Creative Commons, Copyright and Education Part 1. The OpenSpires Project Lisa Mansell & Rowan Wilson OUCS November 2009

iTunesU Launched October items in 171 RSS podcast feeds 1.5 million downloads in a year 2 Oxford podcasts in Top 5 global downloads For personal use

Supported by the HEA/JISC Open Educational Resources pilot programme, two main objectives: (1) Delivering podcasts as ‘Open Content’ – For global re-use and redistribution provided it is used non-commercially and the creator is attributed – Creative Commons licence

(2) Explore and report on the institutional implications – Academic colleagues will be fully supported to make informed choices – Share outcomes with the UK HE community

Motivations Access Outreach – material openly available for teaching, learning and research A use of technology that reflects what is unique about Oxford Fits with Oxford’s strategic mission, objectives and values

On-line Innovation in Higher Education Professor Sir Ron Cooke, Chair of JISC Board, 2008 Recommendations “1) a new approach to virtual education based on a corpus of open learning content: the UK must have a core of open access learning resources organised in a coherent way to support on-line and blended learning by all higher education institutions and to make it more widely available in non- HE environments. This needs to be supported by national centres of excellence to provide quality control, essential updating, skills training, and research and development in educational technology, e-pedagogy and educational psychology. "

The Capetown Declaration (September 2007) …calls for "educators, authors, publishers and institutions to release their resources openly". in order to bring about "a global revolution in teaching and learning.“

Another argument: avoiding duplication of effort Why should educators world-wide build many, many different versions of the same fundamental educational materials? Is education world-wide being held back by this massive duplication of effort? Concentration on ‘differentiating’ features It makes sense both ethically and economically to share educational materials.

Why are we telling you this? Teaching and assessing ‘Open Content Literacy’ is an important part of our project We want to help you understand the core concepts We want to help you understand how to find and assess resources We want to know what you think of the resources – how useful might they be? We want to know how best to help people develop ‘open content literacy’

More information? – Questions? – Want to get involved? –