Relevance of OER

By Dr. Anamika Ray

Assistant Professor in Mass CommunicationGauhati University, Assam, India

CopyrightCopyright is a form of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture.

Copyright is to –Protect the revenue of creative workProtect exploitation of individual workProtect the right to control over individual

work of the original creator

Reasons for LicensingIdentification of the individual’s effort allowing users to acquire authorized rather

than illegal or unauthorized contentConfirming revenue and guaranteeing royaltiesDirection on – ‘how and to what extent the

content can be used’

A license serves as a credential, a recognition, a distinction, a designation that simply cannot be bypassed

Reasons for OEROpen permission to use , share, copy, paste,

edit, adapt and interact with the content .Zero costLess time consumingInnovative teaching learning materialEnsuring scholarly communication system

that supports the needs of scholars and the academic enterprise

Concept of OEROpen Educational Resources (OER)-

The material/ content is used openly for

educational purpose.

Teacher, students, researchers use those materials.

No need to pay for any content to any one.

No need to seek permission before using the

content

OER includes…Map

Course materials

Text book

Photograph

Any kind of print, audio, audio visual, web version

materials

OER has broken all the barriers in Teaching -Learning Process.

E- Learning & OEROER is not at all synonym of E- Learning.

E-Learning is learning through online.

OER is content with Open License Produced through any medium

-Print-Audio-Audio visual-Web or online

If in E-Learning, the used content is open licensed, then only it is considered as

OER

Open Learning & OER

OL- Open scope of learning for everyone.OER-Open resources for educating everyone

OER always support OL and is indeed a part of OL

Open Access Publishing & OEROAP-Open licensed content basically for

research purpose, which is openly available to access, not to use.

OER-Any kind of open licensed teaching learning material

OER

OAP

OER has totally transform the educational scenario in all over world

Relevance of OERDifferent intellectual imputes-Stagnant content cannot encourage

quality education. Several thoughts in one content opens new intellectual dimension.

Effective method-OER widens the path of effective teaching-learning process with critical analysis and various viewpoints.

No duplication- It is improved , collaborative, research based content, which does not support the duplication of the original effort.

Cost effective and less time consuming-Accessing a copyright protected material is sometime expensive as well as time consuming. Sometimes it becomes not so easy to get permission to use.

Active participant- OER instigates the learners to be active participants rather a passive reader or just a information seeker or taker.

Availability of OERGoogle , is one of a few search engines to collect open licensed content.

• Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) Alliance:

www.globeinfo.

org.

• Folksemantic: www.folksemantic.com.

• DiscoverEd: http://discovered.labs.creativecommons.org/search/en.

• Creative Commons Search: http://search.creativecommons.org.

• Open Courseware Consortium:

www.ocwconsortium.org/courses/search.

Traditional OER repositoryOpenLearn: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk.MedEd PORTAL:

http://services.aamc.org/30/mededportal (medical focus).

MIT OCW: http://ocw.mit.edu.China Open Resources for Education (CORE):

www.core.org.cn/en.AgEcon Search: http://ageconsearch.umn.edu

(agricultural focus).Teacher Education in sub-Saharan Africa:

www.tessafrica.net (teacher education focus).

Other relevant OER links-

OER Commons: www.oercommons.org.Commonwealth of Learning:

www.col.org/OER.OER Africa: www.oerafrica.org.

Scope for Participate in OERJORUM (www.jorum.ac.uk/share), OER Commons has a facility (

www.oercommons.org/Connexions (http://cnx.org), WikiEducator (http://wikieducator.org) Flickr (www.flickr.com)

These welcome the contribution for OER. Besides these a few Indian Universities like KKHSOU and many more…

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTNnxPcY49Q

 

Attribution (CC BY )

This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon one’s work, even commercially, as long as they give the credit to the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. It recommends for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.

Attribution-Share Alike (CC BY-SA )

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon one’s work even for commercial purposes, as long as they give the credit and license their new creations under the identical terms. All new works will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.

Creative Commons license

This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the original author.

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon one’s work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge the original author and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download one’s works and share them with others as long as they credit the original creator, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

Attribution-No Derives (CC BY-ND )

Attribution-Non Commercial (CC BY-NC )

Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivs (CC BY-NC-ND )

Zero / Public domainBesides licenses, Creative Commons also offers a way to release material into the public domain through CC0, a legal tool for waiving as many rights as legally possible, worldwide. Development of CC0. 

PD CC BY CC BY SA CC BY NC CC BY NC SA CC BY ND CC BY NC ND C

Less restriction Most restriction

Significance of sharing contentRedistribute: One can share the contents

with othersRemix: One can add new information with

the original content and can produce a new content from the older one.

Revise: One can change the content or may translate. One can modify or adapt.

Reuse: Any one is allowed to use the whole content or part of it freely in their own content

Benefit-Access: the scope of education for allCost: Saving money in terms of getting

education facility .Quality: Opportunity of quality education.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTNnxPcY49Q

Conclusion

Open Educational Resources are defined as ‘technology-enabled, openprovision of educational resources for consultation, use and adaptationby a community of users for non-commercial purposes.’ They are typicallymade freely available over the Web or the Internet. Their principle use isby teachers and educational institutions to support course development,but they can also be used directly by students. Open Educational Resourcesinclude learning objects such as lecture material, references and readings,simulations, experiments and demonstrations, as well as syllabuses,curricula, and teachers’ guides. (Wiley 2006)

Sharing knowledge is only option to remove stagnancy in education

process.

Reference

Wiley, D. (2006) The current state of open educational resources. Blog. Iterating toward openness. Accessed January 2011, http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/247

Butcher, N., & Kanwar, A. (2011). A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER). Retrieved from http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002158/215804e.pdf on 16.11.14

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