OER for ELT, BBELT 2014 (Mexico)

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OER can help English teachers share and develop content to meet the needs of students and trainee teachers.

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OER for ELTShared Knowledge

Fair Use

Laura Sagert, CIDE laura.sagert@cide.edu

CC-BY 3.0

What are OER?

UNESCO, 2002Paris Declaration, 2012…teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.

What types of OER exist?Written Texts

Media + other information

TextbooksArticlesBlogsCourse syllabiLecture notesTests . . .

PicturesVideosAudio . . .

Grammar and vocabulary exercises

Corpora (FLAX) . . .“… anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them” (UNESCO, 2002)

What is meant by FREE?gratis vs. libre

FREE AS IN BEER = GRATISPhoto credit: Jacob Fenger (Fengergold) (2006). Free beer tap in Bolzano. Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/42934556@N00/245866252/. CC-BY 2.0.

FREE AS IN FREEDOM = LIBRE

Photo credit: Oddsock (2006). Rainbow Freedom 1. Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/28648431@N00/255199017 CC-BY 2.0

Understanding “openness” in education

Video credit:

Nadia Mireles (2012). Open Education Matters: Why is it important to share content? CC BY 3.0

http://youtu.be/dTNnxPcY49Q

Why does “open” matter? Shared content can be improved upon.

It can reach people who would not normally have access to such information and can be changed so as to be of the most benefit possible to specific audiences.

The costs of use are limitedin the sense that we don’t need to pay license rights for each student.

**Video credit: Nadia Mireles (2012). Open Education Matters: Why is it important to share content? CC BY 3.0http://youtu.be/dTNnxPcY49Q

Freedom to do what?

Legal useRespect

To think about: What are we teaching our students?

A. Use the work of others B. Change the work of othersC. Permit others to use ‘our’work

Show full respect to the intent of the original author(s)

Use: The 4 R’s Framework• Use “as is”• Modify to

suit the needs of specific learners

• Combine with other content

• Share / publish

David Wiley (2009). Defining “Open”. http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1123re copies CC By 3.0

CREATESHARE

REUSE

REVISE

REMIX

RE-DISTRIBUTE

Respect and Permission:

Copyright and Open Licenses

What do we mean by copyright?Standard Copyright(Berne Convention)

“Open” licenses

Automatic (fomal registration of work not required)

Life of creator + 50years or more; anonymous work, 50 years after publication

Permission from copyright holder (s) is needed to reproduce a work , or segment of a work, in any form.

Fair use?All rights reserved

DeliberateCessation of rights by the

copyright holder(s)PartialComplete Not necessary obtain

permission as long as specifications are respected.

Some rights reserved

From Resource to OER: OPEN LICENCES

a. Retain copyright but grant some permissions (partial cession of rights): copy, modify, publish, distribute, *sell

b. Cede all rightsExamples Creative Commons Licences, Open Government Licenses (UK, Canada), GNU General Public Licence (Copyleft), MIT License, Apache License

Public Domain

How to grant permission or cede rights?One option: Creative Commons Licences

Public domain CC0

Attribution CC BYAttribution, Share Alike CC BY-SAAttribution No Derivatives CC BY-NDAttribution, Non-Commerial Use CC BY-NC

CC BY-NC-SACC BY-NC-ND

Learn more or apply an open license to your work: creativecomments.org

Why Use OER?

• Time • Variety• Access• Learning community• Set an example

Teachers tend to be busy people; we don’t always have time to create resources, especially if we need to start from scratch. Image credit: Urs Steiner (2011)

stoney_steiner_multitaskinghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/62790932

CC BY 2.0

TIME

VARIETY, BREADTH, AND RICHNESS Real knowlege is to know the breadth of one’s ignorance. —Confucious

Photo credit: Karen H. 2010. Fruit. CC BY 2.0http://www.flickr.com/photos/47409110

Photo credit: Ella Novak (2010) Fruit in a Basket. CC BY 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/82547169.

Different Resources

New Ideas

ACCESSOnline at any time

Offline all the time?

Image credit: Mike Licht NotionsCapital.com (2010). Surfing the Web. CC BY 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/9106303@N05

Photo credit: Daniel Lobo / Daquella manera (2004). Escuela rural. CC BY 2.0http://www.flickr.com/photos/daquellamanera/74820634

Communities of practiceComments: Peer review, constructive criticism

Sharing: Learners and content creators; intended and unintended audiences.

Image credits: Nadia Mireles (2012). Open Education matters: Why is it important to share? CC BY 3.0http://youtu.be/dTNnxPcY49Q

Setting an example?A “teacher’s friend”?

How many of the copies that we make for our students are fair and legal?

Photo credit: Dani Luire/ Dani P. L. (2006). Photocopy Monotony 02. CC BY 2.0. http://www.flickr.com/photos/82567897@N00/1439017

Using OERa. Ready-to-use content

(Check the quality!)

b. Bits and pieces to build upon in designing your own course materials

c. Exercises for students (reflect, combine adapt: active learning)

d. Evaluate your own work (benchmark)

Student-centred exercises

Pieces to build on, and to help you

reflect on your own workThe instructional design process and the OER life cycle

Source: http://col-oer.weebly.com/module-6---the-oer-life-cycle.html . Last checked 4/03/2104

Finding OERPortals and gatewaysInstitutional repositoriesWeb-search

Challenges of sharing OER Fear: The “risks” of peer comments.

Selection: What to share? How to do so? How to

be sure we have the right to share out work? (Do we “own” our work?)

Format: Ease of access vs. ease of modification

Accesibility: Where can we share content other

can find? Site, blog, repositories?

Motivation: Why bother?

Shared knowledgeFair use

Image credit: Giulia Forsythe,(2012). hy Open Education?: BCcampus #OERforum

@opencontent. CC

BY-NC-SA 3.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8100966908/

Links: Exploring OERLearning more about OER

Repositories & search engines

COL Open Educational Reosurces OER (one-day workshop materials)

JISC Open Educational Resources infoKit

Commonwealth of Learning (COL): Publications

UNESCO: OER

Commonwealth ConnectsConnexionsMerlot IIOER Commons

CC Search-Creative Commons

OER Dynamic Search Engine

University Learning = OCW+OER = Free

Sample used in session:Mexico’s Popocatéptl: to flee or not to flee

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