Advanced internet searching to find Open Educational Resources Nicole Southgate Education Development Unit Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town Image by shawe_ewahs CC-BY-SA-2.0

They focus on the content of web pages, the words Web spiders crawl the web, build up a list of words that we key in when we search for specific topics Search engines: how do they work? Spider image by:

Google dominates StatCounter Global Stats CC-BY-SA-3.0 Have you ever heard someone say, “Let me Yahoo it?”

Other popular search engines Bing Yahoo! Ask Jeeves YANDEX AOL

Search Tips Keep it simple Use words most likely to be on that page Instead of asking [how good is health care in South Africa?] use the query [state health care south africa] Use descriptive words For a definition type [define asthma] -> dictionary definition will be displayed i

Google Advanced Use advanced search to narrow down your search Navigate to and type in your search terms [asthma treatment south africa]

Google Advanced But, you want to find the Physiotherapy unit at Health Sciences, UCT To the right: click Options > Advanced search Placing quotes around phrases narrows down the search as it restricts results to that exact phrase

Google Advanced Webpage found If you need more specifics, look at the Advanced Search page More parameters with which to narrow your search i

The Google Advanced page

Google Scholar Find journal articles, books on specific topics Your search may lead you to abstracts + -

OER| What is it? Open educational resources (OER) are materials freely available to share, remix, repurpose through Creative Commons Licences Example of OER - MIT All their courses now freely available Reaching every corner of the earth Earth image: CC-BY-2.0 Nasa Goddard Photo and Video

Creative Commons Licensing Traditional Copyright Only two options: Copyright and public domain licences All rights to author Public domain was open CC licences Creative Commons now affords alternative licensing options – Some Rights Reserved CC

A video explaining Creative Commons

Source: Hodgkinson-Williams, CA, & Gray, E (2008) Degrees of Openness: The Emergence of OER at UCT. Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town Creative commons licencing An explanatory video

The internet may have false or misguided information Use articles produced by academic sources instead of the usual generic information – beware of Dr Google! Practicing caution

Useful searches for open content - MIT Open Courseware Shihaam Shaikh’s Slideshare presentation

Example search Compfight Search engine for Creative Commons images Type search term, then Enter Click on “Creative Commons” on the left

Example search Compfight Choose an image Redirected to Flickr - the source of the image On the right is licence information - Click there

Example search Compfight Licence information tells us we are able to Use it – with attribution to author Share – with the same type of licence to it Copy Remix Make commercial use of the work

As students… When using open images in your assignments, always attribute the author and state the license type… …in your references section, include the URL too:

Open videos Not all the videos have the same license. Please look at the permissions / terms of use links for each resource Icons by DryIcons

Summary Creative Commons offers new opportunities for Finding resources Sharing material Adapting resources from others

Acknowledgements and Permissions Cursor image by shawe_ewahs. License: CC-BY-SA-2.0 URL: Spider image by DanieVDM CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0 URL: Search Engine Graph by StatCounter Global Stats CC-BY-SA-3.0 URL: Slide background by specialized666 License: CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0 URL: Surgical glove image by miheco License: CC-BY-SA-2.0 URL: Creative Commons licences image source: Hodgkinson-Williams, CA, & Gray, E (2008) Degrees of Openness: The Emergence of OER at UCT. Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town Earth image by Nasa Goddard Photo and Video. License: CC-BY-2.0 URL: Icons by DryIcons Thanks to Douglas Sias, Veronica Mitchell and Sarah Crawford-Browne for their constructive input

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