open education licensing
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OEL Project
In this Presentation
• Overview of Open Education Practices
• Introduction to the Open Education Licensing (OEL) project
• The research (survey) outcomes
• The OEL Toolkit Demo
• Key Legal Issues
But, before starting…
What does'Open Educational Resource'
mean to you?
Paris ‘OER declaration’
UNESCO 2012 Paris OER declaration:Teaching, learning and research materials in anymedium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the publicdomain or have been released under an open licencethat permits no-cost access, use, adaptation andredistribution by others with no or limited restrictions
The evolution of ‘open’ in higher ed.
• Distance education (anywhere, anytime, no pre-requisites for entry and alternative pathways for exit)
• Universities establish Open Access repositories of scholarly resources
• Open Educational Resources (OER)
• 2012 Year of the MOOC
Online education in Australia
• 2012 – year of the MOOC
• Australian teachers rely on educational statutory licences (in closed environments)
• Australia has no Fair Use
• © & licensing – critical challenge for sector
• Meaning of ‘open’?
• Need understanding of Open Licences – some more open than others!
• OER – 5 Rs – more than just online access!
Copyright in Australia
• Current Australian law less flexible than other jurisdictions
• Purpose-based Fair Dealing / statutory educational licences
• ALRC report on Copyright & the Digital Economy / Productivity Commission – recommend Fair Use
• Exposure Draft 2016 – may simplify educational licences
• Online education will still need Open Licences!
Expansion of MOOCs
• Aust MOOCs / other ‘open’ course offerings steadily increasing
• 7 Aust unis OERu partners
• Business models differ
• Experimenting with payment for add-ons (credit/online tutoring)
• Commitment to Open Licensing for re-use?
’Open’ at Australian universities
Open MOOCs (P2Pu, OERu)
edX
Coursera
Blackboard Coursesites
Open2Study (OUA)
Other (iTunes U, Edcast, Class2Go, Canvas,
Future Learn, OpenLearning etc)
No MOOCs
MOOC platforms used by Australian universities 2014
Open MOOCs (P2Pu, OERu)
edX
Coursera
Blackboard Coursesites
Open2Study (OUA)
Other (iTunes U, Edcast, Class2Go,Canvas, Future Learn, OpenLearningetc)
Open licensing at Australian universities
No MOOC offered
All rights reserved
Open licence (Creative Commons)
University MOOC Offerings in Australia by licensing 2014
No MOOC offered
All rights reserved
Open licence (Creative Commons)
Open Education Licensing project
• Joint Swinburne / University of Tasmania
• 2 yr research & development
• Funding from Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching
Examining OEP in Australian unis
Developing practical info / licensing tools
Project Plan
• June 2015 – Surveyed 389 staff from 38 Austuniversities – 33.9% response rate
• Asked managers / teachers / info experts– Role of OEP in their institution
– Current / planned ‘open’ activities
– Platforms / licences used
– Policy/strategic reasons
– IP issues
• 2016 – used responses to develop OEL Toolkit
Library/Information Management Professionals
22%
Educational/Instructional Designers
18%
Copyright Officers16%
Teachers/Lecturers16%
Senior Executives7%
Administration/Management
staff11%
Technology Professionals
Others3%
Survey Response Groups by Role
Research outcomes/ about the sample
Types of learning and teaching
resources created by others that are
used or adapted
88% of participants use material found openly available on the internet
65% use scholarly publications.
Other popular responses included:
• resources created collaboratively in their organisation
• resources created by colleagues in their institution
• government produced resources
• resources created in another institution
• commercially produced resources
Platforms used by Australian universities to
deliver open educational services
Why are Australian Universities participating in
OER initiatives?
• Enhancing global profile of institution’ (with 59% of
participants saying it was very important)
• Attracting more/new students.
• Innovating design of learning resources
• Exploring new pedagogical practices
• Marketing opportunities
Intellectual Property (IP) issues considered by
Universities when deciding whether to participant
in open education initiatives?
Primary concerns identified were:
• complexity of copyright and licensing (generally) (88%)
• Copyright ownership of material on the internet (83%)
• Understanding of open licences (75.5%)
• Risk of infringing someone else's copyright’ (71%)
Perceptions of copyright ownership
at Universities
A majority of participants (48%) think their institution is the primary holder of copyright regarding to any teaching materials they develop while some rights are granted to them.
30% believe their institution is the sole copyright holder with no rights granted to them.
Overall findings
• Concern about complexity of licensing
• ‘Open’ doesn’t always allow re-use
• If copyright too difficult, resources not developed or disseminated
• Lack of knowledge around licensing
• Policies still being developed
Interactive demonstration
Toolkit sustainability
Toolkit issues – FD R&S
Toolkit issues - employee
Toolkit issues – licence
Toolkit issues – link/copy
Toolkit issues – platform T&C
Toolkit issues – revise
Toolkit issues – moral rights
Support for this project has been provided by the Australia GovernmentOffice for Learning and Teaching. The views in this presentation do notnecessarily reflect the views of the Australian Government Office forLearning and Teaching.
Please attribute the “OEL Project Team” with a link to oel.edu.au
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