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Copyright Compliance
Sensible Solutions:
USE
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Open Education Resources,
Free for Education and
Creative Commons
Solution: Open Educational
Resources (OER)
� Open Education Resources (OER) can help overcome copyright hurdles in the digital age and maximise the success
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of the DER.
� OER is important because it makes resources easily and readily available for teachers and students to access, copy, modify and share for free!
OER: A global movement
� OER is a growing trend towards openness of
teaching and learning materials.
� Significant drivers include:
• Creative Commons Licences removed barriers
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• Creative Commons Licences removed barriers
around ownership, attribution and reuse
• Rise of social network tools such as Facebook,
Flickr, blogs and wikis
• Ease of tagging and sharing content via
delicious and RSS feeds
OER - Definition
� OER are teaching and learning materials that
are freely available online for everyone to use,
whether you are a teacher, student or self
learner.
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learner.
� OER include: worksheets, curriculum
materials, lectures, homework assignments,
quizzes, class activities, pedagogical
materials, games and many more resources
from around the world.
See: www.oercommons.org
OER: Fundamental Values
� OER share some fundamental
values:• Resources are free for any individual to
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• Resources are free for any individual to use
• Are licensed for unrestricted distribution
• Possibility of adaptation, translation, re-mix, and improvement.
OER in a nutshell
OER is about creating repositories of
material which are free to:
Access
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AccessUse
ModifyShare
Open Education Resources
Some good OER sites include:
1. Curriki: http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
2. OER Commons: www.oercommons.org/
3. Encyclopaedia of Life: www.eol.org/
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3. Encyclopaedia of Life: www.eol.org/
4. Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network: www.ckan.net/
5. Connexions: www.cnx.org/
6. Teaching Ideas: www.teachingideas.co.uk/
The Smartcopying website lists Open Education Resources:
http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/936
OER and FFE
• ‘Free for education’ (FFE) material is similar to OER
material in that the copyright owner has given permission
for the material to be used for educational purposes.
• However, FFE material may not permit a teacher to
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• However, FFE material may not permit a teacher to
communicate, modify or share the material. This will
depend on the terms and conditions of use of the
material.
• Many websites are FFE because their terms and
conditions allow copying for educational purposes.
The Smartcopying website lists FFE:
www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/936
Example
‘You may download, display, print and copy any material at this website, in
unaltered form only, for you personal use, educational use or for non-
commercial use within your organisation’
www.reconciliation.org.au
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Other Free for Education Initiatives
� A number of organisations have agreed to make
their online material free for education:
• Enhance TV Website http://www.enhancetv.com.au
• Museum Victoria
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• Museum Victoria http://museumvictoria.com.au
• Cancer Council http://www.cancer.org.au/Home.htm
• World Vision http://www.worldvision.com.au
� Material available on these websites can be copied
for ‘educational purposes’.The Smartcopying website lists FFE websites:
http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/936
Free for Education: NEALS
• NEALS is a licence between the education
departments of the various states and
territories, DEEWR and the Catholic and
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Independent school sectors.
• It allows Australian schools to copy and
communicate print and digital material for
educational use free of charge from each
other’s websites and publications.
OER and Creative Commons
� Most OER resources use Creative Commons (CC)
licences.
� This is because CC are well known, free, easy to use and
no lawyers are needed.
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� CC licences come expressed in three different formats:
• Commons Deed (human-readable code),
• Legal Code (lawyer-readable code);
• Metadata (machine-readable code).
� A creator needs only to do one thing - select the type of
licence they want from the CC website!
OER sites and Creative Commons…
OER SITE CC LICENCE
OER Commonshttp://www.oercommons.org
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Currikihttp://www.curriki.org
Openlearnhttp://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php
Teaching Ideas http://www.teachingideas.co.uk
� Using Creative Commons (CC) material enables the education sector to overcome copyright barriers.
� CC material is freely available for teachers and students to copy, modify and reuse.
This is important in the digital era where content can be
CC makes copyright easy..
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� This is important in the digital era where content can be created, accessed and shared in new and exciting ways globally.
� The National Copyright Unit and CC Australia have developed an information pack for teachers and students on finding, using and attributing CC material. This pack can be found on the Smartcopying website at: http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/956
� Students also benefit from the use of CC material
in their classroom work and/or homework projects.
� Students are often prohibited from entering their
work into competitions and/or exhibitions due to
CC makes copyright easy
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work into competitions and/or exhibitions due to
third party copyright material (ie an image or music
they have taken from the internet).
� Using CC material will remove these barriers.
� CC creates a “some rights reserved” model.
What is CC?
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� This means that the copyright owner retains
copyright ownership in their work while inviting
certain uses of their work by the public.
� CC licences create choice and options for the
copyright owner.
There are 4 primary licence elements which are mixed to create a licence:
Attribution – attribute the author
CC Primary Licence Elements
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Non-commercial – no commercial use
No Derivative Works – no remixing
ShareAlike – remix only if you let others remix
See the CC information pack at:http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/956
Attribution – share alikeAttribution
Six Standard CC Licences
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Attribution – non-commercial –
share alike
Attribution – non-commercial –
no derivatives
Attribution - non-commercial
Attribution - no derivatives
� CC licences make content more
active and dynamic.
