This is a comprehensive seminar on understanding copyright and Creative Commons. Useful for those who are new to open education.

1. Glenda Cox
glenda.cox @uct.ac.za
Rethinking your awareness of Copyright
and openly licensed teaching materials

2. Workshop outline
Introducing the many Opens: Open Education, Open Access, Open
Scholarship, OERs, OEP
Why does open matter?
Copyright
OER Remix game
Tips on finding OER

3. ...many Opens

4. Open Education (OE)
Open Education is a movement to make
education accessible to all (Cape Town
Open Education Declaration)
Broad view of education, beyond
institutions
Collective term that is used to refer to
many practices & activities that have both
openness & education at their core.

6. Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Teaching, learning, and
research resources that
reside in the public
domain or have been
released under an
intellectual property
license that permits their
free use or repurposing by
others (Wiley, 2010).

7. Examples

9. Can be shared via institutional repositories

11. What are open textbooks?
Open textbooks are
● open access materials (usually digital)
● published under an open licence
● in formats that provide for the integration of multimedia,
● remixing of various content components
● and printing and redistribution.
Open textbooks provide academics with a means to build on openly published materials produced in other parts of
the world (particularly when using platforms that are designed with this affordance in mind), while integrating a
more localised approach in terms of the examples used as well as the assessment activities.

13. Open Educational Practices (OEP)
“Open educational practices (OEP) is a broad descriptor
of practices that include the creation, use, and reuse of
open educational resources (OER) as well as open
pedagogies and open sharing of teaching practices”
(Cronin, 2017).

14. Open Access (OA)
Online research outputs that are free of
restrictions
Types:
gratis = online access free of charge
libre = online access free of charge plus
various additional usage rights
Green OA = publishing in an institutional
or central repository eg. Open UCT,
PubMed Central
Gold OA = in a OA journal or hybrid OA
journal

15. Open Scholarship
“...sharing of articles,
code, data, and
educational resources,
has the potential to
improve university
research and
education as well as
increase the impact
universities can have
beyond their own
walls” (McKiernan,
2017).

17. Why OE R&P matters
Need for accessible and FREE resources
Don’t have to re-invent the wheel - better use of time
Need for localised materials, transforming the curriculum
Encourages us to reconsider our teaching and learning
approaches
Colleagues & students can become co-creators

18. How do I know if it’s open?

20. COPYRIGHT AND CREATIVE
COMMONS LICENSING
Glenda Cox
2017

21. A collection of exclusive rights, given to creators and
authors to protect their original works
Definition of copyright

22. ◻ What can be copyrighted? – Any work which is not
an exact copy of someone else’s work
◻ Can ideas be copyrighted? No… only expression
of ideas are copyrighted...
◻ Can copyright be transferred? Yes, an author can
assign copyright to another person, as in the case
of property
Meaning of Terms

23. ◻ May not reproduce
◻ Fair use / Fair dealing for
classroom use
◻ Permission / royalty payments
for reproduction
◻ May not use on the Internet
All rights reserved

25. Traditional © designed
for old distribution
models
The problem:

26. Glenda Cox @GlencoxMore
"Legal, copyright and IP is
everyone's business". Laura
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@ROER4D @CILT_UCT
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27. Alternative copyright licensing
Previously copyright was binary: All rights retained or public
domain
Now alternative licensing options such as the GNU General
Public License and Creative Commons provide a range of options where
Some rights are reserved
Public
Domain
Copyright©
Public
Domain
Some rights reserved Copyright©

29. Attribution
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike
Attribution - NonCommercial
Attribution - NoDerivs
Attribution - ShareAlike
*CC0 (public domain dedication)
Creative Commons licenses

30. Some rights reserved but sharing made easy and legal.
Creators have choice

31. Summary - Open Licenses

32. Practice
• Make an OER with different openly licenced materials and decide on a
final licence
• In small groups…

34. Practice game
• http://opencontent.org/game/

35. • How to share?
• Assisting academics with Creative Commons…

36. Work posted
on Flickr
under
Attribution
license

37. Used in The Iron Man feature film

38. • If resource falls under copyright protection, either:
o Recreate the resources using office or online tools
o Replace the resource with a similar resource by
finding an open source alternative or by creating your
own resource
o Obtain permission from the author, publisher, editor,
organization who holds the copyright
o Reconsider if the resource is really necessary
o Nice resource: https://observatory.tec.mx/edu-bits-
2/three-steps-to-become-author-of-open-educational-
resources
Evaluating the media resources within your resource

39. ◻ Copyright of
⬜ pictures
⬜ graphics
⬜ texts
Understand the rights of copyright holders
Take care to check

40. “Creative Commons 10th Birthday Celebration San Francisco”
byTimothyVollmer is licensed under CC BY 2.0

41. Best Practices for Attribution: (TASL)
✓ Title
✓ Author
✓ Source – Link to work
✓ License – Name + Link
House of Knowledge Variation1 by Adrien Sifre CC BY-
NC-ND

42. http://google.com/docs
http://www.gliffy.com/
Recreating Images

43. Licensing your work is easy. No
registration is required.
You simply add a notice that your work is
under CC BY.
Here’s how you do that →

46. You can edit the text for your specific
project.
Go back to:
http://creativecommons.org/choose

48. Legal and Technical
Legal Code, Human Readable Deed, Meta-Data
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

49. Paste where you usually put CC info
Copyright and Creative Commons by Glenda Cox is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License.

