This is a refresher course designed to remind participants in the MELO 3D project how to use Creative Commons licenses in their work.

1. OER
Refresher
MELO 3D Project
CC: BY-SA "Sharing" bengrey
Emily Puckett Rodgers
Open Education Coordinator July 11, 2012
Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Copyright 2012 The Regents of the University of
Michigan.

2. Today's To Do
CC: BY-SA 3.0
• (Open Education?)
• Why we chose it
• How to apply it to our work
Creating open learning
objects
• Open from the start CC: BY-SA "
My son explains life with this simple to-do
• Places to find content
list." by Tom Ray (Flickr)
• Editing content

3. WHY CC: BY-SA 3.0
Open Access?
Open Access as the freedom of users to “read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to
the full texts of articles, ... or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal or
technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the Internet itself."
Open Education?
Active participation between teachers and learners, collaborative
Creation and use of OER, transmission and use of ideas and pedagogy
Policy that supports Open Education
Open Educational Resources?
"Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium
that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their
free use and re-purposing by others."

4. WHY CC: BY-SA 3.0
Copyright holders hold exclusive right to do and to
authorize others to:
① Reproduce the work in whole or in part
② Prepare derivative works, such as translations, dramatizations, &
musical arrangements
③ Distribute copies of the work by sale, gift, rental, or loan
④ Publicly perform the work
⑤ Publicly display the work
US Copyright Act of 1976, Section 106

5. WHY CC: BY-SA 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

6. WHY CC: BY-SA 3.0
develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that
maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.
Attribution
"You can use my stuff, but you need to give me proper credit if you use it."
ShareAlike
"If you change my work, you must apply this license to your new version."
3.0
This license will work across the world, in other legal jurisdictions, including
U.S.

7. Creating open learning objects:
Open From the Start

8. Creating open learning objects:
Open From the Start

9. Creating open learning objects:
Open From the Start
Access + Adaptation + Reuse + Transparency +
Participation + Learning Objects + Pedagogy
+ Assessment +
=
Powerful Innovation
(MELO 3D!)

10. HOW CC: BY-SA 3.0
Where do you put it?
• Title page
• Footer or "Creative Commons
• Works Cited Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0"
• "Bumper" or "CC: BY-SA 3.0"
• Description
Standard Disclaimer
Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Copyright 2012 The Regents of the University of
Michigan.
More Info
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking

11. Creating open learning objects:
Open From the Start

12. Creating open learning objects:
Open From the Start
1. Choose a license for your own work, apply
it to your work.
creativecommons.org/choose
1. Use work with permission to use.
search.creativecommons.org
1. Properly attribute or cite work you didn't
create.
Author, Title, Source (URL), License (URL)
1. Share your work in publicly available
places
Open.Michigan, MERLOT, etc.

13. Creating open learning objects:
Retroactively Open
What if you're using a
mixture of CC
licensed content or
Fair Use content?
CC: BY "Question Box" by [F]oxymoron

14. Creating open learning objects:
Editing Content
• License (choose)
• Gather (find)
• Assess & Clear (analyze)
• Edit (annotate, delete, replace)
• Review (tidy up)
• Publish (visible) More Info
open.umich.edu/dScribe

15. Creating open learning objects:
Editing Content
Assess and Clear (analyze)
1. Retain
2. Replace
3. Create
4. Remove & Annotate
Remember copyright,
endorsement, privacy

16. Creating open learning objects:
Editing Content
Retain: Public Domain
Keep objects when it is clearly indicated or known that the content object is in the public domain. For
example, a book published in the U.S. before 1923, such as Gray's Anatomy, is the public
domain.
Retain: Permission
Recommended when you have been given expressed permission to use the object. This action is
appropriate when the object is licensed under Creative Commons or the the object was created
by someone else who gave special permission for it to be used.
Retain: Copyright Analysis
Recommended when you come across an object for copyright status or permission is unknown, but
you have reason to believe that it is legally acceptable to use it anyway for your purposes.

17. Creating open learning objects:
Editing Content
Replace: Search
Recommended when it is easy search for Creative Commons (CC) or public
domain replacements.
Search http://search.creativecommons.org/
Replace: Create
Recommended if you would like to create a content object with a different
expression but the same meaning as the original copyrighted third party
object.

18. Creating open learning objects:
Open From the Start
1. Choose a license for your own work, apply
it to your work.
creativecommons.org/choose
1. Use work with permission to use.
search.creativecommons.org
1. Properly attribute or cite work you didn't
create.
Author, Title, Source (URL), License (URL)
1. Share your work in publicly available
places
Open.Michigan, MERLOT, etc.

19. Creating open learning objects:
Places to Find Content
CC Licensed Content Advanced Search
o Khan Academy
o OpenCourseWare Mixed Content
Consortium collection o Open.Michigan (U-M)
o TED Talks o MERLOT
o Al Jazeera o OER Commons
o Public Library of Science o YouTube/Education
o Connexions
o College Open Textbooks o Vimeo
o Flat World Knowledge
o Digital Culture (U-M)
o Open Humanities Press (U-M) For a more comprehensive list:
open.umich.edu/wiki/Open_Content_Search

20. Questions?
From me to you
What else are you working on that you want
to share?