creative commons & open textbooks

CLINT LALONDE

This presentation is a derivative work based upon 2 works: Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop by Paul Stacey and Open Education: The Business and Policy Case for OER by Dr. Cable Green.,

both of which were licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY)

Except where otherwise noted this Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY)

PAUL STACEY

Except where otherwise noted these Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop materials are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY)

Open Education: The Business and

Policy Case for OER

Dr. Cable GreenDirector of Global Learning

cable@creativecommons.org@cgreen

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What are OER?

“OER 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.”

Source: William & Flora Hewlett Foundation http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources

“Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them.”Source: UNESCOhttp://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/

What are OER?

The more context a learning object has, the more (and the more easily) a learner can learn from it.

To make learning objects maximally reusable, learning objects should contain as little context as possible.

The Reusability Paradox image by David Wiley used under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 3.0) Retrieved from http://cnx.org/content/m11898/latest/

Reusability Paradox

“Therefore, pedagogical effectiveness and potential for reuse are completely at odds with one another, unless the end user is permitted to edit the learning object.”

Source: The Reusability Paradox, David Wiley, Connexions. http://cnx.org/content/m11898/latest/

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Creative Commons License Features

Credit: Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop by Paul Stacey licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY

Credit: Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop by Paul Stacey licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY

Spectrum of Openness

Which of these licenses are suitable for OER?

Credit: Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop by Paul Stacey licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Credit: Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop by Paul Stacey licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY

How Machine Readable Code works IRL*

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* In Real Life

Creative Commons License Chooser

http://creativecommons.org/choose/

Image taken from Creative Commons website and used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking

Image taken from Creative Commons website and used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

So how do I properly mark the CC stuff I use?

Attribution

1) If original has © include.

2) Cite the author's name, screen name, user identification, etc. It is nice to link that name to the person's profile page, if such a page exists.

3) Cite the work's title or name, if such a thing exists. It is nice to link the name or title directly to the original work.

4) Cite the specific CC license the work is under, and link to the specific CC license

5) (optional) Identify your work as derivative.

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking/Users#Examples

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Never will be me

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Never will be me

Sharks are a group of fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions

Adaptations

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions

Collections

Marking 3rd Party Content In A Collection

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking/Creators/Marking_third_party_content

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Your turnWhat’s That License?

Finding Open Textbooks

Where to start?Quality?

Finding Open Textbooks

• Open.bccampus.ca• Connexions• Minnesota Open Textbook Referatory• College Open Textbooks• American Institute of Math (AIM)

Reading an Open Textbook

HTML – Universal, reading at length on web - mehPDF – Print on Demand, cumbersome in eReaderePub – standard still far from standard. Accessibility

http://bccampus.pressbooks.com/dbdesign/

Creating & Modifying Textbooks

Multiple input formats – major challenge