Opening the GateHow You and Your Students Will Benefit From a Fast and Easy Way to Create, Collaborate, and Share Your Courses with OER!

So, what is this hands on session about?• OER Is What???• Open License• Creative Commons• Finding Open Educational Resources• Public Domain

OER IS WHAT?????

Have you ever….

• Found something from the internet that could be a perfect resource (image, video, quiz, etc.) for your course, and you spent hours trying to figure out the copyright issues with that resource?

• Struggled to find Terms of Use, and/or author information, so you didn’t know who to contact to get the permission? 

• Wished a resource somehow said “I’m free to use, no strings attached, you don’t need to ask for my permission because it is already granted”? 

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Have What You Can Use, When You Need It• There are millions of educational resources out there that are

available for others to freely use. There are all kinds: full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and many other tools, materials and techniques used to support access to knowledge. 

• Open educational resources (OER) are educational materials that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others (definition by Hewlett Foundation). 

• In other words, OER are: – Format: materials in any medium, digital or

otherwise– Conditions: that either

• resides in the public domain or• has been released under an open license

– Nature: which permits its free use and re-purposing by others

A Side Note on OER if trying to use the “public domain” clause

If it is in the “public domain” I can use it, right?• MAYBE????• Copyrights typically last 95 years, and can be renewed during the

first 28 years for an additional 95 years.• So, if it was created before 1923, then indeed the copyright has

most likely aged off.• Or if the work is between 1/1/1923 and 1/1/1964 then there

MIGHT be a copyright still on the material, however this is an extremely small number of items.

• How about if the work was created/published between 1964 and 1977 ? The copyright has automatically been renewed so you must get copyright permission.

• And finally, if the work is dated after 1977 you MUST receive written copyright permission.

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CCCS Colorado Online Energy Training Consortium Journey to OER

began…….

There Were Many Set Backs to Full Implementation of Using and Creating OER

• Intellectual Property disputes• Quality Assurance • Sustainability of OER • Lack of public and faculty understanding in

OER • Non-revocable nature of Creative Commons

licenses 

So What Really Happened?

We developed a website where each college could effectively “peek” into each other’s courses, www.cccscoetc.weebly.com.  

Did this create a sense of discomfort? Yes! Were instructors reluctant to share? Yes!• However, due to the terms of the grant,

OER publication was not voluntary and all courses must publish under a Creative Commons License 3.0 which basically allows the shared courses to be copied, distributed and remixed.

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Publication to OER had the same “bell curve” as the technology adoption curve: • the early adopters eagerly submitted their courses

whether they were “final editions” or rough drafts.

Baby Steps…..

And then came the Website…..

As the website was built, more and more colleges, were peeking and willing to share. Amazingly, there were five different versions of EIC 130, meeting the same common course numbering competencies, published as OER.

• Instructors and institutions began to see similarities and differences and began contacting each other/other institutions for resources. That contact started a intrastate collaboration on course development, leading to several exemplary course that are now being used system wide.

COETC OER Indexwww.cccscoetc.weebly.com

Types of Courses in OER

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Oil and Gas Technology• ENY101 Introduction to E

nergy Technologies• GIS101 Introduction to Gl

obal Information Systems• NRE214 Environmental Is

sues & Ethics• PRO120 Process Technolo

gy I: Equipment PRO250 Oil and Gas Production I

PSY150 Environmental Psychology

Solar Energy• EIC225 Programmable Cont

rollers• ELT106 Fundamentals of D

C/AC• ELT112 Advanced DC/AC

PRO110 Safety, Health, and Environment

• PRO120 Process Tech 1-Equipment 1

• PRO130 Instrumentation I• PRO131 Instrumentation II• PRO240 Industrial Troubles

hooting

Types of Courses in OER

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Water Quality WQM130 Water Chemistry WQM140 Management and Dist

rict Leadership 

WQM150 Troubleshooting in Water Quality  

WQM206 Design Interpretations of Water Quality Systems

WQM216 Bio/Bacteriological Water Quality

WQM217 Disinfection Techniques in Water Quality Systems

WQM224 Water Certification Review     

WQM225 Wastewater Certification Review      

Wind Energy EIC 101 Job Training and Safety EIC 175 Job and Climbing Safet

y IMA 160 Basic Fluid Power Work Site-Student Procedure F

orms WTG 100 Introduction to Wind

Industry WTG 110 Power & Control Syst

ems WTG 210 Wind Turbine Airfoils

& Composites      

General Benefits of using OER

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Learning effectiveness Better quality or more recent material

Access Wider variety of learning materials There are 750 free online courses from

leading universities that are open to the public

Enhances opportunities for learning Informed decisions as to content and class

preparation Scale

Cost effective Adaptability for individual colleges and

instructors

General Benefits continued….

