introduction to open educational resources for new teachers
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The Liberating New World of Open Educational Resources
Michael Paskevicius
Learning Technologies Application Developer
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning
Vancouver Island University
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Title credit: Kimmons (2016)
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A diverse landscape for content creators and educators
• I’ll use the resources available to the school
• I’ll supplement school resources with anything useful I find regardless of copyright
• I’ll seek permission for resources I find that fall under copyright
• I’ll use fair dealing allowances to make use of resources I need
• I’ll seek openly licensed or public domain content
What’s your strategy for creating learning resources?
Vote here: http://bit.ly/EDTE500
Copyright basics
• Copyright applies to all works created
• Copyright is assumed automaticallyand immediately
• Fair use allows for the use of some copyright protected works with limitations
Online DOES NOT EQUAL openly licensed!
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/37408217@N08/5025870260/ Author: filin
ilia - aliyo.hu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en
© Cancels the PossibilitiesOf digital media and the internet
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What to do?
CopyrightForbids
Wiley, D. (2012) Openness and the Future. ETS Future of Assessment Conference. Presentation available:
http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/openness-and-the-future-of-assessment
• an educational institution or a person acting under its authority for the purposes of education or training on its premises may reproduce, communicate by telecommunication and perform for students, works that are available on the Internet, subject to various conditions
UBC Copyright Modernization DigestFair Dealing Guidelines Copyright: Key Questions & Answers for Teachers
Updates to Copyright Act and Fair Dealing in Canada (Bill C-11)
Open Educational Resources
Shared
Shared freely and openly to
be…
Used
Improved
Redistributed
… used byanyone to … … adapt / repurpose/
improve under some type of license in order to …
… redistribute and share again.
Open content / open educational resources (OER) / open courseware are educational materials which are discoverable online and openly licensed that can be:
Who is involved?
The Open Movement
A broad landscape of open educational resources
Open Source Software
Open Access Research
Open Licences
Open Science
Open Society
Open Educational Resources
Open Data
Alternative Copyright Licensing
State of the Commons 2015/2016
https://stateof.creativecommons.org/
https://stateof.creativecommons.org/2015/
Explore Creative Commons Licensed Works
For more see:http://creativecommons.ca/
https://ciel.viu.ca/learning-technologies-innovation/developing-using-media-content/finding-using-open-educational-resources/creative-commons-licences
Freely and legally accessible resources for reuse and remixing in creative works
Recap: What makes an OER?
• Educational curriculum, materials, or mixed media
• Discoverable online as they are sharedfreely and openly
• Openly licensed (usually Creative Commons)
• Can be legally used by anyone to repurpose/ improve and redistribute
Courseware Text & Multimedia ImagesVideo
Open vs. Closed Resources
B.C. Open Textbook Project
Brigham Young University faculty survey seeks to advance open
education through academic libraries | Flickr - Photo Sharing! : taken
from - http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/6555466069/
Author: opensourceway http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-
sa/2.0/deed.en
“B.C. is leveraging 21st century-technologies and
licensing to ensure its citizens have affordable
access to high-quality post-secondary textbooks.
Open licensing on publicly funded content
ensures the greatest impact for the public dollar.“
Dr. Cable Green (Creative Commons)
https://open.bccampus.ca
https://wordpress.viu.ca/openeducationalresources/
VIU Open Education Referatory
Attributing Creative Commons
https://twitter.com/Mattclare/status/331429150143430659/photo/1
Author, Title, Source, URL to source, URL to license
MIT OpenCourseWare
Nuclear Systems Design Project | Nuclear Science and Engineering | MIT
OpenCourseWare: from - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/nuclear-engineering/22-033-
nuclear-systems-design-project-fall-2011/ Author: Dr. Michael Short
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/deed.en_US
Wikipedia
Vancouver Island University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: from -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Island_University
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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Which of these is the most frequently cited reasons for using OER
• To enhance professional development
• To provide electronic learning material to students
• To prepare for teaching
• To supplement existing content
• For ideas and inspiration
Most frequently cited reasons for using OER
• To enhance professional development (28%)
• To provide electronic learning material to students (35%)
• To prepare for teaching (52%)
• To supplement existing content (59%)
• For ideas and inspiration (67%)
Jhangiani, R. S., Pitt, R., Hendricks, C., Key, J., & Lalonde, C. (2016). Exploring Faculty Use of Open
Educational Resources at British Columbia Post-Secondary Institutions. BCcampus Research Report.
