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DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATIONTECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNING

April 2012

Sesame Project

Tutor briefing session

Plan for today

Welcome and overview of the project and OER

Using open.conted.ox.ac.uk: technical and practical issues

Copyright, IPR and open licensing

What resources can I release?

Creating resources: how to podcast

OER definitions Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials

that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.

(OER Commons) “…teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public

domain or have been released under an intellectual property licence that permits their free use or re-purposing by others.”

(Atkins, Brown and Hammond, 2007)

“Anything that I can identify, that I can scavenge from somewhere else, that might make my teaching a little bit easier.”

(OER Impact Study, 2011)

OER at Oxford

Oxford has been producing OER since 2009 through www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ and the OpenSpires project

Across the University

Perhaps best know through iTunes U

Background

Requests for a web presence from weekly class tutors

OER and Departmental mission

JISC funding

The Sesame project

Aims to create and provide Open Educational Resources (OER) for teachers and learners globally through the work of the weekly class programme

Specifically the project aims to:

Help you find out how using and creating OER can benefit you and your students

Enable your students to find and use appropriate, validated online resources in their work

Improve your skills and confidence in identifying, using and creating OER

Embed open ways of working in the development and delivery of weekly classes

Widen access to Oxford's teaching to new audiences globally

What will participating in this project involve? Put selected supporting materials for your course online and

license them as OER

Indentify additional resources produced by others (whether OER or not) and collect them together with your OER

Provide some additional information about the resources you select and produce, to make it easier for others to discover and reuse them

You can benefit from:

Providing online resources for your course to enhance the learning experience of your students

Training/personal development opportunities in creating and working with OER

Disseminating your teaching materials via University of Oxford-branded portals, such as the iTunes U site

Getting global recognition for your work at Oxford

Your students can benefit from:

Access to more learning materials, selected by experts as relevant to their course

Improved access to high quality resources outside of the classroom

Increased awareness of the wide and growing source of high quality, freely available learning resources, for both their coursework and future self-study

Improved digital literacy skills

The opportunity to contribute to collecting and producing open content for their course

Other benefits

Broadens access to education in and beyond Oxford

Improves quality

Can improve productivity

Markets your current and future courses

Enhances reputation of the Department

Using http://open.conted.ox.ac.uk/

Overview of the site Registration Course view Subject view Keywords view Adding resources Adding links Editing a course Describing resources Adding keywords and subjects

What resources can I use and release?Copyright basics Much as in print Risk Management Remember you can use things you cannot release e.g. CLA

This is a complex topic so I will not try to summarise – see handout on IPR copyright, licensing and OER, and briefing documents

What types resources can I release?

Presentations Handouts Worksheets Podcasts (audio recordings) Videos Images, pictures or diagrams Reading lists or bibliographies Assignment questions or tests

Anything student can learn from

Conditions

the work should be your own original creation

all the content must be lawful and not, for instance, defamatory, likely to incite racial hatred, or pornographic

if it includes material created by others, such as images or video clips, these must be appropriately licensed for re-use

What is open licensing?

Licenses to make it easier to use others’ work in your teaching and learning (or for them to use your work)

Best known is creative commons (cc)

There are various cc licenses: Sesame will use BY NC SA

What does this mean?

What are the conditions?

Attribution Author must be acknowledged on all copies and adaptations of the work,

including a link to the original version of the work


Non-commercial The work can only be used for non-commercial purposes


Sharealike The work can be modified and adapted, but the entire resulting work

(including new material added by the adaptor) must be distributed under the

same sharealike licence

What does adaptation mean?

Your authorship will always be acknowledged Re-use must avoid ‘derogatory treatment’ meaning adaptation that risks

having a detrimental effect on your reputation

Your rights You retain the copyright over your work (unless it is already owned by your employer). You can do whatever you want with your work. You can grant others the non-exclusive right to distribute your work, even

commercially. You can ask for your work to be removed from the Discovery point and it will be

immediately taken down. However, you have no rights over any material which has

already been downloaded and is in use elsewhere. This is a key term of the CC

licence which enables users to have confidence that their right to use CC licensed

material will never be revoked. You can take legal action if you know of anyone using your work outside the terms of

the licence, for instance by failing to credit you or for obtaining commercial gain from

it. You are protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act,1988 and can take legal

action if you know of anyone subjecting your content to derogatory treatment,

distortion or mutilation.

What else can I post on open.conted.ox.ac.uk Links to useful websites Links to primary sources Links to related courses

Whether OER or not

How to mark content for attribution

To avoid confusion put the attribution you want on your resources

Make sure you get the credit for your work

This work by Your name is licensed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.

Attribution information will also be in the platform

Looking at automating this for images

How to attribute

Not always clear Acknowledge originator and link back to original Open attribute tool http://openattribute.com/

Chrome Firefox Opera

Example

Chawton Manor

© Copyright Peter Trimming and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

Work found at http://www.geograph.org.uk/reuse.php?id=1160151 / CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)

Finding resources: OER

UK universities JORUM: http://www.jorum.ac.uk/ Oxford: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/open Open University: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

US universities MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu Yale: http://oyc.yale.edu/

Portals http://www.oercommons.org

Digitisation Project Guttenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org

Images Flikr cc search: http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?

Finding resources that are not OER but are still valuable Sites you use Digitisation

Primary sources – letters, documents Cultural institutions

Museums Libraries Newspapers BBC

Media Audio - iTunesU Video – Youtube.edu

Where will project OER end up?

In the Department’s “open” homepage - which will be developed and expanded from the lessons learnt in this pilot

In the University’s podcasts.ox.ac.uk portal

In Jorum - a UK HE national repository

If appropriate, in iTunes U

We don’t know?

Creating a podcast

Why?

Most people can read faster than they can listen…

Variety of format

Doing other things (radio)

To get a sense of the ‘expert’ as a person

Form

Keep it short

Again, think radio

More chance of recording in one take

Style

Listeners want to hear *you*

Keep it conversational, don’t worry about the occasional ‘um’ or ‘er’

It helps to imagine that you are only talking to one other person

Preparation

Make some notes but don’t script it too tightly

Try to avoid mentioning specific dates/times

Workout how to begin – ‘Hello, I’m…’

Workout how to end – ‘So that’s all about…’

Find a quiet place

Don’t expect your second take to be an improvement

Editing

Simple ‘top and tail’ editing

Free software – for example: ‘MP3 Cutter and Editor’

http://goo.gl/6Nkfi

Next steps

Read briefing note and, if you are happy, sign

Register for an account at http://open.conted.ox.ac.uk/

Let us know what courses you want a site for (see information with your contract)

You can upload resources and links

Further information

Project manager Marion Manton Email: [email protected] Phone: 01865 280986 Location: Ewert House

Website: http://www.tall.ox.ac.uk/research/current/sesame.php JISC OER Programme: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer/

References

Content JISC OER infoKit: https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com OpenSpires project: http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/

Images Genie in an oil lamp.

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonzhang/3217242929/) / shannonzhang (http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonzhang/) / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

Screenshots: http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/

This work by the Sesame Project is licensed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.

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