Overview

This week we focus on the growing open access movement, which aims to create a pool of completely free, legally reusable material by making it easier for copyright owners to share their material with others, should they so choose. This is achieved by providing broad licences that creators can apply to their material to give permission in advance for certain uses. One of the most popular open access models is the Creative Commons system, which applies to all different types of creative materials and provides a range of licences with different levels of freedom. There are more than 500 million Creative Commons licensed works available on the internet, all of which can be legally reused as long as the particular licence the author has chosen is followed. Creative Commons builds on the 'all rights reserved' system of default copyright law to allow for a voluntary 'some rights reserved' system.

Reading and resources

Selected links to Smartcopying website:

• Quick Guide to Creative Commons (poster) http://smartcopying.edu.au/docs/default-source/creative-common-pdf/quick-guide-cc.pdf?sfvrsn=2

• OER in Australia: http://smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources/where-to-find-oer-materials/oer-in-australia

• OER overview : http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources

• OER Guides and Toolkits: http://smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources/useful-oer-guides-and-toolkits

• Open Educational Resources (OER): A Toolkit for Teachers, Curriculum and eLearning Developers http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources/open-educational-resources-(oer)-a-toolkit-for-teachers-curriculum-and-elearning-developers

• Creative Commons Information Pack for teachers and student: http://smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources/cc-information-pack-for-teachers-and-students

• Where to find CC licensed materials: http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources/where-to-find-cc-licensed-material

• Videos on OER: http://smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources/videos-on-oer

• Using iTunesU: http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/information-sheets/schools/using-itunes-u---schools-and-teachers

• Where to find OER materials: http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/open-education-resources/where-to-find-oer-materials

• Understanding Website Terms and Conditions: http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/information-sheets/schools/understanding-website-terms-and-conditions

• Using Digital Content Repositories: Copyright Compliance Manual for Schools: http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/information-sheets/schools/using-digital-content-repositories-copyright-compliance-manual-for-schools

• Applying a Creative Commons Licence: http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/creative-commons/applying-a-creative-commons-licence

• Applying Creative Commons Licenses to your teaching material on iTunes U: http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/creative-commons/applying-creative-commons-licenses-to-your-teaching-material-on-itunes-u

• Recommended Creative Commons Website and Publication notices: http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/creative-commons/recommended-creative-commons-website-and-publication-notices

Selected powerpoint presentations from the National Copyright Unit's slideshare site:

• OER and Creative Commons Licensing: http://www.slideshare.net/nationalcopyrightunit/open-education-resources-and-creative-commons-licensing-oer
• Creative Commons and Open Education: http://www.slideshare.net/nationalcopyrightunit/creative-commons-and-open-education-65917204
• OER and Creative Commons, ESA: http://www.slideshare.net/nationalcopyrightunit/140417-creative-commons-esa-presentation-59802358
• OER and AusGOAL: http://www.slideshare.net/nationalcopyrightunit/open-educational-resources-and-ausgoal-56678942

Additional resources:

• P2PU: How to use Open Educational Resources: https://training.instructure.com/courses/1276118

• P2PU: Get CC Savvy Challenges: https://p2pu.org/en/groups/get-cc-savvy/

• P2PU: Into to Openness in Education: https://p2pu.org/en/courses/140/intro-to-openness-in-education/

• Video on how to find CC licensed images on flickr: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu8DSZvyw2E

• Commonwealth of Learning's online course 'Understanding Open Educational Resources' (note Australia does not have fair use): http://tell.colvee.org/

• Dramatically Bringing Down the Cost of Education with OER

• OER: http://creativecommons.org/education

• A Slidewiki on OER: http://slidewiki.org/deck/10560_introduction#tree-0-deck-10560-1-view

• Video on using public domain ebooks in the classroom and how to add CC-licensed works and other annotation to them: http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/13xg

• Building An Australasian Commons - case studies: http://creativecommons.org.au/casestudiesvol1

• OER and the Common Core: http://online.qmags.com/TJL0213#pg34&mode1

• Get a CC licence. Put it on your website: https://courses.p2pu.org/en/courses/3/get-a-cc-license-put-it-on-your-website/

• Creative Commons licences: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

• Choosing a Creative Commons licence: http://creativecommons.org/choose/

• Creative commons info re before licensing: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Before_Licensing

• Attribution tool: http://openattribute.com/

• Creative commons FAQ: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ

• Info on publishing under a CC licence: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Publish

• Info on marking CC licenced material: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking

• CC Fact Sheets: http://creativecommons.org.au/learn-more/fact-sheets

• Videos on Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/videos

• Creative Commons Licensing and Open Educational Resources (@One webinar, recorded 2010) - Skip to 14:00 or 15:00 minutes: http://www.onefortraining.org/node/222

• Creative Commons and copyright are friends: https://courses.p2pu.org/en/groups/get-cc-savvy/content/copyright-and-creative-commons-are-friends/

• Edit and change Creative Commons resources as needed:https://courses.p2pu.org/en/groups/teach-someone-something-with-open-content-part-2/content/edit-and-change-the-resources-as-needed/