1. An introduction to OER for the Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) Disciplines

2. Aims for this session 1.Provide an overview of the practicalities of OER within the GEES disciplines 2.To help participants to think about how they might engage with the OER agenda

3. What are OER? The Jorum national repository www.jorum.ac.uk/www.jorum.ac.uk/ A place to put OER Jorum contains either: –The actual resources or –A link to the resources The majority of resource in Jorum are freely available under a CC licence to anyone

4. What are OER? According to the JISC, the Open Educational Resources (OER) programme is… “aiming to support UK higher education institutions in sharing their teaching and learning resources freely online across the world. These resources showcase the high quality of UK higher education and our vision is that they will be used, reused and repurposed globally. Such resources might include full courses, course materials, complete modules, videos, assessments, tests, simulations, worked examples or software. The programme will support universities and colleges in exploring processes and policies, intellectual property rights, cultural issues, technical requirements and data management issues.”

5. What are OER? According to the JISC, the Open Educational Resources (OER) programme is… “aiming to support UK higher education institutions in sharing their teaching and learning resources freely online across the world. These resources showcase the high quality of UK higher education and our vision is that they will be used, reused and repurposed globally. Such resources might include full courses, course materials, complete modules, videos, assessments, tests, simulations, worked examples or software. The programme will support universities and colleges in exploring processes and policies, intellectual property rights, cultural issues, technical requirements and data management issues.”

6. Creative Commons Can control whether: Attribution should be given or not Commercial use permitted or not To allow derivatives to be made or not The end user does not have to contact the owner It is NON-TRANSACTIONAL

7. Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/ A way of licensing your material so that you keep copyright but allow other people to copy and distribute your work on the conditions you specify as long as they give you credit

8. Creative Commons Go to www.flickr.com/www.flickr.com/ Search for “commercial jet” Pick an image and find the licence associated with it Can you find a way of only searching for images released under creative commons? When you have found an image can you find details of the CC licence it has been released under

9. Use of images in OER Go to http://images.google.co.uk/http://images.google.co.uk/ Search for “earthquake” A wide range of images are available… …or are they?

11. Use of images in OER You’ve already seen Flickr commons Have a look at the Xpert Attribution Tool (you can Google “xpert attribution”): http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/attribution/ The tool searches for CC images on the web Images are returned with the correct CC attribution appended to the bottom of the image BUT: user beware- critical thinking facilities required!

12. GEES-specific OER The C-change in GEES Project: http://c-changeproject.org.uk/ The Open Fieldwork Project: http://openfieldwork.org.uk/

13. GEES-specific OER Who might the end users of your OER be? “A wide range of interests might use these resources, ranging from professionals who want access to a rigorous resource to evaluate climate change to teachers and students who can develop/use the resources for their teaching and learning. The media may well use the resources to inform their publications.” C-change Project Partner

14. GEES-specific OER It might seem like a lot of effort, but: Enthusiasm for OER may be fostered by articulating the benefits of showcasing the teaching material and research of the individual, department, institution and the discipline. “[potential users include] students researching universities, school students doing projects, interested public, HEI lecturers wishing to develop curriculum in GEES…” C- change Project Partner

15. GEES-specific OER It might seem like a lot of effort, but: “The teaching material we want to post is generated by a cohort of internationally recognised scientists at the cutting edge of climate change research. It will contribute to our general outreach and the global dissemination of the science of climate change.” C-change Project Partner

16. Pros: Provides examples of field sites Provides some form of redress if misused Good to share / self-promotion Reusing in different ways – if there, then easy/useful Not reinventing wheel Good for more complicated formats Saving of time (!) - leads to better quality teaching Ethics – do as I do New ideas Could lead to collaboration Level of permissions clarified Pros and cons of using OER to support fieldwork

17. Cons: Unlikely to find exact resource > > modification needed? Problems with accessing resources in Jorum Time spent searching ≠ time preparing – every second counts Hard to find solid OER – searching is problematic (Jorum) Problems with uploading into Jorum – metadata fields etc + problems with updating Poor / non-uniformity of metadata If creating for OER >> more time needed to ensure CC clear Repurposing harder than creating Mapping >> EDINA data? OS data closely guarded beyond institution firewall If web-based, issue with longevity >> might disappear! Pros and cons of using OER to support fieldwork

