OER Schools Leadership Workshop

Josie FraserICT Strategy Lead (Children’s Capital)

30 November 2015

Agenda

• Leicester City Council’s digital literacy work• Digital resources and schools• Introducing open educational resources (OER)• All about open licenses • Implementing a school policy• Embedding open educational practice• Next steps

www.digilitleic.com

Digital Literacy in Practice

http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/ls/open-education/

“Open licences, including the Creative Commons licences, provide educators and everyone else with a clear, simple way to specify how resources can be used and reused, and how the work should be credited.”

What does an openly licensed resource look like?

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Take a look at the Creative Commons licence

selector

Activity – Creative Commons Licences

Working in pairs, look at the different kinds of Creative Commons licences available. Decide which kind of licence you think is best for your school, and why.

Practical approaches

Alongside the guidance documents, there are six supporting documents, with workshop activities, and step-by-step walkthroughs to help staff find, use and make open educational resources. Resources are packaged in PDF and editable bundles for quick download, and are available from http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/openeducation

Using Flickr to find great Creative Commons licenced images

Using Wikipedia to create free topic books for learners

Leicester City Council has given permission for staff at community & voluntary controlled schools in the city to openly license the educational resources they produce in the line of their employment.

What does the permission mean?

• “Educational resources”• “Openly licence”• Why do we need a local policy in place?• What about voluntary aided schools,

foundation schools (or trusts), and academies?

• Recognising current practice • Digital literacy• Empowering schools and staff• Promoting & sharing great work • Ensuring Public Value• Equality of access to learning for all• Open & collaborative practice

Who owns Intellectual Property Rights to the materials you produce?

• Employees• Students• Moral Rights

Key questions for schools

• Do staff know about open licensing? • Are all staff aware of the new permission?• Which is your schools preferred open licence? • What resources should/could schools and staff

be sharing? • How staff be supported to share work openly?

Key questions for School Governors• Is the local authority the legal employer of your school staff (this will be the case for

community and voluntary controlled schools)? If so, have they got an OER policy in place?

• Do you have a school OER Policy in place? If not, you can review and download model policy documents.

• Do staff at your school know about open licencing? Find out if they are aware of OER and how to find and use them. If not, the OER Guidance for Schools is a great place to start

• How can staff be supported to share their work openly? Sharing work under open licence is a great way of promoting your school, and showcasing high quality work. Staff may not want to share work openly – if not, find out why. Your school community should be proud of its work.

• Find out about the types of open licences available, and the benefits and limitations of these. The Understanding Open Licencing document outlines these. The governing body should play a key role in deciding which type of licence the school recommends for staff.

Why do we need a school policy?

Activity – reviewing the model schools policy

We will work through the model schools policy. Feel free to ask questions and mark up the documents!

Section one: Openly Licensing Educational Resources

Section two: Definitions

Section three: Clarity of Licensing

Page 41 of the OER Guidance for Schools will help you here. The model policy document also has a recommended example of what your licence and accreditation should look like. The Creative Commons licence selector can be useful, but you may want to add information or edit fields.

Section four: Disputes & Commercial Exploitation

Activity: practical issuesScenario A:A staff member applies to you to because they have accepted a commercial offer to sell materials they have developed for their class. How do you respond?

Scenario B: A staff member has created some excellent resources. You suggest they openly licence and share their resources more widely. The staff member refuses point blank.Why do you think they might not want to share their resources?

Scenario C: As Head of Department, you are looking to embed open sharing of educational resources in order to support professional development and collaboration. What key practices would you implement to support staff in sharing their resources?

Thank you!josie.fraser@leicester.gov.uk