� CC promotes a more liberal culture of
creating, distributing, sharing and
CC licences are well suited to
the digital landscape
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creating, distributing, sharing and
remixing content for the purposes of
creativity and innovation.
� CC is well suited for the new digital
and virtual content landscape.
� In January 2006, the NLA embarked on a collaboration with Flickr to facilitate the collection of public contributions to the PictureAustraliaarchive. The NLA established two Flickr groups:
CC and the National Library of
Australia
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� The NLA established two Flickr groups:
• ‘Picture Australia: People, Places and Events’, a place where people can post images social, political, contemporary or historical events of national significance.
• ‘Picture Australia: Australia Day’ (now encompassed into the ‘People, Places and Events’ group)
Australian Cultural Institutes
and Flickr
� Other Australian institutes which are
releasing material under a CC licence in
Flickr include:
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• State Library NSW http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/
• Powerhouse Museum http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/
• Australian War Memorial http://www.flickr.com/photos/australian-war-memorial/
• The ABC has just launched a new CC-friendly social media
space titled Pool.
• Users create profiles and upload and download material
which they can share with other profile owners and the
public.
CC and ABC Pool
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public.
• Pool contains music, text, images and animations available
under Creative Commons licences.
• ABC is also releasing material from its archives onto Pool
under Creative Commons licences.
Check out ABC Pool:http://www.pool.org.au
CC and the Australian Bureau of
Statistics
� ABS website material is licensed under a
CC Attribution Licence:
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“Unless otherwise noted, all material on this website – except the ABS logo, the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, and any material
protected by a trade mark – is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence”
The following contain resources licensed
under CC:
1. Artabase:
CC and Australian Culture
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1. Artabase:www.artabase.net
2. Powerhouse Museum:www.play.powerhousemuseum.com
3. Australian Creative Resources
Online:www.acro.edu.au
‘Dynamic Calculus’ is a collection of interactive learning objects for teaching calculus developed by the Centre of Learning Innovation. The resource is available under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share-Alike Licence.http://lrrpublic.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/lrrSecure/Cli/Download.aspx?resID=8083&v=1&preview=true
‘Dynamic Calculus’:New NSW DET CC Resource
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‘Tensile Testing’ is a video based resource developed by CLI which takes students on a virtual excursion to investigate materials testing. A resource for senior school students of Engineering Studies and Industrial Technology, and for vocational education students in areas of Design, Building services, Manufacturing and Mechanical. The resource is available under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share-Alike Licence.http://lrrpublic.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/lrrSecure/Sites/Web/tensile_testing/index.htm?Signature=(68c5e892-6867-
40ca-98f8-8e3d9e9ed09c)
‘Tensile Testing’:New NSW DET CC Resource
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‘Forces and Fields’ is an audio visual resource developed by CLI for senior Physics students. It contains in-depth and varied interactive activities in the areas of electric, magnetic and gravitational forces and fields, across 10 individual sections. The resource is available under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share-Alike Licence.http://lrrpublic.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/lrrSecure/Cli/Download.aspx?resID=8459&v=1&preview=true
‘Forces and Fields’:New NSW DET CC Resource
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Smithsonian Institute
� The Smithsonian Institute (http://www.si.edu) is the
world’s largest museum and research complex
composed of 19 museums and 9 research centres
including the:
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• National Museum of Natural History
• National Portrait Gallery
• National Air and Space Museum
• National Museum of American History
• National Design Museum
Smithsonian Institute
� Smithsonian Institute website hosts an array of copyright
cleared content from these museums and affiliates free
for use by education.
� ‘Picturing the 1930’s’ is a new education website by the
Smithsonian Institute which allows teachers and students
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Smithsonian Institute which allows teachers and students
to explore paintings, artist memorabilia, historical
documents, newsreels, period photographs and create
videos from this material. http://americanart.si.edu/education/picturing_the_1930s/index.html
� Further, the institute has a photostream of CC licensed
images on Flickr:http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/
Flickr and International
Institutes
� The following museums and institutes have
photostreams of CC licensed images on
Flickr:• Imperial War Museum http://www.flickr.com/photos/imperialwarmuseum/
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• Imperial War Museum http://www.flickr.com/photos/imperialwarmuseum/
• Library of Congress http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
• National Maritime Museum http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmaritimemuseum/
• George Eastman House http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/
• National Media Museum http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/
Copyright Compliance
�Check out the Copyright
Compliance Manual for
Teachers for more free Teachers for more free
resources for teachers and
students.
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OER – A Way Forward
� Digital technology will surpass
current teaching and learning
structures.
� OER are free and easier to manage:
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• No complex copying limits
• No restrictions on audience ie.
community members and lifelong
learners.
• Allow teachers and students to
modify and share resources.
OER – A Way Forward
Sharing and reusing material will:
� Help manage the cost implications on continuing to
rely on the Statutory Licence schemes.
Reduce the costs of content and resource
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� Reduce the costs of content and resource
development.
� Enhance the quality of resources through collaboration
and sharing.
If it can be of value to other people, might as
well share it for free!