Retrieved from https://bccampus.ca/files/2016/01/BCFacultyUseOfOER_final.pdf
What becomes possible using OER?
• Free access to online resource in a variety of formats
• Editing, localization and remixing of content for local context
• OER as source for building online courses, activities, assessment
• Course content can be shared and promoted openly on web, social media, etc.
Jhangiani, J. (2015) Douglas College PD Event: The Desirable
and Inevitable Shift Towards Open Pedagogy and Open
Science. Retrieved from
http://www.slideshare.net/rajivjhangiani1/the-future-is-open-the-
desirable-and-inevitable-shift-towards-open-pedagogy-and-
open-science
What do we lose when using OER?
Jhangiani, J. (2015) Douglas College PD Event: The Desirable
and Inevitable Shift Towards Open Pedagogy and Open
Science. Retrieved from
http://www.slideshare.net/rajivjhangiani1/the-future-is-open-the-
desirable-and-inevitable-shift-towards-open-pedagogy-and-
open-science
• Perceived high quality of publisher generated texts
• Ancillary materials included with textbooks (slide decks, simulations, test banks, activity sheets, etc.)
• Potential familiarity and history with frequently used resource
Research on Potential OER impact
Significant potential for impact on:
• student performance and satisfaction
• inspiring new approaches to teaching and learning
• more equitable access to educational resources
• critical reflection on practice by educators through exposure to OER
Lesser impact:
• student retention
• institutional finances Weller, M., de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R., Pitt, B., & McAndrew, P. (2015). The impact of OER on
teaching and learning practice. Open Praxis, 7(4), 351-361. Retrieved online
http://www.openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/227
Ignore Explore
Use with intent
Contribute
Open Educational
Resources
Developing an OER for this course using Wordpress
Multiple student sites aggregated to parent site (individual reflections, blogs, thoughts, useful resources, etc.)
Set up your site on https://studentblogs.viu.ca/ (locally hosted)
or
https://wordpress.com/ U.S. hosting
We will use FeedWordPress to aggregate your posts automatically to: https://wordpress.viu.ca/edte500vieira/
Embeddable Content
You can embed content from any of these popular websites on your Wordpress site
Simply paste the URL onto any post or page
Embedded content is not a copyright breach, however: • Do not present the material as if it
is your own• Cite the author whenever
possible • Recognize that the resources may
disappear or change!
References and further reading
• Jhangiani, R. S., Pitt, R., Hendricks, C., Key, J., & Lalonde, C. (2016). Exploring Faculty Use of Open Educational Resources at British Columbia Post-Secondary Institutions. BCcampus Research Report. Retrieved from https://bccampus.ca/files/2016/01/BCFacultyUseOfOER_final.pdf
• Jhangiani, J. (2015) Douglas College PD Event: The Desirable and Inevitable Shift Towards Open Pedagogy and Open Science. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/rajivjhangiani1/the-future-is-open-the-desirable-and-inevitable-shift-towards-open-pedagogy-and-open-science
• Kimmons , R. (2016). The Liberating New World of Open Educational Resources (OER): Copyright, Fair Use, and Open Licensing. Accessed online: http://live.classroom20.com/archive-and-resources/category/royce-kimmons
• Weller, M., de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R., Pitt, B., & McAndrew, P. (2015). The impact of OER on teaching and learning practice. Open Praxis, 7(4), 351-361. Retrieved online http://www.openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/227
• Wiley, D. (2012) Openness and the Future. ETS Future of Assessment Conference. Presentation available: http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/openness-and-the-future-of-assessment
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius
Learning Technologies Application Developer
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning
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