Workshop presented by Stephanie (Charlie) Farley to the Medicine Education Forum at the University of Edinburgh, May 19th 2016. The session included an introduction to Open Education Resources from OER Advisor, Stephanie (Charlie) Farley. Followed by an update from Simon Riley about his work on OpenMed (http://openmed.co.uk/), a learning framework for students and staff to curate medicine and health care OERs and other open access resources. Open Education Resources (OERs) are online resources that are available for others to use to support learning. The University of Edinburgh has recently adopted an OER policy, which outlines the institutional position on OERs and provides guidelines for practice in learning and teaching.

1. Open Educational Resources
Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
Open Education Resources
Learning, Teaching, and Web Services
University of Edinburgh

2. Welcome
Aims for today
1) Know more about OER when you leave than
when you came in.
2) Be able to identify licensed material to use in
creating your own fully attributable, shareable
artifact.
By AIGA [Public domain], via Wikimedia

3. What is an OER?
An Open Educational Resource, OER, is a freely available and
openly licensed digital resource.
“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

4. Open Access vs. Open Education
Resources (OER)
Open Access refers to publications released under an open license (e.g.
open access journals).
Open Data refers to data that is freely available to use and republish.
Open Education Resources (OER) specifically refers to using materials
for teaching & learning released under an open licence.
Materials available on the web without explicit copyright statement or
open licence should not be considered OERs.
• The absence of a copyright statement does not necessarily mean
that the material is free to use or adapt.
• OERs should always display a licence containing the terms of reuse.

5. Definitions
Intellectual property rights (IPR):
Are the rights given to persons over the creations
of their minds (usually for a set period of time).
Image via Pixabay by geralt [Public Domain]

6. Is an area of IPR that covers the rights of authors
of creative works.
Copyright:
Image via Pixabay by Peggy_Marco [Public Domain]

7. is the permission,
or authorisation,
to re-use a
copyrighted work.
A licence:
Image via Pixabay by kartik27 [Public Domain]

8. A Creative Commons (CC) licence is one of
several open licenses that enable the free
distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work.
Image via Pixabay by Kriemer [Public Domain]

9. Creative Commons licenses

10. 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.

11. Edinburgh's OER vision
1. For the common good: Teaching and learning
materials exchange to enrich the University and the
sector;
2. Edinburgh at its best: Showcasing openly the highest
quality learning and teaching;
3. Edinburgh’s treasures: Making available online a
significant collection of unique learning materials
available openly to Scotland, the UK and the world,
promoting health and economic and cultural well-
being.

12. What our guidelines say
OER aligns with the University’s mission
“Use, creation, and publication of OERs is consistent with the
University’s reputation, values and mission to ‘Make a significant,
sustainable and socially responsible contribution to Scotland, the
UK and the world, promoting health and economic and cultural
wellbeing.’”
Everyday teaching & learning material exchange
“It is expected that OERs used, created or published by individual
staff and students will normally be single units or small collections
[...] rather than whole courses.”

13. Why should you (as an educator) get
involved with (using) OER?
OER is not just about access to materials, but about making it
possible to share materials more easily, and creating platforms for
more work to become visible (and therefore attract funding).
Why re-invent the wheel?
Teachers are responsible for creating great learning experiences,
not (necessarily) for creating all the resources needed for this
themselves. Reusing existing OER frees up time that can be spent
on other aspects of the teaching and learning process.

14. Raising your profile
Getting your materials out there as an educator can both help
raise your profile and allow you to work with other educators.
Take your resources with you
By making your teaching resources open you are able to take
these materials with you from one institution to another.
Improving your teaching
Use and creation of OER encourages looking outside your
immediate environment and getting broader and different views
on topic areas.
Why you should get involved with (using) OER (as an educator)? was re-mixed from The Open Education Handbook licensed under
a Creative Commons Attribution (Unported) v3.0 (Attribution CC BY) ]

15. https://youtu.be/p6p5FEt9
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https://youtu.be/da3vQ1Wr4FA?t=52s

16. Our support for OER
• OER support service
Centrally supported service, providing: advice, staff
and student training sessions, and awareness
raising.
• Open.Ed website (http://Open.Ed.ac.uk)
Showcasing Edinburgh’s OERs, providing how-to guides,
news and information. In the future this will also include
sharing & searching tools.

18. Aim: Create a poster from open resources
Focusing on:
• Where to source openly
licensed resources
• How to attribute Creative
Commons licensed
materials
• Signpost where and how
to share and license your
work
http://piktochart.com

19. Creative Commons licenses

20. Activity 1: Search and identify 3 images that
could be used in a poster (15 mins)
By AIGA [Public domain], via Wikimedia
On the theme of:
“Medicine without
borders”

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

22. Activity 2: Collect the attribution
information from the images.
(15 minutes)

23. A good rule of thumb is to use the acronym TASL,
which stands for Title, Author, Source, Licence:
• 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, is there anything else I should know before
I use it?
What attribution information do I need?

24. It’s a good idea to keep track of attribution
information as you go (and keep it if possible).
But is that enough information?
Keep track of resources resources you
use
Attributing Creative Commons Materials by ccAustralia & CCI ARC, licensed under CC BY 2.5

25. Activity 3:
Create your poster
(15 mins)
with image
attribution applied
http://piktochart.com

26. The licence tells you to be reasonable:
“You may satisfy the conditions in (1) and (2) above in any reasonable
manner based on the medium, means and context in which the
Licensed Material is used. For example, it may be reasonable to satisfy
some or all of the conditions by retaining a copyright notice, or by
providing a URI or hyperlink associated with the Licensed Material, if
the copyright notice or webpage includes some or all of the required
information.”
There is no one right way; just make sure your attribution is
reasonable and suited to the medium you're working with. That being
said, you still have to include attribution requirements somehow, even
if it's just a link to an About page that has that info.
Attribution doesn’t need to be complicated
Best practices for attribution by Creative Commons, licensed under CC BY 4.0

27. Attributing Creative Commons Materials by ccAustralia & CCI ARC, licensed under CC BY 2.5

28. The good, the bad, and the ugly
The Creative Commons Wiki provides detailed information on
how to correctly attribute resources in a number of contexts:
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Best_practices_for_attribution
Good: "Creative Commons 10th Birthday
Celebration San Francisco" by tvol is
licensed under CC BY 4.0
Average: Photo by tvol / CC BY
Incorrect: Photo: Creative Commons

29. Share &
feedback

30. Sharing OERs
• Ensure that the material is your own work, or contains only
openly licensed work shared under the agreed terms. The
copyright service will be able to help if you are unsure about
copyright issues (copyright@ed.ac.uk)
• Choose the most appropriate license 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/. Some platforms allow
you to choose and generate a licence in the upload workflow
(Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, etc.).

31. Sharing OERs
• University of Edinburgh should be stated as the licensor so
that the resource can be correctly attributed:
© The University of Edinburgh.
• More information can be found in the University’s Open
Educational Resource Policy (http://open.ed.ac.uk/about/)

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

33. OER
Repository
JORUM
MERLOT
Xpert
OERCommons
TESConnect
Social Media
Youtube
Flicker
iTunesU
Slideshare
SoundCloud
OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare
OpenLearn
TU Delft OCW

34. Examples: SlideShare & Flickr
Many platforms incorporate CC licensing
options. SlideShare & Flickr both allow you to
apply a default licence across an account or
change for each uploaded resource.
• http://bit.ly/1OnClk9
• http://bit.ly/24Lrbiy

35. Feedback and Follow Up
Stephanie.Farley@ed.ac.uk
http://Open.Ed.ac.uk
@OpenEdEdinburgh