Slides presented to new teachers in our Bachelor of Education Program at Vancouver Island University. Provided an overview of the landscape for content creation, fair dealings, public domain, embeddable content, and Creative Commons

1. The Liberating New World of Open
Educational Resources
Michael Paskevicius
Learning Technologies Application Developer
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning
Vancouver Island University
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Title credit: Kimmons (2016)

2. Embeddable
content
Social media
A diverse landscape for content
creators and educators

3. • I’ll use the resources available to the school
• I’ll supplement school resources with anything useful I find
regardless of copyright
• I’ll seek permission for resources I find that fall under copyright
• I’ll use fair dealing allowances to make use of resources I need
• I’ll seek openly licensed or public domain content
What’s your strategy for creating learning resources?
Vote here: http://bit.ly/EDTE500

4. Copyright basics
• Copyright applies to all works created
• Copyright is assumed automatically
and immediately
• Fair use allows for the use of some
copyright protected works with
limitations

5. Online DOES NOT EQUAL openly licensed!
Pixel | Flickr - Photo Sharing! : taken from -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37408217@N08/5025870260/ Author: filin
ilia - aliyo.hu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en

6. © Cancels the Possibilities
Of digital media and the internet
Internet
Enables
What to do?
Copyright
Forbids
Wiley, D. (2012) Openness and the Future. ETS Future of Assessment Conference. Presentation available:
http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/openness-and-the-future-of-assessment

7. • an educational institution or a person acting
under its authority for the purposes of
education or training on its premises may
reproduce, communicate by
telecommunication and perform for
students, works that are available on the
Internet, subject to various conditions
UBC Copyright Modernization Digest
Fair Dealing Guidelines
Copyright: Key Questions & Answers for Teachers
Updates to Copyright Act and Fair
Dealing in Canada (Bill C-11)

8. Open Educational Resources
Shared
Shared freely
and openly to
be…
Used
Improved
Redistributed
… used by
anyone to …… adapt / repurpose/
improve under some type
of license in order to …
… redistribute
and share again.
Open content / open educational resources (OER) / open courseware are educational
materials which are discoverable online and openly licensed that can be:

9. Who is involved?

10. The Open Movement
A broad landscape of open educational resources
Open Source Software
Open Access Research
Open Licences
Open Science
Open Society
Open Educational
Resources
Open Data

11. Alternative Copyright Licensing

12. State of the Commons 2015/2016
https://stateof.creativecommons.org/
https://stateof.creativecommons.org/2015/

13. Explore Creative Commons Licensed Works
For more see:
http://creativecommons.ca/
https://ciel.viu.ca/learning-technologies-innovation/developing-using-media-content/finding-using-open-educational-resources/creative-commons-licences
Freely and legally accessible resources for reuse and remixing in creative works

14. Recap: What makes an OER?
• Educational curriculum, materials, or
mixed media
• Discoverable online as they are shared
freely and openly
• Openly licensed (usually Creative
Commons)
• Can be legally used by anyone to
repurpose/ improve and redistribute

15. Courseware Text & Multimedia ImagesVideo
Open vs. Closed Resources

16. A good starting point: OER Commons

17. Open textbooks for K12: Siyavula

18. B.C. Open Textbook Project
Brigham Young University faculty survey seeks to advance open
education through academic libraries | Flickr - Photo Sharing! : taken
from - http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/6555466069/
Author: opensourceway http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-
sa/2.0/deed.en
“B.C. is leveraging 21st century-technologies and
licensing to ensure its citizens have affordable
access to high-quality post-secondary textbooks.
Open licensing on publicly funded content
ensures the greatest impact for the public dollar.“
Dr. Cable Green (Creative Commons)
https://open.bccampus.ca

19. Creative Commons Search

20. https://wordpress.viu.ca/openeducationalresources/
VIU Open Education Referatory

21. Attributing Creative Commons
https://twitter.com/Mattclare/status/331429150143430659/photo/1
Author, Title, Source, URL to source, URL to license
MIT OpenCourseWare
Nuclear Systems Design Project | Nuclear Science and Engineering | MIT
OpenCourseWare: from - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/nuclear-engineering/22-033-
nuclear-systems-design-project-fall-2011/ Author: Dr. Michael Short
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/deed.en_US
Wikipedia
Vancouver Island University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: from -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Island_University
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Nope!

