Lecture in Tallinn University, 18 April 2013

1. Open Educational
Resources and Practices
Hans Põldoja

2. Hans Põldoja
Researcher
Tallinn University, Institute of Informatics
Doctoral student
Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture
hans.poldoja@tlu.ee
http://www.hanspoldoja.net

3. Outline
• Copyright (and why it doesn’t work)
• Open Licensing
• Open Content
• Open Educational Resources
• Open Online Courses
• Open Learning Goals
• Open Assessment

4. Copyright
(and why it doesn’t
work)

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Economic rights
• Reproduction
• Distribution
• Rental
• Broadcasting
• Public performance
• ...

9. Moral rights
• Attribution
• Anonymous or pseudonymous publishing
• Integrity of the work
• Withdrawal
• ...

10. 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

11. 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

12. Open Licensing

13. http://creativecommons.org

17. 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)

18. 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

19. Rights
Share — to copy, distribute and transmit
s the work
r Remix — to adapt the work

20. Three “Layers” of licenses
(Creative Commons, 2012)

25. How to recognize CC
licensed works?

26. 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

27. Creative Commons icons

28. Open Content

29. http://en.wikipedia.org

30. http://www.wikimedia.org

31. http://commons.wikimedia.org

32. http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

33. http://search.creativecommons.org

34. Open Educational
Resources

36. 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)

37. http://ocw.mit.edu

38. http://www.ocwconsortium.org

39. http://www.curriki.org

40. http://www.ck12.org

41. http://www.oercommons.org

42. http://www.khanacademy.org

43. http://wikieducator.org

44. http://en.wikibooks.org

45. http://en.wikiversity.org

46. http://lemill.net

47. Open Online Courses

51. http://oercourse.wordpress.com

52. http://mooc.ca

53. http://p2pu.org

54. c-MOOC
vs
x-MOOC

55. free ≠ open

56. https://www.coursera.org

57. https://www.edx.org

58. http://www.udacity.com

59. http://beta.wikiversity.org

60. http://oppematerjalid.wordpress.com

61. http://www.edufeedr.net

62. Open Learning Goals

64. Structure of a learning contract
• Objectives
• Resources
• Strategy
• Outcome evaluation
• Reflection

65. http://blog.lecontract.org

67. Open Assessment

68. http://openbadges.org

69. https://p2pu.org/en/badges/

70. http://wikieducator.org/OER_university

71. References
• Creative Commons (2013). About The Licenses. http://creativecommons.org/
licenses/
• Wikipedia (2012). Open educational resources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Open_educational_resources

72. Photos
• Christopher Sessums, http://www.flickr.com/photos/csessums/4966650988/

73. Thank You!
• hans.poldoja@tlu.ee
• http://www.slideshare.net/hanspoldoja
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