Open educational resources and LeMill

Hans PõldojaUniversity of Art and Design Helsinki

hans.poldoja@uiah.fi

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Educational resources and copyright laws

• Limitations of current copyright laws

• Fair use principles are not clearly regulated

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Creative Commons licenses

• Attribution license

• Attribution–ShareAlike license

• Attribution–NonCommercial license

• Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike license

• Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivs license

• Attribution–NoDerivs license

Other open licences

• GNU Free Documentation License (used in Wikipedia)

• Public Domain (works that are not under copyright)

How to recognize the license?

http://creativecommons.org/

Where to find open content?

• Wikipedia: http://www.wikipedia.org/

• Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/

• Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

• Common Content: http://commoncontent.org/

• OER Commons: http://www.oercommons.org/

http://www.wikipedia.org/

http://commons.wikimedia.org/

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

http://commoncontent.org/

http://www.oercommons.org/

Creating open educational resources in LeMill

What is LeMill?

• Web community for finding, authoring and sharing open and free learning resources

• Open source server software developed in EU 6FP project CALIBRATE

• Learning Mill

What LeMill is not?

• Virtual learning environment or learning management system

• Learning object repository

• Environment for creating and running automated tests

Designed for teachers

• Scenarios

• Design sessions

• User stories

• Prototypes

Design session results

• Teachers are not very interested in raw text material

• Teachers are interested in activities and methods

• Learning resources can be divided to content, activities and tools

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All learning resources in LeMill

are web-based

Content

Learning resources

Media pieces

References

Learning resource templates

Multimedia page

Presentation

PILOT

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All resources created in LeMill are published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license

Media pieces can be also:- Public Domain- GNU FDL

Simple licensing scheme

More than content

• Methods

• Tools

• Collections

• Teaching and learning stories

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LeMill as social software

• Linking people by location, skills and interests

• Groups for collaborative authoring

• Group forums

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Join LeMill to share, reuse and remix

learning resources

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Thank You!

hans.poldoja@uiah.fi

skype: hanspoldoja

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