50. See Paul Stacey’s OER presentations at
http://www.slideshare.net/pstacey
Thanks to Shihaam Shaikh for examples
of adapting images
Thanks to Ramesh Sharma for slides on
copyright
Attribution:

51. How: via general search
How to find OER
via search engines

52. Task (after these slides)
• Find 2 or 3 OER that you can use in your module or teaching, i.e. a
video, slides, infographic, simulation. Take care to record the license

53. How: via general search (Google Advanced Search)
http://www.google.com/advanced_search

54. How: via general search (Google Advanced Search)
http://www.google.com/advanced_search

55. How: via general search (Google Advanced Search)
http://www.google.com/advanced_search

56. How: via general search (Google Advanced Search)
http://www.google.com/advanced_search

57. How: via general search (Google Advanced Search)
http://www.google.com/advanced_search

60. How: via photo/image search (Google Advanced Image
Search)
http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search

61. How: via photo/image search (Creative Commons Search)
Google Images via

62. How: via video search (YouTube through CC Search)
YouTubeviahttp://search.creativecommons.org/

63. Where: general OER directories
www.oerafrica.org/
https://amser.org/
http://serc.carleton.edu/index.html
www.readwritethink.org/
https://p2pu.org/en/
www.saylor.org/
www.klascement.net/?hl=en

64. Where: Recorded lectures & video tutorial platforms
www.khanacademy.org/
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
http://oyc.yale.edu/
www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-u/

65. Where: Open Book/Textbook directories
www.gutenberg.org/
www.openculture.com/free_textbooks
www.intratext.com/
www.siyavula.com/
www.ck12.org/
www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
http://openstaxcollege.org/
http://open.bccampus.ca/

66. Where: Presentation sources
www.slideshare.net/
https://speakerdeck.com/
www.slidesnack.com/
www.authorstream.com/share-presentations-
online/

67. Where: Simulation and animation sources
www.bitstrips.com/
http://xkcd.com/
https://phet.colorado.edu/
http://bestanimations.com/

68. Where: Modular course components
www.wikiversity.org/
www.curriki.org/
http://cnx.org/
www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page
www.jorum.ac.uk/

69. Task
• Find 2 or 3 OER that you can use in your module or teaching, i.e. a
video, slides, infographic, simulation. Take care to record the license
• Go back to your reading list and start checking your resources to see if
they are CC and begin looking for alternatives

71. Find & evaluate an OER
Criteria Do they meet the
criteria?
(YES, NO, Partially)
Issues for adapting
Appropriate
content
How closely does the content match:
● your course objectives / activity learning outcomes
● the needs of your students * less close match = more adaptation
Local context What changes (if any) will be needed in order to reflect local concepts, terminology and
ways of doing things? Are there any topics that need to be included?
Up-to-date How up-to-date are the materials you want to adapt?
How long will it be before your materials needs updating?
Accurate and
authoritative
Too many inaccuracies means more adaptation.
Does the OER match subject matter expertise at the right level in your discipline?
Prior knowledge or
skills
If the prior knowledge assumed is more than your learners will have, then you may need
to produce a pre-course supplement to bring your learners up to the starting point of the
course.
Appropriate
Language Level
For example, is the vocabulary appropriate and are the sentences not too long or
complex? If you will need to translate the text, will this present any special problems?
Learning Activities If the activities are few or of poor quality, you will have to create new ones.

72. Credits
Prepared by: Finding OER slides:
Henry Trotter – henry.trotter@uct.ac.za / trotterhenry@hotmail.com
Some types of Open slides by Nicola Pallit @nicolapalitt
Slides inspired by the presentations of Paul Stacey, Shihaam Shaikh
and the Open Professionals Education Network (OPEN).
See Paul Stacey’s OER presentations at:
http://www.slideshare.net/pstacey
See Shihaam Shaikh’s “Finding Open Stuff” presentation at:
https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/2346
See also the “Find OER” site by the Open Professionals Education
Network (OPEN): https://open4us.org/find-oer/

73. Sharing our takeaways
What did you learn?
What can you use?