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ccLearn And The Infrastructure Of OER | PPT
The infrastructure of  open educational resources Ahrash N Bissell
What are CC and ccLearn? What are OER? And why build sharable repositories of educational content? What barriers do we face? Legal Technical Social http://flickr.com/photos/wwworks/440672445/ Woodley Wonderworks   CC BY
Creative Commons What is Creative Commons (CC)?
Licensing Step 1:  Choose Conditions Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivative Works Share Alike
Licensing Step 2:  Receive a License
 
 
Licensing Mark  your website http://creativecommons.org
Licensing Mark  your creative works http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking
Our mission is to minimize legal, technical, and social barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials.
The world  is changing… Tebndxt by Armel
Text What are Open Edu c ational Resour c es?  Michael Reschke  cba Digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.*  *UNESCO. 2002.  Forum on the impact of Open Courseware for higher education in developing countries.  Final report.  Paris: UNESCO.
http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/
available for anyone to use, share, and adapt to suit their educational needs. Michael Reschke  cba Open education depends on a high-quality pool of freely licensed resources. OER give  learners access  to a broad array  of knowledge materials...
What is different about OER? Most digital media = “stuff you can see online for free”   fair-use and educational exceptions OER = “stuff you can adapt and then share for others to build on”   license to innovate
Copyright terms can be used to restrict access, adaptation, and sharing, but OER help to  open  doors, protecting the  right  to education. Tebaxt Simon music http://flickr.com/photos/fruey/1368008974/
Teaching, Learning, and Sharing Most students begin their education highly motivated to  learn ; Most teachers are highly motivated to  share knowledge , not only with their students but with  anyone  who can benefit. CC BY-NC-ND  by Lara Eller http://www.flickr.com/photos/99079793@N00/24786113/
 
 
 
 
Note that there are significant advantages to building an OER landscape with distinct silos of content…. Authorship and quality control Dedicated focus on core users More robust “ecosystem” Easier to manage and sustain
So the question becomes: How do we tie these systems together, with an emphasis on findability, usability, and interoperability, to achieve a functional global educational commons… … and yet maintain the distinctiveness of the component parts?
Text First, a look at the Legal Barriers.  Nan c y  cbn http://flickr.com/photos/pugno_muliebriter/1384247192/
CC  offers an easy way to share materials, versus the murky interpretations of fair use in  c opyright law.  openDemo c ra c y  cba http://flickr.com/photos/opendemocracy/542303769/
CC-licensed “open” educational sites 75 different OER sites represented.
© Creative Commons Licenses – a spectrum of rights The openness of a resource increases with the permissions given.  More permissions = More open.
CC  BY ... Text •  Allows the most freedoms without giving up  attribution, which is important for credibility in  education •  Is compatible with every other CC license, allowing  the most room for innovation via collaboration b •  Does not encroach on the freedom of potential  users by enforcing a specified use: e.g., CC BY-SA requires you to share alike, even if  the new work is best suited for another license ba
Text But what about Te c hni c al Barriers?  http://flickr.com/photos/tantek/85610375/ Tantek Çelik  cbn
CC  over c omes Te c hni c al Barriers  Text CC Licenses are also clear to search engines •  CC Licenses specify licensing permissions  on works in metadata (RDFa) The metadata are also available for other applications, such as search engines, Flickr, etc.
There is a significant gap between what computers “see” and what humans see. This is one of the fundamental barriers to the infrastructure of the semantic web, but is also solvable. Ben Adida, CC
distributed under a  <a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/&quot;>  Creative Commons License </a>  A Link without Flavor Ben Adida, CC
distributed under a  <a  rel=&quot;license&quot;  href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/&quot;>  Creative Commons License </a>  A Link with Flavor Ben Adida, CC
<h2>The Trouble with Bob</h2>  <h3>Alice</h3>  Text without Flavor Ben Adida, CC
<h2  property=&quot;dc:title&quot; >The Trouble with Bob</h2>  <h3  property=&quot;dc:creator&quot; >Alice</h3>  Why  dc:title , why not just  title ?  Which meaning of  &quot;title&quot; ? Article title, job title, real estate title?  License  is a reserved HTML keyword, but  title  is not.  We must &quot;import&quot; this concept from somewhere.  The Dublin Core vocabulary:  http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ concepts including:  title ,  creator ,  copyright , etc. Note that it doesn’t actually matter which vocabulary is used, as long as the machine can interpret the intent. Text with Flavor Ben Adida, CC
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Content plus metadata (ontologies and specs) Permissions and semantic architecture
And finally, the So c ial Barriers to  Open Edu c ation Judy Baxter  cbna http://flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/501511984/
Text Social Barriers Standardized Curricula Tenure Standards n Developed World Developing World Mine vs Commons vs Noncommercial Term Resources Teacher Education Socioeconomic Factors Time Management Teacher Salary (Bissell and Boyle) Technical Unfamiliarity Workload Organizational Pressures Agency Cultural Awareness, Misconceptions
learn.creativecommons.org Send comments to: ahrash@creativecommons.org Tebdxt Jeffrey Beall http://flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/

