Digital Learning Resources
Hans Põldoja
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What makes a good digital
  learning resource?
Generations of digital
  learning content
Educational CD-ROMs
Educational CD-ROMs



•   Content integrated with the environment

•   Difficult to update and reuse

•   Requires specific operating system
Learning objects
Learning objects
  Text


 Image         Learning object


 Table
               Learning object   Course
 Sound


 Movie         Learning object


Question
Repositories and
   metadata
http://www.merlot.org
http://www.thegateway.org
http://www.scientix.eu
Metadata
http://www.curriki.org
(Hermann, 2002)
Types of repositories



•   Repository — metadata + resources

•   Referatory — metadata + links to resources
Learning resource authoring tools
http://lemill.net
http://exelearning.org
http://www.myudutu.com
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/toolkits.htm
http://challenge.zoho.com
http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
http://wordpress.com
Learning resources and
       copyright
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
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
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
Economic rights

•   Reproduction

•   Distribution

•   Rental

•   Broadcasting

•   Public performance

•   ...
Moral rights

•   Attribution

•   Anonymous or pseudonymous
    publishing

•   Integrity of the work

•   Withdrawal

•   ...
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)
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
Open content licences
http://creativecommons.org
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)
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
Rights


    Share — to copy, distribute and transmit
s   the work


r   Remix — to adapt the work
Three “Layers” of licenses




                        (Creative Commons, 2012)
How to recognize CC
  licensed works?
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
Creative Commons icons
Open content
http://en.wikipedia.org
http://commons.wikimedia.org
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons
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)
http://ocw.mit.edu
http://www.ocwconsortium.org
http://www.curriki.org
http://www.khanacademy.org
http://cnx.org
http://wikieducator.org
http://en.wikibooks.org
http://en.wikiversity.org
http://lemill.net
http://www.oercommons.org
http://lreforschools.eun.org
From open content to
   open education
http://p2pu.org
http://www.openbadges.org
References
• Hermann, T. (2002). Overview of LOM Draft 6.4. http://www.sreb.org/
  programs/EdTech/SCORE/SCORE_Users_Guide.pdf

• Directive 2001/29/EC, http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?
  uri=CELEX:32001L0029:EN:HTML

• Wikipedia (2012). Open educational resources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
  Open_educational_resources
Photos
• Johan Larsson, http://www.flickr.com/photos/johanl/6966883093/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/srgblog/728719997/

• Alan Chia, http://www.flickr.com/photos/seven13avenue/2080281038/

• Pietro Zanarini, http://www.flickr.com/photos/zipckr/3925513417/

• Glenn Fleishman, http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennf/4309829213/

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SmartBoard.JPG

• Laineys Repertoire, http://www.flickr.com/photos/76283671@N00/142605716/

• Hamed Saber, http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamed/389212454/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/epsos/5394616925/
Thank You!



•   hans.poldoja@tlu.ee

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Digital Learning Resources