1. Open educational resources
and LeMill
Hans Põldoja
University of Art and Design Helsinki
hans.poldoja@uiah.fi
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Francisco, California, 94105, USA.
http://www.hanspoldoja.net
3. Educational resources and
copyright laws
• Limitations of current copyright laws
• Fair use principles are not clearly regulated
10. Where to find open content?
• Wikipedia: http://www.wikipedia.org/
• Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/
• Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
• Common Content: http://commoncontent.org/
• OER Commons: http://www.oercommons.org/
17. What is LeMill?
• Web community for finding, authoring and sharing
open and free learning resources
• Open source server software developed in EU 6FP
project CALIBRATE
• Learning Mill
18. What LeMill is not?
• Virtual learning environment or learning
management system
• Learning object repository
• Environment for creating and running automated
tests
20. Design session results
• Teachers are not very
interested in raw text
material
• Teachers are
interested in activities
and methods
• Learning resources
can be divided to
content, activities and
tools
35. Simple licensing scheme
All resources created in LeMill
are published under Creative
Commons Attribution-
ShareAlike 2.5 license
Media pieces can be also:
- Public Domain
- GNU FDL
36. More than content
• Methods
• Tools
• Collections
• Teaching and
learning stories