OER Overview: How to create open content

/ July 2009

/ OER Hands-On Production

Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.© 2009 Regents of the University of Michigan

Copyright © 2009 The Regents of the University of Michigan

Kathleen Ludewig

Adapted from an earlier presentation by Garin Fons.

Reviewing OER basics

Pre-assessment from OER Module• Q1: What is the distinction between open

educational resources and free educational resources?

• A. You do not have to pay for free resources and you may have to pay for open resources.

• B. Open resources are available only online and free resources can be electronic or paper.

• C. Open resources are free resources but free resources are not necessarily open resources.

• D. There is no difference between the two.

Pre-assessment from OER Module

• Q2: What is the relationship between eLearning and OER?

• A. They are names for the same thing: free online learning resources.

• B. All OER are eLearning resources but not all eLearning resources are OER.

• C. OER is openly licensed and eLearning resources may or may not be openly licensed.

Pre-assessment from OER Module

• Q3: What does the symbol CC BY-NC mean?• A. Conventional Copyright By News

Corporation• B. Creative Commons Attribution Non-

commercial license• C. Creative Commons Attribution license• D. Creative Copyright Burn New Copies

Creative Commons Suite

• CC Zero (most liberal) (waiver, not a license)• CC BY• CC BY NC• CC BY SA• CC BY NC SA (most restrictive)

Pre-assessment from OER Module

• Q4: True or False: Any presentation slides that I would use in the classroom I could also publish as OER simply by posting them online.

• A. True• B. False

Pre-assessment from OER ModuleQ5: You are a professor who is creating an open educational

resource. You are searching for images, articles, and presentations that you can include in your program. Can you use the following in your OER module?:

A scanned photo from a textbook that says © 1989 on the cover page

A. YesB. NoC. It depends

Pre-assessment from OER ModuleQ6: You are a professor who is creating an open

educational resource. You are searching for images, articles, and presentations that you can include in your program. Can you use the following in your OER module?:

A free, online article with no copyright notification (©)

A. YesB. NoC. It Depends

Pre-assessment from OER ModuleQ7: You are a professor who is creating an open educational

resource. You are searching for images, articles, and presentations that you can include in your program. Can you use the following in your OER module?:

An instructional video with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial license

A. YesB. NoC. It Depends

Pre-assessment from OER ModuleQ8: You are a professor who is creating an open

educational resource. You are searching for images, articles, and presentations that you can include in your program. Can you use the following in your OER module?:

A set of presentation slides developed by a colleague

A. YesB. NoC. It depends

let’s generate OER

:: ask the question - how can I (and others) use this content? : while searching for and generating content : while interacting with colleagues

:: discover where to find openly licensed content: open content repositories: your colleagues & students

:: create resources using openly licensed content: and other techniques for annotating content

Slide by: Garin FonsCC BY: Regents of the University of Michigan

Where to find content for OER

• Start from scratch• Build upon your own material• Build upon someone else’s OER

Finding OER content to adapt

Source: Gray’s Anatomy – 1918http://www.bartleby.com/107/

Finding OER content to adapt

Source: http://www.aamc.org/mededportal

Finding OER content to adapt

CC BY NC SA Stanford Medicinehttp://lane.stanford.edu/bassett/index.html

Finding OER content to adapt

See PDF on Open Content Search (in Workshop CD -> Presentations -> References) for some recommended search engines

Marking your OER

What distinguishes your OER from a closed electronic learning resource…

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create resources

:: for third party content include...: author : license information: link to content: link to license

:: for your own content include...: title slide with license & other info: links to content; sources: learning objectives: keywords – discoverability in searches

https://open.umich.edu/wiki/index.php5?title=Open_Content_How-to

Some examples

create resources: This is the original slide with a third-party drawing.

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create resources: This is the converted OER slide.

Orchis galilaea

Learning about Orchids

phalaenopsis CC:BY audreyjm529 (flickr) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

Phalaenopsis

orchis galilaea CC:BY-SA judy_breck (flickr) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

Angraecum viguieri

Angraecum viguieri GNU free documentation orchi (wikipedia)

A little about the hands-on exercises…

Workshop Software• Adobe Master Collection

– Premier Pro – edit video files– Soundbooth – edit sound files– Media Encoder – convert between video formats, including mpg to swf for smaller file sizes– Flash – animations; HTML interface for flash video– Dreamweaver – webpage editing– Photoshop* - image editing– Acrobat Professional* - creating, editing, viewing, and signing PDFs– Illustrator* - poster and graphic design– Plus about half a dozen other applications

• Camtasia – capture videos of your screen; audio- and video- narrated lectures• SnagIt – used for still screen capture; bundled with Camtasia• MediaCoder/EasyWMV – convert avi files from a digital camera into a video format suitable for

Premier Pro

* Not used for the workshop, but are included with Adobe Suite and which may be useful for OER and other activities

Workshop Software – License Information

Trial/demo vs. licensed versions

Licenses• Adobe Master Collection – License is for 1 user. User may have software installed on two

of his or her personal computers, e.g. a laptop and a desktop, but cannot be using the application on both machines at the same time.

• Camtasia (Windows) – License is for 1 user. User may only have the software installed on one machine.

• SnagIt (Windows) – License is for 1 user. User may only have the software installed on one machine.

• MediaCoder – Free and open source software. The user may have the software installed on multiple machines for multiple users. Preferred distribution method of the software is their website: http://www.mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

• EasyWMV – Shareware software. With the demo version, you can convert clips of one minute or less. The full version costs about 15 USD. There are open source alternatives available too.

Workshop CD

• Walk-through CD contents together