Part 5

Open Education, Free for Education and Creative Commons

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Some copyright challenges

• While there is a lot that teachers can copy, the licence schemes and free use exceptions are restrictive and complicated:

• Teachers are burdened with complex copying limits.

• Teachers cannot modify, share or remix material except in limited circumstances.

• The material can only be made available to parents and the community in limited circumstances.

Free for education, open education and creative commons material is a great alternative!

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OER - Definition

• Open Educational Resources (‘OER’) is a growing trend towards openness of teaching and learning materials.

• OER are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are a teacher, student or self 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

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OER: Fundamental Values

• OER share some fundamental values:• Resources are free for any individual to use

• Are licensed for unrestricted distribution

• Possibility of adaptation, translation, re-mix, and improvement.

OER on the internet

• These sites contain:

• Curriculum material

• Lectures

• Lesson plans

• Classroom activities

• Homework assignments

• Quizzes

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Good OER Sites

• Curriki: http://www.curriki.org/

• OER Commons: www.oercommons.org/

• Encyclopaedia of Life: www.eol.org/

• Comprehensive Knowledge Archive

• Network: www.ckan.net/

• Connexions: www.cnx.org/

• Teaching Ideas: www.teachingideas.co.uk/

• Smart History: http://smarthistory.org/

The Smartcopying website lists OER:http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/936

CC Learn: A way to find OER

CC learn is a division of Creative Commons dedicatedto providing an up to date list of OER resources.

http://learn.creativecommons.org

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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 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

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Website Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions Not Free Free

Personal UsePersonal, non commercialPersonal and non commercialNon-commercial usePersonal or non commercial

Use in your organisation

Free copying

Free for education

© name and/or year and no terms of use

No copyright © name and/ or year or no terms and conditions

Copying not permitted

All Rights Reserved

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:• Woolworths: http://www.woolworths.com.au

• Museum Victoria: http://museumvictoria.com.au

• National Museum of Australia: http://www.nma.gov.au/index.html

• 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

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OER and Creative Commons

• Most OER resources use Creative Commons (CC) licences.

• This is because CC licences are well known blanket licences that are free and easy to use.

• 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!

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OER sites and Creative Commons…

OER SITE CC LICENCE

OER Commonshttp://www.oercommons.org

Currikihttp://www.curriki.org

Openlearnhttp://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php

Teaching Ideas http://www.teachingideas.co.uk

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• CC creates a “some rights reserved” model.

• 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.

What is CC?

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There are 4 primary licence elements which are mixed to create a licence:

Attribution – attribute the author

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

CC Primary Licence Elements

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Attribution – share alike

Attribution – non-commercial –share alike

Attribution – non-commercial – no derivatives

Attribution

Attribution - non-commercial

Attribution - no derivatives

Six Standard CC Licences

Licence Type Licence ConditionsAttribution

Freely use, copy, adapt and distribute to anyone provided the copyright owner is attributed.

Attribution No DerivativesFreely use, copy and distribute to anyone but only in original form. The copyright owner must be attributed.

Attribution Share AlikeFreely use, copy, adapt and distribute provided the new work is licensed under the same terms as the original work. The copyright owner must be attributed.

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CC Licences

CC Licences

Licence Type Licence Conditions

Attribution Non CommercialFreely use, copy, adapt and distribute for non-commercial purposes. The copyright owner must be attributed.

Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives Freely use, copy and distribute verbatim

copies of the original work for non-commercial purposes. The copyright owner must be attributed.

Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Freely use, copy, adapt and distribute for non-commercial purposes provided the new work is licensed under the same terms as the original work. The copyright owner must be attributed.

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CC Public Domain Mark

CC has launched a new Public Domain Mark.

Users can attach this Mark to works that are no longer protected by copyright around the world.

The Mark embeds metadata into the work which allows it to be easily identified and discovered on the Internet.

For further information, see the CC website at: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/23830

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NSW DET and CC

Centre of Learning Innovation(CLI) has created a number of online interactive teaching resources licensed under CC Attribution Non-commerical Share-Alike Licence:

• Sites2See Resource teaching students about copyright: http://lrrpublic.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/lrrSecure/Sites/LRRView/8587/index.htm?Signature=(f0fa7fab-50e1-4875-8eff-b1687429f58f

• ‘Dynamic Calculus’ is a collection of interactive learning objects for teaching calculus: http://lrrpublic.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/lrrSecure/Cli/Download.aspx?resID=8083&v=1&preview=true

• ‘Tensile Testing’ is a video based resource on materials testing: http://lrrpublic.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/lrrSecure/Sites/Web/tensile_testing/index.htm?Signature=(68c5e892-6867-40ca-98f8-8e3d9e9ed09c)

• ‘A New Kind of Alchemy’ is an interactive online graphic novel: http://lrrpublic.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/lrrSecure/Cli/Download.aspx?resID=8459&v=1&preview=true

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New Opportunities for Education

• The National Copyright Unit and CC Australia have developed an information pack on CC for teachers and students.

• The information pack explains the different CC licences and tells teachers and students how to find, use and attribute CC material.

• The pack is available on the Smartcopying website at: http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/953

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Finding Creative Commons Material Using

Creative Commons Search Portal

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Finding CC Material Using Creative Commons Search Portal

• There are two ways to get to the Creative Commons Search Portal.

