Using and developing OER

Opening Educational Practices in
Scotland
Using and Developing Open
Educational Resources
Pete Cannell

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Agenda
• Being clear on the various versions of Creative Commons (CC)
licences
• Obtaining the wording for a CC licence and attaching to a
resource
• Raising your profile by distributing your CC materials for highest
impact
• Ensuring that you can continue to access any materials you
produce
• Monitoring usage of CC materials
• Reducing workload by knowing:
•where to access CC resources and what can be done with
these resources under the various licences
•how to modify CC resources and redistributing

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The Project
• Opening Educational
Practices in Scotland
is a three year project
led by the Open
University in Scotland
but involving all of the
higher education
sector.
screenshot from www.oepscotland.org

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Introductions
Source: Pete Cannell with permission

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Thinking about Open: activity
acreelman.blogspot.com

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The 5Rs of openness
• Retain – the right to make, own, and control copies of the
content
• Reuse – the right to use the content in a wide range of ways
(e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
• Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content
itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
• Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with
other open content to create something new
• Redistribute – the right to share copies of the original content,
your revisions, or your remixes with others
David Wiley http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221

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Why open? Activity
• What do you perceive as the opportunities?
• What are the challenges?
123freevectors.com commons.wikimedia.org

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Why open?
• “Maintaining & building on institutional reputation globally;
• Attracting new staff and students to institution – recruitment tool for
students and prospective employer partners;
• Increased transparency and quality of learning materials;
• Shares expertise efficiently within institutions;
• Encourages high quality learning & teaching resources;
• Supports modular course development;
• Supports the altruistic notion that sharing knowledge is in line with
academic traditions and a good thing to do;
• Likely to encourage review of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment
• Enhancing connections with external stakeholders by making
resources visible.”
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/265/2/goodintentionsbusinesscases.pdf,
pp13-14

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Source: Finding and Using Open Educational Resources (OER): Implementing the Creative Commons
CC BY License (slide 4) by Paul Stacey and Hal Plotkin, CC BY 4.0.

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What license?
• Choose a license
• https://creativecommons.org/choose/

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Where can I find OER?
• Slideshare
• Google
• YouTube
• Wikipedia
• Flickr
• OpenLearn
• Open Textbooks
• Glasgow Caledonian
• Edinburgh University
• MIT Open Courseware
On many of these
sites CC isn’t default
but you can opt for
CC
Search engines
•CC Search -
http://search.creativecommons.org
•Solvonauts - http://solvonauts.org
•OEPS Hub – www.oeps.ac.uk

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Attribution
https://www.flickr.com/photos
/123856341@N08/galleries/72
157644783231073/
A quick and easy way to remember what information
you need to include when reusing resources is by
remembering an acronym: TASL. This stands for T(itle),
A(uthor), S(ource), L(icense). TASL tells you what you
need to include to ensure that you are appropriately
acknowledging the source of the OER that you are
using.
“Pink rose birthday cake” by Rexness is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

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Challenges revisited
• Thinking about scenarios where you want to use ‘found’
material
Copyright, Fair Use, Creative Commons
en.wikipedia.org

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Open Educational Practice
• Using OER puts a premium on good pedagogy
• Understand your ‘audience’
• Select and curate
• Think about how OER will be used – users, context,
links to other resources, support, rationale, links to
assessment

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Making and Sharing: Activity
• Which of these motivations and “barriers”, if any, resonate with your
experiences and thoughts about remixing OER?
• What might motivate you to share material you have created?
• What challenges might you, or have you, faced?
• How could you, or did you, overcome these?
• Who could you ask for help or advice?
• Could these challenges be addressed at the time of creating the
resource?
• What kinds of information do you think it would be useful to include
with a resource?
• What challenges or concerns do you have about releasing your own
material?
• How could you mitigate/address these?

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Making and sharing
How open?
What formats? Accessibility? Devices?
Audience?
Where?
Humbox (Humanities materials);
OpenLearn Works;
Open Library of the Humanities.

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Table showing which license types can be remixed with each other
from Frequently Asked Questions by Creative Commons and
licensed CC BY 4.0

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OpenLearn Works
• www.open.edu/openlearnworks
Will be relaunched as
OpenLearn Create
• This is a public site provided by
the Open University where other
organisations can host OER. It
is currently being upgraded to
include a new authoring tool.
OEPS is working with a number
of partner organisations to
develop new material on the
site. screenshot from www.open.edu/openlearnworks

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OEPS Course – coming soon
• Resource rich course which
covers the agenda of this
workshop
• Currently in final stages of editing
• It will be form part of the OEPS
community on www.oeps.ac.uk
but will be hosted on OpenLearn
Works
screenshot from www.oeps.ac.uk

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