3. I use an awful lot of images to
get my point across, up on the
screen…those images will
have come from different
sources and I have concerns
about copyright for filming.
‘Jane’
20. why does it matter?
accessibility costaffordances
customisation translationsdemand
21. ByTimGreen,Flickr(CC-BY)
2001 MIT OpenCourseWare
2001 Budapest initiative
2002 Jorum
2002 UNESCO Forum
2005 OpenCourseWare Consortium
2006 Khan Academy
2007 OECD global report
2007 OER Commons
2008 Cape Town Declaration
2008 OER Africa
2008 First MOOC
2008 Uni of Oxford on iTunesU
2009 P2PU
2009 JISC/HEA projects
2011 Washington State
2012 edX, FutureLearn
2012 OpenStax textbooks
2012 UNESCO Paris Declaration
2013 School of Open
2013 White House directive
2013 Open Education Alliance
2013 OERu
2013 OER Wales
2014 Leicester City Council
movement milestones
23. what one thing will you do
as a result of this session?
http://pollev.com/dompates
24. sources
Author interview with ‘Jane’, City University London
www.creativecommons.org
en.wikipedia.org
stateof.creativecommons.org/2015/
www.slideshare.net/cgreen
timemapper.okfnlabs.org/okfnedu/open-education-timeline
oerpolicy.eu/postcard-from-the-oer-workshop-in-porto/
noun project icons by yu luck, pham thi dieu linh, rflor and gerald wildmoser
with very special thanks to @cgreen and @jsecker for their input, help and inspiration
Notes de l'éditeur
I’m Dom Pates, an Educational Technologist at City University
Am also a consumer and producer of various forms of digital media
Session is a brief introduction to a few ideas about flexible uses of digital media in HE
Assume all from HE, but talk fairly broad anyway if not
Session intended to be quite interactive, so some participation from you expected
Hope that there will be something you can take away and apply
Ask questions where something is unclear, otherwise questions at end if time, or via Twitter after session
Activity 1: [show of hands] Who is an academic? Technologist? Librarian? Student? Administrator? Other?
Will be using Poll Everywhere for questions/some interactions
If you don’t have internet-enabled mobile device, make a friend that does
Activity 2: [PE] At my place of work/study, I use and/or produce…
Interviewing one of our lecturers last year (we’ll call her ‘Jane’)
Conversation turned to whether she used lecture capture or not (she didn’t)
Question: What was the elephant in the room that she, and many others like her, was concerned about?
Answer: Copyright
- As last poll showed, you all regularly use or produce copyrighted works in your work or study too
Question: Any copyright lawyers here? No? Me neither.
Copyright can feel like a bit of a minefield at times
Let’s talk a little bit about what it is
Form of intellectual property, granted at point of creation
All rights reserved – you have to ask me if you want to use my work
Grants owner of creative work exclusive rights for the usage and distribution of an original work
Duration typically limited to author’s lifetime + 50-100 years (depending on jurisdiction)
Most jurisdictions recognise some limitations, such as US’s ‘fair use’, the past 15-20 years have seen considerable expansion in the reach and enforcement of copyright law
Simultaneous with the rise of the Internet – ‘the world’s greatest copying machine’ (Doctorow)
For Jane, copyright is a problem
In the case of lecture capture, it stops her being able to share her resources (and therefore knowledge) with her students in a certain way
Let’s assume that for at least some of you, copyright is also a problem
For example, you’re not sure what you can or can’t do with other people’s copyrighted work
This talk is interested in what you can do rather than what you can’t do
Legally, copyright sits at one end of a spectrum of usage rights
On the other end, sits the public domain – ’no rights reserved’ – e.g. Shakespeare
Until 15 years ago, there was nothing in the middle
Now, we have ‘some rights reserved’, or…
Activity 3: [show of hands]
Never heard of Creative Commons
Heard of but don’t know much about it
User of Creative Commons
Non-profit, est. 2001
Provides open copyright licences
Creators can use for sharing works whilst specifying how they should be used
Consumers can also use CC-licenced works with fewer restrictions than ‘all rights reserved’
Compliment to traditional copyright rather than a replacement for it
Licence elements
Attribution: you must be credited for any use of the work, similar to academic referencing
ShareAlike: any new creations must be licenced under the same terms
NonCommercial: others can do anything with your work but make money directly from it
NoDerivatives: when used, the work must not be changed
Licences are instances or combinations of these elements
Another spectrum of usage
From least freedom to most freedom
With all licences, original creator must be credited
Three-layer design
Legal Code layer: the language and text formats that lawyers know and love
Commons Deed layer: user-friendly interface to the Legal Code
Machine Readable layer: CC Rights Expression Language (CC REL), for software, search engines, etc to understand
- If time, also show Google search result
For those interested in publishing their own work (for reputation building, seeing their work used, getting paid work or simply for contributing to a shared global culture)
However…
Make sure your work can be licenced
Make sure you have the rights
Make sure you understand how CC works
Be specific about what you are licencing
Does your institution/organisation allow you to CC-licence your works?
Talked about consumption and publication of digital media
Let’s look next specifically at education
Activity 4: [audience responses]
Let’s try a little word association…
This openness, synonymous with the rise of the Internet, is one reason why HE is no longer the gatekeeper of knowledge it once was…
More simply, ’education is sharing’ is as it always has been
Examples:
Worksheets
Textbooks
Lesson plans
University courses
More about teaching and learning than research
Activity 5: [ask audience why OER matters]
Accessibility: eBooks that can be read by devices for the visually impaired
Affordances: cost of copy/distribute/store of digital things effectively free
Cost: Student debt ever increasing
Customisation: Can change materials to suit own needs
Demand: Increased global demand for HE
Translations: Your work in other languages, other works in yours
Also opportunity to promote own work/manage ’digital reputation’ or use online resources responsibly
The OER movement…
(If time) I’ll take a few questions from the audience.
If no time or for follow-ons, I’ll take questions over Twitter.