Learn about OER and CC Licenses.

1. UNDERSTANDING OER &
CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES
Dr. Indira Koneru
Associate Dean & Head, eLearning
Icfai Business School (IBS)
&
Founding Director
KBR & HL Human Development Foundation
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2. Session 1 Overview
•ContinueTeaching and Learning in COVID-19 Crisis
using OER
•Open Educational Resources
•Creative Commons Licenses
•Creating OER
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3. KeepTeaching & Learning in Crisis
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4. COVID-19 Educational Disruption -World
9/12/2020
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics data
As of April 21, 2020
1,598,099,008 affected learners
91.3% of total enrolled learners
194 country-wide closures
As of September 11, 2020
868,011,845 affected learners
49.6% of total enrolled learners
50 country-wide closures
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5. COVID-19 Educational Disruption - India
9/12/2020
As of April 21, 2020
32,07,13,810 affected learners
3,43,37,594 affected in tertiary education
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics data
Reflect on how this disruptive
crisis provides us an
opportunity to transform
teaching-learning-assessment
and transition to open online
education!
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6. KeepTeaching & Learning in Crisis using OER
• How OpenTextbooks enabled students to continue
learning in crisis
• 2008 recession impact
• Decide between buying a textbook or groceries!
• In response to this crisis, Prof. Richard Baraniuk, Rice
University founded OpenStax in 2012 to make
college textbooks
• free for students
• open-licensed
• COVID-19 Crisis
• Created an extraordinary demand for OpenStax open
textbooks
• OpenStax’s students and instructors have doubled
during COVID pandemic
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Prof. Richard Baraniuk

7. OER & CC Licenses
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8. Open Educational Resources
OER are “Teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise,
that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits
no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions”
(UNESCO )
Open license respects the intellectual property rights of the copyright owner and provides
permissions granting the public the rights to access, re-use, re-purpose, adapt and
redistribute educational materials (UNESCO, 2019)
Open licenses for educational resources are Creative Commons licenses
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9. Creative Commons (CC)
Creative Commons, a non-profit organisation founded by Prof. Lawrence Lessig et al. in 2002
A set of easy-to-use open licenses for sharing creative works
Provide more options to creators who want to share their work
Help creators retain copyright while permitting others to reuse
Ensure licensors get the credit for their work they deserve
Use technologies for building a shared teaching-learning culture
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10. Question 1
Which CC license is the most open license?
• CC BY-SA
• CC BY-ND
• CC BY
• CC BY-NC-SA
• CC BY-NC-ND
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11. Shared Culture & CreativeCommons
LicensesVideos
Creative Commons Kiwi by plccanz,CC-BY 3.0A Shared Culture by Creative Commons is
licensed under CC BY 3.0
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12. Copyright vs. Creative Commons License
Copyright Creative Commons License
Copyright ownership retained Copyright ownership retained
Author does NOT grant rights Grants rights in advance
Permission required to reuse Permission not required
Need to contact the copyright
holder (this takes a long time)
No need to seek reuse permission.
Create proper attribution in the TASL
format
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13. Copyright vs Creative Commons License
Some rights
reserved
All rights
reserved
Copyright
CC License
All rights
reserved
Some rights
reserved
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14. 4 Creative Commons License Elements
License Component Description
Attribution (BY) Attribution must be given to the creator of the copyright
work
Share Alike (SA) Permits others to distribute derivative works only under a
license identical to that of the original work
Non-commercial (NC) Permits others to copy, distribute, reuse the work, including
any derivative works based upon it – but for non-commercial
purposes only
No Derivative Works (ND) Permits others to copy, distribute, display and perform exact
copies of the work only, but cannot make derivative
works based upon it
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15. Creative Commons Core Licenses
6 CC Licenses
Attribution Attribution — NonCommercial
Attribution — ShareAlike Attribution — NonCommercial — ShareAlike
Attribution — NoDerivs Attribution — NonCommercial — NoDerivs
All CC licenses require that users provide attribution (BY) to the creator
About the Licenses by Creative Commons is licensed under a CC BY 4.0.
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16. Most Open to LeastOpen CC Licence
CC BY Attribution – reuse, distribute, remix, repurpose even commercially, provide appropriate credit
CC BY-SA Attribution-Share Alike - reuse, distribute, remix, repurpose even commercially, provide
appropriate credit, but distribute your creation under the same license
CC BY-ND Attribution-NoDerivs - reuse, distribute even commercially, not to modify material, provide
appropriate credit
CC BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial - reuse, distribute non-commercially, provide appropriate credit
CC BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike – reuse, distribute non-commercially, under the
same license, provide appropriate credit
CC BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs - reuse, distribute non-commercially, not to modify
material, provide appropriate credit
About the Licenses, Creative Commons is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 .
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17. Question 2
Which license/s is/are considered as free cultural
work/s?
A. CC BY
B. CC BY & CC BY-SA
C. CC BY & CC BY-ND
D. CC BY & CC BY-NC

