Open educational resources (OER) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, research, and other purposes. Creative Commons (CC) Licenses give universal permission for certain types of use of a copyright protected work. CC licenses can only be applied by the rights holder of the work, or with explicit permission from the rights holder. This presentation describes the concept of Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Licenses.

1. K.THIYAGU, Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod

2. Digital Information Age
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3. OER
Open educational resources (OER) are
free and openly licensed
educational materials
that can be used for
teaching, learning, research, and other
purposes.
OER =
free + legal rights to reuse, revise,
remix, redistribute & retain 3

4. The definition OER is:
“digitized materials
offered
freely and openly
for
educators, students and self-learners
to
use and re-use
for
teaching, learning and research”
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5. OER
is a term that was first adopted at
UNESCO's 2002 Forum
on the Impact of Open Courseware for
Higher Education in Developing Countries
funded by the
Hewlett Foundation.
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6. Thanks to multiple phone numbers each of the family
members carrying now a days ... And the way they are
stored... contact list is a bit scary….
"Mummy new"
"Wife old"
"Wife 2"
"Mother in Law Jio"
"Husband India"
"Husband Dubai"
"Husband Europe"
and the best one is
"*Husband temporary*"
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7. Characteristics of OER
• Digital
– Free distribution
– Easy to customize
• Open License
– Reuse, Revise, Remix
• Low cost
– Expand access to Education
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10. Examples
Includes –
• Course materials
• Modules or lessons
• Open CourseWare (OCW)
• Open textbooks
• Videos
• Images
• Tests
• Software
• Any other tools, materials, or
techniques used to support
ready access to knowledge
10Creative Commons CC-BY license, Dr. Judy Baker

11. OER
License
Attribution
Share-Alike
Non-Commercial
No-Modify
Freedom
Access
Copy
Use
Adapt
Share
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17. Creative
Commons
Licenses
• Creative Commons (CC) Licenses give
universal permission for certain types of
use of a copyright protected work.
• CC licenses can only be applied by the
rights holder of the work, or with explicit
permission from the rights holder.
• CC licenses cannot be revoked.
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18. Creative Commons: Some Rights Reserved
Full Copyright:
All Rights
Reserved
Creative Commons
Licenses:
Some Rights Reserved
Public Domain:
No Rights
Reserved
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19. Creative Commons: a spectrum of rights
openRestrictive
} freely reusable
(encouraged by Europeana)
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21. Licensing Possibilities / License Elements
Attribution (always)
No Commercial Use
No Derivative Works
Share Alike
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22. Author must be acknowledged on all copies and adaptations of
the work, including a link to the original version of the work
Attribution (By)
#1
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23. Non-commercial (NC)
The work can only be used for non-commercial purposes
#2
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24. No Derivatives (ND)
The work can only be distributed in its original form;
no adaptations or translations can be made
#3
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25. Share Alike (SA)
The work can be modified and adapted, but the entire resulting work
(including new material added by the adaptor)
must be distributed under the same sharealike licence
#4
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26. The Licenses
Six different licenses
– Attribution
– Attribution-NoDerivs
– Attribution-ShareAlike
– Attribution-NonCommercial
– Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike
– Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
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27. Who is using CC?
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28. Attribution
(CC BY)
• Allows others to:
– Distribute
– Remix
– Tweak
– Build upon
– Benefit commercially even
• As long as…
– Credit the creator
# 1
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29. Attribution-NoDerivs
(CC BY-ND)
• Allows others to:
– Commercial redistribute
– Non-commercial redistribute
• As long as…
– Unchanged
– Complete
– Credits the creator
# 2
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30. Attribution – NonCommercial - ShareAlike
(CC BY-NC-SA)
• Allows others to non-commercially:
– Remix
– Tweak
– Build upon
• As long as…
– Credit the creator
– License the new creation under
identical terms
# 3
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31. Attribution-ShareAlike
(CC BY-SA)
• Allows others to:
– Remix
– Tweak
– Build upon
– Benefit commercially even
• As long as…
– Credit the creator
– License the new creation under
identical terms
# 4
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32. Attribution-NonCommerical
(CC BY-NC)
• Allows others to non-commercially :
– Remix
– Tweak
– Build upon
• As long as…
– Credit the creator
# 5
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33. Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivs
(CC BY-NC-ND)
• Allows others to:
– Download
– Share
• As long as…
– Credit the creator
# 6
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36. Technology and Platforms
• Wikipedia,
• Wikispaces, etc.
• Connexions
• MIT OpenCourseware
• OLI-CMU
• FlexiLearn
• OpenLearn
• OER Commons
• Directory of OER
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37. OER: OER in India
• National OER repository http://nroer.gov.in/home/ (MHRD/ NCERT) all material is CC BY SA.
• NPTEL (National program on technology enhanced learning) release content freely and openly
under a CC BY SA licence http://nptel.ac.in/
• Karnataka OER Wiki http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Main_Page
ICT 4 change are working with teachers to support understanding of OER developing lesson
plans from state texts and release openly on KOER
• Pratham have been releasing their books under CC licence moving from CC BY-NC-SA to CC BY
http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/cc-tracker.html
• The National Mission on Education through ICT OER: initiatives here release most content
under and attribution licence. http://www.nmeict.ac.in/Document/OER_Policy.pdf
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38. Open Educational Resources
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41. College Open Textbooks
This site lists open textbooks organized by subject area,
many of which have been peer reviewed for their
suitability at community colleges.
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
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42. http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
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43. http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
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44. http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
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45. OER Commons
This digital hub created by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge
Management in Education offers 73,000 kinds of OER, along with
tools for creating OER, training on how to use OER and the ability to
create OER "Commons" — groups that share resources for a given
purpose.
https://www.oercommons.org/
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46. https://www.oercommons.org/
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51. Cartoon
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52. Identifying Copyright Status of Images
vs.
http://flickr.com/creativecommons
http://lunacommons.org 52

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54. http://nroer.gov.in
National OER repository http://nroer.gov.in/home/ (MHRD/ NCERT) all material is CC BY SA. 54

55. NPTEL (National program on technology enhanced learning) - freely and openly under a CC BY SA licence
http://nptel.ac.in/
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56. NPTEL (National program on technology enhanced learning) - freely and openly under a CC BY SA licence
http://nptel.ac.in/
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57. http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Main_Page
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58. http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Main_Page
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59. https://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd/channels
NPTEL YouTube Channel 59

60. https://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd/channels
NPTEL YouTube Channel 60

61. https://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd/channels
NPTEL YouTube Channel
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62. https://www.youtube.com/user/MITNewsOffice/channels
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63. https://www.youtube.com/user/MITNewsOffice/channels
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64. https://www.youtube.com/user/MITNewsOffice/channels
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65. https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
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66. https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
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67. https://www.col.org/
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68. https://www.col.org/
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69. http://oasis.col.org/
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70. http://oasis.col.org/
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71. http://oasis.col.org/
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72. http://oasis.col.org/
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73. http://oasis.col.org/
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75. Conclusion
Digital citizens have the right to privacy, free speech, etc.
Basic digital rights must be addressed, discussed, and
understood in the digital world
Mobile addict
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76. References
www.creativecommons.org
www.creativecommons.it
www.sciencecommons.org
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77. Acknowledgement
• Google search / Google Image
• Flickr
• Slideshare - contributors
• References’ – Authors
• Website references - Creators
• MS office PowerPoint
• My teachers
• My students
• Organizing committee - FDP
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78. Thank You
Jai Bharat!
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