• You can access it directly by typing http://search.creativecommons.org into the address bar on your web browser.

• Alternatively, you can get to it by clicking on the 'Search CC Licensed Work' button (see right) which is on the right hand side of the top header of each page on the Creative Commons website (http://creativecommons.org).

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Choose the right licence you want

• To filter material based on the type of use you want to make, go to the box at the top right hand side of the search query field. This gives you two options ‘Search for works I can use for commercial purposes’ and ‘Search for works I can modify, adapt or build upon’.

• Select the option/s appropriate for your use. You can select one, both or none of the boxes.

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The table below shows how each option will filter the material by licence

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Choose the type of material you want

• Next you need to choose the type of content you are looking for.

• The Creative Commons Search Portal gives you access to a number of different search engines that let you search for different types of material. Each engine has its own tab on the search engine page.

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Choose the type of material you want

• If you want to find content of all types you can use the general Google and Yahoo! search tabs.

• Or you can limit your search to sites that only provide one type of content. The table below provides a summary of the type of content provided by each tab.

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Running the search

• Now that you’ve chosen the type of licence and material you want to search for, you can enter keywords for your refined search in the search query field at the top of the page.

• To run your search, you can press 'Go' or simply click on the tab you would like to search.

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CC Information Pack

• The CC information pack for teachers and students contains different guides on finding CC licensed material using:

• Google

• Yahoo

• Mozilla Firefox

The information pack is available on the Smartcopying website at: http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/953

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Australian Cultural Institutes and CC

Many Australian institutes are using CC:

• National Library of Australia and Picture Australia http://www.flickr.com/groups/PictureAustralia_ppe/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/pa_ourtown/

• 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/

• ABC through Poolhttp://www.pool.org.au

• Last year, the Australian government agreed in principle to recommendations that PSI should, by default, be released to the public free of charge under a creative commons attribution licence.

• In light of this, the Attorney General’s Department is in the process of drafting guidelines to assist Government agencies in adopting creative commons or other open licences when releasing their PSI, including legacy material.

• For further information, including a link to the draft guidelines, see: http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/2011/02/01/guest-post-comment-sought-on-draft-public-sector-information-licensing-guidelines/

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Public sector information and CC

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CC and the Australian Bureau of Statistics

ABS website material is licensed under a CC Attribution Licence:

“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”

CC and Australian Parliament

Australian Federal Government documents including all bills, committee reports and transcript of Parliamentary

Sittings are available on a portal licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial, No-derivatives

licence:

‘With the exception of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms and where otherwise noted, all material presented on this

website is provided under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia

licence.’

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Australian Government and state and territory governments are releasing public datasets on data.gov.au available

under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence:

‘With the exception of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms and where otherwise noted, all textual material presented

on data.gov.au is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence’

See the data.gov.au website at: www.data.gov.au

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CC and Public Datasets

Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy have licensed their Budd:e E-security Education

Package under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Licence:

‘Unless otherwise noted, all material in the Cybersecurity Education Package – except the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy logo, and any material protected by a trade mark – is

licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 3.0 Australia licence…’

See Budd:e E-security Education Package at: https://budd-e.staysmartonline.gov.au/

DBCDE and CC

Geoscience Australia and CC

• Geoscience Australia website is licensed under a CC Attribution Licence:

‘Save for the content on this website supplied by third parties, the Geoscience Australia logo, the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, and any material protected by a trade mark, Geoscience Australia has applied the Creative Commons

Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence’

See the Geoscience Australia website: http://www.ga.gov.au

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Flickr and International Institutes

• The following organisations have released content under CC licences:• Al Jazeera CC Repository: http://cc.aljazeera.net/

• Smithsonian Institute http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/

• 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/

Smartcopying lists more at:http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/936

Attributing CC material

• In addition to providing details of author and copyright owner, title of work and source, CC licences require that you state the type of CC licence the work is available under along with a link to the licence terms.

• It is important to always check whether the creator has specified a particular attribution.

• Open Attribute (http://openattribute.com) is a tool recently developed by Mozilla Drumbeat to assist users of CC material properly attribute the CC material.

• Open Attribute is a simple tool that makes it easy for users to copy and paste the correct attribution for any CC licensed work.

For further information on attributing CC material, see:http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/956

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Where should I place the attribution?

• For text resources (eg books, worksheets, PowerPoint slides etc), include the attribution details next to CC work or as the footer along the bottom of the page on which the CC work appears.

• For video works, include the attribution information near the work as it appears on screen during the video.

• For sound recordings (eg podcasts), mention the name of the artist during the recording (like a radio announcement) and provide full attribution details in text near the podcast where it is being stored (eg blog, school intranet, learning management system etc).

For further information on attributing CC material, see:http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/956

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Example: Image licensed under CC Attribution licence

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Eid Mubarak by Hamed Saber available athttp://www.flickr.com/photos/44124425616@N01/1552383685

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For More Information

Sylvie SaabNational Copyright Officer

sylvie.saab@det.nsw.edu.au(02) 9561 8730

Carl RuppinNational Copyright Managercarl.ruppin@det.nsw.edu.au

(02) 9561 1267  

Delia BrowneNational Copyright Director

delia.browne@det.nsw.edu.au(02) 9561 8876

www.smartcopying.edu.au