Thank you Ellen, Daniel and Wayne for your feedback :-), I think I am not mistaken in thinking that the default of anything available for free online that doesn't have a license or explicit terms of use is traditional copyright. In my view, that is the case with repositories (I am referring to universities or public organisms) that provide free access to scientific material that can be used in education, but no license or a statement indicating the terms of use. They are "open access", and they are educational resources, but reading your comments lead me to maintain that they are not, or the items they contain, open educational resources. They are not different from any other materials that we can use in education and which, despite being freely available online, do not state their conditions of use.
The field is evolving so fast I think these ambiguities will tend to be better clarified in the near future, but for now I'll stick with this belief. Not that it matters a lot in practical terms, but it does when you're approaching this from an academic or research perspective. Thanks again :-) José Mota Laboratory of Distance Education and eLearning Universidade Aberta Portugal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