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Faculty success Avoid “reinventing the wheel” More clarity and/or certainty regarding

reuse of materials Content is compiled and edited by the

instructor Student success

Better quality and easier access Better informed decisions in choosing the

right courses and preparing for class Digital OER textbooks are condensed

Other OER Benefits

Reaches the widest possible audienceEnhances a college’s or university’s

reputation as well as that of the instructorPromotes education for allShares best practicesAllows for peer reviewMaximizes the use and increases

availability of educational materialsRaises standard of educational resources

by gathering more contributorsCourse thoughtfulness stresses

interactivity, problem solving and feedback

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What were the “Real” Benefits?

Building and sharing content among colleges decreased development time and maximized resources

Quality improvements through collaboration, visibility, creativity, and critical thinking

Content is compiled and edited by the instructor Time and effort were saved through the reuse

and remixing of resources Content is adaptable for individual colleges and

instructors

Content was “standardized” among the 7 Energy colleges

New Partnerships Opportunities

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Challenges to Using OER! • Technology• Time• Quality Assessment-Reluctance to “share”

and the reluctance to “accept other instructor’s work”

• Policies on academic freedom, open access licenses (CC BY)

• Evolving Online/Hybrid Pedagogy • Differing LMS’s• Competency-based courses which used

industry supplied manuals for content delivery

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Super Villain by tikigod published under a CC BY-NC-ND-2.0 license

Challenges to Contributing to OER• Technology—OERs are built on the different

platforms such as HTML vs. XML

• Time—Sharing to an OER Repository requires manual recreating of content since SCORM or common cartridges uploads are not standard

• Quality Assessment—reluctance to “accept” others’ work as “equivalent” to their own material or view as “inferior” to publisher created material

• College or Faculty Property—who actually “owns” the content created within a college system?

• If a system owns all material created by faculty/employees while being paid with system funds, can course material be contributed to OER?

• Creating a different CC BY license for each OER published

• No Central OER repository

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Super Villain by tikigod published under a CC BY-NC-ND-2.0 license

THE SEARCH BEGINS….

What is OER, OPEN and Creative Common License?

And where do you start….

You can jump into a search for OER in: • Open Culture• Coursera• National Repository of Online Courses• EdX• Open2Study• Canvas• Connexions• MERLOT

Materials in OER:– Lectures

• lecture captures– quizzes/tests– Handouts– course outline– course description– labs– websites– surveys on

websites– handbooks– FAQs

How do you really know if it is OER?

Let’s investigate the world of licenses, OPEN resources, creative commons and public domain……..

What are licenses?

• A license is a document that specifies what can and cannot be done with a work. It grants permissions and states restrictions. Broadly speaking, an open license is one that grants permission to access, re-use and redistribute a work with few or no restrictions (definition from Openedefinition.org). 

Background of CC Licensing

• In 1983, open source license, a type of license for computer software that allows computer source code to be used, modified and shared under defined terms. – Additionally, other open licenses in the

computer-related areas have been developed, such as open database licenses and open game licenses. 

• In 2001, a group of educators, technologists, legal scholars, investors, entrepreneurs and philanthropists gathered together to come up with a set of copyright licenses that would allow creators to easily share materials that were not software code, such as blogs, photos, films, books, etc. 

• They founded a nonprofit organization called Creative Commons and developed the first set of open licenses in 2002.

What is an OPEN licenseOpen licenses developed for different areas of knowledge (please see the diagram below). Creative Commons licenses are mostly widely used copyright licenses that would allow creators to easily share materials that were not software code, such as blogs, photos, films, books, etc). 

CREATIVE COMMONSThe power of many……

Creative Commons License

• Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. Their free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice. CC licenses let you easily change your copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.” (Definition from Creativecommons.org) 

Creative Commons License

4 Key Elements

CC licenses let you easily change your copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.”  

