Find, Use, Remix, and Create Open Learning Materials Enriching Scholarship, 6 May 2011 Susan Topol, Kathleen Ludewig Omollo Image from opensourceway (flickr) under a Creative Commons BY-SA licenseflickrBY-SA Copyright © 2011 The Regents of the University of Michigan Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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“Openly Licensed?” comes from the definition...
OER Definition: “Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and − under some licenses − to remix, improve and redistribute.” Wikipedia: OER,
OER Definition: “Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to remix, improve and redistribute.” Wikipedia: OER,
What types of materials can become OER ? Classroom Materials: including lecture presentations, reading lists, syllabi, etc. Websites Videos Image Collections Software Textbooks Blog postings
The difference between: Open Course Ware (OCW) and OER.
MIT OpenCourseWare,
OCW focuses on sharing open content that is developed specifically to instruct a course OER includes any educational content that is shared under an open license, whether or not it is a part of a course
OCW // OER - overlap OER OCW OCW, single images, general campus lectures, image collections, singular learning modules, paper or article syllabi, lecture notes, presentation slides, assignments, lecture videos - all related to a course
More about licenses later... Open Licenses make it all possible.
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benefits of OER: for faculty
recognition for their teaching publish and promote their resources connect with other collaborators extend their reach and visibility
benefits of OER: faculty perspective from University Ghana (UG) The U-M Medical and Dental schools collaborate with several African universities for health OER
faculty perspective from UG In their own words: (2 min)
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Our mission is to help faculty, students, and staff maximize the impact of their creative and academic work by making it open and accessible to the public.
What does OER look like?
“Thanks! This may well help me to pass my tests tomorrow! ” “Thanks, this is a better explanation.. my teacher's powerpoint is not so good.” “This is great stuff - and a good break from just reading my book.”
Open.Michigan Usage Stats for One Month: (12/4/10 – 1/3/11) 77% New Visitors 24% Return Visitors 4574 Total visits 129 Countries (US, China, India, UK, Canada are top 5)
So, what makes these OER?
So, how do I create OER?
what is OER? why OER? open.michigan generate OER use remix create group activity: find
It's easiest to create open content from the start.
Start now by making a small change in how you create your own content.
what is OER? why OER? open.michigan generate OER use remix create group activity: find
Pop quiz
True or False: In order for an object to qualify for copyright protection, it must be marked with a (C) symbol False. See: The Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 (BCIA).
True or false: A work must be published and registered in order to be granted copyright protection. False.
End pop quiz
“Open Licenses”
OER *mostly* uses Creative Commons Licenses
Creative Commons
OER Creative Commons: licenses
X X
Some rights reserved: a spectrum for OER least restrictivemost restrictive Public Domain All Rights Reserved XX X
What does this mean for you?
Find, Use, Remix, and Create Open Learning Materials Enriching Scholarship, 6 May 2011 Susan Topol, Kathleen Ludewig Omollo Image from opensourceway (flickr) under a Creative Commons BY-SA licenseflickrBY-SA Copyright © 2011 The Regents of the University of Michigan Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
When possible, use only: Openly Licensed (or Public Domain) Content
Where to find openly licensed or public domain media:
An option for finding health OER
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BY: betsyjean79 (flickr)flickr Hmm…
60 add some extra information in the attribution: : author name : link to content : license name : link to license
BY: betsyjean79 (flickr)flickr On Slide
OER Let’s do it right from the start. CC: BY-SA Phil McElhinney (flickr)flickr On Slide
Lady Finger Learning about Orchids phalaenopsisphalaenopsis CC:BY audreyjm529 (flickr) Phalaenopsis Lady Finger OrchidLady Finger Orchid CC:BY aussiegall (flickr) A Phalaenopsis hybrid A Phalaenopsis hybrid CC:BY-SA Zizonus (flickr) On Slide
Additional Source Information Slide 3: Janeway. Immunobiology : The Immune System in Health and Disease. Current Biology Ltd./Garland Publishing, Inc Slide 4: Spinach is Good” Center for Disease Control; Life Magazine. January 17, 1938; rejon, Slide 5: Goody Two Shoes - McLoughlin Bro's (New-York) 1888 Slide 6: Jot Powers, “Bounty Hunter”, Wikimedia Commons, CC: BY-SA EXAMPLE At the end of the presentation
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what if you want to make your *existing* work available as OER?
what types of third-party (i.e. created by someone other than you) objects might you have in your content?
what should you do with them?
possible actions :: retain : keep the content because it is licensed under an Open license or is in the public domain :: replace : you may want to replace content that is not Openly licensed (and thus not shareable) :: remove : you may need to remove content due to privacy, endorsement or copyright concerns
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Open Attribute: Creative Commons Attributions made easy
Install Open Attribute
HTML version New Zealand, Clouds pm / Sarah Macmillan / sa/2.0/
Plain text version New Zealand, Clouds pm ( / Sarah Macmillan ( / CC BY-NC- SA 2.0 (
Are you looking for open content for a particular topic? If so, what topic? What types of materials are you seeking (e.g. images, videos, presentation slides, case studies)?
Here’s what you asked for: “I am frequently looking for images to use in my presentations. I know how to use the Creative Commons search engine, but I never seem to find images that really work. Blogs that I read frequently use great images that have creative commons license, but I can never really seem to find what I'm looking for.” “I’m a GSI for an interdisciplinary intro level science course. I'd like to be able to make our lab intros a little more exciting. So, where I can find open learning materials on intro astronomy, geology, evolution, ecology and ecosystem ?
Lots more Open Content on our Wiki!!
Back to your Requests… Astronomy (from Wikibooks): Geology (from MIT OpenCourseware): sciences/ introduction-to-geology-spring-2008/index.htm sciences/ introduction-to-geology-spring-2008/index.htm Forestry (found by searching Directory of Open Access Journals Evolution (from WikiMedia Commons):
closing remarks
It's easiest to create open content from the start.
By making a small change in how you create your own content…
…and licensing your creations as OER…
…you can gain recognition, publish and promote your research and teaching materials, connect with collaborators, and preserve and apply knowledge.
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Find more material online at Many slides in this presentation were produced in collaboration with Garin Fons, Pieter Kleymeer, Kathleen Ludewig Omollo, Greg Grossmeier, Emily Puckett Rodgers, and Susan Topol.