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eTextBooks, the OER perspective
The document discusses Open Educational Resources (OER) and their definition, highlighting the importance of free access and reusability. It emphasizes the need for technology that supports open licenses and addresses issues related to the use of etextbooks as educational resources. Additionally, it outlines benefits for publishers and touches on the intersection of commercial content with educational resources.
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- 1. eTextBooks, the OER perspective. Phil Barker phil.barker@hw.ac.uk JISC CETIS @philbarker Heriot-Watt University
- 2. Introduction http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/~philb/ http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer/ UKOER
- 3. OER: Definition Open educationalresources can be defined as ‘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.’ http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources
- 4. OER: Definition “open educationalresources should be freely shared through open licences which facilitate use, revision, translation, improvement and sharing by anyone” Capetown declaration on open education http://www.capetowndeclaration.org
- 5. OER Definition Educational resource +
- 6. eTextBooks as EducationalResources I hope this will be dealt with during the rest of the project Issue include • multimedia animations and simulations • dynamic & adaptive content • direct linking and embedding • social connections • adopt-adapt-improve (remix and republish) ...nothing we haven’t spent 15+yrs talking about
- 7. eTextBooks as OERs •Need to avoid assumptions that eTextBook will be paid-for. • Need to be able to express CC licences. • Need technology that permits what is allowed by the licence (e.g. format that is portable, editable, disaggregable) • Desirable that technology supports what is required by the licence (e.g. keeps attribution when copied / editted)
- 8. OER in eTextBooks •Existing OERs tend to reflect what teachers use in class: MS Powepoint, Word / Adobe pdf; lecture capture and recordings; animations & interactive models • Interest in HTML5 and EPUB • Not so much emphasis on eLearning technical standards
- 9. Commercial eTextBook contentand OER PublishOER project http://www.medev.ac.uk/ourwork/oer/publishoer/ What’s in it for publishers? • Market visibility (=> acknowledgement & tracking) • Not as OER (=> time limited licence, mixed licences) Pearson Project Blue Sky http://www.pearsonlearningsolutions.com/pearson-bluesky • OER and paid-for content in commercial “learning solution”
- 10. Licence and attribution By Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk>, JISC CETIS <http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk> This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94105, USA.