ccLearn And The Infrastructure Of OER

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    The infrastructure of open educational resources Ahrash N Bissell
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    What are CCand ccLearn? What are OER? And why build sharable repositories of educational content? What barriers do we face? Legal Technical Social http://flickr.com/photos/wwworks/440672445/ Woodley Wonderworks CC BY
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    Creative Commons Whatis Creative Commons (CC)?
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    Licensing Step 1: Choose Conditions Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivative Works Share Alike
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    Licensing Step 2: Receive a License
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    Licensing Mark your website http://creativecommons.org
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    Licensing Mark your creative works http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking
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    Our mission isto minimize legal, technical, and social barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials.
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    The world is changing… Tebndxt by Armel
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    Text What areOpen Edu c ational Resour c es? Michael Reschke cba Digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.* *UNESCO. 2002. Forum on the impact of Open Courseware for higher education in developing countries. Final report. Paris: UNESCO.
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    available for anyoneto use, share, and adapt to suit their educational needs. Michael Reschke cba Open education depends on a high-quality pool of freely licensed resources. OER give learners access to a broad array of knowledge materials...
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    What is differentabout OER? Most digital media = “stuff you can see online for free” fair-use and educational exceptions OER = “stuff you can adapt and then share for others to build on” license to innovate
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    Copyright terms canbe used to restrict access, adaptation, and sharing, but OER help to open doors, protecting the right to education. Tebaxt Simon music http://flickr.com/photos/fruey/1368008974/
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    Teaching, Learning, andSharing Most students begin their education highly motivated to learn ; Most teachers are highly motivated to share knowledge , not only with their students but with anyone who can benefit. CC BY-NC-ND by Lara Eller http://www.flickr.com/photos/99079793@N00/24786113/
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    Note that thereare significant advantages to building an OER landscape with distinct silos of content…. Authorship and quality control Dedicated focus on core users More robust “ecosystem” Easier to manage and sustain
  • 23.
    So the questionbecomes: How do we tie these systems together, with an emphasis on findability, usability, and interoperability, to achieve a functional global educational commons… … and yet maintain the distinctiveness of the component parts?
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    Text First, alook at the Legal Barriers. Nan c y cbn http://flickr.com/photos/pugno_muliebriter/1384247192/
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    CC offersan easy way to share materials, versus the murky interpretations of fair use in c opyright law. openDemo c ra c y cba http://flickr.com/photos/opendemocracy/542303769/
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    CC-licensed “open” educationalsites 75 different OER sites represented.
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    © Creative CommonsLicenses – a spectrum of rights The openness of a resource increases with the permissions given. More permissions = More open.
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    CC BY... Text • Allows the most freedoms without giving up attribution, which is important for credibility in education • Is compatible with every other CC license, allowing the most room for innovation via collaboration b • Does not encroach on the freedom of potential users by enforcing a specified use: e.g., CC BY-SA requires you to share alike, even if the new work is best suited for another license ba
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    Text But whatabout Te c hni c al Barriers? http://flickr.com/photos/tantek/85610375/ Tantek Çelik cbn
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    CC overc omes Te c hni c al Barriers Text CC Licenses are also clear to search engines • CC Licenses specify licensing permissions on works in metadata (RDFa) The metadata are also available for other applications, such as search engines, Flickr, etc.
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    There is asignificant gap between what computers “see” and what humans see. This is one of the fundamental barriers to the infrastructure of the semantic web, but is also solvable. Ben Adida, CC
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    distributed under a <a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/&quot;> Creative Commons License </a> A Link without Flavor Ben Adida, CC
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    distributed under a <a rel=&quot;license&quot; href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/&quot;> Creative Commons License </a> A Link with Flavor Ben Adida, CC
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    <h2>The Trouble withBob</h2> <h3>Alice</h3> Text without Flavor Ben Adida, CC
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    <h2 property=&quot;dc:title&quot;>The Trouble with Bob</h2> <h3 property=&quot;dc:creator&quot; >Alice</h3> Why dc:title , why not just title ? Which meaning of &quot;title&quot; ? Article title, job title, real estate title? License is a reserved HTML keyword, but title is not. We must &quot;import&quot; this concept from somewhere. The Dublin Core vocabulary: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ concepts including: title , creator , copyright , etc. Note that it doesn’t actually matter which vocabulary is used, as long as the machine can interpret the intent. Text with Flavor Ben Adida, CC
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    Content plus metadata(ontologies and specs) Permissions and semantic architecture
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    And finally, theSo c ial Barriers to Open Edu c ation Judy Baxter cbna http://flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/501511984/
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    Text Social BarriersStandardized Curricula Tenure Standards n Developed World Developing World Mine vs Commons vs Noncommercial Term Resources Teacher Education Socioeconomic Factors Time Management Teacher Salary (Bissell and Boyle) Technical Unfamiliarity Workload Organizational Pressures Agency Cultural Awareness, Misconceptions
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    learn.creativecommons.org Send commentsto: ahrash@creativecommons.org Tebdxt Jeffrey Beall http://flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/

Editor's Notes

  • #2 ccLearn and the Infrastructure of OER. In the original invitation, I was asked if I could discuss “the future of cc and its particular role in the area of education.” I’m pretty sure that I will cover that. I will also delve into some legal and technical details that are core elements of ccLearn’s overall strategy. Please feel free to interrupt me with questions, though given the nature of “keynotes”, it’s also fine to wait until the end.