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Re: [OERU] Keeping MOOCs Open (Kim Tucker) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 21:05:10 +0100 > From: Kim Tucker <kctuc...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [OER] [OERU] Keeping MOOCs Open > To: oer-univers...@googlegroups.com, conta...@opencourseware.eu, > oer-disc...@jiscmail.ac.uk, OER Forum <oer-fo...@lists.esn.org.za>, > Tim Vollmer <t...@creativecommons.org> > Message-ID: > <cakf3+salqt9+xi_hv7fce15gfni6x8vabsnmv9p5s6vqjb6...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > It might be helpful for some to (re)visit this perspective: > > http://wikieducator.org/Say_Libre > > Some "open" initiatives and resources may also be described as "libre". > With respect to Creative Commons licensing, one needs to be specific. > Only Attribution-ShareAlike and Attribution are "libre licences". > (resources may also be liberated via CC0). > > The article also explains that there is more to it than licensing the > resources. > They must be accessible with libre software and deployed in libre file > formats. > > The vision is to liberate knowledge so that anyone may adapt and share it > beyond the capabilities of existing institutions which cannot meet the > growing global demands. > > Kim > > PS More: > http://freedomdefined.org/Libre > http://wikieducator.org/Libre_knowledge > http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Libre_Software > http://wikieducator.org/Libre_file_format > > > On 1 November 2012 18:42, Cable Green <cable.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34852 >> >> Cable >> >> ----- >> >> MOOCs ? or *M*assive *O*pen *O*nline >> *C*ourses<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course> ? >> have been getting a lot of attention lately. Just in the last year or so, >> there?s been immense interest in the potential for large scale online >> learning, with significant investments being made in companies >> (Coursera<http://www.coursera.org/> >> , Udacity <http://www.udacity.com/>, Udemy <http://www.udemy.com/>), >> similar non-profit initiatives (edX <https://www.edx.org/>) and learning >> management systems (Canvas >> <https://www.canvas.net/>,Blackboard<https://www.coursesites.com/>). >> The renewed interest in MOOCs was ignited after last year?s Introduction >> to Artificial Intelligence <https://www.ai-class.com/> course offered via >> Stanford University, when over 160,000 people signed up to take the free >> online course. The idea of large-scale, free online education has been >> around for quite some time. Some examples include David Wiley?s >> 2007Introduction >> to Open >> Education<http://www.opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Intro_Open_Ed_Syllabus> >> ; Connectivism and Connective >> Knowledge<http://connect.downes.ca/archive/08/09_15_thedaily.htm>, >> led by George Siemens and Stephen Downes in 2008; Open Content Licensing >> for >> Educators<http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/Home>; >> and many others. >> >> A central component to these earlier iterations of the MOOC was the dual >> meaning of ?open.? Justin Reich writes in >> EdWeek<http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/edtechresearcher/2012/05/all_moocs_explained_market_open_and_dewey.html> >> , >> >> The original MOOCs?were ?open? in two respects. First, they were open >> enrollment to students outside the hosting university. That is open as in >> ?open registration.? Second, the materials of the course were licensed >> using Creative Commons licenses so their materials could be remixed and >> reused by others. That is open as in ?open license.? >> >> These dual characteristics of ?open? are also core to Open Educational >> Resources (OER). Hewlett?s updated OER >> definition<http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources> >> begins: *?OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside >> in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property >> license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.?* That >> is, for an educational resource to be ?open? it must be both gratis >> (available at no-cost) and libre (everyone has the legal rights to >> repurpose the resource) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre>. >> An OER cannot be freely available *or* openly licensed ? it must be both >> freely available *and*openly licensed (or in the public domain) to be an >> OER. >> >> The new cohort of MOOCs are distinct from the original MOOCs in that they >> are ?open,? thus far, in only one respect: they are open enrollment. The >> new MOOCs have not yet openly licensed their courses. As MOOCs continue to >> develop course content and experiment with various business models, we >> think it?s crucial that they consider adopting open licenses as a default >> on their digital education offerings. In general, the value proposition can >> be enhanced for the new MOOCs and their users if the MOOCs openly license >> their courses. A few ideas about why this is important: >> >> - One goal of MOOCs is to serve tens / hundreds of thousands more >> people with high-quality educational content. By adopting Creative Commons >> (CC) licenses, MOOCs: >> >> - can increase the reach of their materials by making the rights to >> use and adapt them crystal clear from the start; >> - will be able to serve even more learners because they?ll be >> granting legal permissions to use their course content in other >> educational >> settings; and >> - do not have to respond to individual permissions requests from >> users and can instead focus on delivering quality educational content to >> the largest number of students. >> >> - Commercially-focused MOOCs can adopt CC licenses to make their MOOCs >> truly ?open? (free of cost *and* free of most copyright restrictions) >> and still leverage the scale of these courses (with potentially tens of >> thousands of students) and the MOOC platform to charge for value-added >> services, such as the coordination of study groups, course certification, >> secure assessments, employee recruiting, and print-on-demand textbooks. >> >> [image: MOOC] <http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/7549370822/> >> >> #jiscwebinar What Is A >> MOOC?