The document discusses open educational resources (OER) and authoring digital learning materials using open licenses. It defines OER as educational materials that can be freely used and shared under open licenses. It outlines some limitations of traditional copyright and how open licenses like Creative Commons address these issues by allowing for reuse and modification with attribution. The document also demonstrates several tools and websites for authoring and finding OER materials, including LeMill, eXe, Wikimedia Commons, and Flickr. Metadata standards for OER are discussed to help materials be more discoverable.

1. Authoring and sharing open
educational resources
Hans Põldoja
Tallinn University

2. cba
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3. Outline
• Open Educational Resources: the concept,
examples, lessons learned
• Authoring digital learning resources with simple
online tools
• Adding metadata to learning objects

5. 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)

6. Copyright
(and why it doesn’t
work)

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Economic rights
• Reproduction
• Distribution
• Rental
• Broadcasting
• Public performance
• ...

11. Moral rights
• Attribution
• Anonymous or pseudonymous
publishing
• Integrity of the work
• Withdrawal
• ...

12. 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)

13. 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

14. Open Content Licences

15. http://creativecommons.org

19. 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)

20. License conditions
Attribution — You must attribute the work in the
b manner specified by the author or licensor
Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon
a this work, you may distribute the resulting work
only under the same or similar license to this one
Noncommercial — You may not use this work for
n commercial purposes
No Derivative Works — You may not alter,
d transform, or build upon this work

21. Rights
Share — to copy, distribute and transmit
s the work
r Remix — to adapt the work

22. Three “Layers” of licenses
(Creative Commons, 2012)

25. How to recognize CC
licensed works?

26. 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

27. Creative Commons icons

28. OER initiatives

29. http://ocw.mit.edu

30. http://www.ocwconsortium.org

31. http://www.curriki.org

32. http://www.khanacademy.org

33. http://cnx.org

34. http://wikieducator.org

35. http://en.wikibooks.org

36. http://en.wikiversity.org

37. http://lemill.net

38. http://www.oercommons.org

39. http://lreforschools.eun.org

40. Task 1
Choose one of the OER initiatives and
search for learning resources in your
subject or area of interest.

41. 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

42. Learning resource authoring tools

43. http://lemill.net

44. http://exelearning.org

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

46. http://www.myudutu.com

47. http://wordpress.com

48. What to choose?
Learning resource authoring tool
(eg. LeMill, eXe, ...)
vs
Generic content management system
(eg. WordPress, ...)

49. Demo:
http://lemill.net

50. Open content

51. http://commons.wikimedia.org

52. Demo:
http://commons.wikimedia.org

53. http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

54. Demo:
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

55. Embedding

56. Embedding external content
• Movies:YouTube,Vimeo, Khan Academy
• Presentations: SlideShare, Google Docs
• Mind maps: Spicynodes
• Timelines: TimeRime
• Maps: Google Maps
• Exercises: Quizlet

57. Embedding from

58. Embedding to

59. http://lemill.net

60. Metadata

61. (Hermann, 2002)

62. http://www.curriki.org

65. Tagging

66. 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

67. 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/

68. Thank You!
Hans Põldoja
Researcher
Tallinn University, Estonia
hans.poldoja@tlu.ee
http://www.hanspoldoja.net
http://www.slideshare.net/hanspoldoja