. Web link

23. File download

24. Skills Portal
• Undergraduates
• Taught Masters
• Doctoral Students

25. Jorum
• Download
• Stylesheet
• Create index
• Convert from Word to HTML

27. © University of Leicester

28. ©University of Central Lancashire

29. © Open University

31. Evaluation?
• Criteria?
• Issues?
– Technical
– Pedagogy
– Practical

32. • Miriam's repurposed resource

33. Repositories
Repositor Connexion Jorum Learning Merlot OER
y s Resource Commons
Exchange for
schools
url http://cnx.org http://www.jorum.ac. http://lreforschools.eun.org/ http://www.merlot.org/me http://www.oercomm
uk web/guest/home rlot/index.htm ons.org/
Target Primary - Tertiary Further & Higher Schools, FE Primary - Tertiary Primary - Tertiary
education
Peer Review   
Community   blog  portal   wiki
Federated 
searching
Host country US UK Mimas European Schoolnet US US
Funding Hewitt Foundation. HEfCE/JISC European Union (EU) Institutional corporate Institute for the Study
Not for profit partnership of
Knowledge
Management in
Education (ISKME)
Hewitt Foundation
Institutional and
outreach partners
Construction tools Rhaptos Open Author
Licensing CC CC mixed CC/copyright CC

34. Depositing
• Institutional login

35. Advantages
• Time
• Quality
• Customize
- Replace institution branding
- Adjust assessments
- Add local instructions

36. What would you find useful for your teaching?
Where/How might you use it?
http://libweb.surrey.ac.uk/library/skills/learningskills.html

37. Plagiarism?
Presentation created by University of Birmingham and adapted for University of Surrey students.

38. Learning Outcomes
At the end of this session you should be
able to:
• Recall what is meant by plagiarism
• Consider different scenarios and judge in each case
whether or not they would be classed as plagiarism
• Consider different scenarios and judge in each case
whether or not a reference would be required

39. What is Plagiarism?
The University of Surrey ‘Regulations for Academic Integrity’ defines
plagiarism as:
•inserting words, concepts, or images from the work of someone else
into work submitted for assessment without acknowledging the
originator's contribution and
•representing the work of another as one's own, whether purchased or
not, or taken with or without permission.
•“The action or practice of taking someone else's work, idea, etc., and
passing it off as one's own; literary theft.” Oxford English Dictionary.

40. 1) It is the day before your assignment is due to
be submitted. You contact an online essay
writing service, which later that day (for a fee)
emails you an essay that meets your
requirements. The next day you submit this
essay. Is this plagiarism?
33% 33% 33%
1. Yes
2. No
3. Unsure
s
e
o
Ye
ur
N
ns
U

41. 2) You have been asked to submit an essay on
Romeo and Juliet and your cousin emails you her
old A* essay on that topic, you make a few
alterations and add a few new ideas. You submit
this essay. Is this plagiarism?
33% 33% 33%
1. Yes
2. No
3. Unsure
s
e
o
Ye
ur
N
ns
U

42. 3) In your essay you discuss your own thoughts
on bankers’ bonuses. Do you need to give a
reference?
33% 33% 33%
1. Yes
2. No
3. Unsure
s
e
o
Ye
ur
N
ns
U

43. 4) You are writing an assignment about the British
constitution and you state that the Queen is the
head of state of the UK. Do you need to provide
a reference for this?
33% 33% 33%
1. Yes
2. No
3. Unsure
s
e
o
Ye
ur
N
ns
U

44. 5) You include in an essay a table of data or a
picture that you have found on the Web. Do you
need to reference it?
33% 33% 33%
1. Yes
2. No
3. Unsure
s
e
o
Ye
ur
N
ns
U

45. 6) You paraphrase in your essay Richard
Dawkins’ ideas on the transmission of cultural
values from one of his popular books. Because
you are not directly quoting you don’t put
quotation marks. Do you need to add a
reference?
33% 33% 33%
1. Yes
2. No
3. Unsure
s
e
o
Ye
ur
N
ns
U

46. 7) You and a friend are taking the same module
and therefore have the same essay to write. The
essay is not to be done as group work. You and
your friend write your essays in the library
together and end up with very similar essays. Is
this plagiarism?
33% 33% 33%
1. Yes
2. No
3. Unsure
s
e
o
Ye
ur
N
ns
U

47. 8) You find a paragraph in a book that supports
an argument that you are making in your
assignment. You copy this paragraph into your
assignment, putting quotations marks at the start
and finish and provide a citation. Is this
plagiarism?
33% 33% 33%
1. Yes
2. No
3. Unsure
s
e
o
Ye
ur
N
ns
U

48. Presentation:
Created by University of Birmingham and adapted for University of Surrey students.
http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/15964
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.
Title Slide picture:
Hambledon Hill Sheep
This photograph by John from Wareham, Dorset, England is adapted for this presentation
and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.flickr.com/photos/19237450@N00/455414194/. And
obtained from Wikipedia Commons.

50. Live search or screen grab