18. 5 Rs of OER
Retain - right
to make, own,
and control
copies of the
content
Reuse - right to
use the content
in a wide range
of ways
Revise - right to
adapt, adjust,
modify, or alter
the content
itself
Remix - right to
combine the
original or
revised content
with other open
content to
create
something new
Redistribute -
right to share
copies of the
original
content, your
revisions, or
your remixes
with others
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Creative Commons License grants retain/re-use/revise/remix/redistribute rights

19. Why OER!
Increasing access to quality education
Widening participation in education
Saving textbooks costs for students
Improving student performance and satisfaction
Reducing faculty content development time
Promoting collaborative teaching-learning practices
Providing “quality education for all” #SDG4
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20. Sources of OER
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21. Sources of OER
• Open Education Consortium
• OER Consortium
• OER Commons
• OpenStax College
• OpenTextbooks, BC Campus
• Saylor
• OpenTextbook Network
• OpenTextbooks SUNY
• Intech
• Open AccessTextbooks
• MERLOT
• Open.Michigan
• University of Edinburgh
• Video Lectures
• ORELT Open Resources for English
LanguageTeaching (COL)
• MIT OCW
• John Hopkins OCW
• Tufts OCW
• OER Afrcia
• COL DOER
• Open Education Europa
• Open Learn , UK OU
• CMU OLI
• MOOC
• Yale Open Courses
• DOAB
• DOAJ
• Flickr Images
• NPTEL
• NROER
• SpokenTutorial, IITB
• Skill Commons –Workforce Development
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22. OpenTextbooks
• OpenStax (Rice University)
• BC OpenTextbooks
• University of Minnesota OpenTextbooks
• Open SUNYTextbooks
• Intech Science,Technology & Medicine
• Lyryx with OpenTextbooks
• CK-12 FlexBook® textbooks: open source digital textbooks
• OpenTextbook Network
• UK open textbook project
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23. Open Courseware
• MIT OCW
• John Hopkins OCW
• Tufts OCW
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24. Open Online Courses
• Open Learn , UK OU
• CMU OLI
• Open Course Library
• SaylorAcademy
• Yale Open Courses
• University of Irvine
• NPTEL Online Courses
• OERu
• Lumen Learning
• MOOC (edX, FutureLearn, Coursera, Canvas, Udacity, NovoEd,
Moodle, SWAYAM, agMOOCs)
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25. Organizations Providing Zero Cost Course Materials
• Affordable LearningGeorgia
• BCcampus OpenEd
• CK-12
• College OpenTextbooks
• Creative Commons Search
• Lumen
• OER Commons
• Open Course Library at OpenWashington
• Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon
University
• OpenStax College
• OpenTextbook Library
• MERLOT
• Orange Grove Digital Repository
• PHET Interactive Simulations
• Open Education Consortium
• Khan Academy
• Saylor.org
• WikiEducator
• WikiBooks
• LibreTexts
• Cool4Ed
• Skill Commons
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26. Question 3
What is NPTEL’s Creative Commons License?
A. CC BY-SA
B. CC BY-ND
C. CC BY-NC-SA
D. CC BY-NC-ND