Combinations of CC Elements• CC BY=Attribution• CC BY-ND=Attribution-

NoDerivs• CC BY-NC-SA=

NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Why Would I Want To Release My Work With A CC License?

• Choosing a CC license is a fast and easy process with a CC license chooser application.

• However, in order to release your work with a CC license your work should be cleared from all copyright issues. To do so, your work should be one or combination of the following types:– your original work,– built from open resources,– built from the public domain, – built from copyrighted work that you obtained

permission to use, or– combination of above works

A Cautionary Note….For any third party materials, whether openly licensed or copyrighted, those materials need to be attributed as not governed by the CC license you chose for your work, but under different terms and by different authors.  If you must use any items that are not openly licensed, please be sure to obtain the permission letters from the authors.

A Cautionary Note:• Creative Commons licenses are non-revocable.

This means that you cannot stop someone, who has obtained your work under a Creative Commons license, from using the work according to that license. You can stop offering your work under a Creative Commons license at any time you wish; but this will not affect the rights associated with any copies of your work already in circulation under a Creative Commons license. So you need to think carefully when choosing a Creative Commons license to make sure that you are happy with people being able to use your work consistent with the terms of the license, even if you later stop distributing your work (text from Considerations for licensors and licensees by Creative Commons, CC-BY).  

• To learn more about basic conditions that you should think about before you apply a Creative Commons license to your work, please read CC Wiki: Considerations for licensors and licensees. 

To Learn More About….• basic conditions that you should think about

before you apply a Creative Commons license to your work, please read CC Wiki: Considerations for licensors and licensees. 

IN SEARCH OF OER

How Do I Find OER When There Is NO Central OER Repository

One place to start:

http://open4us.org/find-oer/

Other Sources for OER

CHAMP Dashboard– http://www.symbaloo.com

/shared/AAAACMSNVS0AA42Agd4JvQ==

OPEN Courses: – Merlot, Connexions, MIT

OpenCourseWare, Open Yale Courses, Harvard Open Learning Initiative, Open Culture, Coursera, OpenCourseWare Consortium, MOOC List, edX, OpenCourse Library,

Videos: – YouTube, Vimeo or the

Internet Archive–

Audio/Podcasts: – Soundcloud or the 

Internet Archive

Presentations:– Slideshare

OPEN Content: – Google Drive– Digital Public Library of Americ

a– PhET– P2PU– OpenStax

DOL OER or OPEN information– http://open4us.org/faq/ – http://open4us.org/resources/cc-

by-license-implementation-deep-dive-resources/

AND THE SEARCH BEGINS

CC Licensed Video Search

1. Go to http://open4us.org/find-oer/.   2. Please scroll down a bit and see the categories. Find

the category that is most suitable for your needs. Since we are looking for a video, click Video Search from the Categories that are highlighted in blue.

3. Let’s try YouTube for now. Simply go to http://youtube.com.  

4. Type in your keyword and click the search button that looks like a magnifier.

5. You will see the list of videos that corresponds to your keyword.

6. To filter these videos and find the CC-licensed ones, click the Filters button and choose Creative Commons under the Features.

7. All of the videos that are released with Creative Commons Attribution licenses will appear. However, you have to double check to see if the video you want is truly CC licensed. To do so, let’s choose one of the videos.

CC Licensed Video part 2

8. Check to confirm if the selected YouTube video is CC licensed, click the About tab and Show more option.

9. At the bottom of the About page, you will see the License option. If it is CC licensed, it will say Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed). If it is not CC licensed, it will say Standard YouTube license. If you wanted to use the videos that are not openly licensed, you must obtain the proper permission from the author.

10. Since this video is CC licensed, it is safe to use in your work.

YouTube is an excellent tool to find CC licensed videos, but try other repositories that provide openly licensed videos (Check under Video Search at http://open4us.org/find-oer/) You may find the repository that serves your needs best.  

**Many content-aggregator websites, such as YouTube and Google Video have significant amounts of copyright-infringing material. Please double check if the video is truly CC-licensed. Some owners might upload their work on YouTube and claim it is theirs (when it’s not) or that it is under certain terms (when it is not). This is just a part of dealing with content on the internet, and the burden is on the user. So, when in doubt, contact the creator or do a little more research.

CC Licensed Image Search

1. Please go to http://open4us.org/find-oer/.2. Scroll down a bit to see the categories. Find the

category that is most suitable for your needs. Since we are looking for an image, click Photo/Image from the Categories that are highlighted in blue.