<http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/7549370822/> >> / Giulia Forsythe / CC >> BY-NC-SA<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/> >> - MOOCs can provide features their users want by incorporating open >> licensing options. Recently, the education technology company Blackboard >> has permittedusers to upload educational content under the Creative >> Commons Attribution >> license<https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/29633>. >> Since many MOOCs want to support individuals who want to share their >> creations as well as open collaboration between course participants, it may >> be worthwhile for the MOOCs to support users with this easy-to-implement >> feature. >> >> - By supporting open licensing, MOOCs will be positively contributing >> to the Open Educational Resources movement, reaffirmed in the 2012 >> Paris OER Declaration <https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33089>. >> MOOCs can be leaders and innovators for OER, increase their enrollment >> numbers, and receive the goodwill that comes along with being an active >> participant in this global open education movement. >> >> - Online education knows no language barriers, and a large percentage >> of MOOC participants are logging on from outside of North America (where >> most of the new initiatives are based). For example, in a recent MIT MOOC >> course with 155,000 registrations, students came from 160 >> countries<http://sirjohn.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/120925MOOCspaper2.pdf> >> (PDF). >> If MOOCs want to continue to attract and serve an international audience, >> they might focus on multilingual course delivery. It should be noted that >> MOOCs that release course content under Creative Commons licenses (at least >> the licenses that do not contain the ?NoDerivatives? condition) >> automatically grant permission for users to make translations of the >> materials. MIT Open CourseWare courses have been translated into at >> least 10 >> languages<http://www.core.org.cn/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/Translations.htm>, >> including Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai, French, German, Vietnamese, >> and Ukrainian. Coursera and Udacity have already partnered >> with<http://gigaom.com/video/udacity-amara-partnership/> the >> crowdsourced captioning service Amara. >> >> - Openly licensed MOOC resources can give rise to interesting new >> courses and educational products and services. For instance, materials >> released under a license like CC >> BY<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> can >> be repurposed and reused on sites like Wikipedia and hundreds of Open >> CourseWare projects. Adopting CC licensing can support the conditions >> necessary for innovation that is difficult to predict (or plan for). In the >> long run, supporting the open ecosystem is beneficial both for commercial >> and non-profit MOOC initiatives. In addition, many educators and learners >> want to be able to use the resources outside of the MOOC environment, and >> open licensing grants this permission in advance. CC licensing opens up a >> much broader range of pedagogical approaches that enable all MOOC >> participants, instructors and students alike the ability to generate, use, >> and share content with each other. >> >> - Many MOOCs are concerned that their content will be ?stolen? by >> competitors. However, this fear is speculative. There are features of the >> CC licenses that can help assuage the fears of MOOCs. For example, all the >> CC licenses provide for attribution to the original author, preservation of >> any copyright notice, and the URL to the original work. When MOOC material >> are licensed under a CC license permitting the creation of adaptations, the >> adapted resources must be clearly marked to indicate that changes have been >> made, and a credit ? reasonable to the means and medium being used ? that >> the MOOC material has been used in the adaptation. Also, CC licenses do not >> grant permission to use anyone?s trademarks or official insignia, nor do >> the licenses affect other laws that may be used to protect one?s reputation >> or other rights ? those rights are all reserved and may be enforced >> separately by the MOOC. Finally, it should be noted that the original >> educational materials remain intact and preserved, exactly as released >> (most typically) on the MOOC website. So, there will be a record of the >> original publishing of the content. But beyond these features of the CC >> license, community and business norms make it very unlikely that competitor >> MOOCs will ?swoop in? and republish full courses simply because the open >> license technically makes this a possibility. Norms of academic practice >> typically carry more weight than any legal restriction made possible >> through use of an open license. >> >> >> MOOCs should address copyright and licensing early on so they are clear to >> users how they can utilize and reuse educational materials offered on the >> site. MOOCs should choose to adopt an open license that meets their goals, >> but at minimum it is recommended that they choose a public, standardized >> license that grants to its users the ?4Rs? of open >> content<http://opencontent.org/definition/>: >> the ability to Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute the resources. The >> more permissions MOOCs can offer on their content, the better. Online peer >> learning community P2PU has provided some useful documentation about how >> to choose a >> license<http://info.p2pu.org/2010/05/25/how-to-choose-the-right-licence/>. >> And CC maintains easy-to-understand information about how to properly >> implement the CC license <http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking> on >> websites and platforms. Of course, it is important for MOOCs and users of >> MOOCs to understand some of the copyright and intellectual property >> considerations that they should know >> about<http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Before_Licensing> before >> they adopt an open license for educational content. >> >> MOOCs have captured the public mindshare as an interesting way to deliver >> high quality education to huge numbers of online learners. In order to >> maximize the educational benefits that MOOCs promise to provide, they must >> be ?open? in both enrollment *and* licensing. MOOCs should seriously >> consider applying CC licenses to content they build, asking contributing >> Universities to openly licnese their courses, and making CC licensing part >> of their MOOC platforms. By doing so, they?ll be best positioned to serve >> a diverse set of users and support the flourishing open education movement. >> -- >> >> >> Cable Green, PhD >> Director of Global Learning >> Creative Commons >> http://creativecommons.org/education >> http://twitter.com/cgreen >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "OER university" group. >> To post to this group, send email to oer-univers...@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> oer-university+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/oer-university?hl=en?hl=en >> Visit the OER univeristy page on http://wikieducator.org/OER_university >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.esn.org.za/pipermail/oer-forum/attachments/20121101/627261e8/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > OER-forum mailing list > oer-fo...@lists.esn.org.za > http://lists.esn.org.za/mailman/listinfo/oer-forum > > > End of OER-forum Digest, Vol 28, Issue 2 > ****************************************
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