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DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION
TECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNING
Sesame Project
Tutor briefing session
April 2012
Plan for today
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Welcome and overview of the project and OER
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Using open.conted.ox.ac.uk: technical and practical issues
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Copyright, IPR and open licensing
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What resources can I release?
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Creating resources: how to podcast
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OER definitions
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Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning
materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether
you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER
include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework
assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical
materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained
in digital media collections from around the world.
(OER Commons)
 “…teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public
domain or have been released under an intellectual property licence
that permits their free use or re-purposing by others.”
(Atkins, Brown and Hammond, 2007)
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“Anything that I can identify, that I can scavenge from somewhere
else, that might make my teaching a little bit easier.”
(OER Impact Study, 2011)
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OER at Oxford
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Oxford has been
producing OER since
2009 through
www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
and the OpenSpires
project
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Across the University
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Perhaps best know
through iTunes U
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Background
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Requests for a web presence from weekly class tutors
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OER and Departmental mission
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JISC funding
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The Sesame project
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Aims to create and
provide Open
Educational
Resources (OER)
for teachers and
learners globally
through the work of
the weekly class
programme
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Specifically the project aims to:
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Help you find out how using and creating OER can benefit you
and your students
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Enable your students to find and use appropriate, validated
online resources in their work
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Improve your skills and confidence in identifying, using and
creating OER
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Embed open ways of working in the development and delivery
of weekly classes
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Widen access to Oxford's teaching to new audiences globally
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What will participating in this project
involve?
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Put selected supporting materials for your course online and
license them as OER
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Indentify additional resources produced by others (whether
OER or not) and collect them together with your OER
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Provide some additional information about the resources you
select and produce, to make it easier for others to discover and
reuse them
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You can benefit from:
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Providing online resources for your course to enhance the
learning experience of your students
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Training/personal development opportunities in creating and
working with OER
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Disseminating your teaching materials via University of Oxfordbranded portals, such as the iTunes U site
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Getting global recognition for your work at Oxford
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Your students can benefit from:
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Access to more learning materials, selected by experts as
relevant to their course
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Improved access to high quality resources outside of the
classroom
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Increased awareness of the wide and growing source of high
quality, freely available learning resources, for both their
coursework and future self-study
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Improved digital literacy skills
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The opportunity to contribute to collecting and producing open
content for their course
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Other benefits
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Broadens access to education in and beyond Oxford
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Improves quality
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Can improve productivity
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Markets your current and future courses
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Enhances reputation of the Department
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Using http://open.conted.ox.ac.uk/
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Overview of the site
Registration
Course view
Subject view
Keywords view
Adding resources
Adding links
Editing a course
Describing resources
Adding keywords and subjects
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What resources can I use and release?
Copyright basics
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Much as in print
Risk Management
Remember you can use things you cannot release e.g. CLA
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This is a complex topic so I will not try to summarise – see
handout on IPR copyright, licensing and OER, and briefing
documents
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What types resources can I release?
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Presentations
Handouts
Worksheets
Podcasts (audio recordings)
Videos
Images, pictures or diagrams
Reading lists or bibliographies
Assignment questions or tests
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Anything student can learn from
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Conditions
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the work should be your own original creation
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all the content must be lawful and not, for instance, defamatory,
likely to incite racial hatred, or pornographic
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if it includes material created by others, such as images or
video clips, these must be appropriately licensed for re-use
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What is open licensing?
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Licenses to make it easier to use others’ work in your teaching
and learning (or for them to use your work)
Best known is creative commons (cc)
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There are various cc licenses: Sesame will use BY NC SA
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What does this mean?
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What are the conditions?
Attribution
 Author must be acknowledged on all copies and adaptations of the work,
including a link to the original version of the work
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What are the conditions?
Non-commercial
 The work can only be used for non-commercial purposes
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What are the conditions?
Sharealike
 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
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What does adaptation mean?