3. Among repositories appeared, I would choose Flickr.4. Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work

under a Creative Commons license and you can browse or search through content under each type of license. Flickr organized their collection based on the types of CC licenses.

5. Click See more under any types of CC collections.6. Type your keyword in the search window.7. Images will appear. Please click on the image you

need.

CC Licensed Image Search part 2

8. Right-click on the top of the image. You will see the choice of image sizes and the CC logo with a link to the specific CC license the photo is under.

9. Choose the size you need. You will then be taken to the page where you can copy or download the image. 

Another way to search Flickr is via its advanced search (which is what I usually use). There at the bottom you can filter by reuse choice and search by any keyword term you like. This has the advantage of not having to browse for pictures. 

• Try other image repositories that provide openly licensed images (Check under Photo/Image Search at http://open4us.org/find-oer/). You may find the repository that serves your needs best. 

CC Licensed Course Material

There are tons of specific course items that are openly licensed. Whether you are looking for a syllabus, an assessment item, or a whole textbook, it is likely that you will be able to find a quality, openly licensed one. • Let’s say you are looking for an assessment for

the course you are teaching.1. Go to http://open4us.org/find-oer/.2.  Find the category that is most suitable for your

needs, such as an assessment or an activity, choose Complete Course Search, as those items will be part of the complete course package. You can also check Modular Course Components Search.

3. Choose Open Course Library for now.4. Click Courses to browse the course you are

looking for.

CC Licensed Course Material part 2

5. Type your keyword in the search window, or scroll down to find the course.

6. Click BROWSE to see the contents.7. Find the course material. The same logic applies to

almost all other open course packages available. First, find the course listing (usually it says “Courses”), then browse the content and locate the specific course item you are looking for.

 Try other repositories that provide open course materials (Check under Modular Course Components or Complete Course Search at http://open4us.org/find-oer/). You may find the repository that serves your needs best.•  

CC Licensed Textbook

1. Go to http://open4us.org/find-oer/.2. Find the category that is most suitable for your

needs. For an open textbook, choose Open Textbook Search.

3. Choose a search tool. Let’s choose Open Stax College for now.

4. Click OUR BOOKS.5. Browse the books.6. Let’s choose a textbook. Download or view the

content.7. Make sure to always check the license

information.

Try repositories that provide open textbooks (Check under Open Textbook Search at http://open4us.org/find-oer/). You may find the repositories that meet your needs best.

NOW THAT I HAVE CC MATERIAL…AM I HOME FREE?

Not Quite! You will need to attribute a Creative Commons licensed work.

Attributing CC licensed materialRemember, you can use CC-licensed materials as long as you follow the license conditions. One condition of all CC licenses is attribution. The recommended way to attribute the author is that you cite:• Title -  What is the name of the material?• Author - Who owns the material?• Source - Where can I find it?• License - How can I use it?You are obviously using the material for free thanks to the CC license, so make note of it. Don't just say the material is Creative Commons, because that says nothing about how the material can actually be used. Remember that there are six different CC licenses; which one is the material under? Name and provide a link to it, eg. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ for CC BY.*The above content is from CC Wiki, CC-BY.

Let’s Practice Adding An AttributionFor a CC BY licensed image in FlickrYou can do it without asking for anybody’s permission, as this image was released with a CC license, but you would still have to attribute the work in the manner specified by the author. 1. Check the license information to see if the image is

truly openly licensed. – All image repositories offering CC licensed

images, such as Flickr or Wikimedia Commons, have their own way to provide license information. For example, in Flickr it is located on the right corner of the screen under the image.

2. Click the “Some rights reserved” link. You will be taken to the Creative Commons license deed where you can check the type of CC license used.

3. Cite the license link in your attribution, copy the URL of the deed in the browser.

Let’s Practice Adding An Attribution part 2

4. After confirming the image is CC licensed (which means it is safe to use) and copied the URL of the license deed. – To complete the attribution, we need to credit the author by

citing the author's name (or user identification) and the work title.

5. Now put all the collected information (Source, Author, and the License) in a proper attribution. – Please see the example below. Notice that I linked the name

to the person’s profile page and linked the title directly to the original work.

  “Elephant@Amboseli” by Xiaojun Deng is licensed under CC BY

Type Examples of Ideal Attribution

Why

Image Elephant@Amboseli by Xiaojun Deng is licensed under CC BY. 

