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Open Educational Resources
Image from the Hewlett Foundation (CC BY)

2.
Are you reinventing the wheel?
OR ARE YOU USING
EXISTING EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES?
DO YOU KNOW WHAT’S OUT THERE?

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Copyright
Previously copyright was binary
All rights retained vs public domain
restricted vs open
Copyright Public
Domain
©
PD

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Copyright
Now alternative licensing options
Internet enables …
Copyright Public
©
Some rights reserved Domain

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Carpeted Commons by Brett Taylor (CC BY)

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http://wikieducator.org/File:Recyclethis-185807557.jpg
Sunshine Connelly (CC BY)
Open lock from OpenUCT initiative (http://openuct.uct.ac.za/)

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Licences offer different options
Source: Hodgkinson-Williams, CA, & Gray, E (2008) Degrees of Openness: The Emergence of OER at UCT. Centre for Educational
Technology, University of Cape Town

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Licence terms and conditions Choosing our licence online

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International pioneers
 MIT open courseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
and MITx http://mitx.mit.edu/
 OpenLearn (UK Open University):
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
 Khan academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/
 iTunesU, e.g. http://itunes.stanford.edu/ or
http://www.open.edu/itunes/ or
http://web.mit.edu/itunesu or
http://itunes.ox.ac.uk/ or
www.cam.ac.uk/video/itunesu.html

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Physics content online
 MIT http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics /
 Khan University: http://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics?k
 The best Physics videos found on the web:
http://bestphysicsvideos.blogspot.com/
 Open University: http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/Science/UCT-Physics-
Course-1-Laboratory-2nd-Semester-2011
 Physics textbooks:
http://www.oerafrica.org/ResourceResults/tabid/1562/mctl/Details/id/
36933/Default.aspx OR
http://www.oerafrica.org/ResourceResults/tabid/1562/mctl/Details/id/
36948/Default.aspx

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http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/
http://openuct.uct.ac.za/
and http://www.oerafrica.org/

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CPUT case study
 Over to Anton Thiart, Civil Engineering

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Created by Shihaam Shaikh (CC BY-NC)

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Compfight
Opening our eyes to images
Quick images from Flickr
http://compfight.com/
http://www.flickr.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brooklyn_museum/
Photo by Veronica Mitchell http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
http://search.creativecommons.org
/
http://www.google.co.za/imghp?hl=en http://www.sxc.hu
http://www.cadyou.com/
http://www.openimages.eu/blog/
http://www.picdrome.com/
http://compfight.com/
http://www.3dmodelfree.com/
http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%27s_Anatomy
http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/
http://openclipart.org//
All Screenshots are used for review purposes only.

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http://search.creativecommons.org

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What does this mean for us as students?
Access widened
Copyright
Respect Attribution

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Myths
We can use images from the internet:
• as long as we’re not making a profit
• we acknowledge the url
• there is no logo on the image
• it’s just in the institution

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Truth
We can use images from the internet:
• if permitted by author
• if allowed for by the licensing terms
e.g. Creative Commons
• when open – public domain

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Caution / Protection
Copyright needs
to be respected
Images public domain

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Summary on
Copyright
 Internet is changing http://www.flickr.com/photos/loop_oh/4313629167/
By Rupert Ganzer (CC BY-ND)
the way we learn
 Open space with the worldwide web
 Wider options through connectivity
 Legal considerations are essential
 Self regulation is vital

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Are we
respecting & valuing
Copyright ?
Thank you
OER4Us by Veronica Mitchell and Nicole Southgate is licensed
Under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 South Africa License
Except for images from third-parties, where the appropriate license has been stated.

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Other useful links
 Copyright free or CC images
 http://www.123rf.com
 http://www.compfight.com/
 http://www.sxc.hu/
 Copyright free or CC sound
 www.opsound.org (for royalty free sound tracks)
 http://www.jamendo.com/en/
 Referencing
 Keep a list of the name of the image, the author and link where you
found the picture, e.g.
 Little girl in Cambodia (b&w) by James Khoo found on
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jameskhoo/2474356739/
 Downloading videos from YouTube
 http://www.real.com