22. Which of these is the most frequently cited
reasons for using OER
• To enhance professional development
• To provide electronic learning material to students
• To prepare for teaching
• To supplement existing content
• For ideas and inspiration

23. Most frequently cited reasons for using OER
• To enhance professional development (28%)
• To provide electronic learning material to students (35%)
• To prepare for teaching (52%)
• To supplement existing content (59%)
• For ideas and inspiration (67%)
Jhangiani, R. S., Pitt, R., Hendricks, C., Key, J., & Lalonde, C. (2016). Exploring Faculty Use of Open
Educational Resources at British Columbia Post-Secondary Institutions. BCcampus Research Report.
Retrieved from https://bccampus.ca/files/2016/01/BCFacultyUseOfOER_final.pdf

24. What becomes possible using OER?
• Free access to online resource in a variety
of formats
• Editing, localization and remixing of
content for local context
• OER as source for building online courses,
activities, assessment
• Course content can be shared and
promoted openly on web, social media, etc.
Jhangiani, J. (2015) Douglas College PD Event: The Desirable
and Inevitable Shift Towards Open Pedagogy and Open
Science. Retrieved from
http://www.slideshare.net/rajivjhangiani1/the-future-is-open-the-
desirable-and-inevitable-shift-towards-open-pedagogy-and-
open-science

25. What do we lose when using OER?
Jhangiani, J. (2015) Douglas College PD Event: The Desirable
and Inevitable Shift Towards Open Pedagogy and Open
Science. Retrieved from
http://www.slideshare.net/rajivjhangiani1/the-future-is-open-the-
desirable-and-inevitable-shift-towards-open-pedagogy-and-
open-science
• Perceived high quality of publisher generated
texts
• Ancillary materials included with textbooks (slide
decks, simulations, test banks, activity sheets,
etc.)
• Potential familiarity and history with frequently
used resource

26. Research on Potential OER impact
Significant potential for impact on:
• student performance and satisfaction
• inspiring new approaches to teaching and learning
• more equitable access to educational resources
• critical reflection on practice by educators through exposure to OER
Lesser impact:
• student retention
• institutional finances
Weller, M., de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R., Pitt, B., & McAndrew, P. (2015). The impact of OER on
teaching and learning practice. Open Praxis, 7(4), 351-361. Retrieved online
http://www.openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/227

27. Ignore Explore
Use with
intent
Contribute
Open Educational
Resources

28. Developing an OER for this course using Wordpress

29. Multiple student sites aggregated to parent
site (individual reflections, blogs, thoughts,
useful resources, etc.)
Set up your site on
https://studentblogs.viu.ca/ (locally hosted)
or
https://wordpress.com/ U.S. hosting
We will use FeedWordPress to aggregate your
posts automatically to:
https://wordpress.viu.ca/edte500vieira/

30. Embeddable Content
You can embed content from any of
these popular websites on your
Wordpress site
Simply paste the URL onto any post
or page
Embedded content is not a copyright
breach, however:
• Do not present the material as if it
is your own
• Cite the author whenever
possible
• Recognize that the resources may
disappear or change!

31. References and further reading
• Jhangiani, R. S., Pitt, R., Hendricks, C., Key, J., & Lalonde, C. (2016). Exploring Faculty Use of Open Educational Resources at
British Columbia Post-Secondary Institutions. BCcampus Research Report. Retrieved from
https://bccampus.ca/files/2016/01/BCFacultyUseOfOER_final.pdf
• Jhangiani, J. (2015) Douglas College PD Event: The Desirable and Inevitable Shift Towards Open Pedagogy and Open Science.
Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/rajivjhangiani1/the-future-is-open-the-desirable-and-inevitable-shift-towards-
open-pedagogy-and-open-science
• Kimmons , R. (2016). The Liberating New World of Open Educational Resources (OER): Copyright, Fair Use, and Open Licensing.
Accessed online: http://live.classroom20.com/archive-and-resources/category/royce-kimmons
• Weller, M., de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R., Pitt, B., & McAndrew, P. (2015). The impact of OER on teaching and learning practice.
Open Praxis, 7(4), 351-361. Retrieved online http://www.openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/227
• Wiley, D. (2012) Openness and the Future. ETS Future of Assessment Conference. Presentation available:
http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/openness-and-the-future-of-assessment

32. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
License. To view a copy of this license, visit
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius
Learning Technologies Application Developer
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning
michael.paskevicus@viu.ca
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