Creative Commons, Copyright, and eTextbook Authoring

“At the heart of the movement toward open educational resources is the simple

and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology

in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary

opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse it.”

~ Hewlett Foundation

OER: The Drive for All-Access Education

Introduction to OER: What It Means

● Does OPEN mean FREE?

● Does OPEN mean MINE?

● Does OPEN mean EASY?https://pixabay.com/en/question-mark-question-response-1019820/

Introduction to OER

"OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.” ~ The Hewlett Foundation

courses (MOOCs) course modules & materials e-textbooks

classroom lecture recordings professional development rubrics

assessments tests interactives

software games born-public-domain works

Creative Commonshttps://creativecommons.org/

Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons Licenses

Least restrictive Most restrictive

CC BYThis license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.

CC BY NCThis license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

CC BY NC NDThis license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

CC BY SAThis license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

CC BY NDThis license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.

CC BY NC SAThis license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Source: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ used under CC BY

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Creative Commons Licenseshttp://creativecommons.org/choose/

To download licences: https://creativecommons.org/about/downloads/

Copyright

Intellectual property is usually divided into two branches:

● Industrial property- include patents to protect inventions, and industrial designs, trademarks, service marks, layout-designs of integrated circuits, commercial names and designations, as well as geographical indications, and protection against unfair competition.

● Copyright - relates to artistic creations, such as books, music, paintings and sculptures, films and technology-based works such as computer programs and electronic databases. Also known as author’s rights.

eText Authoring Tools

Authoring tools are software applications used to develop eLearning products. They generally include the capabilities to create, edit, review, test, and configure eLearning. These tools support learning, education, and training by enabling using distributed eLearning that is cost-efficient to produce, and that facilitates incorporating effective learning strategies and delivery technologies into the eLearning.

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eText Authoring Toolshttp://ebooks-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

Introduction to OER: What’s Happening

http://www.campuscomputing.net/goingdigital2016

Challenges of OER

https://openclipart.org/detail/227122/3d-circular-arrows

https://openclipart.org/detail/168287/simple-globe-search

Finding OER

Sustainability

“Open” defined

Locating OER

Defining OER

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/What_is_OER%3F

Evaluating OER

What’s Happening in OER

http://www.openeducationweek.org/

Resources

● http://davidwiley.org/

● http://lumenlearning.com/

● http://openedgroup.org/

● https://www.opencontent.org/

● https://degreed.com/

● http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

● https://www.canvas.net/

● http://crln.acrl.org/content/73/6/334