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Open Educational Resources
Image from the Hewlett Foundation (CC BY)
OR ARE YOU USING EXISTING EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES?
DO YOU KNOW WHAT’S OUT THERE?
Are you reinventing the wheel?
CopyrightPreviously copyright was binary
All rights retained vs public domainrestricted vs open
Copyright©
Public
DomainPD
Copyright
Copyright©
Public Domain
Some rights reserved
Now alternative licensing options
Internet enables …
Carpeted Commons by Brett Taylor (CC BY)
Openness http://wikieducator.org/File:Recyclethis-185807557.jpg
Sunshine Connelly (CC BY)Open lock from OpenUCT initiative (
http://openuct.uct.ac.za/)
Source: Hodgkinson-Williams, CA, & Gray, E (2008) Degrees of Openness: The Emergence of OER at UCT. Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town
Licences offer different options
Choosing our licence onlineLicence terms and conditions
International pioneers
MIT open courseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ and MITx http://mitx.mit.edu/
OpenLearn (UK Open University): http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
Khan academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/iTunesU, e.g. http://itunes.stanford.edu/ or
http://www.open.edu/itunes/ or http://web.mit.edu/itunesu or http://itunes.ox.ac.uk/ or www.cam.ac.uk/video/itunesu.html
Physics content online
MIT http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/ Khan University:
http://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics?k The best Physics videos found on the web:
http://bestphysicsvideos.blogspot.com/ Open University
: http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/Science/UCT-Physics-Course-1-Laboratory-2nd-Semester-2011
Physics textbooks: http://www.oerafrica.org/ResourceResults/tabid/1562/mctl/Details/id/36933/Default.aspx OR http://www.oerafrica.org/ResourceResults/tabid/1562/mctl/Details/id/36948/Default.aspx
http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/ http://openuct.uct.ac.za/ and http://www.oerafrica.org/
CPUT case study
Over to Anton Thiart, Civil Engineering
Created by Shihaam Shaikh (CC BY-NC)
Opening our eyes to images
http://openclipart.org//
http://www.3dmodelfree.com/
http://www.flickr.com/
http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/
http://www.sxc.hu
http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray
%27s_Anatomy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brooklyn_museum/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
http://www.cadyou.com/
CompfightQuick images from Flickrhttp://compfight.com/
http://search.creativecommons.org/
http://www.google.co.za/imghp?hl=en
http://www.picdrome.com/
http://www.openimages.eu/blog/
All Screenshots are used for review purposes only.
Photo by Veronica Mitchell
http://compfight.com/
http://search.creativecommons.org
Access widened
Copyright
What does this mean for us as students?
Respect Attribution
Myths
We can use images from the internet:
• as long as we’re not making a profit
• we acknowledge the url• there is no logo on the image• it’s just in the institution
Truth
We can use images from the internet:
• if permitted by author• if allowed for by the licensing
terms e.g. Creative Commons • when open – public domain
Copyright needs to be respected
Caution / Protection
Images public domain
Internet is changing the way we learn
Open space with the worldwide web Wider options through connectivity Legal considerations are essential Self regulation is vital
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loop_oh/4313629167/By Rupert Ganzer (CC BY-ND)
Summary on Copyright
Are we respecting & valuing
Copyright ?
Thank you
OER4Us by Veronica Mitchell and Nicole Southgate is licensed Under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
2.5 South Africa License Except for images from third-parties, where the appropriate license has been stated.
Other useful links
Copyright free or CC images http://www.123rf.com http://www.compfight.com/ http://www.sxc.hu/
Copyright free or CC sound www.opsound.org (for royalty free sound tracks) http://www.jamendo.com/en/
Referencing Keep a list of the name of the image, the author and link where you
found the picture, e.g. Little girl in Cambodia (b&w) by James Khoo found on
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jameskhoo/2474356739/ Downloading videos from YouTube
http://www.real.com
