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Managing Creative Commons Licenses in an Open Educational Resources Web Application:

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Managing Creative Commons Licenses in an Open Educational Resources Web Application:

Edu-AREA by Raquel Míguez Vázquez is licensed under a Creative Commons

Reconocimiento 4.0 Internacional License

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Current Context and OER Movement

Importance of Creative Commons Licenses in OERs

OER Platforms

Managing Creative Commons Licenses in Edu-AREA

“Open Educational Resources” by Ron Mader used under CC-BY 2.0. / Resized from original

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CURRENT CONTEXT AND OER MOVEMENT

Growing use of digital resourcesGrowing number of OER platformsOpportunities for cooperation and

collaboration between institutions around the world

Issues relating to intellectual property rights

Open Educational Resources Logic Model (Reschke, n.d.)

Universal access to education is possible, but its potential is hindered by increasingly restrictive copyright laws and incompatible technologies.

CURRENT CONTEXT AND OER MOVEMENT

The need of a simple and standardised framework which allows creators to maintain their copyright and still authorise certain uses of their works.

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CREATIVE COMMONS

CC is the most widespread Open Content licensing model. It can be considered de facto as the standard for Open Content licensing.

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“State of the Commons” — Creative Commons

CREATIVE COMMONS

Individually, CC licenses are rather easy to understand, but what happens when you remix or combine resources with different licenses?

You may encounter licensing problems

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CREATIVE COMMONS

Adapter’s License Compatibility Chart

Used when remixing or modifying a work. The final

work is considered an adaptation.

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“Frequently Asked Questions” — Creative Commons

CREATIVE COMMONSLicense Compatibility Chart When Combining Two Works

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“Frequently Asked Questions” — Creative CommonsCreated by Kennisland published under a CC0 license

CREATIVE COMMONSLicense Compatibility Chart When Adding Works to a Collection

In a collection, e.g. an anthology or a catalogue, a number of works are simply put

together for publishing. The different contents stand alone as separate and distinguishable works, hence it is not

considered an adaptation.

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“Frequently Asked Questions” — Creative Commons

OER PLATFORMS

OER Commons

MERLOT

OpenStax (Connexions)

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OER PLATFORMSOER Platform URL Launch

YearLicenses that are

managedSpecial Features

OER Commons https://www.oercommons.org 2007 -Creative Commons-Public Domain-GNU FDL-Custom License

-Full university courses and lesson pans-Electronic textbooks-Users can create and upload OERs

MERLOT http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm 1997 -Creative Commons-Unlicensed material

-Free and open repository of online resources.-Users can create instructional websites with HTML content that can include various types of media

OpenStax http://cnx.org/ 1999 -All content is licensed

under a Creative Commons

CC-BY license

-Global repository of educational content in many disciplines.-Lesson plans are out of scope

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License Management in Edu-AREA

Creative Commons Licenses Compatibility mechanism that helps users license their derivative works and collections in a correct way Includes attribution for material from which a user has created a derivative work

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THE OER MOVEMENT

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Thanks for your attention!

Appendix: OER CommonsEdu-AREA

Appendix: MERLOTEdu-AREA

Appendix: OpenStax (Connexions)Edu-AREA