The document discusses open educational resources (OERs) and Creative Commons licenses. It defines OERs as teaching, learning, and research materials that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that allows free use, repurposing, and redistribution. Examples of OERs include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, videos, and other educationally useful materials. The document notes that the MIT OpenCourseWare project, which began publishing courses for free in 2001, was an early major initiative in the OER movement. It also discusses the role of Creative Commons licenses in strengthening the legal protection of open content and increasing its credibility.

1. H. Md. AZIMI
RESEARCH SCHOLAR
UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE
DEPARTMENT OF STUDIES IN EDUCATION
MANASAGANGOTRI, MYSORE

2. Creative Commons licenses in Open
Educational Resources (OERs)
2Sep, 27-28, 2013

3. What
is
an
OER?

4. Beginning…
The term was first used at a UNESCO conference in
2002, although OERs were being produced and
used before that time. For instance, the MITMIT Open
Course Ware project, which began in 20012001, was
one of the first major initiatives
of the OER movement.
2002: UNESCO

5. OERs are teaching, learning and research materials in any
medium that reside in the public domain and have been
released under an open license that permits access, use,
repurposing, reuse and redistribution by others with no or
limited restrictions.
(Atkins, Brown & Hammond, 2007)
What are…

6. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL)The Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
Open Educational Resources (OER) are
‘materials offered freely and openly to use
and adapt for teaching, learning,
development and research’.
http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/OCW-OER.aspx

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OERs can includeOERs can include……
 Full courses/programmes,
Course materials,
Modules,
Student guides,
Teaching notes,
Textbooks,
Research articles,
Videos,
Software,
Role plays,
Databases,
Assessment tools and instruments,
Interactive materials (simulations)
Apps (including mobile apps) and
any other educationally useful
materials.

9. 2001 MIT announced its Open
Course Ware initiative
to nearly every university course for free publish public
access for non commercial use.
MIT Open Course Ware has played many roles in the
history of OER, including being an example of
commitment at an institutional level, working actively to
encourage similar projects, and lending the MIT brand to
the movement.

12. 2006 October: Open Learn of UKOU

14. Open Educational
Resources

15. 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.
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

18. In 2001 Larry Lessig and others founded the Creative Commons
and released a flexible set of licenses
that were both a vast improvement on the Open Publication
Licenses™ confusing license option structure and significantly
stronger legal documents.
• One role of Creative Commons in the history of OER is
the increase in credibility and confidence their legally
superior, much easier to use licenses brought to the open
content community.

21. All
without
asking Permission
Because
Permission
has been already
Granted

32. Creative Commons conditions
Condition Explanation
Attribution
(BY)
All CC licences require that others who use your work in
any way must attribute it – i.e. must reference the work,
giving you credit for it – the way you request, but not in a
way that suggests you endorse them or their use of the
work.
Non-
Commercial
(NC)
You let others copy, distribute, display, perform and
(unless you have chosen No Derivatives) modify and use
your work for any purpose other than commercially.
No Derivative
works (ND)
You let others copy, distribute, display and perform only
original copies of your work.
Share Alike
(SA)
You let others copy, distribute, display, perform and
modify your work, as long as they distribute any modified
work on the same terms.

33. Summary - Open licences

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