Title "Elephant@Amboseli" is noted. Author "Xiaojun Deng" is noted and

linked to his profile page. Source "Elephant@Amboseli" is

linked to original Flickr page. License "CC BY" is linked to license

deed.Course content

Module 4: Protein Structure ©2013 Open Learning Initiative is licensed by licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.

Title "Module 4: Protein Structure" is noted.

Author "Open Learning Initiative" -linked to the project page.

Source "Module 4: Protein Structure"-linked to original course content page.

License “CC BY-NC-SA” is linked to license deed.

Derivative work*

This work, "elephant in yellow", is a derivative of Elephant@Amboseli by Xiaojun Deng, used under CC BY. "elephant in yellow" is licensed under CC BY by Brenda Perea. 

Title, Original Author, Source, and License are all noted.

Made it clear that it is a derivative work.

New author of the derivative work is also noted.

Offline document

“Elephant@Amboseli” by Xiaojun Deng is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/>.

Title, Original Author, Source, and License are all noted.

The licensed type and the URL are  spelled out in full.

Type Examples of Incorrect

attribution

Why

Image Elephant Photo: Creative Commons Licensed.

Author is not noted. Creative Commons is not the author of this photo.

There is no link to original photo. There is no mention of the license,

much less a link to the license. "Creative Commons" is an organization.

Derivative work

This work, "Green Banana", is a derivative of “Banana!” by Graham Reznick used under CC BY NC-ND. "Green Banana" is licensed under CC BY by Brenda Perea

 

There is no link to original photo. The original photo was released

under CC BY-NC-ND, which means that the user is not permitted to distribute the modified material.

*Derivative Works: A derivative work is a work based on or derived from one or more already existing works. Common derivative works include translations, musical arrangements, motion picture versions of literary material or plays, art reproductions, abridgments, and condensations of preexisting works. Another common type of derivative work is a "new edition" of a preexisting work in which the editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications represent, as a whole, an original work. To learn more about Derivative works, please read Copyright in Derivative Works and Compilations by US Copyright office.  

What If….You wanted to add a resource that is offered under different CC licenses from the default CC license•  Let’s say you are planning to release your report

with CC-BY license. What if you wanted to add a resource that is offered under different CC licenses, such as CC Attribution-Non Commercial (CC BY-NC) to your report?  In this case, this is how you want to mark your report under the default CC BY license: –  Except otherwise noted, this report by

Hermione Granger is under a Creative Commons Attribution license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

• This means your report is CC BY licensed but it contains some resources that are marked with different licenses, and those resources should be treated as specified by the original author intended. So, even if your whole report is CC BY licensed, the resource with CC BY NC license cannot be used commercially.

An Example of Citing Different CC Licensed MaterialOpen Course Library (OCL) is a collection of many online course packages. While all OCL courses are licensed under default CC BY license, many resources that are offered under different CC licenses (such as CC BY-NC or CC BY-SA) were added to the course materials. Adding "unless otherwise specified" to the statement indicates that there might be other resources marked with difference licenses and they need to be treated as specified by the original author.•   Unless otherwise specified, the 

Open Course Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License 

*To learn more about how to make a good attribution for materials from multiple sources, please visit CC Wiki page.

WHAT…..THERE’S MORE? Yes, content that is in the public

domain.

Public Domain and You

A public domain work is a creative work that is not protected by copyright which means it’s free for you to use without permission. Works in the public domain are those whose intellectual property rights have expired, have been forfeited, or are inapplicable. • Examples include the works of

Shakespeare and Beethoven, The King James Bible, most of the early silent films, the formulae of Newtonian physics, and the patents on powered flight (Text in this paragraph is from Wikipedia, Public domain, CC-BY-SA). 

Open license does recognize a clear ownership of an intellectual property, whereas the intent of public domain is for the copyright holder to waive copyright ownership in the work. Therefore, users are required to attribute the work to the original authors when using openly licensed materials. In a way, public domain is the purest form of open/free, since no one owns or controls the material in any way (this sentence is from Public Domain, CC-BY).

Public Domain is NOT OPEN License

What Content Falls Into the Public DomainCase 1: The term of copyright for the work has expired.• As a general rule, most works enter the public

domain because of old age. This includes any work published in the United States before 1923 or works published before 1964 for which copyrights were not renewed (Renewal was a requirement for works published before 1978). (Text in this paragraph is from The Public Domain by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, CC-BY-NC).