27. Question 4
What is IITBombayX / SpokenTutorial CC License?
A. CC BY-SA
B. CC BY-ND
C. CC BY-NC-SA
D. CC BY-NC-ND

28. Free &Open Education Initiatives in India
• NPTEL / National Programme on
Technology Enhanced Learning (7 IITs &
IISc) (CC-BY-NC-SA)
• Virtual Labs - remote-access to Labs in
Science & Engineering
• IIT Bombay SpokenTutorial – learn
FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)
(CC BY-SA 4.0)
• e-PG Pathshala – (MHRD & NME-ICT)
e-content in 71 subjects at PG level)
• DIKSHA / Digital Infrastructure for
School Education (CC BY 4.0)
• NDLI / National Digital Library
of India
• MOOCs
• NPTEL (CC-BY-NC-SA)
• IITBombayX (CC By-SA 4.0)
• IIMBx
• ISB
• SWAYAM
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29. OER-enabled Activities & Assessments
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Lumen Learning. Organizational Behavior / Human Relations
15 question banks with a total of 374
multiple choice questions

30. Impact of OER
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31. Impact
• Since 2012, OpenStax textbooks saved 9 million students over $830 million
• This year alone 3 million students are using our books and saving over $233 million
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32. OpenStaxTextbooks & Students’ Feedback
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Source: @OpenStax
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33. BC Open Textbooks Impact
Number of books in the collection: 317
Number of main subject areas: 19
Number of secondary subject areas: 87
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34. 25 Spanish students saved approximately $8,440
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Instructor Anita Serrano developed the Spanish I e-book as an Open
Educational Resource (OER) as part of Teaching and Learning with
Technology’s (TLT) faculty engagement initiative
Students were each paying $337.50
25 Spanish students collectively saved approximately $8,440
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35. Reusing OER
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36. How Do Institutions / Teachers Reuse OER?
Reuse
OER
Enhance an
existing course
by integrating
OER
Improve
existing
material by
substituting it
with OER
Create new part
of materials
by using or re-
purposing OER
Create new
courses by
using, reusing
and repurposing
OER
Assign OER-
based learning
activities to
students
Develop OER-
enabled
eLearning
courses using an
LMS (Moodle)
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37. Creating OER
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38. HOW DOWE BECOME
PROSUMERS OF OER?
Consumer
Producer
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39. Applying a CC License to Your Work
Step 1: Identify
your intentions
Step 2:
Assess your
policy
frameworks
Step 3: Select
& apply CC
license
• Do you wish to share your work as OER?
• Do you allow commercial use?
• Do you allow creation of derivative
works?
• Does your institution have institutional
IP policy / framework?
• Does your funded organisation have IP
right policy / framework?
• Apply a Creative Commons License to
your work
• CC licenses are perpetual and irrevocable
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40. Generating a CC License
Choose license
permissions
Get a license
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41. Choose License Permissions
• Navigate to CC license wizard <http://creativecommons.org/choose/>
Allow others adapt or not
to modify your content!
Allow others to use your
work commercially or
not!
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42. Choose License Permissions
Do you allow
others to adapt
your content?
• If yes, do not
attach
ND (No
Derivatives) t
o your work
Do you wish to
reserve content
modification
rights?
• If yes,
apply ND
to your
work
Do you allow
people to use
your content
commercially?
• If yes, do not
attach
NC (Non-
Commercial)
to your work
Do you with to
retain sole rights
to any
commercial
exploitation?
• If yes,
apply NC
to your
work
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43. Get a CC License (Demo)
• Your choices will generate a CC License
• Scroll down to ‘Help others attribute you!’
section to add / select
• Title of your work
• Your name
• Source URL, if any
• ‘Format of work (text, audio, video, image etc.)
• ‘License mark’ required – Online (HTML+RDFa)
or Offline
• Copy and paste the CC license generated on
your PPT or MS Word document
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44. CC-enabled Content Publishing Platforms
• Text
• SlideShare (Demo)
• Scribd
• Internet Archive
• Images
• Flickr
• Wikimedia Commons
• Music
• SoundCloud
• Jamendo
• Videos
• YouTube
• Vimeo
• Wikimedia Commons
• Internet Archive
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45. References
• About the Licenses by Creative Commons is licensed under a CC BY 4.0.
• CC Licenses and Examples by Creative Commons is licensed under a CC BY 4.0.
• Understanding Free Cultural Works by Creative Commons is licensed under a CC
BY 4.0.
• Share your work by Creative Commons is licensed under a CC BY 4.0.
• Use & remix by Creative Commons is licensed under a CC BY 4.0.
• Introducing the CC Search Browser Extension by Creative Commons is licensed
under a CC BY 4.0.
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