18. Fieldwork resources 1.Location-specific (e.g. virtual field trip) 2.Generic: a)Skills or techniques-based b)General information or guidance (e.g. safety briefings, good practice guides)

19. Preparing for open release What would be involved if you wanted to release your own materials as an OER? look though your own resources and identify any elements that you think might need to be cleared for use before open release- eg images (photographs, maps, graphs, figures) Trying to “retro fit” a CC licence to existing material can be time consuming Starting from scratch using you own material and other CC licenced material is often easier

20. Preparing for open release Generic guidance is available from: The OER Infokit: https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/ https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/ The STEM OER Guidance Wiki http://stemoer.pbworks.com/w/page/6111366/STEM-OER- Guidance-Wiki

21. Preparing for open release How can I add a resource to the Fieldwork Education Resource Collection (FERC)? –If it’s available under a CC licence add it to Jorum and the FERC can pick it up and add it the collection automatically

22. Preparing for open release For the Fieldwork Educational Resources Collection to automatically add your resource from Jorum, you can put ‘fieldwork’ (all one word) into the title and/or description. If a position on the map is required, coordinates as decimal degrees in square brackets e.g. [51.785461 -5.10323] should also be included in the description.

23. Use of OS materials in OER Available under Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 2.0 Unported licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc- sa/2.0/ ). Sketch map from a resource created by Dr Gordon Clarke at Lancaster University. Sketch map based on Ordnance Survey map OL41 for the Forest of Bowland and Ribblesdale, scale 1:25,000 (ISBN 0319234703). The same attribution statement must be used if you reuse this image.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc- sa/2.0/

24. Use of OS materials in OER Author: Mike Sanders. Available under Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc-sa/3.0/ ). Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2011 which has been made available under the Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open- government-licence/open-government-licence.htm). The same attribution statement must be used if you reuse this image and where possible a link back to the Open Government licence.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc-sa/3.0/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open- government-licence/open-government-licence.htm To see the range of OS material available as “OS Opendata” Search in Google for “os opendata” – then click the “order” icon (bottom right of web page)

25. If you decide to share your resources we recommend you consider using the following CC licences: Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike Attribution-Share Alike

26. Other Useful Links OER IPR support – http://www.web2rights.com/OERIPRSupport/ http://www.web2rights.com/OERIPRSupport/ Open maps from - http://www.opencyclemap.org/ ( All maps cc-by-sa OpenStreetMap contributors ) http://www.opencyclemap.org/cc-by-sa

27. This short presentation was created by Michael Sanders, Alison Stokes and Yolande Knight as employees of the University of Plymouth and released as an open educational resource as part of the Educational Development Open Resources (EDOR) Project. The EDOR Project was funded by HEFCE as part of the JISC/HE Academy UKOER programme and coordinated by the HEA GEES Subject Centre. This resource [not including logos   is licensed under the terms of the Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/).http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ 1 However the resource, where specified below, contains other 3rd party materials under their own licenses. The licenses and attributions are outlined below: 1.The name of JISC and its logo are unregistered trade marks of JISC. JISC reserve all rights to this item beyond its inclusion in these CC resources 2.The name of the HEA Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) and its logo are unregistered trade marks of the HEA. The HEA reserve all rights to this item beyond its inclusion in these CC resources 3.The screengrab in slide 10 is from the Xpert Attribution Tool, University of Nottingham, http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/attribution/ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/attribution/ 4.The image shown in slide 10 is attributed to ‘Tubbi’ and is provided under CC:BYSA 5.The image shown in slide 23 is available under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Unported licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ ). Sketch map from a resource created by Dr Gordon Clarke at Lancaster University. Sketch map based on Ordnance Survey map OL41 for the Forest of Bowland and Ribblesdale, scale 1:25,000 (ISBN 0319234703).http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ 6.Image in slide 24 is attributed to Mike Sanders. Available under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ ). Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2011 which has been made available under the Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm).http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm