This document provides information and guidance about open education resources (OERs) and Creative Commons licensing. It defines OERs and explains that although materials online may not have an explicit copyright statement, they are not necessarily free to use without permission. Creative Commons licenses provide permissions to reuse or modify copyrighted works. When using OERs, proper attribution is required using the TASL method of citing the Title, Author, Source, and License. The document encourages sharing OERs under an open license like CC BY and provides links to game design worksheets from an Board Game Jam event.

1. Open Education Resources
Board Game Jam
ILW 2016
Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
Open Education Resource Advisor
Learning, Teaching, and Web Services

2. Using Online/Digital Objects
Copyright does not need to be stated, it is always
assumed.
Just because a digital object is available online does
not mean that the material is free to use or adapt.
Materials available on the web without explicit
copyright statement or open licence shouldn’t be re-
used without contacting the author.

3. Copyright - Is an area of Intellectual Property
Rights that covers the rights of authors of
creative works.
Licence - A licence is the permission, or
authorisation, to re-use a copyrighted work.
Creative Commons (CC): A CC licence is one of
several open licences that enable the free
distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work.
Definitions

4. It’s not all bad news. In fact, there’s a
lot of good news.

5. By applying an open licence to a copyrighted
work, rights holders give permission for others to
copy or change their work in ways that would
otherwise infringe copyright law.

6. Open Education Resources (OERs) are freely available and
openly licensed digital resources.
“OERs are 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 and re-
purposing by others. Open educational resources include full
courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming
videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or
techniques used to support access to knowledge”
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

7. Creative Commons licences

8. When you re-use a digital item that is openly licensed you
need to make sure that you correctly attribute the original
author/copyright owner of the item.
A good rule of thumb is to use the TASL acronym:
Title, Author, Source, Licence.
Attribution

9. Title - What is the name of the material?
Author - Who owns the material?
Source - Where can I find it?
Licence - How can I use it?
Lastly, consider if there is anything else you
should know before you use it.

10. It’s a good idea to note down attribution
information as you go (and keep it if possible).
Attributing Creative Commons Materials by ccAustralia & CCI ARC, licensed under CC BY 2.5

11. Sharing OERs
Ensure that the material is your own work, or contains only
openly licensed work shared under the agreed terms.
Choose the most appropriate licence for your material. The
Creative Commons website licence chooser is a useful tool for
choosing & generating the licence text and image:
http://creativecommons.org/choose/.
Except where otherwise stated, this work by [author’s
names] is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License

12. For the games created today we will be using a CC BY 4.0
licence:
Except where otherwise stated, this work by [author’s
names] is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution
4.0 International License
The games will be shared as OERs on the Open Education
Edinburgh YouTube channel with description links to the
game rules on google docs.

13. Where should I share my OER?
There are many options for sharing your OER
depending on subject area and target audience.

14. Search for images
CC Search provides a useful ‘meta-search’ over a
number of media platforms:
http://search.creativecommons.org/

16. Board Game Jam Worksheets
History Group: bit.ly/1TgeKbf
Art Group: bit.ly/1mwFqGk
Medicine/Anatomy Group: bit.ly/1TcMeWC
Animals Group: bit.ly/1ox6G9y
Exploration Group: bit.ly/20Zi3os