OCW, OER and Open Content Licensing

Open
Education
Stephanie Verbeken
@stephanie_vrbkn
Teaching & Learning Dept.
KU Leuven

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Content
<1> Introduction <1>
<2> Open Education / Opencourseware <2>
<3> Copyrights & Licensing in Open Content <3>
<4> Opencourseware @ KU Leuven <4>

Who am I? • Instructional Designer @ KU Leuven
• Project assistant in the Educational Project
"OpenCourseWare KU Leuven"
• Interests:
• open learning and opencourseware
• open educational resources
• distance learning
• open content licensing
• teacher trainings
• Contact:
• stephanie.verbeken@kuleuven.be
• @stephanie_vrbkn
• Slides will be provided to you at
http://www.slideshare.net/stephanieverbeke
n

What is OpenCourseWare?
• Free • Digital (online)
– as in 'free beer' • Accessible to anyone
– as in 'freedom': • Interdisciplinary use
• REUSE: copy
• REDISTRIBUTE: share
• Quality criterium
with others (social control)
• REVISE: edit and adapt
• REMIX: develop new
combinations
Willem Van Valkenburg http://www.e-learn.nl/


OCW OER Open content
OpenCourseWare Open Educational Resources
Open Courses Text Open Access
Static images Wikimedia
Dynamic images OpenOffice
Video OpenSource
Sound Wikipedia
Scientific Articles Slideshare
Tables, graphs, sprea Youtube
dsheet Flickr
... ...

1Willem Van Valkenburg http://www.e-learn.nl/

"A course is package of educational materials starting a particular point in the
knowledge spectrum, designed to lead to greater understanding of the issue or topic"
Willem Van Valkenburg http://www.e-learn.nl/

OCW

-seal:
study guides to guide
course takers: how
OER to get from A to B?

• could be an original sourse (or course)
• because of the 'sharing character' of OER and
OCW
– translation
– combination of several courses (whether they are
orginal or not)
– etc...

cfr. 4R's1 1David Wiley http://slideshare.net/opencontent

Overview of the most • OpenCourseWare Consortium
important players in the
'Open Education Market' • William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation: $ !
• Massive Open Online Courses:
aims large-scale participation
• OER Commons: knowledge base
for use and development of OERs
• Learning Object Repositories:
digital library for OERs
• Open Access (scientific articles)
• Directory of Open Journals (doaj)
• EdX (MIT/Harvard/Berkeley)
• Coursera
• Kahn Academy

Why be Open in A lot (and good  ) arguments:
education?
• technical argument
• political argument
• economical argument
• evolutionary argument
• educational argument

By the way...
Something is in it for you...

Technical argument

knowledge, experiences,
feedback, knowhow, criticism,
insights, respect, engagement,...

papers, practice
examples, insights, criticism, resp
ect, answers to
questions, engagement,... (and
sometimes hard questions)
Education and sharing can't be without one another!
David Wiley http://slideshare.net/opencontent

Political argument

• Why should someone have to pay to get
education!?

 Open Access! Open publishing! Open courses!

Why Open Education matters.


Economical argument

• Will editors' businesses crash?
– Research1 shows evidence that in many cases the
sale of books increases when an online version is
offered open (and for free)
• Exposure
– organisational level
– individual level

1Hilton, J., Wiley, D. (2010). The short-term influence of free digital versions
of books on print sales. Journal of Electronic Publishing, 13(1)

Revolutionary argument
• Receiving feedback  benefits for your own
students
• Enhance innovation and creativity
• 4R's of Openness
– reuse = copy
– redistribute = sharing
– revise = edit & adapt
– remix = combine with other resources

Educational argument

• Presence in educational world
... and way beyond

Over 260 institutions and organizations worldwide
supporting open sharing in education!

OCW, OER and Open Content Licensing

Educational argument

• Presence in education world
... and way beyond
• (Re)orient students
• Own students: stumble courses
• Flipped classroom
• ...

What's in it for you?
• OCW as a user
• OCW as a content provider
– Be part of the Open Community
– Exposure / Networking
– Educational advantages

Yeah... but... Opening up courses sounds
great, but what happens with the
licensing of content?
Who receives credits for the courses I
develop?
What with using Copyrighted
materials...?

First of all... ... I'm not a lawyer.

Secondly There is a solution!

www.creativecommons.org

Creative Commons Licensing =
Source: Cable Green http://www.creativecommons.org

"A simple, standardized
way to grant copyright
permissions to your
creative work."

Easy-to-use, standardized

licenses and public domain
tools that allow creators to
publish their works on
more flexible terms than
standard copyright

Step 1: Choose Conditions

Attribution

ShareAlike

NonCommercial

NoDerivatives


Step 2: Receive a License


least free
most free


3 layers


“human readable” deed


“lawyer readable” license

“machine readable” metadata


My Photo by
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Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at
<a rel="cc:morePermissions"
href="http://ozmo.com/revenue_sharing_agreement">OZMO</a>.

175+ Million CC Licensed Photos on Flickr


Higher Education

http://search.creativecommons.org

CC BY licensed • PhET Interactive Simulations
OER sites
• Connexions
• OpenStax College

• Curriki
• Open Course Library
• Saylor.org
• OER Africa

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Case_Studies

Want to know more? Open Course (using Moodle) on
OERs, copyright and Creative
Commons licensing

See:
http://wikieducator.org/Open_content
_licensing_for_educators/About

(3 - 14 December 2012)

Think about it... • If you would open your educational
resources, which license would be
1. think about it individually suitable in your context?
o micro context?
o macro context?
2. discussion in the group

• Why?

What is OpenCourse- • Open Courses, freely accessible
Ware to us at
KU Leuven? • Include all educational resources
that are part of
a course:
o course texts and other materials
o lectures (weblectures)
o study guide
o selftests
o coursespecific materials
• Using a Creative Commons
License CC-BY-NC-SA
• No accreditation or qualification
(university)

Pilot Courses in the • 5 pilot courses
Educational Project
o Out of 8000+ Blackboard
courses
o Different characteristics when it
comes to
• didactics
• content
• (especially) target groups
• Technical: Development of a
website (Plone), including all
educational resources
o content
o learning process

The five pilot courses
Pentalfa
Professionalisation for
Faculty of Medicine Flemish physicians (LLL)

Moral Philosophy
Bachelors course
Faculty of Philosopy

Web Literacy

Faculty of Arts Bachelors + Masters course
Faculty of Psychology & Educational Sciences

Instructional psychology and Technology
Bachelors course + used in
Faculty of Psychology & Educational Sciences Teacher Education at KU Leuven

Technology for Society
General course for several
Faculty of Engineering Science Bachelors and Masters studies

The learning process in • Study guide provides all
OpenCourseWare information about acquiring
knowledge and competences in
open course
o exercices with keys
o selftest with keys
o FAQs
o (discussion forum?)
• Study guide ≠ ECTS-form:
o advice in learning process
o links to other OERs and
interesting materials

OCW KU Leuven
Showcase

Click.

Other OCW providing • www.coursera.org
websites
• http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
• www.udacity.com
• http://ocw.tudelft.nl
• and so so many more...

Contact
st ephani e.ver beken@
kul euven.be
ocw@kul euven.be

@st ephani e_vr bkn
@ocw _kul euven

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