Case 2: It never had copyright protection.• It never had copyright protection or its protection

was lost. A smaller group of works fell into the public domain because they were published without a copyright notice, which was necessary for works published in the United States before March 1, 1989. Thus, if a work published before March 1, 1989 and did not carry a copyright notice, it it is in the public domain.

What Content Falls Into the Public DomainCase 3: The work was explicitly donated to the public domain.• Some works are in the public domain because the

owner has indicated a desire to give them to the public without copyright protection.

Case 4: The work is a work of the U.S. Government.• Works of the United States Government and various

other governments are excluded from copyright law and may therefore be considered to be in the public domain in their respective countries (US Copyright office). In the United States when copyrighted material (created by the federal government) is enacted into the law it enters the public domain. Thus, the building codes, when enacted, are in the public domain. Works produced by third party  contractors with the government may be protected under copyright law based on the contract terms (Text in this paragraph is from Wikipedia, Public domain, CC-BY-SA).

Determining Public Domain Status1. Locate the work's publication date and see if

it is published before 1923. If it is, the work is automatically placed in public domain. Some examples in this category include: – The Household Cyclopedia - a how-to manual

from 1881– The Boy Mechanic: 700 Things for Boys to Do

by Popular Mechanics - illustrations and all in PDF.

– Things to Make by Archibald Williams - projects in carpentry, machinery, kites, and more.

– Archive.org search for "how-to - check before copying to wikiHow because not all of the information is in the public domain.

– The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901-1906)

* (Examples from Wikihow, How to Find Public Domain Materials, CC-BY)

2. Research books that were published between 1923 and Jan 1, 1964. 90% of books during this period are not copyrighted, since their copyright holders failed to extend their copyright. Review the copyright renewal database for details.

Determining Public Domain Status part 2

3. Determine whether the work is eligible for public domain status. If it is a work of the US government and other government agencies, the work may be considered to be in public domain. Some good examples: – Space Educators' Handbook– US Forest Service Fire Effects Database - contains photos and facts on many

species.– NIST Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems– Centers for Disease Control and Prevention– USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory– U.S. Navy - contains good information on knots.– U.S. Department of Defense - some military training books contain good how-tos on

a variety of subjects.– Federal Emergency Management Agency - contains good information on preparing

for natural disasters.– National Transportation Safety Board– National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration– U.S. Geological Survey

* (Examples from Wikihow, How to Find Public Domain Materials, CC-BY).

Determining Public Domain Status part 3

4. If none of the above cases are met, you will have to do research to determine whether the work in question is in the public domain. Please use the guidelines found in Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States, developed by Peter Hirtle at Cornell University. This provides an extensive guide for determining if a work is in the public domain. Watch his video with this guide.

Determining Public Domain Status part 4

Benefits of Using OER

• Saves students money• Access to more quality choices  

– There are 750 free online courses from leading universities that are open to the public. Open Yale courses (from Yale University),

• JHSPH OpenCourseWare (from the Johns Hopkins University)

• Webcast.Berkeley (from the University of California at Berkeley),

• Stanford Engineering Everywhere (from Stanford University),

• MIT OpenCourseWare (from MIT)• Open Learning Initiative (from Carnegie Mellon

University)• Harvard Open Courses at Harvard Extension School

(from Harvard University) 

Benefits of Using OER part 2

• Helps preparation for course and retention of knowledge after course

• More clarity and/or certainty regarding reuse of materials

• Other benefits – Showcases research to widest possible audience– Enhances a university’s, instructor’s, or

researcher’s reputation – Social responsibility – provides education for all– Shares best practice internationally– Allows for peer review– Maximizes the use and increases availability of

educational materials– Raises standard of educational resources by

gathering more contributors

Creative Commons Attribution

Opening the Gate on OER by Brenda M. Perea is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://www.cccs.edu/partnering-for-success/trade-adjustment-assistance/taa-coetc/.

This material was created with funds from the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) Grant awarded to the Colorado Online Energy Training Consortium (COETC).

Some materials associated with this presentation might have been made available through cooperation of the original copyright holder. In these cases please follow the distribution restrictions as defined by the specific material. If you have any questions about the content, you should contact Brenda Perea at brenda.perea@cccs.edu