O E RDelia Browne

National Copyright DirectorMinisterial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs

!http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4378920267/

Slides available @ http://www.slideshare.net/nationalcopyrightunit/

This work is licensed under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia License (unless otherwise noted)

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/au/

“Nearly one-third of the world’s population (29.3%) is under 15. Today there are 158 million people enrolled in tertiary education1. Projections suggest that that participation will peak at 263 million2 in 2025. Accommodating the additional 105 million students would require more than four major universities (30,000 students) to open every week for the next fifteen years. 1 ISCED levels 5 & 6 UNESCO Institute of Statistics figures2 British Council and IDP Australia projections CC BY – C Green 2007

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 licence that permits their free use and re-purposing by

others. CC BY – C Green 2007

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OER: Fundamental Values

–Resources are free for any individual to use

–Are licensed for unrestricted distribution–Possibility of adaptation, translation, re-

mix, and improvement.

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OER in a nutshellOER is about creating repositories of

material which are free to:

AccessUse

ModifyShare

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OER in a nutshellYou can do more with OER as

compared with 'traditional' copyright material

Copyright tensions

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Compliance and Cost Issues• New technologies facilitate access to and storage

and sharing of copyright materials. • This makes copyright a serious issue for the

education sector as it must:– Ensure systems, teachers and students comply with

copyright law

– Manage increasing cost implications

• Eg schools paid c.$80m in 2010 for sector-wide licences (more on direct licences & own content)

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Compliance and Cost Issues• Current to pay to copy/save freely and publicly

available internet content, under the compulsory statutory licence (CAL and Screenrights)

• Current sector-wide licences & statutory exceptions do not necessarily sit well with the current ICT use in education:– content may not be modified

– content cannot be shared widely (eg with parents, community, other schools)

– Limit on how much you can copy/communicate

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Website terms and conditions

Website terms and conditions can be unclear and confusing…or absent entirely

….meaning the intention of the website publisher with regards to educational use of

their site is unknown.

How it works

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalexanderson/6051120264/

A simple, standardizedway to grant copyright

permissions to your creative work.

CC BY – C Green 2007

Attribution

Non-Commercial No Derivative Works

Share Alike

Step 1: Choose Conditions

CC BY – C Green 2007

Step 2: Receive a License

CC BY – C Green 2007

most free

least freeCC BY – Adapted from Green 2007

55 Jurisdictions Ported

CC BY – C Green 2007

Over 500 million items

CC BY – C Green 2007

CC BY – C Green 2007

175+ Million CC Licensed Photos on Flickr

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Global snapshot

UNESCO: http://www.moveoneinc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/UNESCO.jpg

http://www.eifl.net/system/files/201106/oecd_text_20cm_hd_0.jpg

Connexions MERLOTCK-12OER AfricaOER BrazilOER FoundationOLnetWikipediaMozillaPIRGSOLIUniversities & Community Colleges… and MANY others CC BY – C Green 2007

Higher EdCC BY – C Green 2007

Higher Ed

NEW HE Models are En Route

CC BY – C Green 2011

Government

CC BY – C Green 2011 Search and Discovery

OER in Australia

No OER policy

(Commonwealth / State / Territory)

'Free for

(mostly ad hoc)

Education'

© 2011 Education Services Australia Limited

Some OER developments

© 2011 Education Services Australia Limited

Some PSI policies

Digital

(it's big)

education

Time to extend to OER?

Where to start...

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Open Education Resources Some good OER sites include:1. Curriki: http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

2. OER Commons: www.oercommons.org/

3. Encyclopaedia of Life: www.eol.org/

4. Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network: www.ckan.net/

5. Connexions: www.cnx.org/

6. Teaching Ideas: www.teachingideas.co.uk/

The Smartcopying website lists Open Education Resources:

http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/936

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Free for Education Initiatives• A number of organisations have agreed to make their

online material free for education:– Enhance TV Website http://www.enhancetv.com.au

– Museum Victoria http://museumvictoria.com.au

– Cancer Council http://www.cancer.org.au/Home.htm

– World Vision http://www.worldvision.com.au

• Material available on these websites can be copied for ‘educational purposes’.

The Smartcopying website lists FFE websites:

http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/936

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CC sites• Encyclopedia – Wikipedia• Photos - Flickr• Videos - Blip.tv• Music - Magnatune • Sounds - Opsound• Articles - Directory of Open Access Journals• Remix community – ccMixter• Everything else - Internet Archive

References • This presentation – http://www.slideshare.net/nationalcopyrightunit/

• Smartcopying website - http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go

• CC BY SA – C Green 2007 - http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen/sloan-the-obviousness-of-open-policy

• Flickr images - http://www.flickr.com/

• CC in Australia - http://creativecommons.org.au/

• CC in Australian government - http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Government_use_of_Creative_Commons#Australia