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Your authorship will always be acknowledged
Re-use must avoid ‘derogatory treatment’ meaning adaptation that risks
having a detrimental effect on your reputation
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Your rights
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You retain the copyright over your work (unless it is already owned by your
employer).
You can do whatever you want with your work.
You can grant others the non-exclusive right to distribute your work, even
commercially.
You can ask for your work to be removed from the Discovery point and it will
be immediately taken down. However, you have no rights over any material
which has already been downloaded and is in use elsewhere. This is a key
term of the CC licence which enables users to have confidence that their right
to use CC licensed material will never be revoked.
You can take legal action if you know of anyone using your work outside the
terms of the licence, for instance by failing to credit you or for obtaining
commercial gain from it.
You are protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act,1988 and can
take legal action if you know of anyone subjecting your content to derogatory
treatment, distortion or mutilation.
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What else can I post on
open.conted.ox.ac.uk
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Links to useful websites
Links to primary sources
Links to related courses
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Whether OER or not
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How to mark content for attribution
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To avoid confusion put the attribution you want on your
resources
Make sure you get the credit for your work
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This work by Your name is licensed by the
University of Oxford under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.
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Attribution information will also be in the platform
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Looking at automating this for images
How to attribute
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Not always clear
Acknowledge originator and link back to original
Open attribute tool http://openattribute.com/
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Chrome
 Firefox
 Opera
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Example
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Chawton Manor
© Copyright Peter Trimming and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Work found at http://www.geograph.org.uk/reuse.php?id=1160151 / CC BY-SA 2.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
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Finding resources: OER
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UK universities
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JORUM: http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
 Oxford: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/open
 Open University: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
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US universities
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MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu
 Yale: http://oyc.yale.edu/
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Portals
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Digitisation
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http://www.oercommons.org
Project Guttenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org
Images
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Flikr cc search: http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?
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Finding resources that are not OER but are
still valuable
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Sites you use
Digitisation
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Primary sources – letters, documents
Cultural institutions
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Museums
 Libraries
 Newspapers
 BBC
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Media
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Audio - iTunesU
 Video – Youtube.edu
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Where will project OER end up?
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In the Department’s “open” homepage - which will be
developed and expanded from the lessons learnt in this pilot
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In the University’s podcasts.ox.ac.uk portal
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In Jorum - a UK HE national repository
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If appropriate, in iTunes U
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We don’t know?
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Creating a podcast
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Why?
Most people can read faster than they can listen…
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Variety of format
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Doing other things (radio)
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To get a sense of the ‘expert’ as a person
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Form
Keep it short
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Again, think radio
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More chance of recording in one take
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Style
Listeners want to hear *you*
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Keep it conversational, don’t worry about the occasional ‘um’ or
‘er’
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It helps to imagine that you are only talking to one other person
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Preparation
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Make some notes but don’t script it too tightly
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Try to avoid mentioning specific dates/times
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Workout how to begin – ‘Hello, I’m…’
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Workout how to end – ‘So that’s all about…’
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Find a quiet place
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Don’t expect your second take to be an improvement
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Editing
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Simple ‘top and tail’ editing
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Free software – for example: ‘MP3 Cutter and Editor’
http://goo.gl/6Nkfi
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Next steps
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Read briefing note and, if you are happy, sign
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Register for an account at http://open.conted.ox.ac.uk/
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Let us know what courses you want a site for (see information
with your contract)
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You can upload resources and links
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Further information
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Project manager
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Marion Manton
 Email: [email protected]
 Phone: 01865 280986
 Location: Ewert House
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Website: http://www.tall.ox.ac.uk/research/current/sesame.php
JISC OER Programme: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer/
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References
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Content
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JISC OER infoKit: https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com
 OpenSpires project: http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
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Images
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Genie in an oil lamp.
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonzhang/3217242929/) /
shannonzhang (http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonzhang/) / CC
BY-NC-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
 Screenshots: http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
This work by the Sesame Project is licensed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.
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