OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES:

an art historical mishmash of

the benefits and challenges

Katherine TaylorOctober 2013

Hey, didn’t we eat

mishmash last night

for dinner?

Searching for relevant and valuable Open

Educational Resources can be frustrating

Who owns this image? Exact photographic copies of two-dimensional public domain

works of art are not copyrightable under U.S. law because such images are not original, yet years after this 1999 ruling, copyright for

many such images continues to be asserted

First, the challenges . . .My value has

been established, but am I not also my own

woman?

Searching for Open

Educational Resources

involves time

There is a lot of available

material, though it’s not all in one

location, and some disciplines

may require more research

than others

Pack a

lunch

Support for Open Educational

Resources may be difficult to sustain:

After one-time start-up funding

disappears, providing support may prove

challenging and expensive; quality

may veer off-course

Dang! There

goes our start-up money!

The non-revocable nature of Creative Commons licenses

may prove somewhat challenging

Sweetie, no one expects you to

understand licensing – but just try to

remember that you can stop offering your

other work under a

CC license.

The potential of Open

Educational Resources is

not well understood, and some may even

feel it threatens

their ownership of intellectual property

Oh no! What’s

happening to my

intellectual property?!

Open Educational Resources saves money for students!

Textbooks are so *!

#$*&! expensive

!

Now we can

afford clothes!

However, on the plus side . . .

Open Educational Resources offers a broad selection of high quality material

So many choice

s!

It’s making

me giddy!

Open Educational Resources offers course material in varied presentation methods for teachers and

students alike

I’ll take whatever is behind

the curtain.

Not me. I’m going for what’s

in the bowl!

Open Educational Resources allows teachers (especially from small or remote

schools) to feel connected with a broader community

The world is bigger than you

know

There’s no one else around

Open educational resources = education for all

What are Americans? I have so much to learn

Even America

ns.

9. Byzantine Empress Theodora mosaic: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Public+Domain+byzantine+mosaic&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=public+domain+byzantine+mosaic&sc=0-17&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&id=059A0EE6769CE8D62126C497D02C9CCC53606C82&selectedIndex=142

10. Michelangelo Sistine Chapel fresco: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Public+Domain+michelangelo&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=public+domain+michelangelo&sc=0-18&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&id=14FCE68ACD7B7FA8CCD83AB164B1D0FFA8D56881&selectedIndex=2

11. Raphael School of Athens: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Public+Domain+raphael+school+of+athens&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=public+domain+raphael+school+of+athens&sc=0-0&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&id=79454D411F7DC38BF53583DD53AFEA65CFA4DF56&selectedIndex=5

6. Edvard Munch The Cry: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=public+domain+paintings&qs=SC&sk=&FORM=QBIR&pq=public%20domain%20pains&sc=8-19&sp=1&qs=SC&sk=#view=detail&id=197198EB12498A977E795F742BC1F2902D848137&selectedIndex=6

3. Japanese wood-cut: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=public+domain+paintings&qs=SC&sk=&FORM=QBIR&pq=public%20domain%20pains&sc=8-19&sp=1&qs=SC&sk=#view=detail&id=60DF3132D598639BC961A948A04050AF9E90004C&selectedIndex=48

8. Still life genre painting: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=public+domain+paintings&qs=SC&sk=&FORM=QBIR&pq=public%20domain%20pains&sc=8-19&sp=1&qs=SC&sk=#view=detail&id=C691BD6459365E4F9505E5B7C09889CDBD60D328&selectedIndex=157

5. Mary Cassatt: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=public+domain+paintings&qs=SC&sk=&FORM=QBIR&pq=public%20domain%20pains&sc=8-19&sp=1&qs=SC&sk=#view=detail&id=29BA0A840549769728B73CCF292CE8D065AD02FC&selectedIndex=304

1. Grant Wood American Gothic: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Public+Domain+grant+wood&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=public+domain+grant+wood&sc=0-15&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&id=663C7FA1F23D187446C5470A60FF1D4516F5DC66&selectedIndex=0

7. Bourguereau Bacchus: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Public+Domain+paintings&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=public+domain+paintings&sc=7-23&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&id=9816A1F15D4E56764B703A64E0BB5DB345E6F954&selectedIndex=155

Public domain addresses used:

4. Rembrandt Storm on the Sea of Galilee: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Public+Domain+rembrandt&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=public+domain+rembrandt&sc=0-17&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&id=BBE507E0AF4D5B5F14399CF2AE57668FB698C9EE&selectedIndex=13

2. Leonardo Mona Lisa: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Public+Domain+leonardo+mona+lisa&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=public+domain+leonardo+mona+lisa&sc=0-0&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&id=C109F845913FBF1EC2EA8291E1053B9021963717&selectedIndex=4