Creative Commons Cheat Sheet for Higher Education by Jonathan Poritz. CC BY SA 4.0. From the abstract: “What folks working in higher education in the US need to know about Creative Commons licenses, the version of copyrights which most reflects the values of the academy.” More information about Open Access A Very Brief Introduction to…
How education institutions can support open education content, practices, and community with policy. Big Question / Why It Matters Education institutions around the world are trying to figure out how to support their educators, staff, and learners in using, revising, and sharing OER, with new open education practices, and the communities that sustain them. How…
Large parts of this course are about creation, both how it works from a legal perspective and more practically, how we learn by making and creating something. In this unit we will explore and practice how to create OER so they can have biggest impact and be used without any legal or technical barriers. Big…
We live in a visual and vibrant culture that requires educators to provide relevant learning resources in the classroom, though finding and reusing others’ great works is not always simple. Librarians play an important role in discovery, development, description, licensing, curation, and sharing of Open Educational Resources (OER), as well as in advocating for and…
Open education is an idea, a set of content, practices, policy, and community which, properly leveraged, can help everyone in the world access free, effective, open learning materials for the marginal cost of zero. We live in an age of information abundance where everyone, for the first time in human history, can potentially attain all…
Open access content is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions on reuse. Open access stands in contrast to the existing “closed” system for communicating scientific and scholarly research. This current approach is slow, expensive, and ill-suited for research collaboration and discovery. And even though scholarly research is largely…
As the role of libraries evolves and expands in our fast-changing information environment, expertise in open licensing is a crucial asset for the modern librarian. Creative Commons licenses are the most popular open licenses among open education and open access projects around the world. CC licenses enable OER and OA. This unit will introduce you…
Note that some of these resources draw from differing definitions of OER. Creative Commons Cheat Sheet for Higher Education by Jonathan Poritz. CC BY SA 4.0. From the abstract: “What folks working in higher education in the US need to know about Creative Commons licenses, the version of copyrights which most reflects the values of…
How education institutions can support open education content, practices, and community with policy. Big Question / Why It Matters Education institutions around the world are trying to figure out how to support their educators, staff, and learners in using, revising, and sharing OER, with new open education practices, and the communities that sustain them. How…
Openness in education brings the potential for co-creation and learning through active participation in how knowledge is produced. Learning Outcomes Explain how copyright restricts pedagogy Understand the three definitions of open pedagogy, open practices, and OER-enabled pedagogy, and describe how open licensing enables each List examples of OER-enabled pedagogy in practice Big Question / Why…